CJ Bott tosses a fastball. The freshman right-hander made his first collegiate start Tuesday. (Rohan Ramalingam/Daily Bruin)
The last time there was a matchup between the Bruins and the Lions, it was a dogfight.
The two’s March 25 matchup featured three lead changes, ultimately culminating in a UCLA walk-off victory at Jackie Robinson Stadium.
A blown save nearly cost the Bruins their Friday series opener.
But the bats stormed back for a walk-off victory.
On Saturday, the Bruins’ hitters stayed hot – giving the team’s pitching staff little to worry about – and the hurlers upheld their end of the bargain anyway.
The Bruins were three outs from snapping their two-game skid.
Then the Nittany Lions scored four in the top of the ninth, and suddenly, the Bruins were down one and three outs away from a season-long three-game losing streak.
James Hepp’s day was done after facing just three hitters Tuesday as the junior right-hander failed to record a single out.
And though the Bruins would eventually shut out the Anteaters from the second inning on, the five runs No.
It’s a risk putting all of your eggs into one basket – especially against a former Pac-12 rival.
And by the end of Easter Sunday, the Bruins had hatched just one win against the Ducks.
Josh Alger came in to shut the door in the Bruins’ 18-2 victory Feb. 15.
But it was probably unclear for many in the stands why sophomore catcher Blake Balsz gave the redshirt junior right-hander a long embrace – or why past and present Bruins flooded social media with words for Alger – after a routine relief appearance in an early-season blowout.
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