Wildcats drew record crowd for midweek game against Arizona State

Arizona drew 4,664 fans for a Tuesday night, nonconference baseball game against Arizona State at Hi Corbett Field. It is the highest attendance in UA baseball history for a mid-week, nonconference game in the regular season. No other game comes close. When Jim Brock and Jerry Kindall were at the height of their UA-ASU rivalry, the teams met in a nonconference game at Hi Corbett Field on March 19, 1978, in the Best in the West tournament, capping four days of baseball. The Sun Devils were ranked No. 1 and Arizona No. 4. The game drew 3,918, but it was played on a more spectator-friendly Sunday evening. It’s likely Jay Johnson’s Wildcats will draw 15,000 total fans when they host powerful Oregon on Thursday, Friday and Saturday at Hi Corbett Field; there is no TV coverage scheduled. 

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