Propelled by a dominant 13-strikeout performance in Friday’s series-opening win against the University of San Francisco, Adam Tulloch was named Pac-12 pitcher of the week for the week of March 14, the conference announced on Monday.
Tulloch becomes the first ASU player to win a weekly conference award this year. He allowed three runs over seven innings while giving up zero walks to go along with his 13 punchouts — the most by a Sun Devil starter since 2010 — against USF. Both Tulloch and head coach Willie Bloomquist said afterwards that they believe the lefthander’s ceiling is even higher because he was pitching with some fatigue from the long bus ride back to Arizona after an extra-inning Wednesday loss at University of California Irvine.