2008 UCLA Bruins baseball team explained

Year:2008
Team:UCLA Bruins
Sport:baseball
Logo Alt:UCLA logo written in blue and gold script
Conference:Pacific-10 Conference
Short Conf:Pac-10
Record:33–27
Conf Record:13–11
Head Coach:John Savage
Hc Year:4th
Asst Coach1:Matt Jones
Ac1 Year:4th
Asst Coach2:Brian Green
Ac2 Year:4th
Asst Coach3:P.C. Shaw
Ac3 Year:2nd
Stadium:Jackie Robinson Stadium
Tourney:Fullerton Regional Finals vs. Cal State Fullerton
Tourney Result:L, 11–8 and L, 5–4

The 2008 UCLA Bruins baseball team represented the University of California, Los Angeles in the 2008 NCAA Division I baseball season. The Bruins played their home games in Jackie Robinson Stadium. UCLA finished the regular season as the #3 team in the Pacific-10 Conference behind #2 Stanford and #1 Arizona State.[1] The Bruins made it to the 2008 NCAA Division I baseball tournament for the third year in a row, competing in the Fullerton Regionals. After beating Virginia 3–2 in the first round, the Bruins beat the number 1 seeded Cal State Fullerton Titans 11–4. Since the Titans beat Virginia in their double elimination game, the Bruins faced the Titans again in the Regional Finals. The Bruins lost 11–8 and 5–4 to the Titans to finish the season as runners-up in the Fullerton Regionals.

Previous season

The 2007 season saw the Bruins finish 33–28 and third in the Pac-10 Conference behind #1 Arizona State and #2 Arizona.[2] The 2007 season ended in the Fullerton Super Regionals when the Bruins lost two games in a row to Cal State Fullerton.[3]

Schedule

! style="background:#536895;color:#FFB300;"| Regular season|- valign="top" |- align="center" bgcolor="#ccffcc"| 1 || February 23 || Oklahoma[4] || Jackie Robinson Stadium || 7–5 || D. Klein (1–0) || R. Duke (0–1) || None || 619 || 1–0 || –|- align="center" bgcolor="#FFE6E6"| 2 || February 23 || Oklahoma[5] || Jackie Robinson Stadium || 3–2 12 || D. Klein (1–1) || A. Doyle (1–0) || J. McCarter || 619 || 1–1 ||–|- align="center" bgcolor=| – || February 24 || Oklahoma || Jackie Robinson Stadium || Cancelled || – || – || – || – || 1–1 ||–|- align="center" bgcolor="#ccffcc"| 3 || February 26 || Cal State Northridge[6] || Matador Field || 22–2 || M. Drummond (1–0) || D. Muren (0–1) || None || 221 || 2–1 || –|- align="center" bgcolor="#ccffcc"| 4 || February 27 || UC Santa Barbara[7] || Jackie Robinson Stadium || 5–4 13 || J. Uribe (1–0) || Z. Samuels (0–1) || None || 437 || 3–1 || –|- align="center" bgcolor="#ccffcc"| 5 || February 29 || Southern[8] || Jackie Robinson Stadium || 11–2 || C. Brewer (1–0) || C. Donaby (0–1) || None || 534 || 4–1 || –|-

UCLA Bruins in the 2008 MLB Draft

The following members of the UCLA Bruins baseball program were drafted in the 2008 Major League Baseball Draft.[46] [47]

PlayerPositionRoundOverallMLB Team
Timothy MurphyLHP3rd89thTexas Rangers
Brandon CrawfordSS4th117thSan Francisco Giants
Jermaine Curtis3B5th155thSt. Louis Cardinals
Alden Carrithers2B15th463rdDetroit Tigers
Ryan BabineauC17th528thArizona Diamondbacks

Notes and References

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