If there’s one positive that a 54-game schedule offers, it’s opportunity. And one shot is all it takes for a player to break out of a slump. Read more...
Photo: Cody Delvecchio looks towards home plate as he walks off the mound. The junior right-hander turned in five shutout innings in UCLA baseball’s 5-2 win over Nebraska on Friday. (Jeannie Kim/Daily Bruin senior staff)
Gerrit Cole was the Bruins’ ace the last time they faced the Cornhuskers. The right-hander – just months away from being selected first overall in the 2011 MLB Draft – took a perfect game into the seventh and finished the series opener with nine shutout innings and eight strikeouts in UCLA’s 1-0 extra-innings victory. Read more...
Photo: Former Bruin right-hander Gerrit Cole throws a changeup at Jackie Robinson Stadium. Cole started the series opener the last time UCLA faced Nebraska. (Daily Bruin file photo)
Anteater right-hander Ryan Kysar delivered home with a runner on first in a scoreless ballgame. Waiting at the plate was the Bruins’ Mulivai Levu who belted Kysar’s belt-high 2-0 fastball over the left field wall to put his team in front 2-0 in the bottom of the first. Read more...
Photo: Mulivai Levu poses on second base with his arms in the shape of a heart and his right leg bent. The sophomore first baseman slugged his team-leading seventh home run of the year in UCLA baseball’s 11-4 win over UC Irvine on Tuesday. (Alexefrain Gonzales Diaz/Daily Bruin)
Then-UC Irvine athletic director Dan Guerrero hired then-USC pitching coach John Savage in 2000 in an attempt to revitalize an Anteater baseball program that was dormant since 1992. Read more...
Photo: John Savage walks in the Bruins’ bullpen at Jackie Robinson Stadium. Before he was UCLA baseball’s head coach, Savage served as UC Irvine’s head coach. (Nicolas Greamo/Daily Bruin senior staff)
Tempers flared in College Park, Maryland, when the Bruins’ 5-foot-10, 180-pound Cody Delvecchio shouted and pointed at the Terrapins’ 6-foot-5, 250-pound Alex Calarco. While the UCLA junior right-hander had just struck out the opposing catcher to escape a bases-loaded jam in the bottom of the fifth, what may have been most peculiar about Delvecchio’s aggression is that Calarco already took him yard earlier in the game, and the Bruins were down 4-0. Read more...
Photo: Junior right-hander Cody Delvecchio walks off the mound after completing the top of an inning. (Rylan Riccabona/Daily Bruin)
This post was updated March 7 at 2:22 a.m. UCLA baseball (10-3) heads to the East Coast to face Maryland (7-5) for its conference opener – a three-game weekend series beginning Friday. Read more...
Photo: Ryan Rissas attempts a pickoff of first. The graduate student left-hander has appeared five times for UCLA baseball this season after spending four years with UC San Diego. (Brianna Carlson/Daily Bruin staff)
The distance between Jackie Robinson Stadium and Husky Ballpark in Seattle, Washington – the Bruins’ longest trip in Pac-12 competition – is about 950 miles. But for its Big Ten debut, UCLA baseball (10-3) will travel around 2,300 miles to face Maryland (7-5) at Bob “Turtle” Smith Stadium in a three-game series beginning Friday and ending Sunday. Read more...
Photo: Payton Brennan races back to the bag on a pickoff attempt at first. The redshirt sophomore center fielder is slashing .440/.533/.760 through 25 at-bats this season. (Darlene Sanzon/Assistant Photo editor)
