Kole Klecker’s final Mother’s Day line:
5 IP | 5 H | 1 ER | 7 K
Last three outings: 13 IP, 3 ER (2.08 ERA), 2 BB, 19 K
Hitting his stride at the right time, limiting an OSU offense that hit seven HRs yesterday to just one run today.
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What an outing from Kleck.
Five-straight zeroes after Utah scored in each of the first two frames.
Second quality start of the year and ASU remains up by three entering the stretch.
Kole Klecker’s night is done, and what a debut to begin his ASU career.
5 IP
2 H
1 ER
0 BB
7 K
65 TPs
Confident and in control all night. The slider and curve missed bats, he commanded the arsenal, and sat 92 mph.
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Kole Klecker on regaining confidence after a rough fall outing vs. Cal Baptist:
“A lot of times I was thinking it was something physical, when it was really mental…Having Bloomquist/Accardo keep their faith in me really allowed me to get my confidence back.”
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Arizona native Kole Klecker on facing U of A five times this season:
“It fires us up. It’s a big rivalry, everyone knows that… We don’t like them, they don’t like us. It makes it that much more exciting. Those are games that are circled on the schedule for us.” 👀
Arizona State Coach Willie Bloomquist just shared some pitching plans in a media availability:
Opening Day: Cole Carlon
Tuesday vs UConn and Tues. at Oklahoma: Kole Klecker
Bloomquist labeled the TCU transfer as “arguably thrown the best” for the Sun Devils and the current “strategy” is to use Klecker against their strong midweek opponents. He said they will aim to move him into the Weekend Rotation once ASU reaches conference play