June 21, 2010

Game 6 Recap

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College World Series - Game 6 Notes

By Phil Stanton

CollegeBaseballInsider.com Co-Founder

 

 

Today was the first since June 2, 1980, that three games were played in the College World Series in one day.

 

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UCLA reached 50 wins for the first time in school history. The previous high was 45 victories in 1997.

 

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The Bruins have won two CWS games this season after going 0-4 in two previous trips to Omaha.

 

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UCLA scored in 11 of its first 12 innings at the College World Series. The Bruins got runs in eight of nine innings in their opener against Florida, and in each of the first three innings against TCU on Monday.

 

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Gerrit Cole recorded 13 strikeouts, his second-highest total of the season. He fanned 15 at Texas A&M-Corpus Christi on March 12. It was the fifth time Cole struck out 10 or more in a game this season.

 

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Cole raised his season strikeout total to 151, the third-highest total in the nation. Asher Wojciechowski of The Citadel has 155 and Bruin Trevor Bauer has 152. Bauer fanned 11 against Florida on Saturday.

 

“They compete against each other,” said UCLA head coach John Savage. “That’s what our pitching staff has done all year.”

 

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UCLA’s team total of 652 strikeouts is the best in Division I. The Bruins fan an average of 10.08 per nine innings.

 

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Beau Amaral went 3 for 3 with two runs. He is 6 for 7 in Omaha with three runs.

 

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With his seventh-inning single, Jason Coats set a TCU record with 98 hits in a season. He passed the mark of 97 set by Chad Huffman in 2004.