PHOENIX -- The game was nearly three hours old before Sun Devil Baseball claimed its first lead of the night, but it finally cracked the #18 Stanford Cardinal with an exclamation point of a five-run eighth inning, toppling the No. 1 team in the Pac-12 conference Friday night, 9-5, at Phoenix Municipal Stadium.
The Sun Devils (20-9, 9-5) had trailed the Cardinal (20-7, 6-4) for much of the night before finally lifting the lid from their offense in the eighth. Freshman delivered the go-ahead blow, a two-run double into the right-center field gap off Stanford's highly-decorated closer Zach Grech.