Trevor Bauer: College Baseball's National Player Of The Week
by Nestor on Apr 20, 2009 5:00 PM PDT
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Meet the National Player of the Week - Freshman right-hander Trevor Bauer - who fired a one-hit complete game shutout in UCLA's 13-0 victory over Washington on Saturday. If you haven't read it rye's full recap of that masterpiece you can do so here. [rye also fanshotted this story mins ago here].
Bauer became UCLA's first pitcher to throw a one-hit complete game since April 13, 1998, when Tony Righetti limited Hawai'i-Hilo to one hit in a 16-0 win at Jackie Robinson Stadium. More details on the official site.
Congrats to Trevor. Let's hope he and rest of the team can stay on the current hot streak.
GO BRUINS.
UPDATE (N): As expected, Bauer added Pac 10 Pitcher of the Week to his National Player of the Week honors. This is his 2nd Pac 10 POW in 4 weeks. HT to uclabaseball via twitter. Bauer wasn't done. He capped off his banner week by also becoming UCLA/Muscle Milk student-athlete of the week. HT to UCLAAtheltics via twitter. You can stay up to date by following our twitter feed here. GO BRUINS.
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We had a freshman pitcher start on both Friday night and Saturday for us. Those two freshman, Gerrit Cole and Trevor Bauer, threw 17 innings this weekend, struck out a combined 22, allowed one hit each and neither allowed an earned run. It was phenomenal to watch as both showed great talent and maturity beyond their years. It will be fun to see these two on Friday’s and Saturday’s the next two years.
by Ryan Rosenblatt on Apr 20, 2009 6:18 PM PDT reply actions
Not as highly recruited, but highly recruited
In fairness, Cole was considered by many to be the top high school pitcher in the nation so it would be tough for Bauer to match that. Bauer was considered by many to be one of the top pitchers in his class in the state so he was a big recruit. He didn’t come in with as much hype though because 1) he doesn’t throw in the upper 90’s 2) he wasn’t drafted in the first round and turn it down 3) He wasn’t drafted by the Yankees in the first round and turn them down 4) He skipped his senior year of high school and didn’t decide to do it until the end of 2008 so he wasn’t at UCLA for fall practice.
by Ryan Rosenblatt on Apr 20, 2009 6:52 PM PDT up reply actions
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