The Dedeaux Download Podcast returns with Shotgun Spratling and Jack Smith breaking down the fifth week of action from the USC baseball 2024 season, including the Trojans' first Pac-12 road series of the year, traveling to The Farm to take on Stanford at Sunken Diamond.

They break down USC's 3-1 extended week, which included winning the Sunday rubber match at Stanford to take the series after the Trojans split the first two games of the series behind Caden Aoki's best start of the season and also featured a solid midweek win at Long Beach State that saw USC take advantage of extra opportunities.

Aoki joins the Dedeaux Download Podcast to discuss the surging Trojans seeming to have found their stride recently and how the team never wavered during its early-season struggles. Aoki also talks about his decision to transfer to USC from Notre Dame and how the opportunity to play for his dream school played out and how it got even sweeter later in the recruiting cycle when his brother became a Trojan and he got the chance to play alongside him.

After the visit with Aoki, Shotgun and Jack look at where the Trojans stand and go three up, three down in a segment looking at three positives and three negatives from the recent action. They then preview the upcoming rivarly series at UCLA, who is a team looking to break out offensively after recent struggles.

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