2021 BASEBALL GAME NOTES @UCIbsb // ucirvinesports.com CONTACT: Alex Roberts-Croteau // (949) 410-3346 // [email protected] #24 UC IRVINE ANTEATERS (29-15, 21-7) VS UC RIVERSIDE HIGHLANDERS (14-25, 12-20) 2021 SCHEDULE & RESULTS MAY 14-16, 2021 // CICERONE FIELD AT ANTEATER BALLPARK - IRVINE, CALIF. Friday, May 14 3:00 PM Live Stream: ESPN3 Radio: KUCI 88.9 FM with Mark Roberts Record: 29-15 Home: 15-4 Saturday, May 15 Game 1 at 12:00 PM Live Stream: ESPN3 Radio: KUCI 88.9 FM with Mark Roberts Big West: 21-7 Away: 14-11 Saturday, May 15 Game 2 at 40 minutes following Live Stream: ESPN3 Radio: KUCI 88.9 FM with Mark Roberts Sunday, May 16 1:00 PM Live Stream: ESPN3 Radio: 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 (4-2, 4.15) FRIDAY 48 RS-Fr. RHP Zach Jacobs (1-5, 4.90) Mon. Feb. 22 Washington > W, 3-1 > Originally scheduled to host Fresno State, Feb. 19-21 13 Fr. LHP Nick Pinto (4-3, 4.33) SATURDAY GAME 1 29 RS-So. RHP Tyler Frazier (2-2, 7.71) Fri. Feb. 26 at UCLA L, 3-4 9 RS-So. RHP Michael Frias (7-0, 2.45) SATURDAY GAME 2 50 Fr. RHP Tucker Juline (3-3, 5.24) Sat. Feb. 27 UCLA W, 7-3 Sun. Feb. 28 at UCLA L, 0-4 55 Jr. RHP Peter Van Loon (2-3, 5.44) SUNDAY 9 Fr. RHP Eric Marrujo (2-4, 5.40) Sat. Mar. 6 at UC Riverside L, 5-6 Series History Notable: This is the 2nd time UC Irvine has Sun. Mar. 7 at UC Riverside L, 8-10 played a team 7 times in one season. In at UC Riverside # W, 14-12 All-Time: UC Irvine leads, 53-30 Current Streak: W1 (W1 at home) # Postponed and rescheduled from March 5 1974, UCI and Hawai’i met 7 times splitting 4 First Meeting: Feb. 14, 1970 (W, DH) Last 10: WLLWLWWLWL Fri. Mar. 12 at Stanford L, 1-4 at Hawai’i before UCI won 3 at home Last Series: March 6-7, 2021 (LLW) 2019 series: UCI wins 2 of 3 at UCR 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 traveled to UC Santa Barbara in a highly-anticipated Big West series between two programs tied for first, and Sat. Mar. 20 * at UC Davis + W, 8-0 the ‘Eaters scored a series victory winning three of four games. A heartbreaking opener saw UCI lose a lead, and unable to score * at UC Davis + W, 6-2 Sun. Mar. 21 * at UC Davis W (11), 5-4 with bases loaded nobody out in the ninth to lose, 6-5. Saturday’s doubleheader saw the pitching staff shut down UCSB first by Fri. Mar. 26 * Hawai’i W, 4-0 Nick Pinto allowing one run over 6.1 innings and a five-run eighth inning spell a 5-1 comeback victory, and the nightcap was all Sat. Mar. 27 * Hawai’i + W, 12-5 Michael Frias striking out 10 in a complete game, two-hit shutout for the 6-0 win on ESPNU. The finale saw the ‘Eaters score * Hawai’i + W, 4-3 three early and use four pitchers to stifle the Gauchos and win 7-2 for a road series win taking command of first in the Big West. Sun. Mar. 28 * Hawai’i W (7), 20-10 + The ’Eaters secured their sixth Big West weekly award as Michael Frias’ performance was recognized as Big West Pitcher of the Fri. Apr. 2 * at CSUN @ L (12), 7-8 Week. Frias claims his second away after winning April 19 following his performance at Cal Poly. He had a career night shutting out Sat. Apr. 3 * at CSUN W (7), 17-3 UC Santa Barbara with a two-hit, complete game and struck out 10 hitters for the first time in his career. Sun. Apr. 4 * at CSUN + L (10), 6-9 * at CSUN + W (7), 20-3 + Anteater pitching rose to the occasion posting a 2.06 ERA on the weekend allowing nine total runs to the high-powered UCSB Fri. Apr. 9 * UC San Diego W, 4-0 offense. Starters accounted for all of the runs over 25 innings posting a pair of quality starts and striking out 29 hitters. Overall, the Sat. Apr. 10 * UC San Diego + W (7), 11-1 staff walked just seven hitters, and the bullpen did not allow a run in 10 innings on the mound. Gordon Ingebritson won his third * UC San Diego + W, 9-3 game on Sunday going three scoreless and extending his string of batters without issuing a walk to 94 hitters. He, Jacob King, Sun. Apr. 11 * UC San Diego L, 2-5 Tanner Brooks, and Josh Ibarra were the only relief arms used shutting down the Gauchos. Fri. Apr. 16 * at Cal Poly W, 11-6 Sat. Apr. 17 * at Cal Poly + L, 3-4 + Anteater hitting stayed consistent with at least five runs in each game posting a .281 average and 13 of 39 hits for extra bases. * at Cal Poly + W, 4-1 Mike Peabody led the charge driving in nine runs and scoring six times. His timely hits untied Saturday’s opener with a three-run Sun. Apr. 18 * at Cal Poly W (7), 17-1 double and put the evening game out of reach with a late, three-run home run. He also stole two bases and had a hit in each of Fri. Apr. 23 Oregon State L (11), 5-7 the four games. Nathan Church had seven hits including his NCAA-best eighth triple. Jake Palmer reached nine times including Sat. Apr. 24 Oregon State W, 11-9 three doubles, Justin Torres broke out with five hits three walks, and four RBIs, and Thomas McCaffrey appeared in all four games Sun. Apr. 25 Oregon State W (12), 7-6 Fri. Apr. 30 * Long Beach State W, 12-5 starting three, collecting four hits, and his first career home run Saturday tied the game and jump-started the UCI comeback. Sat. May 1 * Long Beach State + L, 4-13 NATIONAL SPOTLIGHT * Long Beach State + W, 3-2 + The ’Eaters are nationally ranked high sitting third in hit by pitch, sacrifice bunts, and triples. They stand in the top 50 in oth- Sun. May 2 * Long Beach State L, 0-9 ers like walks allowed per game (23rd), shutouts (38th), runs scored (38th), fielding (38th), batting (39th), ERA (42nd), on-base Fri. May 7 * at UC Santa Barbara L, 5-6 Sat. May 8 * at UC Santa Barbara + W, 5-1 percentage (42nd), runs per game (43rd), hits (43rd), sacrifice flies (45th), strikeout-to-walk ratio (45th), WHIP (49th). Within the * at UC Santa Barbara + ! W, 6-0 Big West Conference, UCI commands many of those categories as well leading all schools in fielding (.976), hit by pitch (90), Sun. May 9 * at UC Santa Barbara W, 7-2 runs scored and runs per game (7.0), sacrifice bunts (43), shutouts (4), and triples (21). They also stand second in walks (173), Fri. May 14 * UC Riverside 3:00 PM doubles (80), hits (429), and on-base percentage (.390). Sat. May 15 * UC Riverside + 12:00 PM * UC Riverside + TBD + Church leads the national charge for ‘Eaters in the rankings continuing to sit atop the nation in triples while also excelling in Sun. May 16 * UC Riverside 1:00 PM doubles (7th), hits (10th), hits per game (29th), runs (39th), total bases (40th), and runs per game (77th). Mike Peabody continues Fri. May 21 * at Bakersfield 3:00 PM to excel at getting hit by pitch 12th in the nation, and is 80th in RBIs per game. Jacob Castro continues to led the team in hitting Sat. May 22 * at Bakersfield + 12:00 PM and 51st in the nation as well as 60th in on-base percentage. Dillon Tatum is 56th nationally in HRs and leading the Big West. * at Bakersfield + 3:00 PM Pitching leaders include Michael Frias 25th nationally in wins, 36th in WHIP, 64th in hits allowed per game, and 71st in ERA. Jacob Sun. May 23 * at Bakersfield 1:00 PM King and Gordon Ingebritson sit first and second in the Big West in games pitched and 31st and 46th, nationally. Fri. May 28 * Cal State Fullerton 3:00 PM Sat. May 29 * Cal State Fullerton + 12:00 PM + Anteater career records are nearing for some student-athletes. Trenton Denholm will make his 46th start to tie Dave Bladow for * Cal State Fullerton + TBD 10th all-time. His next win would make him the 17th Anteater all-time to win 20 games in a career. His next start could boost him 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 21 14 3.58 ! - Game to be televised on ESPNU Head Coach Ben Orloff The 21 Big West wins are There are 14 Anteaters on The UCI bullpen has a 3.58 turned 34 in April; he’s the second-most in a season for track to graduate this season ERA this season, and at UC 10th-youngest head coach in UCI trailing just the 2009 Big with six having done so over Santa Barbara allowed 0 R, 2 Division I baseball West champs that were 22-2 the Winter Quarter BB, and 7 K over 10 IP 2021 UC Irvine Baseball Game Notes into the top 20 in all-time innings pitched.