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. Dyer, pitching at the time, ran toward first base to back up the tail end of a double play. Next thing he knew, the ball struck him […]
Category Archives: Baseball
Bruin hitting star Eric Filia gets second chance after two seasons away
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. I didn’t go that direction, I basically used my experience.” Night after night, Savage slept on it – running through the conversations he’d had with Eric Filia, […]
Freshman closer Brian Gadsby aims to fill big position
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. He is also one of only three players to have earned All-Pac-12 honors four times. Savage said that […]
UCLA baseball’s starting catcher to miss 2016 season with shoulder injury
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. will miss the entire 2016 season due to a torn labrum in his left shoulder. The right-handed hitting and throwing catcher will undergo surgery per UCLA Athletics. Miller Jr. […]
Baseball ranks in top 15 in preseason polls, No. 3 recruiting class
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. Three other Pac-12 teams were listed in the top 25 of both rankings. Oregon State – listed No. 5 by D1Baseball and No. 6 […]
The Rundown: Nov. 24
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. The home team went 2-1 over the […]
Bruin baseball outfielder sees summer league as learning experience
Brett Stephens struggled in his first summer in the Cape Cod Baseball League, the nation’s premier collegiate summer baseball league. In 78 at-bats for the Orleans Firebirds last year, the UCLA outfielder hit just .192 with 19 strikeouts. Back on the Cape this year with the Cotuit Kettleers, Stephens has put last summer’s struggles behind […]