A group of UCLA baseball seniors sits in the locker room and thinks. The players look back to June 2013, and try to describe what it was like to win the first College World Series in school history. Read more...
Photo: (From left to right) Eric Filia, Christoph Bono, Brett Urabe and Trent Chatterton are four of the key remaining holdovers from the 2013 national championship team. They will all graduate from UCLA this spring. (Kelly Brennan/Daily Bruin senior staff)
The first catcher on the depth chart wasn’t going to be able to play. The second catcher on the depth chart quit. That left UCLA baseball with options three and four. Read more...
Photo: (Harishwer Balasubramani/ Illustrations director)
John Savage was optimistic. Leaning back in his chair and signaling toward the wall full of plaques and celebratory photos his program had garnered throughout his tenure at UCLA, the baseball coach expressed high hopes for the Bruins at the beginning of 2016. Read more...
Photo: Junior first baseman Luke Persico led the Bruins with a .323 average, but the team as a whole struggled to hit, compiling an overall .250 average. The mark was only good for ninth in the Pac-12. (Mackenzie Possee/Daily Bruin)
The Bruins couldn’t scratch a run across all weekend long and dropped their final three games of the season. UCLA baseball (25-31, 12-18 Pac-12) never got any offensive momentum going as Oregon State (35-19, 16-14) outscored the Bruins 10-0 over the course of the weekend set in Corvallis, Oregon. Read more...
Photo: Redshirt junior Grant Dyer finished off his NCAA career with a quality start on Saturday. In his final four outings, the righty averaged more than eight innings and seven strikeouts per start. (Mackenzie Possee/Daily Bruin)
At the beginning of the season, anyone who cared about Pac-12 baseball would have circled this series on their calendar. UCLA and Oregon State entered the year as the top two Pac-12 teams in four separate preseason polls – Collegiate Baseball, National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association, the ESPN/USA Today Coaches Poll and the Pac-12 Preseason Coaches Poll. Read more...
Photo: UCLA baseball started the season as a favorite for the Pac-12 title, but currently ranks 10th in the conference standings. Junior Luke Perisco (pictured) – who’s sported a .372 batting average in Pac-12 play – has been one of the bright spots in a disappointing year. (Kathy Chen/Daily Bruin)
The seniors were honored before Sunday’s game and the kids who ran the bases afterward might beg to differ, but for most in attendance, UCLA baseball’s final home series of the season was nothing special. Read more...
Photo: Junior starter Grant Dyer pitched a complete game Saturday to break up two steep losses to Arizona State (Mackenzie Possee/Daily Bruin)
Almost all of the remaining holdovers from UCLA baseball’s lone national championship team will play their final home games this weekend. It’s a group of four position players: two redshirt senior outfielders, Christoph Bono and Eric Filia, and two senior middle infielders, Trent Chatterton and Brett Urabe. Read more...
Photo: Eric Filia was a key cog in the 2013 championship team. The redshirt senior will play his final three games at Jackie Robinson Stadium this weekend against Arizona State. (Kathy Chen/Daily Bruin)
