The Bruins were three outs from snapping their two-game skid. Then the Nittany Lions scored four in the top of the ninth, and suddenly, the Bruins were down one and three outs away from a season-long three-game losing streak. Read more...
Photo: Sophomore first baseman Mulivai Levu loads into his swing. (Max Zhang/Daily Bruin)
Tuesday was just the Bruins’ third time losing consecutive games this season – but the reality is, the team has dropped six of its last 11. Read more...
Photo: Members of No. 15 UCLA baseball watch their teammates from the dugout. (Chloe Agas/Daily Bruin)
James Hepp’s day was done after facing just three hitters Tuesday as the junior right-hander failed to record a single out. And though the Bruins would eventually shut out the Anteaters from the second inning on, the five runs No. Read more...
Photo: UCLA baseball sophomores shortstop Roch Cholowsky, second baseman Phoenix Call, third baseman Roman Martin, first baseman Mulivai Levu, catcher Cashel Dugger and right-hander Justin Lee meet on the mound. (Max Zhang/Daily Bruin)
The Bruins’ 25-5 start was their best since 2010. But No. 15 UCLA baseball (29-10, 13-5 Big Ten) has since gone 4-6 – including a 1-3 performance last week against then-No. Read more...
Photo: UCLA baseball coach John Savage looks toward the field from the Bruin dugout. (Jeannie Kim/Daily Bruin senior staff)
It’s a risk putting all of your eggs into one basket – especially against a former Pac-12 rival. And by the end of Easter Sunday, the Bruins had hatched just one win against the Ducks. Read more...
Photo: Sophomore third baseman Roman Martin, sophomore shortstop Roch Cholowsky, junior right-hander Jack O’Connor, sophomore second baseman Phoenix Call, sophomore first baseman Mulivai Levu, coach John Savage and sophomore catcher Blake Balsz meet on the mound as graduate student right-hander August Souza exits. (Max Zhang/Daily Bruin)
Josh Alger came in to shut the door in the Bruins’ 18-2 victory Feb. 15. But it was probably unclear for many in the stands why sophomore catcher Blake Balsz gave the redshirt junior right-hander a long embrace – or why past and present Bruins flooded social media with words for Alger – after a routine relief appearance in an early-season blowout. Read more...
Photo: Redshirt junior right-hander Josh Alger follows through on his motion at Jackie Robinson Stadium. After a myriad of injuries kept him off the mound since his senior year of high school, Alger had to wait till his fourth season at UCLA to make his collegiate debut, which came Feb. 15. (Renee Rubanowitz/Daily Bruin)
Prospect rankings are often meaningless. They routinely fail to predict a 17-year-old’s skillset at 21 or the future impact they’ll have on a team. UCLA baseball had Baseball America’s most premier 2021 recruiting class, ultimately winning 40 games that year before falling in the NCAA regionals. Read more...
Photo: Sophomore shortstop Roch Cholowsky flips a ball towards second. (Aidan Sun/Assistant Photo editor)
