WVU Baseball Blown Out 11-4 in Rubber Match vs Arizona

WVU Baseball lost the game and their series with Arizona on Sunday, March 23, falling 11-4 behind a late Wildcats push.

This marks the first series the Mountaineers (19-3, 2-2 Big 12) have lost this season. To make matters worse, they also lost infielder Sam White, one of the best bats on the team this season with a .392/.458/.582 slash line entering Sunday’s game, to injury. White smacked a two-run homer to right field during the third inning, cutting into an early 3-0 lead for the Wildcats, but ended up with his arm in a sling soon thereafter as his celebration went horribly wrong.

West Virginia pulled ahead 4-3 the following inning on a Jace Rinehart double that trickled into the right field corner, giving Grant Hussey and Armani Guzman ample time to score. That lead held until the eighth inning when Arizona began to punish the Mountaineers’ bullpen: after needing just three pitchers across the first 7.1 innings, West Virginia burned through six arms to get the last five outs.

The Wildcats jumped ahead on a two-run homer from Mason White but weren’t anywhere near finished scoring, a throwing error and a passed ball helping Arizona bat around for six runs in the frame. The visitors continued to pile on in the ninth with another two-run homer, and the Mountaineers went down in order in the bottom of the frame after the crushing rally.

Up next, WVU Baseball will host in-state rival Marshall at the Kendrick Family Ballpark starting at 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday, March 25.