DeNae Chatman had been in this situation before – in fact, it was almost identical to what she faced just 42 hours earlier.
The result was the same as the freshman from Goodyear Millennium delivered a two-run home run in the sixth inning that lifted Arizona State to a 3-2 win and a three-game sweep of Stanford in its Farrington Stadium finale on senior day Sunday.
Despite the disparities in records, the Cardinal did not make it easy in two of the three games. Bookending an eight-run five-inning second game, ASU (42-9, 15-6) used almost the identical method to win the first and third games by one run.