PHOENIX — ASU outfielder Hunter Bishop and Cal outfielder/pitcher Tanner Dodson have a little rivalry. Bishop said beyond the pair’s close friendship beyond baseball, he had familiarity with Dodson as a pitcher, having faced him last summer in the Cape Cod League.
So with a runner on second in the bottom of the ninth of a tie game, the Sun Devil junior was comfortable with Dodson standing 60-feet-6-inches away from him.
“I remember that his fastball like tends to move a lot — like towards the opposite side, to the batter’s box side,” Bishop said. “I told myself that but I honestly didn’t really do a good job of staying through the ball.