When you look at the numbers, they are staggering.
Fifty-three consecutive 30+ win seasons, 38 NCAA Tournament appearances, 22 College World Series appearances, and five national championships.
The ASU baseball program's history is extensive, but the team will be looking to re-write a few of those numbers starting on Friday afternoon when they take on Clemson to kick off this year's NCAA Regionals tournament.
The 2015 Sun Devils (34-21, 18-12 Pac-12) are in Fullerton, Calif., this weekend for the Fullerton Regional, taking what they hope will be their first steps in getting to their first College World Series in five years.
ASU manager Tracy Smith isn't worried about his team's odds at all, tweeting boldly Sunday night: "Send us wherever you want because we are winning the darn thing... Yes, I said it."
If Smith's prediction is right, ASU baseball would be bringing home its first national title in nearly 35 years.
In order to do that, the team is going to have to heat up fast after finishing the season in a slide.
ASU entered the final month of the season with a 28-13 overall record and looked to be in serious contention to compete for their 22nd conference title, but they lost eight of their final 14 games to finish fifth in the Pac-12.
"We haven't been playing our best baseball, but it's a whole new season now," junior pitcher Ryan Kellogg said at a press conference this week. "Everyone is 0-0 and we've just gotta treat it that way. We can put all this other stuff behind us and just go out there, play for each other and I think we can make the most of this regional."
Besides a positive attitude, it's not as though ASU doesn't have the talent to make it out of the Fullerton Regional.
The team features a conference-high six players that made it to the All-Pac-12 First Team, including Kellogg, redshirt senior outfielder Trever Allen, junior closer Ryan Burr, junior outfielder Johnny Sewald, sophomore catcher Brian Serven, and sophomore shortstop Colby Woodmansee.
They have all found success under Smith, who is in his first year as ASU's skipper.
In an interview with azcentral.com on Monday, Smith said he isn't worried about the fact that a few of his players were on an ASU team that lost in a Fullerton Regional just two years ago. He wants his players to play in this moment and play to win.
"I'm not a big pre-game speech guy," Smith said. "In a broader sense, I doubt when we line up versus Clemson or Fullerton that we're going to be thinking about years gone by. Our attitude is that we're going over there to win."
Clemson will likely be sending their left-handed ACC Pitcher of the Year Matthew Crownover (10-2, 1.59 ERA) to the bump to battle ASU's lineup Friday afternoon.
The Sun Devils were 8-7 this season against left-handers, compared to their 26-14 record against right-handed pitchers.
First pitch is expected to be at 3 p.m. in the first game of the regional. ASU was 10-10 in day games this year and they will likely send Kellogg (8-2, 3.67) or junior Brett Lilek (4-2, 3.29) to oppose Crownover.
The Sun Devils are the No. 2 seed in the four-team regional, which also includes No. 1 Cal State Fullerton (34-21) and No. 4 Pepperdine (30-27), and is conducted in a double-elimination format.
Advancing this weekend would send ASU to the Super Regional where they would take on the winner of the Louisville Regional with a shot at the College World Series on the line.
But first thing's first: winning two games this weekend in Fullerton.
"It's not going to be an easy regional," Kellogg said. "We have to take it one day at a time, one game at a time, and hopefully we'll come out on top."
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