Three Arizona pitchers combined to walk 12 Utah batters and hit another four as the Wildcats lost for the second consecutive game, 13-4, to the last-place Utes. Utah scored its first four runs on one hit. Only one Utah run was scored without a walk or hit batter being involved.
Arizona dug itself too big of a hole with setting up Utah and was not able to recover. After Arizona cut the deficit to 5-3, Utah scored four runs in the eighth to extend the lead to 9-3. The last two Utah runs in the eighth inning scored on wild pitches by Julian Tonghini.
Arizona took a 1-0 lead in the second inning when a Tommy Splaine triple scored Andrew Cain. Utah answered with three runs in the top of the third inning. A hit batter with the bases loaded, a sacrifice fly and a squeeze bunt gave Utah a 3-1 lead in the top of the third inning.
Core Jackson scored on a wild pitch in the fifth inning and hit a home run in the seventh to extend the Utah lead to 5-1. Cain hit a two-run HR in the bottom of the seventh inning that scored Caulfield to cut the Arizona deficit to 5-3. Utah answered immediately with their four-run eighth.
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An Austen Roellig double scored the first run for Utah in the top of the eighth, followed by a single by Digiorno that scored him to extend the lead to 7-3. Tonghini followed with the pair of wild pitches to score the final two runs of the inning for Utah to put the Utes in front 9-3.
Arizona had four hits and four walks. Two of the four Arizona hits were in the bottom of the eighth, but the Wildcats did not score. Brendan Summerhill hit a leadoff triple but was thrown out trying to stretch it into a triple. Two batters later, Mason While tripled, but he was stranded at third.
Utah scored four more runs in the ninth inning. Jackson hit a three-run HR, and Drake Digiorno drove in his third run of the night with a single. Every Utah batter got on base at least once on Saturday. Garen Caulfield hit a HR and Arizona scored on a Utah error in the bottom of the ninth to close the scoring.
Freshman Smith Bailey is the starting pitcher for Arizona on Sunday as the Wildcats attempt to end a four-game losing streak. Utah at Arizona will have the first pitch on Sunday at noon Mountain Standard Time, with the game on ESPN+.