Torkelson hits 52nd career homer in ASU win The Republic | azcentral.com
TEMPE, Ariz. — Arizona State baseball coach Tracy Smith sits behind a desk in his second-floor office, in a nearly deserted building, overlooking an empty baseball stadium, sitting atop a vacant locker room.
This was the most talented team Smith, the 2013 national coach of the year, had in his collegiate career. ASU was ranked in the top 10, forecast to reach the College World Series for the first time in a decade, with aspirations of winning their first College World Series championship since 1981.