The Bruins have a lot to replace: their top two starting pitchers, their top-three hitters and a closer who established himself as the best in NCAA history. Read more...
Photo: No. 9 UCLA baseball opens the 2016 season this weekend with a trio of games against No. 21 North Carolina at Jackie Robinson Stadium. (Daily Bruin file photo)
Grant Dyer almost saw his baseball career end in the blink of an eye. The incident occurred in 2012, during Dyer’s junior year at Dana Hills High School. Read more...
Photo: Junior right-hander Grant Dyer will be UCLA baseball’s Friday night starter – a year removed from anchoring eighth innings for the Bruins. (Daily Bruin file photo)
John Savage believes in second chances, but this decision wasn’t easy. “I went back and forth,” the UCLA baseball coach said. “I didn’t really ask other people’s opinion. Read more...
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When it came to replacing David Berg, arguably the greatest closer in NCAA history, coach John Savage had options. Berg is the only reliever to have won Pac-12 Pitcher of the Year, and he won it twice. Read more...
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With just under two weeks to go before the start of the season, UCLA baseball has already lost its starting catcher. Redshirt junior Darrell Miller Jr. Read more...
Photo: Redshirt junior catcher Darrell Miller Jr. will be sidelined for the entire 2016 season after a labrum tear required him to undergo surgery. (Daily Bruin file photo)
The baseball team received top-15 rankings in two recent national preseason polls, coming in at No. 11 in the D1Baseball poll and at No. 14 in the Perfect Game USA poll. Read more...
Photo: Redshirt senior outfielder Eric Filia, who helped lead the 2013 UCLA team to a national championship, will be back in the Bruins’ lineup this year. Filia sat out the past two seasons, 2014 due to an injury and 2015 due to academic ineligibility. (Daily Bruin file photo)
Check out a breakdown of the UCLA sports stories you might have missed this week. Preseason tuneup Competing on campus for the first time this season, UCLA men’s volleyball was able to debut some of its newest faces to Bruin fans at the four-team SAC Tournament last weekend. Read more...
Photo: Jean-Julien Rojer and his doubles partner Horia Tecau secured the No. 1 doubles ranking in the world after downing Bob and Mike Bryan in the semifinal of the ATP World Tour Finals. Rojer was a former Bruin and an All-American while at UCLA. (Creative Commons by TwoWings via Wikimedia Commons)
