Redshirt junior outfielder AJ Salgado throws the ball in the outfield at Jackie Robinson Stadium. (Michael Gallagher/Daily Bruin)
Matthew Gobel took the mound with the bases loaded, two outs and his team trailing by one.
Not a single batter got a hit off the freshman right-hander.
The Bruins had yet to win in March.
But after enduring a seven-game losing streak, they reentered the win column for their first win of Pac-12 play under the Friday night lights.
This post updated March 13 at 9:54 p.m.
Sophomore right-hander Cody Delvecchio could only watch after throwing his first pitch Tuesday.
The ball sailed off an opponent’s bat and over the left field wall – a scene all too familiar for the Bruins this year.
Coach John Savage laid out the road map to finish games before the season even began.
Right-handers painted the path. Freshman Luke Rodriguez, junior Nate Leibold and sophomore Cody Delvecchio were to emerge from the bullpen with graduate student Rashad Ruff waiting in the wings to close out the game.
The Bruins are heading to Berkeley for a three-game series to kick off conference play.
UCLA baseball (5-6) will face off against California (8-3) in its first Pac-12 conference game and series of 2024.
A midweek rematch of last week’s 23-run affair proved to be the antithesis of the former.
The Dirtbags scored the sole two runs of the game as the Bruins were shut out for the first time since March 2023.
This post was updated March 5 at 8:39 p.m.
The Bruins’ seven errors against Long Beach State last week had coach John Savage seeing ghosts.
“Welcome to the haunted house tonight, buddy,” he said.
This post was updated March 3 at 10:55 p.m.
LOS ANGELES – Coach John Savage dubbed his team’s recent stretch of the schedule as “hell week” – five games in six days, all against different opponents.
After rain resulted in the cancelation of Saturday’s contest against San Diego, UCLA had the chance to take “Blue Heaven on Earth” by storm and finish the week 3-1.
Instead, “hell week” reached its conclusion as the Bruins familiarized themself with “Blue Hell on Earth.”
Unable to recover from UC Irvine outfielder Caden Kendle’s seventh-inning grand slam, UCLA baseball (5-5) fell 5-2 to UC Irvine (9-0) at Dodger Stadium on Sunday in the Dodger Stadium College Baseball Classic finale.
The Bruins fell victim to self-inflicted mistakes in a rainy contest against a future conference foe.
UCLA baseball (5-4) fell to Michigan (4-6) by a score of 4-3 on Friday at Jackie Robinson Stadium, with the Wolverines’ three seventh-inning runs being unearned due to a wild pitch and a costly two-out error from junior second basemen Duce Gourson.
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