COLLEGE BASEBALL: BRUINS RECEIVE HELP WINTHROP ERRORS SPARK UCLA WIN UCLA 2, WINTHROP 1.Byline: HEATHER GRIPP Staff Writer After losing two-thirds of last season's weekend rotation to the Major League Baseball draft The First-Year Player Draft is Major League Baseball's primary mechanism for assigning amateur baseball players, from high schools, colleges, and other amateur baseball clubs, to its teams. , UCLA's baseball team is counting on an experienced offense to help the Bruins live up to their preseason national rankings. Tyson Brummett is still waiting to see that offense. Brummett, a senior right-hander moving up to the Bruins' No. 1 starter role, got the win in Friday's season opener against visiting Winthrop, but was aided more by the opposition's errors than his own team's hitting. The Bruins, who ranked seventh in the nine-team Pacific-10 Conference The Pacific-10 Conference (Pac-10) is a college athletic conference which operates in the western United States. It participates in the NCAA's Division I. Membership Full members in batting last season, did not score an earned run earned run n. Baseball A run scored without the aid of an error, used in computing earned run averages. Noun 1. earned run - a run that was not scored as the result of an error by the other team in the 2-1 nonconference victory. UCLA UCLA University of California at Los Angeles UCLA University Center for Learning Assistance (Illinois State University) UCLA University of Carrollton, TX and Lower Addison, TX pinch-hitter Will Penniall scored the deciding run from second with two outs in the eighth inning when Eagles second baseman second baseman n. Baseball The infielder who is positioned near and to the first-base side of second base. Noun 1. second baseman - (baseball) the person who plays second base second sacker Phil Carey dropped a pop-up by Ryan Babineau. The error was Winthrop's third of the game. Brummett (1-0) went eightinnings, allowing six hits and one walk with six strikeouts. Closer Brant brant or brant goose, common name for a species of wild sea goose. The American brant, Branta bernicla, breeds in the Arctic and winters along the Atlantic coast. Rustich struck out Winthrop's Louis Ullrich with a runner on third to preserve the win. Tim Stewart and Mickey Weisser, who both went 2for4, were the only Bruins with multiple hits. UCLA's Brandon Crawford scored to tie it at 1-1 in the first inning before a series of wasted opportunities ensued. The Bruins loaded the bases with one out in the third, but an infield fly and a strikeout ended the inning without a run. Babineau hit a one-out triple to center in the fourth, but was stranded when the next two batters popped up. An inning later, the Bruins had runners on the corners with one out but a strikeout by Casey Haerther and groundout by Cody Decker derailed the potential rally. Babineau sacrificed Tim Murphy to second in the sixth, but back-to-back pop-ups prevented Murphy from advancing any further. Winthrop sophomore right-hander Alex Wilson surrendered one unearned run on six hits and three walks with five strikeouts in 5 2/3 innings. Ryan Mullins (0-1) allowed one hit in 2 1/3 innings. Left-hander Paul Schmidt
Paul Schmidt was a translator in the German foreign ministry from 1923-1945. During his career he served as the translator for Neville Chamberlain's negotiations with Adolf Hitler over the Munich is scheduled to start for the Bruins today when the three-game series continues at 2 p.m. heather.gripp@dailynews.com (818) 713-3607 |
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