SCOTTSDALE – Sun Devil Baseball battled to the end against third-ranked Stanford, but could not pull off the upset in a tough 6-3 defeat in the opening game of the inaugural Pac-12 Baseball Tournament in at Scottsdale Stadium in Scottsdale, Ariz.
Stanford – the top-seed in the tourney – hit the go-ahead two-run homer in the bottom of the seventh and added another two-run homer in the bottom of the eighth to come from behind for the win and force the eighth-seeded Sun Devils into a elimination game tomorrow against the Oregon Ducks at 9 a.