Category Archives: Baseball

Standing outside the clubhouse of Jackie Robinson Stadium on Tuesday night, Adam Plutko paused and then smiled.

When UCLA and Cal State Northridge faced off earlier this season, the Bruins took advantage of some Matador defense, posting a win at Northridge courtesy of six errors by the home team. On Tuesday night, it was the Bruins who came unglued, this time in the first inning when freshman starter Cody Poteet failed to […]

Nick Vander Tuig sat in the Bruins’ dugout during the eighth inning on Saturday, watching his team squander a three-run lead. After two hit batters and an error, Utah had cut its deficit to just one run with the tying run just 90 feet away at third base. But the junior pitcher, who was in […]

When Utah senior outfielder Tyler Relf made contact in the fourth inning on Sunday, his hit looked to be nothing more than a routine ground ball up the middle. But the ball took a wild 90-degree turn as it reached the pitcher, ricocheting off of sophomore pitcher Grant Watson’s foot and dribbling into shallow right […]

There’s a formula for getting to Omaha, and UCLA baseball coach John Savage knows it.

UCLA baseball’s stadium staff cordoned off an area along the concourse of Jackie Robinson Stadium on Tuesday night where a swarm of bees took cover in a tree.

Just when UCLA baseball’s broken offense began to sound like a broken record, its slump skipped a beat. The Bruins’ quiet bats finally started to make some noise this weekend after struggling for much of the season. Bolstered by a rare influx of offensive firepower, UCLA won two out of three in its Pac-12 series […]