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| Â Probable Tuesday Starters |
| UC Irvine |
vs. |
San Diego |
| Pitcher |
Year |
|
Stats |
Day |
Pitcher |
Year |
|
Stats |
| Michael Stanford |
RS-So. |
RHP |
(1-0, 5.27) |
Tuesday |
Cade Colleran |
So. |
LHP |
(0-1, 1.80) |
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| Â Probable Weekend Rotation |
| UC Irvine |
vs. |
Hawai'i |
| Pitcher |
Year |
|
Stats |
Day |
Pitcher |
Year |
|
Stats |
| Michael Frias |
RS-Sr. |
RHP |
(3-1, 4.85) |
Friday |
Cade Halemanu |
Jr. |
RHP |
(0-2, 6.75) |
| Nick Pinto |
RS-So. |
LHP |
(0-2, 4.18) |
Saturday |
Andy Archer |
Grad. |
RHP |
(0-3, 6.75) |
| Danny Suarez |
Fr. |
RHP |
(0-1, 5.82) |
Sunday |
TBA |
|
|
|
Around The Horn
0.50 -Â The nation's leader in WHIP again is
Gordon Ingebritson, and he enters the week
0.50. The third-year Anteater has the conference's third-lowest ERA at 1.12 and the most wins with four
4 -Â The 2021 Anteaters were 1 of
4 teams to finish top 40 in ERA (3.80), batting (.300), and fielding (.981), and they were top-25 in ERA and batting, 1 of 3 schools to be top-25 in each
7-1 -Â UCI had won five straight games by one run and are
7-1 overall in one-run games. Also at
7-1 is UCI's record over their recent 8-game homestand against Arizona State, Iowa, and UC Davis
100 -Â Head Coach
Ben Orloff, the 10th-youngest head coach in the nation at 34, won his 99th and
100th games on Saturday's doubleheader sweep of UC Davis
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LEADING OFFÂ Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â
+ UCI completed its season-long eight-game homestand strong sweeping UC Davis to start Big West play. UCI went 7-1 in the eight games vs. Arizona State, Iowa, and UCD.
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Gordon Ingebritson continues to lead the nation in WHIP at 0.50. He has allowed a baserunner in 5 of 9 appearances averaging 2.2 IP in each relief appearance. He's allowed 3.75 hits per nine innings and 0.75 walks per nine innings both ranking ninth-fewest in the nation, 28th in ERA at 1.12, and 9.5 strikeout-to-walk ratio is 30th nationally and second in the Big West. As a team, UCI is 50th in WHIP and 51st in ERA. Ingebritson is among three Anteaters with a save and six as a team. His four wins lead the Big West and tie him for ninth in the nation.
+ UCI's 16 sacrifice bunts rank eighth in the nation, and
Taishi Nakawake has five to rank him sixth in the NCAA.
+ The Anteaters have seven triples to lead the Big West with two each from
Ben Fitzgerald and
Woody Hadeen
+ The Anteaters have the 37th-best strikeout-to-walk ratio at 2.95. The average 9.9 per nine innings including 43 over the weekend and the team's first 10-strikeout performance by
Danny Suarez, the first of his career, as the team struck out 17 Aggies on Sunday, second-most in program history.
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Nathan Church had eight hits over the weekend including his first five-hit game Sunday. He's among the Big West leaders with the fourth-best average (.370) and the second-most hits (30) and hits per game (1.58).
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Woody Hadeen is 7-for-7 on steals good for second in the Big West, and seven hit-by-pitch is third-most
AWARD SEASON
+ A pair of Anteaters are on award watch lists first with
Jacob King on the NCBWA Stopper of the Year Preseason Watch list and
Thomas McCaffrey on the watch list for the Buster Posey Collegiate Catcher of the Year Award.
+ Big West Coach of the Year from 2021
Ben Orloff returns for his fourth season. He logged his 100th career victory on Saturday. He winning campaigns in all three season with 37 wins in his first year, eight in 2020, and 43 a year ago.
LAST WEEK
+ UC Irvine opened Big West play with a three-game sweep at home to UC Davis averaging 10 runs a game.
+ UCI is 13-6 going 10-2 in Anteater Ballpark.
+ The pitching staff posted a 2.67 ERA striking out 14 batters per game to seven total walks.
THIS WEEK AT SAN DIEGO AND HAWAI'I
+ UCI is back on the road for its fifth midweek game. The 'Eaters have won at home to SDSU and two to Arizona State while winning at San Diego State.
+ The Toreros were projected to finish third in the WCC, and are 11-7 on the year entering this week.
+ UCI and USD will meet for the 110th game all-time with USD winning the last two, but UCI up 60-48-1 all-time
+ Hawai'i opened Big West play winning 1 of 3 at Long Beach State; they're 7-12 overall to this point
+ UCI leads Hawai'i all-time 34-12. The 'Eaters swept UH at home in 2021 and won 2 of 3 on the last trip to UH in 2019
SAN DIEGO TOREROS
San Diego is off to a good start to 2022 at 11-7 under new head coach Brock Ungricht. The wins have been against solid competition with three of four over Oregon, two of three at Grand Canyon and Pepperdine, midweeks wins over UCSD and Cal State Fullerton with a tough early stretch losing twice each to UNLV and Dallas Baptist.
The 2021 season finished with a 33-12 mark and 19-8 in conference play for the Toreros, but still couldn't break their postseason drought stretching back to 2013. USD won 10 of 13 series and a 22-5 mark at home.
The Toreros and Anteaters are back playing after no matchup in 2021. The pair got one midweek in in 2020 before the shutdown with UCI losing. USD has won the last two in the matchup, but UCI holds the 60-48-1 lead in the series in the most-played matchup for the program against a non-conference opponent - 109 times.
The offense is hitting .283 and scores 6.4 runs a game. Kevin Sim has hammered the ball with eight home runs and 24 RBI in a lineup that has five players hitting over .333. The Toreros like toe run with 28 steals already from 10 different basestealers.
Pitching enters with a 5.20 ERA. The bullpen has a 6-2 record with microscopic ERAs from Ivran Romero (0.63), Cole Colleran (1.80), and Conner Thurman (2.89) - each among their four players to earn a save. They've registered 180 strikeouts in 160 innings led by 108 from their weekend starters. Midweek starters have been Morgan Lunceford (1.2 IP vs. UCSD) and Ian Churchill (5 IP, ER vs. Cal State Fullerton).
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HAWAI'I RAINBOW WARRIORS
Hawai'i is now under the leadership of San Diego's former head coach, Rich Hill. His first season has started at 7-12 on the island for the most part splitting series with Washington State and Rutgers and a sweep at the hands of Vanderbilt. They briefly came to play in the Tony Gwynn Legacy going 2-2 against Mountain West competition. The squad went 1-2 at Long Beach State to start Big West play where they've finished between fifth and seventh every season.
The 2021 season saw the Bows place eighth ending coach Trapasso's run with UH. The Warriors were 24-26 featuring a win over Arizona State and series wins against Cal State Fullerton, Long Beach State, and one win at UC Santa Barbara.
The Warriors and Anteaters was a four-game sweep for UCI in 2021. UCI has a 34-12 lead all-time against Hawai'i with a slim 16-10 advantage at Les Murakami Stadium. The last trip was a UCI series win in two of three after dropping the opener back in 2019.
The offense took a hit in the Vanderbilt series to why they're hitting just .219 with 4.2 runs per game. Matt Wong leads the team hitting right at .300 with teams highs of five doubles and 13 RBIs. Scotty Scott remains with 14 runs score, as do names like Jacob Igawa (3 HR, 10 RBI), Dallas Duarte, and Cole Cabrera who left last year's series with an injury. The Bows have also stolen 30 bases and challenge UCI in the sac bunt totals with 15.
Pitching comes in with a 5.60 ERA and three pitchers topping the team with 22 strikeouts. Weekend arms Cade Halemanu (0-2, 6.75) and Andy Archer (0-3, 6.75) have put in innings, while nine others have throw at least 10 innings on the year. Their five saves have been handled by five different pitchers as the start overall has issued 87 walks and allowed opponents to hit .281
