The tale of this Super Regional could be told by what happened in the middle of the 8th inning. On Friday night it was a bizarre power outage that delayed the game for 37 minutes. On Saturday night it was the turning point of the game which turned completely around in favor of Arizona.
During the middle of the 8th, State fans were enjoying the fruits of another Brent Rooker home run to put the Bulldogs up 5-1 and singing “Friends in Low Places”. With Ryan Rigby about to start his third inning of work things looked really good.