TABLE OF CONTENTS PEPPERDINE HISTORY History .............................................................. 3 Heading into its 78th season of intercollegiate play, the Pepperdine baseball program has Yearly Results ................................................ 4-5 long been known as one of the nation’s finest. Postseason .................................................... 6-9 Since fielding its initial team at the old campus in South-Central LosAngeles back in 1939, Pepperdine has established a baseball tradition that is rich in history. Pepperdine has Honors & Awards ....................................... 10-14 compiled a cumulative record of 2,064-1,461-24 (.585)* and has won 17 West Coast Conference Waves in MLB ........................................... 15-20 regular season championships. Additionally, the Waves have appeared in postseason play 34 Waves with USA Baseball .............................. 21 times, including 30* appearances in various NCAA Tournaments. Career/Season Records ............................ 22-27 The Pepperdine baseball program reached the pinnacle in June 1992 as the Waves All-Time Roster .......................................... 28-31 captured the College World Series title. Pepperdine defeated local rival Cal State Fullerton in All-Time Results ........................................ 32-44 the championship game by a final score of 3-2 in front of 17,000 fans at Rosenblatt Stadium in Results vs. Opponents .............................. 45-50 Omaha, Neb. Through the 2016 season, 34 former Pepperdine players have enjoyed Major League Eddy D. Field Stadium .................................... 51 Baseball careers. One of the most notable was Mike Scott, the 1986 National League Cy Young Award winner with the Houston Astros. Former Pepperdine players on 2016 MLB rosters included QUICK FACTS Chase d’Arnaud (Atlanta Braves), Danny Worth (Houston Astros) and Jon Moscot (Cincinnati Reds) who made his debut in 2015. Between 1978 and 2009, the Waves ran off a remarkable 32* seasons in a row with 30 Location ...............................Malibu, Calif. 90263 or more victories. Pepperdine became an established collegiate baseball power in the 1950s Founded ................ 1937 (Malibu Campus 1972) under the guidance of head coach John Scolinos. The Waves advanced to the District 8 Playoffs Enrollment .............8,000 (3,000 undergraduate) in 1955, 1957 and 1960. The 1957 team was within Nickname..................................................Waves one game of a College World Series berth before Colors ........................... Blue, Orange and White losing to eventual national champion California in Conference .......................................West Coast Berkeley. In the mid-1970s, Pepperdine won three Field .................................Eddy D. Field Stadium consecutive WCC titles under the guidance of capacity ................................................. 1,800 Wayne Wright, who later served as the University’s opened ................................................... 1973 Director of Athletics. The team competed in the President ............................... Andrew K. Benton District 8 Playoffs in 1974, 1975 and 1976. Athletic Director .......................... Dr. Steve Potts Pepperdine advanced to the College World Athletic Department phone .........(310) 506-4150 Series for the first time in 1979 under then-first-year Ticket Office phone ................... (866) WAVE-TIX head coach Dave Gorrie. After finishing second in the rugged Southern California Baseball Association, Pepperdine won the Mideast Regional in East BASEBALL Lansing, Mich., defeating San Diego State in the title game by a final score of 13-2. The Waves lost their opening game at the Head Coach............................ Rick Hirtensteiner 1979 College World Series to Arkansas by a final experience ...................................2nd season score of 5-4, but rebounded to defeat Miami (9-4), e-mail .... [email protected] Mississippi State (5-4) and Texas (6-4) before being phone .....................................(310) 506-4404 eliminated by SCBA rival Cal State Fullerton by a final count of 8-5. Pepperdine finished third at the eight-team event and compiled a school-record total ATHLETIC of 53 victories. COMMUNICATIONS Pepperdine’s success continued during the 1980s, as the team advanced to the NCAA RICK HIRTENSTEINER Tournament six more times. Four of those squads Director ...........................................Roger Horne advanced to the regional championship before being office phone ...........................(310) 506-4455 eliminated. The 1987 team established a school record by winning 21 consecutive games and e-mail .............. [email protected] was ranked as high as #2 in the national polls. Assistant Dir./BASE Contact........ Jacob Breems The WCC was reinstituted for baseball prior to the 1984 campaign, and Pepperdine office phone ...........................(310) 506-4333 has been the league’s dominant program, winning or sharing 15 of the 33 regular-season championships since that time. e-mail ........... [email protected] Pepperdine shook off years of postseason frustration in 1992 as the Waves defeated Assistant Dir................................ Sarah Otteman Hawaii by a final score of 9-0 to win the NCAA West Regional at Tucson, Ariz. The Waves quickly office phone ...........................(310) 506-4160 became the crowd favorite at the 1992 College World Series, posting shutout wins over Wichita e-mail [email protected] State (6-0) and Texas (7-0). After recording a dramatic come-from-behind 5-4 win over Texas, Assistant Dir./Video ........................... Olivia Arns Pepperdine edged Cal State Fullerton, 3-2, in the first-ever NCAA championship game to feature office phone ...........................(310) 506-4703 two teams from the same state. e-mail [email protected] Pepperdine’s success continued throughout the 1990s as the school compiled a 381-189- 3 (.668) record during the decade, the 18th-best winning percentage nationally over that 10-year Address ................24255 Pacific Coast Highway period. There were five regional appearances in the ‘90s, and the Waves capped off the decade ........................................Malibu, Calif. 90263 by posting a 46-16 overall record and advancing to the championship game of the 1999 Los Fax..............................................(310) 506-7459 Angeles Regional at USC. Pepperdine finished the year with a Top 20 ranking and was ranked as high as #3 during the season. Website ................... www.pepperdinesports.com The Waves experienced even more success under Steve Rodriguez during his 12-year Facebook ........................... Pepperdine Baseball tenure, winning three straight WCC titles between 2004-06 and making five straight regional .......................................Pepperdine Athletics appearances betweeen 2004-08*. The 2006 season marked a new milestone in program history as Pepperdine hosted its first-ever NCAA Regional. The Waves won the WCC title and advanced Twitter ........................................@PeppBaseball to NCAA play again in 2012. Rick Hirtensteiner, who has been on staff with Pepperdine for 17 .......................................@PepperdineWaves years, took over as head coach of the program following Rodriguez’s departure in 2015. During Hirtensteiner’s tenure as an assistant, the Waves posted a 578-423 (.577) record. In 2014, Pepperdine reached new heights, making it to the program’s first ever NCAA Super Regional since the round was instituted in 1999. The Waves won both the WCC regular season and tournament titles to advance to postseason play once again, and then swept through the NCAA Regional hosted by Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, defeating the host team twice to advance for the first 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 finished the year ranked #12 nationally and posted a 43-18 record. This past season, Hirtensteiner’s first at the helm, the Waves posted their fifth consecutive winnings season with a 29-24 mark and made the WCC Tournament for the third straight year. * see page five 2017 PEPPERDINE BASEBALL RECORDS BOOK • 3 YEARLY RESULTS 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 Shaffer 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 Playoffs 1956 John Scolinos 15 13 1 .534 — — — — — 1957 John Scolinos 19 14 1 .574 — — — — NCAA District Playoffs 1958 John Scolinos 16 17 .485 — — — — — 1959 John Scolinos 13 20 .394 — — — — — 1960 John Scolinos 26 12 .684 — — — — NCAA District Playoffs 1961 Walter Glass 12 19 .387 — — — — — 1962 Benny Lefebvre 17 15 .531 — — — — NAIA District Playoffs 1963 Gary Marks 26 8 .765 — — — — NCAA College Division