Undoubtedly, it was his final at-bat at Arizona State. It came in the eighth inning of a March 8 game against Fresno State, at Phoenix, which the Sun Devils were about to win, 8-3.
Spencer Torkelson had a nine-pitch at-bat that ended when Fresno State reliever Nik Cardinal, a right-hander, got a strikeout that was more like a trophy.
Cardinal can always say he struck out a man who next month is expected to be anointed as the 2020 big-league draft’s first overall player.
The Tigers are all but certain to take Torkelson, a 20-year-old first baseman and right-handed slugger who stands 6-foot-1, weighs 220, and whose bat is more like a dynamite stick.