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With four Pac-10 series in the books and five to play, the UCLA baseball team likes where it is: 9-3 in the conference race and tied for second place behind Oregon State.
It’s almost hard to believe when fans harken back to a series loss to San Jose State at home in late February, or a 1-2 finish in the Dodgertown Classic in mid-March.
It’s time to put the UCLA baseball team on America’s Next Top Model.
All it took was a change in uniform to turn the Bruins’ offensive production around in a big way.
You have to go back nearly a full calendar year to find the last time the UCLA baseball team dropped a Pac-10 series.
Since getting swept by Arizona State over the first weekend of May 2010, the Bruins have won each of their last eight conference series, by taking either two or all three of the games with their various opponents.
It’s fairly evident that winning conference series translates to success ““ after all, UCLA was able to host both a regional and a super regional last season, and made it all the way to the finals of the College World Series.
It’s been more of the same in the Pac-10 for now-No.
The last time Beau Amaral had a game this productive?
Joe DiMaggio, 56 games. Willie Keeler, 45 games. Pete Rose, 44 games. The list goes on.
The UCLA baseball team finally remembered what it felt like to go home victorious on a Tuesday night.
Consider it a miracle if John Savage has any fingernails left at the end of the 2011 baseball season.
