When UA junior outfielder Cal Stevenson hit a walk-off home run to beat Washington 5-4 Friday night at Hi Corbett Field, it was a bit of a surprise. In 2014 at Nevada and 2015 at Chabot Junior College in California, Stevenson had 453 at-bats without hitting a home run. Nor did he hit a home run in his senior season at John F. Kennedy High School in Fremont, California. Stevenson, however, ended his long homerless streak in a home victory over Arizona State on April 4. Stevenson’s home run Friday, which broke a tenuous six-game Pac-12 losing streak, was needed so badly by the struggling Wildcats that it might come off as “The Shot Heard ’Round the College Baseball World.”
Cal Stevenson’s walk-off a pleasant surprise for Arizona baseball team
-
Greg Hansen
Columnist
- Updated
Arizona's Cal Stevenson (3) gets mobbed by his teammates after his two run homer in the bottom of the ninth gave the Wildcats a 5-4 win against Washington in their Pac-12 game at Hi Corbett Field, Friday, May 5, 2017, Tucson, Ariz. Kelly Presnell / Arizona Daily Star
Greg Hansen
Columnist
