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Baseball Falls To ASU 3-1
April 28, 2000 | Baseball
April 28, 2000
LOS ANGELES -- Jon Switzer pitched a complete game, striking out 10 Friday as the No. 3 Arizona State Sun Devils took the first game of a Pac-10 Conference series with a 3-1 win over the host USC Trojans at Dedeaux Field. Trojans' starter Rik Currier provided the other half of the pitchers' duel by going seven innings and striking out 11. With his 11th strikeout, Currier moved into fifth place (surpassing Walt Peterson) on USC's career list (289 strikeouts). The loss snapped Currier's streak of five consecutive victories.
Arizona State (37-10, 12-4) moved into first place in the Pac-10 after Stanford lost at home tonight to Cal, 7-5. The Sun Devils scored twice in the third with the game-winning hit coming on an RBI sacrifice fly by first baseman Jeff Phelps. They added another run in the eighth against the Trojans (28-18, 8-8) on an RBI single by third baseman Mike Lopez. Switzer allowed only four hits and walked five in his nine innings of work. Currier allowed two runs (one earned) on four hits. Both teams left a combined 19 runners on base (Arizona State - 11 and USC - 8).
The series continues tomorrow at Dedeaux Field at 1 p.m. with the series finale on Sunday (April 30) also at 1 p.m.
Arizona St. 002-000-010 --- 3-7-0 USC 001-000-000 --- 1-4-1Switzer and Myers. Currier, Montrenes (8) and Craig. WP - Switzer (9-1) LP - Currier (10-3) T: 3:25 ATT: 1,002
