June 16, 2013
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Plutko,
Bruins Trip Tigers
 Adam
Plutko (left) and two relievers combined to shut down LSU, and
UCLA scored two unearned runs in a 2-1 win Sunday night in the
College World Series opener for each team at TD Ameritrade Park.
Plutko (9-3) tossed seven brilliant innings,
allowing four hits and one run – a Mason Katz line-drive homer
to left in the fourth inning – in picking up the win. James
Kaprielian tossed a perfect eighth inning before David Berg, the
nation’s ERA leader came on in the ninth inning. Berg ran into
trouble in the ninth, as Katz reached on a throwing error by
Bruins shortstop Pat Valaika but was erased on a 5-4-3 double
play off the bat of Raph Rhymes. Christian Ibarra walked, and
pinch-hitter Tyler Moore had a two-strike, line-drive single up
the middle to put runners at first and second. Berg went to 3-0
on JaCoby Jones before getting a flyout to right field to end
the game.
Trailing 1-0, UCLA (45-17) tied the game in the
top of the sixth inning when Brian Carroll bunted for a hit and
moved to second on catcher Ty Ross’ throwing error on the play.
Carroll moved to third on a grounder and scored on Eric Filia’s
sacrifice fly.
The Bruins scored the game-winning run in the
eighth when pinch-hitter Ty Moore singled and pinch-runner
Christoph Bono moved up to second on a sacrifice bunt. Bono
scored when Filia’s hard grounder was misplayed by Alex Bregman
at short with two outs.
Plutko improved to 6-0 in his postseason career,
and the Bruins are 7-0 in games he has started in the
postseason. UCLA advances to meet NC State, which topped North
Carolina earlier in the day, in a winners’ bracket affair on
Tuesday.
Aaron Nola (12-1) was the hard-luck loser after
throwing eight splendid innings with five hits, two runs (both
unearned) and five strikeouts. Mark Laird had two hits,
including a double, for LSU. The Tigers fell to 57-10 and face
an elimination game with North Carolina.
(photo by Don Liebig/ASUCLA) |
