ASU Softball: What we learned about the 2023 team from opening weekend

This is not the Arizona State Softball team that most people are used to.

Trisha Ford’s Sun Devil teams were defined by the long-ball and double-digit showings on the scorecard.

Megan Bartlett’s team (4-1, 0-0 Pac-12) is going to have a different identity, and we got our first glimpse of that this past weekend at the San Diego State Season Kickoff, where ASU went 4-1 in its first five games of the season.

“The reality is, a 4-2 win is going to be the same as a 14-2 win,” Bartlett said in her preseason media availability last week.

“The identity of this program looks a little bit different moving forward,” she said. “(There has been) a change of leadership, philosophy and honestly just the…