2024 Baseball Roster
Jersey Number 13
Nick Pinto
- Position:
- LHP
- Ht./Wt.:
- 6-0 / 185
- B/T:
- L/L
- Class:
- Graduate Student
- Hometown:
- Coto de Caza, Calif.
- Major:
- Master's of Innovation and Entrepreneurship
2024
2021
Tesoro High School
- Named All-Big West Second Team
- Big West Pitcher of the Week March 18
- NCBWA National Pitcher of the Year Semifinalist
- Made 17 appearances starting 16 with 94.1 innings pitched
- 9-2 record with a 3.91 ERA striking out 99 to 23 walks
- Set a program record with 334 career strikeouts
- Struck out 11 on April 19 vs. San Diego State for fourth outing in his career with 10+ strikeouts
- Made 15 appearances in 2023 with 12 starts
- 7-2 record with a 5.16 ERA
- 66.1 innings with 58 strikeouts to 15 walks
- Entered the top 10 in program history for strikeouts all-time
- Season-high 11 strikeouts in a win vs. Hawai'i May 7
- Final two home starts went 5.0 and 5.1 perfect innings to start games vs. Hawai'i and UC Riverside
- UCI Friday starter starting all 15 weekends
- Posted a 2-6 record with 3.23 ERA
- Tossed 86.1 IP with 31 walks and 82 strikeouts
- Season highs of 7.0 IP three times, nine strikeouts twice at Kansas State and vs. Iowa
- Big West Spring All-Academic
- Big West Commissioner's Honor Roll with honors
- UC Irvine Scholar-Athlete
2021
- Named Collegiate Baseball Newspaper Freshman All-American
- Named All-Big West Second Team
- Twice named Big West Pitcher of the Week March 22, tossing eight, two-hit innings in a win at UC Davis with seven strikeouts, and May 24, striking out 10 allowing zero earned runs over 7.2 innings in a win at CSUB
- Made 17 appearances in 2021 starting 16 times on the mound
- Posted career bests with 8.2 innings April 17 at Cal Poly, and two 10-strikeout performances highlighted by 12 strikeouts vs. UC Riverside May 15
- Led team with 86.2 innings posting a 3.43 ERA and 7-4 record
- Made four appearances on the mound starting three times
- Went 1-2 with a 4.91 ERA in 14.2 innings
- Allowed eight earned runs while walking six and striking out 16
- Recorded career-best outing at USC going six innings allowing two hits, zero runs, zero walks, and seven strikeouts
Tesoro High School
- Played baseball and basketball at Tesoro High School
- League co-MVP, league champion, All-CIF as a junior
- Two-time all-league and all-county
- Played in the 2019 OC All-Star Game
- CSF member
- Lions Heart Presidential Volunteer Award 2014 & 2015
- Principal's honor roll all four years
- Parents attended USC and Florida Institute of Technology
- One sister
- Born in Knoxville, Tennessee
- Graduated in summer of 2023 with a degree in economics and a minor in sociology
- Wears #13 to honor his dad who also wore the number
- Fan of Bryce Harper, Aaron Nola, Margot Robbie, and all Philadelphia sports teams, watching his favorite TV show, Better Call Saul, and listening to Post Malone
- Enjoys watching football, cheeseburgers and fries, the movies Django Unchained, Get Smart, and Caddyshack, anteaters, apples, and would love to visit Iceland
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