Late errors cost Arizona baseball in home loss to Grand Canyon

Key Highlights

• “Those are big runs when you get to the lake in the game.
• We wouldn’t have been in that situation (in the 9th).”Arizona, which was 4 for 5 with runners on third base and less than two outs in wins over Vanderbilt and UC Irvine, stranded four runners in the first two innings and found itself down 4-1 before rallying to tie it with one in the 3rd and two in the 4th. It was still tied in the 9th when GCU had runners on the corners and 1 out and Marcus Galvan laid down a squeeze bunt that Arizona first baseman Tony Lira charged and threw home but it got past catcher Roman Meyers. AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisement“Tony made a great play on the safety squeeze,” Hale said.
• “Did he throw it a little high, maybe, but we got to catch the ball.
• He did a great job at crashing, and the guy was out if we catch it.”The Wildcats looked like they’d kept the damage to a minimum but then shortstop Cash Brennan misplayed a grounder one what would have been the third out, extending the inning for GCU’s Cannon Peery to hit a 2-run double.“It’s a young error,” Hale said of Brennan, a true freshman.
• “It’s one of those things, we talk to infielders all the time at every level, that when you go to your left, it’s an easy play for you, especially when you can have a force at second.