Box Score

SAN DIEGO, Calif. - The Toreros baseball team (13-10, 1-2 WCC) picked up a big win on Tuesday night over the Arizona State Sun Devils (13-7) in Tempe, Ariz. San Diego's offense was buoyed by Bryson Brigman and Ryan Kirby while Gary Cornish (2-1) picked up the win in the 6-3 ballgame.

Brigman got the Torero bats going with a single in the first, which was followed by a Riley Adams double. With runners on second and third Kirby delivered yet again for San Diego as the junior brought in his first of three RBI on the night. USD was 6-14 (.429) in at bats with runners on base for the night.

The heart of the line up scratched across another run in the second inning with a Kevin Callard RBI single that brought home Brhet Bewley and gave the Toreros a 2-0 lead. The Sun Devils would answer in the bottom of the second, trimming the lead to one. Brigman led of the top of the third with his first triple of the season and trotted home on a Hunter Mercado-Hood double later in the inning. Arizona State would narrow the lead to one again in the bottom of the fourth inning.

In the fifth, the San Diego bats waited patiently as Jeff Houghtby and Adams reached via a walk and hit-by-pitch respectively. Again it was Kirby who stepped to the plate and delivered an RBI single to right field scoring Houghtby and putting Adams at third. Mercado-Hood later flew out to center field for a sacrifice fly RBI that put the Toreros up 5-3.

Kirby added an insurance run in the eighth with a solo home run over the center field wall. It was the first baseman's third home run of the season, tying him for the team lead with Collard.

The San Diego pitching staff secured the win while shutting out ASU in the final four innings. Freshman Paul Richan went 3.1 innings delivering three strikeouts and allowing just one run before turning the ball over to Nathan Kuchta (2) for the save. Kuchta, a junior from Orange, Calif., delivered the final five outs of the game while earning his second save and allowing just one hit.

The Toreros will travel to Malibu, Calif. next to face WCC foe Pepperdine (9-10, 1-2 WCC) in a three game set starting Thursday at 3 p.m. The last time the two teams met was in the WCC tournament last May where the Waves took a 4-2 victory from the Toreros in Stockton, Calif.