PHOENIX— UC San Diego baseball fell to Arizona State, 19-8, in seven innings on Wednesday evening in Phoenix Municipal Stadium. The Tritons (26-16) dropped the shortened contest via run rule to the Sun Devils (24-22) in the second game of the midweek series.
 
Brock Kleszcz finished 2-for-4 with an RBI, while Emiliano Gonzalez and Anthony Potestio each knocked a double and collected two RBI.
 
Ryan Farmer was the bright spot in a tough night on the mound for the Tritons, pitching 2.2 innings and allowing one run on four hits with no walks and one strikeout. 
 
HOW IT HAPPENED
For the second consecutive game, UC San Diego got on the board first with a sac-fly by Crossland in the top of the first inning. However, it was all ASU after that. The Sun Devils scored seven runs on five hits and one error in the bottom of the first to take the lead for good.
 
Arizona State added four more runs in the second, two in the third, five in the fourth and one more in the sixth.
 
The Tritons rallied for three runs on one hit and one error in the top of the fifth, highlighted by a pinch-hit RBI single through the right side by Rosengard. 
 
UC San Diego added four more runs in the top of the seventh—all with two outs—as the Tritons attempted to prevent the run rule ending. An RBI double by Potestio, followed by an RBI single by Kleszcz and a two-RBI double by Gonzalez made it 19-8. However, a groundout ended the rally for the Tritons and sealed the victory for ASU. 
 
TRITON TIDBITS

• It was the eighth multi-hit game of the season for Brock Kleszcz.
• It marked the 10th multi-RBI game for Emiliano Gonzalez, seventh for Michael Crossland and fourth for Anthony Potestio.
• UC San Diego moved to 0-2 in the all-time series with Arizona State.

UP NEXT
UC San Diego will continue a stretch of 10 games on the road, traveling for a weekend series at UC Santa Barbara beginning Friday at 4:30 p.m. The games will be broadcast on ESPN+ with live statistics available via UCSDTritons.com.
 
About UC San Diego Athletics
After two decades as one of the most successful programs in NCAA Division II, the UC San Diego intercollegiate athletics program began a new era in 2020 as a member of The Big West Conference in NCAA Division I. The 23-sport Tritons earned 30 team and nearly 150 individual national championships during its time in Divisions II and III and helped guide 1,400 scholar-athletes to All-America honors. A total of 83 Tritons have earned Academic All-America honors, while 38 have garnered prestigious NCAA Post Graduate Scholarships. UC San Diego scholar-athletes exemplify the academic ideals of one of the world's preeminent institutions, graduating at an average rate of 91 percent, one of the highest rates among institutions at all divisions.