ASU Baseball: Luckham leads way in series-opening win over Cal

Kyle Luckham started the year as the Saturday starter for Arizona State (12-15, 4-3 Pac-12). After starting the year strong, he closed the month of March with two starts in which he allowed a combined 17 hits, 10 earned runs and three home runs.

In Friday night’s 8-3 win over California (11-14, 4-6), Luckham was dominant on the bump and looked back to being the dominant righty he was at the start of the year.

The redshirt junior dealt seven innings without giving up an earned run and was pulled in the eighth after giving up a lead-off double as his 105th pitch (his season-high is 107). Just one walk in his outing was the biggest key, as head coach Willie Bloomquist has preached not giving…