Tuesday, June 2, 1998
Baseball Notebook
Parque pitches in White Sox win
Former Bruin Jim Parque was back out on the mound for the
Chicago White Sox on Sunday afternoon.
The 22-year-old rookie won his first major-league game as the
White Sox defeated the Tigers at Detroit, 8-2.
Parque pitched 6 1/3 shutout innings in his second major league
start. He scattered four hits, three walks and struck out two
Tigers to lower his ERA to 1.78.
Parque is still battling a bit of the jitters, balking once and
hitting a batter.
He allowed back-to-back singles to the second and third hitters
he faced and two more singles in the fifth and seventh innings.
Parque came out of the game in the seventh after allowing a
bloop single.
The left-handed starter was the first Bruin taken in last year’s
June draft to play in the majors.
He made his major-league debut on Tuesday against the New York
Yankees as the White Sox went on to lose, 7-5. Parque lasted
four-plus innings, allowing two runs.
The Southern California native was the No. 1 starting pitcher
for the 1997 UCLA baseball team.
He went 13-2 with a 3.08 ERA as the Bruins went to the College
World Series for the first time in 28 years.
Bruins part
of Super Team
The National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association announced
the 1998 Super Team on Saturday during the third game of the
College World Series.
Florida’s Brad Wilkerson was named the Player of the Year by the
NCBWA while UCLA’s Eric Valent made the first team. True freshman
Garrett Atkins made the third team.
Compiled by Kristina Wilcox, Daily Bruin Staff.