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Ex-ASU coach Murphy returns with Padres

Murphy was ASU baseball coach from 1995-2009

Pat Murphy is sitting in the dugout with Brett Wallace to his left.

It could be 2007 or '08 at Packard Stadium, when Murphy was at his peak as Arizona State baseball coach and Wallace was two-time Pac-10 Player of the Year. Except Wallace has a full beard, changing his baby-face appearance enough to jolt the special moment forward to a present that neither could have imagined even a year ago.

This is the visitors' dugout at Chase Field on Friday.