If Arizona State baseball had finished off No. 4 Stanford on Saturday, the rest of the weekend would have felt much better than it will after falling one out short in a 3-2 loss.
In the bigger picture, though, a win or loss in the regular season finale makes no difference for the Sun Devils, who are going back to the NCAA Tournament for the first time in three years.
ASU (37-17, 16-13 Pac-12) likely will be a No. 2 regional seed when NCAA pairings are announced Monday. That’s where things have stood for a few weeks as the Sun Devils dropped from a 25-1 start to 12-16 since April 1.