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2021 BASEBALL GAME NOTES @UCIbsb // ucirvinesports.com CONTACT: Alex Roberts-Croteau // (949) 410-3346 // [email protected] UC IRVINE ANTEATERS (22-11, 16-4) VS OREGON STATE BEAVERS (25-10, 10-5) 2021 SCHEDULE & RESULTS APRIL 23-25, 2021 // CICERONE FIELD AT ANTEATER BALLPARK - IRVINE, CALIF. Friday, April 23 3:00 PM Live Stream: ESPN3 Radio: KUCI 88.9 FM Record: 22-11 Home: 11-1 Saturday, April 24 1:00 PM Live Stream: ESPN3 Radio: KUCI 88.9 FM Big West: 16-4 Away: 11-10 Sunday, April 25 1:00 PM Live Stream: ESPN3 Radio: KUCI 88.9 FM 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 (3-1, 3.98) FRIDAY 23 RS-So. RHP Kevin Abel (3-3, 3..09) Mon. Feb. 22 Washington > W, 3-1 > Originally scheduled to host Fresno State, Feb. 19-21 13 Fr. LHP Nick Pinto (4-2, 2.92) SATURDAY 26 Fr. LHP Cooper Hjerpe (2-3, 2.05) Fri. Feb. 26 at UCLA L, 3-4 9 RS-So. RHP Michael Frias (5-0, 2.23) SUNDAY 22 So. RHP Jake Pfennigs (2-0, 3.18) Sat. Feb. 27 UCLA W, 7-3 Sun. Feb. 28 at UCLA L, 0-4 Sat. Mar. 6 at UC Riverside L, 5-6 Series History Sun. Mar. 7 at UC Riverside L, 8-10 at UC Riverside # W, 14-12 All-Time: UCI leads, 3-2 Current Streak: W1 Notable: Four of five meetings have been in # Postponed and rescheduled from March 5 First Meeting: Mar. 21, 1972 (W, 7-2) Home: 0-0 Away: 2-1 Neutral: 1-1 the postseason including a meeting at the Fri. Mar. 12 at Stanford L, 1-4 2007 College World Series won by OSU Last Series: 2014 Regional (WLW) Since 2002: 2-2 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 fought to a Big West road series victory taking three of four in San Luis Obispo. The first three games were Sat. Mar. 20 * at UC Davis + W, 8-0 won via comeback with UCI erased a 5-1 Friday deficit to roar back, 11-6. Saturday’s doubleheader saw Cal Poly jump in front 1-0 * at UC Davis + W, 6-2 Sun. Mar. 21 * at UC Davis W (11), 5-4 in each. UCI took the lead in Game One before letting it slip with one out to go in the ninth, 4-3. Game Two was jump-started by Fri. Mar. 26 * Hawai’i W, 4-0 Dillon Tatum’s two home runs and Michael Frias’ pitching to win, 4-1. The weekend finished on UCI’s fifth run-rule victory scoring Sat. Mar. 27 * Hawai’i + W, 12-5 eight in the first two innings en route to a 17-1 win. UCI continues to lead the Big West at 16-4, and hold a 22-11 overall record. * Hawai’i + W, 4-3 Sun. Mar. 28 * Hawai’i W (7), 20-10 + Tatum and Frias made the greatest impacts on each side of the ball, and each were rewarded with their first Big West honors. Michael Frias put up career bests of eight innings and 117 pitches tying his best of nine strikeouts while allowing just two infield Fri. Apr. 2 * at CSUN @ L (12), 7-8 singles to win his fifth game of the year. Dillon Tatum helped his win by bashing his first two-HR game, and ended the weekend Sat. Apr. 3 * at CSUN W (7), 17-3 hitting .636 with six of seven hits going for extra-bases and team highs of eight RBIs and five runs scored. Sun. Apr. 4 * at CSUN + L (10), 6-9 * at CSUN + W (7), 20-3 + The offense continued to rise as its hitting .297 on the year, 22nd nationally, and averages 7.4 runs a game. Outside of Tatum’s Fri. Apr. 9 * UC San Diego W, 4-0 exploits, Mike Peabody joined him with eight RBIs including his first career Grand Slam on Sunday. Four Anteaters have five-hit Sat. Apr. 10 * UC San Diego + W (7), 11-1 weekends including Jacob Castro who doubled home runs twice and hit his second career triple. Jake Palmer returned to the * UC San Diego + W, 9-3 starting lineup for the first time since March 7, and continued his hit streak now at nine games. The bench played a large role with Sun. Apr. 11 * UC San Diego L, 2-5 Caden Kendle scoring each time he was used as a pinch-runner, and Woody Hadeen was 3-for-4 entering as a sub in each game. Fri. Apr. 16 * at Cal Poly W, 11-6 Sat. Apr. 17 * at Cal Poly + L, 3-4 + Pitching was stout with a 2.41 ERA allowing Cal Poly to hit .203 on the weekend. Nick Pinto joined Frias with strong starts * at Cal Poly + W, 4-1 going 8.2 innings while suffering a devastating loss from three unearned runs. Peter Van Loon went four scoreless to get back in Sun. Apr. 18 * at Cal Poly W (7), 17-1 the win column Sunday. The bullpen lowered its season ERA to 3.62 allowing two runs in 10 innings of service. Jacob King saved his Fri. Apr. 23 Oregon State 3:00 PM team-high third game, and was joined by Gordon Ingebritson securing his first career save over 2.2 innings in a pair of outings. Sat. Apr. 24 Oregon State 1:00 PM Tanner Brooks continued his scoreless run on Fridays going 2.1 innings and taking home another win in relief. Sun. Apr. 25 Oregon State 1:00 PM Fri. Apr. 30 * Long Beach State 3:00 PM + Nationally,the ‘Eaters drew even in sacrifice bunts alongside Central Michigan with 33 on the year. Other top categories for the Sat. May 1 * Long Beach State + 12:00 PM ‘Eaters include hit by pitch (3rd) with 72 and triples (4th) with 15. Elsewhere, the ‘Eaters ranked among the top 50 in many areas * Long Beach State + TBA such as fielding percentage (20th), batting average (22nd),- on base percentage (24th), hits, runs, and runs per game (30th), ERA Sun. May 2 * Long Beach State 1:00 PM (34th), shutouts (34th), winning percentage (41st), doubles (42nd), walks allowed per nine innings (43rd), sacrifice flies (49th), and Fri. May 7 * at UC Santa Barbara 5:00 PM double plays (50th). Within the Big West Conference, UCI commands many of those categories as well leading all schools in scoring Sat. May 8 * at UC Santa Barbara + 3:00 PM in ERA (3.72), fielding (.979), on-base percentage (.399), triples (15), hit by pitch (72), and sacrifice bunts (33). * at UC Santa Barbara + ! 7:00 PM Sun. May 9 * at UC Santa Barbara 1:00 PM + Church leads the national charge for ‘Eaters in the rankings continuing to sit atop the nation in triples while also excelling in runs Fri. May 15 * UC Riverside 3:00 PM scored (28th), doubles (30th), hits (35th), and total bases (49th). Dillon Tatum’s four-HR weekend launched him to the top of the Sat. May 16 * UC Riverside + 12:00 PM Big West with nine this year and 44th nationally. Mike Peabody continues to lead the conference with 12 hit by pitch, 16th in the * UC Riverside + TBD NCAA, and his batting and slugging stand top 10 in the Big West. Pitching holds more leaders with Frias among the best in WHIP Sun. May 17 * UC Riverside 1:00 PM (18th) which is also tops in the conference, wins (37th), ERA (67th), and strikeouts (125th). Nick Pinto joins him with a top-100 Fri. May 21 * at Bakersfield 3:00 PM WHIP and allowing just 6.19 hits per game. Jacob King leads the conference with 17 appearances, 28th nationally, and the second- Sat. May 22 * at Bakersfield + 12:00 PM * at Bakersfield + 3:00 PM most saves in the Big West. Thomas McCaffreyand Connor McGuire each have five sacrifice bunts, 44th in NCAA. Sun. May 23 * at Bakersfield 1:00 PM + The weekend saw a lot of streaks including Nathan Church’s streaks ending at 19 games with a hit and 18 games with a run. Fri. May 28 * Cal State Fullerton 3:00 PM The hitting streak is the ninth of that length in UCI history matching the likes of Keston Hiura, Ollie Linton, and Adam Ging who Sat. May 29 * Cal State Fullerton + 12:00 PM each had 19-game streaks. Mike Peabody’s on-base streak ended at 24 games. The new streak leaders are Dillon Tatum and Jake * 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 2.61 the next day 37 4 6 ! - Game to be televised on ESPNU The two youngest coaches The ‘Eaters are among the Castro, Damla, Peabody, Dillon Tatum had a slugging on the West square off with top 4 nationally in triples Riddle, Vergara, and van den percentage of 1.909 last Orloff (34) and Canham (36) (4th), hit by pitch (3rd), and Helder mark the 6 graduates weekend, and his weekend both under the age of 37 sacrifice bunts (T1st) over the Winter Quarter OPS of 2.614 led the nation 2021 UC Irvine Baseball Game Notes Palmer.