College baseball: Arizona 10, Arizona State 9: Cats stage devil of a comeback

It may go down as one of the ugliest wins of coach Andy Lopez's career.

College baseball: Arizona 10, Arizona State 9: Cats stage devil of a comeback

UA catcher David Real blocks the plate, but ASU's Michael Benjamin beats the throw in the fourth inning. The Cats rallied from an 8-2 deficit to win.

College baseball: Arizona 10, Arizona State 9: Cats stage devil of a comeback

UA starting pitcher Nick Cunningham lasted only two innings, giving up six runs - four earned - on four hits.

Arizona baseball: Cats suffer 1st loss but win 2nd game

Freshmen Kevin Newman and Ryan Koziol had two hits apiece, and the pitching staff wiggled its way out of jams all game Wednesday as 10th-ranked Arizona bounced back from its first loss of the season to beat host Long Beach State 3-1.

Arizona Wildcats baseball: Relief has been anything but for Lopez's squad

The topic was relief pitching, and Andy Lopez was quoting Albert Einstein’s idea about insanity. Two 18th-century poets, Robert Burns and Alexander Pope, were warming up in his brain’s bullpen, ready to impart some long-forgotten insight into a talk about when it’s OK to pull a pitcher.