Heading to Jackie Robinson Stadium for first time
I'm checking out the 15-0 UCLA baseball team today in the final game of its three-game series with Oral Roberts. If the first two games are any indication - combined margin of victory: 32-6 - I'll be in for a show.
The Bruins continued their torrid streak yesterday, downing ORU 12-2 behind magnificent starting pitching once again. Trevor Bauer allowed one run and struck out nine, lowering his season ERA to 2.05.
I won't be covering the game, but I'll post a few tweets (ugh, I hate how sportswriting has changed) at @thecoolsub and on facebook in the Inside UCLA fan page.
Maybe the team winning like it is will make baseball games an actual draw for UCLA students. Hopefully someday they can get a new, on-campus stadium like the softball team already has.
I have always said the lack of an on-campus stadium really hurts an otherwise solid baseball program. Hopefully more seasons like this can change that.
I'll hold off comment until UCLA has actually played somebody. They really haven't done anything yet, just beat teams they should beat.
Wrong 5DOLLAR
Bruins have handed #13 Vandy their only loss of the season (9-2 by the way) and beat #16 Oklahoma on the road in Texas.
The team is legit.
@Sid -- is the Jackie Robinson stadium inadequate for college baseball? When it was first built, I heard some call it Dodger Stadium Jr. I haven't been there since I was a kid and it was not much more than a Little League field for the bruins. Is the issue the stadium or where it is built? Because honestly, playing over by the VA isn't really all that far from campus, certainly not as far as the Rose Bowl...
In any case, although baseball is a great sport (though the college game, not the same kind of cred as the big two college sports) God forbid UCLA becomes known as a Baseball school. Presumably because it would mean UCLA sucks at the other two.
I'm just saying until they play Stanford, Arizona State, or even Cal State Fullerton, whose record this season is not that great...but UCLA has been down this road before, good start, then fizzled out.