Arizona has the fourth-best batting average in Pac-12 play at .282, a slight uptick from the 2022 squad that included future MLB draft picks Daniel Susac and Tanner O’Tremba. But while that team managed to go 16-14 in the conference, reach the Pac-12 Tournament semifinals and get to the Coral Gables regional final in the NCAA tourney, the current squad faces a major uphill battle to return to the postseason.
Much taller than the 10-inch mound from which its entire pitching staff has been struggling the last three weeks.
The UA (14-12, 3-9 Pac-12) takes a 9-game conference skid, its worst since 2008, into a critical weekend series at Hi Corbett Field against Washington (18-8, 5-4).