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Defense, pitching fails Arizona baseball in third straight loss

There’s little margin for error in baseball. Even less for costly errors.

Another poor fielding not contributed to another bad loss for Arizona, which fell 6-5 at home to last-place Washington State on Saturday night at Hi Corbett Field. It was the Wildcats’ season-high third consecutive loss, second in a row to a WSU team that came in losers of 11 of 12 and nine straight on the road.

“Teams go through ruts like this,” UA coach Chip Hale said. “We’re in a weird rut right now. We’re just not playing very good baseball on the defensive side and pitching as well as we have.