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ASU in the MLB: With a walk-off and hot hitting, Austin Barnes is off to best career start

Before a crowd of 47,000, a 3-3 tie in the bottom of the 10th inning and a runner on first with two outs, Dodgers manager Dave Roberts had one positional player left to pinch hit for closer Kenly Jansen.

Bench players Ross Stripling, Kike Hernandez, Franklin Gutierrez had all seen the field leaving none other than the former Sun Devil catcher himself — Austin Barnes.

With a runner on first, he was granted the opportunity to at least aid to a Dodgers victory, but Barnes had other plans — to win the game himself.

The first pitch he saw, a two seam fastball slicing in towards his hands, he struck a laser-like line drive to the right-center fence.