TTABLEABLE OOFF CCONTENTSONTENTS PPEPPERDINEEPPERDINE HHISTORYISTORY History .............................................................. 3 Heading into its 80th season of intercollegiate play in 2019, the Pepperdine baseball program Yearly Results ................................................ 4-5 has long been known as one of the nation’s fi nest. Postseason ..................................................6-10 Since fi elding its initial team at the old campus in South-Central Los Angeles back in 1939, Honors & Awards ........................................11-14 Pepperdine has established a baseball tradition that is rich in history. Pepperdine has compiled a Waves in MLB ........................................... 15-19 cumulative record of 2,115-1,517-24 (.582)* and has won 18 West Coast Conference regular-season Waves with USA Baseball .............................. 20 championships. Additionally, the Waves have appeared in postseason play 34 times, including 30* appearances in various NCAA Tournaments. Career/Season Records ............................21-28 The Pepperdine program reached the pinnacle of collegiate baseball in June 1992 as the All-Time Roster ..........................................29-32 Waves captured the College World Series title. Pepperdine defeated local rival Cal State Fullerton in All-Time Results ........................................ 33-46 the championship game by a fi nal score of 3-2 in front of 17,000 fans at Rosenblatt Stadium in Omaha, Results vs. Opponents .............................. 47-53 Neb. Eddy D. Field Stadium ....................................54 Through the 2018 season, 35 former Pepperdine players have enjoyed Major League Baseball careers. One of the most notable was Mike Scott, the 1986 National League Cy Young Award winner QQUICKUICK FFACTSACTS with the Houston Astros. Others who enjoyed long MLB careers were Mike Fetters, Chad Kreuter, Dan Haren, Will Ohman and Randy Wolf. Between 1978 and 2009, the Waves ran off a remarkable 32* seasons in a row with 30 or Location ...............................Malibu, Calif. 90263 more victories, a run which had its foundation built in the decades prior when Pepperdine became an Founded ................ 1937 (Malibu Campus 1972) established collegiate baseball power in the 1950s under the guidance of head coach John Scolinos. Enrollment .............8,000 (3,000 undergraduate) The Waves advanced to the District 8 Playoff s in 1955, 1957 and 1960. The 1957 team was within Nickname..................................................Waves one game of a College World Series berth before losing to eventual national champion California in Colors ...................................... Blue and Orange Berkeley. Conference .......................................West Coast In the mid-1970s, Pepperdine won three consecutive WCC titles under the guidance of Wayne Field .................................Eddy D. Field Stadium Wright, who later served as the University’s Director of Athletics. capacity .................................................1,800 The team competed in the District 8 Playoff s in 1974, 1975 and opened ................................................... 1973 1976. President ............................... Andrew K. Benton Pepperdine advanced to the College World Series for the Athletic Director .......................... Dr. Steve Potts fi rst time in 1979 under then-fi rst-year head coach Dave Gorrie. Athletic Department phone .........(310) 506-4150 After fi nishing second in the rugged Southern California Baseball Ticket Offi ce phone ...................(866) WAVE-TIX Association, Pepperdine won the Mideast Regional in East Lansing, Mich., defeating San Diego State in the title game by a fi nal score of 13-2. BBASEBALLASEBALL The Waves lost their opening game at the 1979 College World Series to Arkansas by a fi nal score of 5-4, but rebounded Head Coach............................ Rick Hirtensteiner to defeat Miami (9-4), Mississippi State (5-4) and Texas (6-4) experience ....................................4th season before being eliminated by SCBA rival Cal State Fullerton by a e-mail .... [email protected] fi nal count of 8-5. Pepperdine fi nished third at the eight-team phone .....................................(310) 506-4404 event and compiled a school-record total of 53 victories. Pepperdine’s success continued during the 1980s, as the team advanced to the NCAA Tournament six more times. Four First Season ............................................... 1939 of those squads advanced to the regional championship before All-Time Record* ..............2,115-1,517-24 (.582) being eliminated. The 1987 team established a school record by RRICKICK HHIRTENSTEINERIRTENSTEINER WCC Regular-Season Championships .......... 18 winning 21 straight games and was ranked as high as No. 2 in last ......................................................... 2018 the national polls. WCC Tournament Championships ................... 7 The WCC was reinstituted for baseball prior to the 1984 campaign, and Pepperdine has been last ......................................................... 2015 the league’s dominant program, winning or sharing 15 of the 34 regular-season championships since NCAA Tournament Appearances* .................. 28 that time. last ......................................................... 2015 Pepperdine shook off years of postseason frustration in 1992 as the Waves defeated Hawaii NCAA Championships ...........................1 (1992) by a fi nal score of 9-0 to win the NCAA West Regional at Tucson, Ariz. The Waves quickly became the crowd favorite at the 1992 College World Series, posting shutout wins over Wichita State (6-0) and AATHLETICTHLETIC Texas (7-0). After recording a dramatic come-from-behind 5-4 win over Texas, Pepperdine edged Cal State Fullerton, 3-2, in the fi rst-ever NCAA championship game to feature two teams from the same CCOMMUNICATIONSOMMUNICATIONS state. Pepperdine’s success continued throughout the 1990s as the school compiled a 381-189-3 Assistant A.D. .................................Roger Horne (.668) record during the decade, the 18th-best winning percentage nationally over that 10-year period. There were fi ve regional appearances in the ‘90s, and the Waves capped off the decade by posting a offi ce phone............................(310) 506-4455 46-16 overall record and advancing to the championship game of the 1999 Los Angeles Regional at e-mail .............. [email protected] USC. Pepperdine fi nished the year with a Top 20 ranking and was ranked as high as No. 3 during the Assistant Dir./BASE Contact.............Ricky Davis season. offi ce phone............................(310) 506-4333 The Waves experienced even more success under Steve Rodriguez during his 12-year tenure, e-mail ................ [email protected] winning three straight WCC titles between 2004-06 and making fi ve straight regional appearances Address ................24255 Pacifi c Coast Highway betweeen 2004-08*. The 2006 season marked a new milestone in program history as Pepperdine ........................................Malibu, Calif. 90263 hosted its fi rst-ever NCAA Regional. The Waves won the WCC title and advanced to NCAA play again in 2012. Website ..................www.PepperdineWaves.com In 2014, Pepperdine again reached new heights, making it to the program’s fi rst ever NCAA Facebook ...................................../PeppBaseball Super Regional since the round was instituted in 1999. The Waves won both the WCC regular season ........................................./PepperdineWaves and tournament titles to advance to postseason play once again, and then swept through the NCAA Twitter ........................................@PeppBaseball Regional hosted by Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, defeating the host team twice to advance for the fi rst .......................................@PepperdineWaves time since 1992. The Waves battled nationally-seeded TCU in Fort Worth, Texas in Super Regional play, falling 2-1 in the three-game series to end their season. Pepperdine fi nished the year ranked No. 12 nationally and posted a 43-18 record. Rick Hirtensteiner, who has been on staff with Pepperdine for 18 years, took over as head coach of the program following Rodriguez’s departure in 2015. In Hirtensteiner’s fi rst season at the helm (2016), the Waves posted their fi fth consecutive winning season with a 29-24 mark and made the WCC Tournament for the third straight year. The Waves won the WCC regular-season title in 2018. * see page fi ve 22019019 PPEPPERDINEEPPERDINE BASEBALLBASEBALL RECORDRECORD BOOKBOOK • 3 YYEARLYEARLY RRESULTSESULTS OVERALL CONFERENCE YEAR COACH W L T PCT W L T PCT FINISH POSTSEASON 1939 Wade Ruby 8 10 .444 — — — — — 1940 Benny Lefebvre 5 9 .357 — — — — — 1941 Benny Lefebvre 5 9 .357 — — — — — 1942 Maurice Ruby 4 8 .333 — — — — — 1943 no team 1944 Shan Denniston 2 10 .167 — — — — — 1945 Clarence Shaff er 9 4 .692 — — — — — 1946 John Scolinos 17 8 .680 — — — — — 1947 John Scolinos 18 16 .529 — — — — — 1948 John Scolinos 17 14 .548 — — — — — 1949 John Scolinos 12 9 .571 — — — — — 1950 John Scolinos 22 18 .550 — — — — — 1951 John Scolinos 23 15 .605 — — — — — 1952 John Scolinos 11 15 .423 — — — — — 1953 John Scolinos 15 16 .484 — — — — — 1954 John Scolinos 17 10 .630 — — — — — 1955 John Scolinos 19 12 .613 — — — — NCAA District Playoff s 1956 John Scolinos 15 13 1 .534 — — — — — 1957 John Scolinos 19 14 1 .574 — — — — NCAA District Playoff s 1958 John Scolinos 16 17 .485 — — — — — 1959 John