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2021 BASEBALL GAME NOTES @UCIbsb // ucirvinesports.com CONTACT: Alex Roberts-Croteau // (949) 410-3346 // [email protected] UC IRVINE ANTEATERS (16-9, 10-2) VS UC SAN DIEGO TRITONS (7-13, 4-4) 2021 SCHEDULE & RESULTS APRIL 9-11, 2021 // CICERONE FIELD AT ANTEATER BALLPARK - IRVINE, CALIF. Record: 16-9 Home: 8-0 Friday, April 9 - 3:00 PM Live Stream: Bigwest.TV KUCI 88.9 FM with Mark Roberts Saturday, April 10 | Game 1 - 12:00 PM & Game 2 - 40 minutes after Live Stream: Bigwest.TV kuci.org with Mark Roberts Big West: 10-2 Away: 8-9 Sunday, April 11 - 1:00 PM Live Stream: Bigwest.TV KUCI 88.9 FM with Mark Roberts Day Date Opponent Time/Result Sat. Feb. 20 Washington > W, 5-4 Probable Pitching Matchups Sun. Feb. 21 Washington > W, 5-4 1 Jr. RHP Trenton Denholm (2-1, 3.82) FRIDAY 33 Sr. RHP Cameron Leonard (2-2, 5.06) Mon. Feb. 22 Washington > W, 3-1 > Originally scheduled to host Fresno State, Feb. 19-21 13 Fr. LHP Nick Pinto (3-1, 3.52) SATURDAY GAME 1 22 Sr. RHP Noah Conlon (1-1, 5.79) OR Fri. Feb. 26 at UCLA L, 3-4 9 RS-So. RHP Michael Frias (4-0, 1.95) SATURDAY GAME 2 38 Fr. RHP Nic Gregson (0-3, 5.63) Sat. Feb. 27 UCLA W, 7-3 Sun. Feb. 28 at UCLA L, 0-4 55 Jr. RHP Peter Van Loon (1-1, 6.59) SUNDAY 24 Sr. RHP Brandon Weed (1-2, 9.12) Sat. Mar. 6 at UC Riverside L, 5-6 Series History Notable: Every previous matchup came as Sun. Mar. 7 at UC Riverside L, 8-10 UCSD played on the Division III level. UC at UC Riverside # W, 14-12 All-Time: UCI leads, 11-0 Current Streak: W11 # Postponed and rescheduled from March 5 Irvine was Division II in 10 of those matchups First Meeting: April 18, 1970 (W, DH) At Anteater Field (1970-92): 7-0 Fri. Mar. 12 at Stanford L, 1-4 and Division I in the most recent in 1985 Last Meeting: Feb. 18, 1985 (W, 11-1) Since UCI became Division I: 1-0 Sat. Mar. 13 at Stanford + L, 1-6 at Stanford + W, 5-1 Sun. Mar. 14 at Stanford L, 6-8 LEADING OFF Fri. Mar. 19 * at UC Davis W, 10-1 + UC Irvine baseball remains atop the Big West with a 10-2 record following a series split at CSUN and Matador Field. The offen- Sat. Mar. 20 * at UC Davis + W, 8-0 sive ballpark was just that as UCI scored 50 runs on 51 hits in the four games. The two Anteater wins came via the 10-run rule * at UC Davis + W, 6-2 Sun. Mar. 21 * at UC Davis W (11), 5-4 posting 17-3 and 20-3 wins in seven innings. The pair of losses came on extra-inning walkoff HRs with CSUN winning -8 7 in 12 Fri. Mar. 26 * Hawai’i W, 4-0 innings and 9-6 in 10 innings. Friday’s opener was suspended due to darkness after 11 innings with the absence of lights at Mata- Sat. Mar. 27 * Hawai’i + W, 12-5 dor Field. It resumed Saturday afternoon needing just one inning before the game was decided. * Hawai’i + W, 4-3 Sun. Mar. 28 * Hawai’i W (7), 20-10 + Luke Spillane secured Big West Field Player of the Week, a third straight week an ‘Eater has been honored following Nathan Church last week and Nick Pinto named top pitcher the week prior. Spillane pounded his first four career home runs in a pair of Fri. Apr. 2 * at CSUN @ L (12), 7-8 two-HR games in the team’s wins and a grand slam as his first career homer. His home runs were coupled with 13 RBIs featuring Sat. Apr. 3 * at CSUN W (7), 17-3 two 6-RBI outputs in the wins. His eight runs scored tied for the team high, and he finished with a .381 average on the weekend. Sun. Apr. 4 * at CSUN + L (10), 6-9 * at CSUN + W (7), 20-3 + Offense was at the forefront in the series at CSUN with 73 runs, 94 hits, and 11 home runs combined between the squads. The Fri. Apr. 9 * UC San Diego 3:00 PM ‘Eaters upped their average 10 points over the weekend and reached base in 46.2% of their plate appearances. The nine team Sat. Apr. 10 * UC San Diego + 12:00 PM home runs more than doubled the total to 17 on the year. The offense put out two 10-run innings over their two wins, a feat that * UC San Diego + TBD had only happened 14 times in the previous 42 seasons and had never happened in the second inning which UCI did twice at Sun. Apr. 11 * UC San Diego 1:00 PM CSUN. The ‘Eaters forced a run rule twice, and now three times in its last five games. UCI hit 20 runs in a game for the second time Fri. Apr. 16 * at Cal Poly 5:00 PM in a week after 16 times in its history prior. Even the losses needed extra innings with the two ninth innings that were played the Sat. Apr. 17 * at Cal Poly + 1:00 PM * at Cal Poly + TBD ‘Eaters held the lead entering the bottom half of. UCI even erased a four-run deficit with a five-run ninth against stout closer Blake Sun. Apr. 18 * at Cal Poly 1:00 PM Schriever Friday leading to the first suspended game for UCI that was resumed the following day for the 12-inning result. Fri. Apr. 23 Oregon State 3:00 PM + Pitching took a hit with a 5.14 ERA on the weekend. Michael Frias and Nick Pinto shone going five innings each in the 7-inning Sat. Apr. 24 Oregon State 1:00 PM victories to earn wins. Peter Van Loon pitched into the sixth and struck out a team-high on the weekend, seven, in a return to Sun. Apr. 25 Oregon State 1:00 PM Fri. Apr. 30 * Long Beach State 3:00 PM form. Andre Antone and Gordon Ingebritson tossed two scoreless in Friday’s game to keep the ‘Eaters in it while Michael Stanford and Josh Ibarra posted scoreless outings as positives out of the bullpen in the Anteater wins Saturday and Sunday. Sat. May 1 * Long Beach State + 12:00 PM * Long Beach State + TBA + The home run barrage was notable with nine in total, the sixth 4-HR game as a team in program history Saturday, and three Sun. May 2 * Long Beach State 1:00 PM multi-HR games on the weekend. Spillane did it in consecutive days for the first time in program history. Mike Peabody added his Fri. May 7 * at UC Santa Barbara 5:00 PM first as he now leads active ’Eaters with six career home runs. Dillon Tatum regained the season lead with his fifth. Spillane, for Sat. May 8 * at UC Santa Barbara + 3:00 PM good measure, hit a grand slam for his first career home run Saturday. Another first career home run was Connor McGuire to get * at UC Santa Barbara + ! 7:00 PM UCI to 20 runs on Sunday. Nathan Church hit a very rare leadoff home run for the Anteaters in game two of the series. Sun. May 9 * at UC Santa Barbara 1:00 PM Fri. May 15 * UC Riverside 3:00 PM + Nationally,the ‘Eaters are still top 10 in hit by pitch (2nd- 59), sacrifice bunts (4th - 24), and triples (6th - 11). Elsewhere, UCI Sat. May 16 * UC Riverside + 12:00 PM vaulted into the top 50 in on-base percentage (30th), runs per game (31st), runs (32nd), and batting (38th) in addition to double * UC Riverside + TBD played (39th), doubles (41st), hits (46th), shutouts (47th), and fielding (49th). UCI tops the conference in stats like double plays, Sun. May 17 * UC Riverside 1:00 PM HBP, runs, sac bunts, runs per game, and triples with a second-place ranking in walks, doubles, fielding, hits, OBP, and slugging. Fri. May 21 * at Bakersfield 3:00 PM Sat. May 22 * at Bakersfield + 12:00 PM + Anteaters are nationally ranked led by the nation’s triples leader, Nathan Church, with five, and snuck up to 18th with his 10 * at Bakersfield + 3:00 PM doubles and 28th with his 28 runs. He also near the top of the Big West with 62 total bases and 1.12 runs per game. Michael Frias Sun. May 23 * at Bakersfield 1:00 PM is 25th in K-to-BB ratio, 33rd in wins, 36th in WHIP, and top 60 in ERA and walks per nine innings. He’s right behind Peter Van Loon Fri. May 28 * Cal State Fullerton 3:00 PM in strikeouts per nine innings with Van Loon 64th nationally and second in conference at 12.51. Mike Peabody is tied atop the Big Sat. May 29 * Cal State Fullerton + 12:00 PM West being hit by pitch 10 times and ranking 15th nationally. * Cal State Fullerton + TBD Sun. May 30 * Cal State Fullerton 1:00 PM June 4-7 NCAA Regional Around The Horn June 11-14 NCAA Super Regional June 19-30 College World Series Home games in italics * - Big West game + - denotes doubleheader - Game 2 will begin 40 minutes following the conclusion of Game 1 @ - Game was suspended due to darkness and resumed the next day 34 200 5 11 ! - Game to be televised on ESPNU Head Coach Ben Orloff is the With five strikeouts, The ‘Eaters have scored 5 UCI has hit 11 triples ranking youngest coach on the West Trenton Denholm can be- runs in an inning 11 times them 6th nationally.