Friday, April 12
Seattle, WA
6:05 PM
University of Washington
vs
UCLA
Huskies Look To End Losing Skid Hosting UCLA
April 11, 2024 | Baseball
SEATTLE βΒ Looking to end a four-game skid, Washington returns to Pac-12 play on the weekend, taking on UCLA for a three-game set at Husky Ballpark Friday through Sunday.
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All three games will be available on Washington Live Stream 2. Links to live coverage are available at GoHuskies.com.
PROMOTIONS
β’ Friday: Trucker Hat Ticket Package β Fans who purchase the package will receive a ticket to Friday's series opener as well as a special Husky baseball trucker hat, $18 for general admission and $23 for home plate reserved
β’ Saturday: Dubs Club Day β Dubs Club members get free admission into the game, plus discounted guest tickets
β’ Sunday: Bark in the Park β The first 50 dogs in attendance will receive a Bark in the Park bandana (liability waiver will be signed upon entrance)
DAWG BITES
β’ Continuing a five-game homestand, Washington returns to Pac-12 play with a three-game set against UCLA.
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β’ The last time the Bruins visited Husky Ballpark, Washington swept UCLA, kicking off a 12-game winning streak to close the 2022 season.
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β’ UW has won five straight matchups with the Bruins in Seattle.
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β’ Washington and UCLA split four meetings in 2023.
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β’ The Huskies are coming off of a 7-6 loss to Seattle U in midweek action on Tuesday.
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β’ Washington is now 1-7 in one-run games in 2024.
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β’ It was the first loss of the season for the Huskies after scoring more than five runs.
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β’ The loss snapped a five-game winning streak over the Redhawks.
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β’ Despite the loss, AJ Guerrero put together a career day, matching his career highs with four hits, two home runs and three runs scored.
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β’ Aiva Arquette also left the yard as part of a two-hit game. It was the fifth multi-hit game in the last seven for the sophomore. Arquette is batting .452 during the seven-game stretch.
SERIES HISTORY VS. UCLA
Built in large part thanks to winning the first 16 matchups between the two sides, UCLA leads the all-time series with Washington 58-32, with the Huskies not defeating the Bruins for the first time until 1999. However, in recent years the series has been far more even, with Washington winning 14 of the last 25 matchups. The Dawgs have claimed three straight series over the Bruins in Seattle, including a sweep in 2022. UW and UCLA split four games last season, with the Huskies taking 2-of-3 games in LA and the Bruins besting Washington at the Pac-12 Tournament.
BOMBS AWAY
AJ Guerrero has been demonstrating plenty of power in his bat in recent games, with half of the junior's last 14 base hits leaving the park for home runs. Guerrero homered as part of a five-RBI day in the series finale at USC and blasted a pair of solo shots on Tuesday against Seattle U, the second multi-homer game of the junior's career.
TWO BIRDS, ONE STONE
Washington ranks sixth in the nation at 1.08 double plays per game, having turned 28 double plays overall. The Huskies have turned at least one twin killing in 17-of-26 games, posting multiple double plays nine times.
ONE-TWO PUNCH
All season long, Washington's bullpen duo of Grant Cunningham and Sam Boyle have been giving opposing batters fits. Cunningham and Boyle rank first and second in the Pac-12 in ERA at 1.91 and 2.36, respectively, allowing just 13 earned runs over 55.0 innings of work. Over his last six appearances, Cunningham has surrendered a single run, totaling 17.1 frames.
GOING STREAKING
Each collecting at least one knock Tuesday against Seattle U, Jeter Ybarra extended his active hitting streak to nine games, while Aiva Arquette stretched his own streak to seven games.
EXTRA! EXTRA!
Of the 34 base knocks Jeter Ybarra has recorded in 2024, 12 of them have gone for extra bases. The redshirt-junior has racked up 10 doubles and a pair of home runs this season, already four extra-base hits more than he produced over the entirety of 2023.
Following UW's series win at No. 14 Texas, Ybarra became the first Husky to be named the Pac-12 Player of the Week since 2019, when Braiden Ward received the honor. Ybarra batted .636 during the series with five RBIs and three runs scored. In game one in Austin, Ybarra was a perfect 5-for-5 at the plate with three doubles, becoming the first UW player with a five-hit game since 2019.
WORKING OVERTIME
Playing into the 17th inning at Long Beach State and completing 15 frames versus Santa Clara, Washington has played in the two longest games in college baseball this season. The Huskies' 15 inning affair with SCU is tied with a game between Memphis and Rice.
GOING LONG
After entering the season with no career outing at UW going longer than 1.2 innings over the past two seasons, Gianluca Shinn has made three relief appearances of 2.0 frames or longer in 2024, including a career-long 4.0 innings versus Long Beach State.
SOPHOMORE YEAR
Washington is in its second season under head coach Jason Kelly after an impressive rookie campaign on Montlake. Not only was Kelly's 35 wins the second-most in program-history by a first year head coach, but the skipper became the first coach at Washington to lead the Huskies to the NCAA Tournament in his first season.
PRE-APPROVED
One year after Johnny Tincher was the lone UW representative on the Preseason All-Pac-12 Team, three Huskies were named to the list ahead of the 2024 season. Turning down a potential MLB Draft selection to return to Montlake, shortstop Cam Clayton earned a spot after batting .325 with 32 extra base hits a season ago. Leading the team with a .345 average in 2023, AJ Guerrero joined Clayton, adding a steady outfield glove to his accomplished bat. Reliever Josh Emanuels rounded out the Dawgs honored, collecting six saves and a 3-2 record on the hill a year ago.
SAFE HANDS
A year after leading the Huskies with six saves, redshirt-junior relief arm Josh Emanuels was named to the 2024 NCBWA Stopper of the Year Watch List. Emanuels was one of five Pac-12 relievers to be named to the watch list.
DRAFT DEPARTURES
Washington had a number of key pieces to replace after six Huskies were drafted in the 2023 MLB Draft, the most in a single class for UW since the Dawgs saw six players drafted in 2019. Kiefer Lord was the first Husky selected, picked in the third round by the Baltimore Orioles. At 86th overall, Lord was UW's highest draftee since Austin Rei was drafted 81st overall in 2015. Case Matter was also drafted on Day 2, going to the Texas Rangers in the 10th round. Stu Flesland III was next off the board to the Colorado Rockies in the 11th round. Johnny Tincher joined Flesland in the 11th round, selected by the Cleveland Guardians, while Will Simpson was picked by the Oakland Athletics in the 15th round. Finishing things off was Coby Morales, who had his rights selected by the New York Yankees in the 18th round.
D3 DIAMONDS
For the second straight year, Washington has hit the NCAA Division III ranks to add to its pitching staff through the transfer portal. The Huskies added right-hander Spencer Dessart out of Middlebury College in Vermont, who posted a 4.32 ERA with 63 strikeouts over 50 innings. Last off season, UW brought in D3 transfer Kiefer Lord out of Minnesota's Carleton College, with Lord going on to be a third round draft choice in the 2023 MLB Draft.
DRAFT KINGS
Washington had seven players featured this offseason when D1Baseball released their Pac-12 MLB Prospect Rankings for the 2024 and 2025 draft classes.
D1Baseball Pac-12 MLB Draft Prospect Rankings
Cam Clayton - 2024 - No. 8 (No. 68 nationally)
AJ Guerrero - 2024 - No. 16
Josh Emanuels - 2024 - No. 45
Jeter Ybarra - 2024 - No. 48
Aiva Arquette - 2025 - No. 6 (No. 51 nationally)
Sam Boyle - 2025 - No. 21
Grant Cunningham - 2025 - No. 25
YOUNG BUCKS
The Huskies landed three rookie players on D1Baseball's Pac-12 Impact Freshman Rankings, announced during the preseason.
D1Baseball Pac-12 Impact Freshman Rankings
Blake Wilson - No. 14
Carson Ohland - No. 22
Carston Pearson - No. 23
TOP DAWGS
Washington had two players recognized in D1Baseball's national position rankings. Cam Clayton checked in as the No. 8 shortstop in the country, while AJ Guerrero was tabbed at No. 29 among outfielders.
IT CAN WAIT
For the second year in a row, a Washington commit turned down the opportunity to sign with an MLB team to join the Husky roster after Blake Wilson was drafted in the 20th round of the 2023 MLB Draft by the Kansas City Royals but still made his way to Montlake. Husky sophomore Aiva Arquette was a 18th round draft choice by the Arizona Diamondbacks before coming to campus.
A DECADE ON THE DIAMOND
Opened on March 21, 2014, Washington will be celebrating the 10th anniversary of the inaugural game played at Husky Ballpark. The Huskies are 161-105 all-time at the stadium.
FAMILIAR FACES
The UW roster features two newcomers with previous Pac-12 ties. Tommy Brandenburg, a junior college graduate of Central Arizona College, spent his true freshman season at Oregon, making eight pitching appearances and four starts. Meanwhile, catcher Colton Bower redshirted the 2023 season at Washington State.
PRO PEDIGREE
Jason Ellison, a six-year Major League Baseball player with the San Francisco Giants, Seattle Mariners, Cincinnati Reds and Texas Rangers, was added to Jason Kelly's staff as UW's hitting and outfield coordinator during the offseason following the departure of Billy Boyer. Ellison, a native of Port Orchard, Washington, had worked as an MLB scout since 2011 with the Los Angeles Angels and Pittsburgh Pirates organizations.
Kelly also promoted Jake Silverman and Mike Gange to associate head coach and recruiting coordinator, respectively.
WELCOME BACK, JOE
One of the all-time great Huskies, Joe DeMers has returned to Montlake as an undergraduate assistant. An All-Pac-12 standout, DeMers led the Dawgs to their first-ever College World Series in 2018, delivering a 1.80 ERA over four postseason starts. In addition to all-conference laurels, DeMers was awarded the ABCA/Rawlings Gold Glove. He was selected by the Oakland Athletics in the 11th round of the 2018 MLB Draft.
GROWING 'EM LOCAL
Well over half of the Husky roster, 24 of 41 players overall, are homegrown talents from the state of Washington. Of those 24 local products, 16 hail from the greater Seattle Metropolitan area. Below is a breakdown of the counties UW's Washington natives call home.
UW Washington Natives by County
King County - 15
Clark County - 4
Cowlitz County - 1
Kitsap County - 2
Pierce County - 1
Snohomish County - 1
Spokane County - 1
PAC-12 SWAN SONG
Washington is competing in its final Pac-12 season before joining the Big Ten Conference in 2025. UW was one of the four founding members of what started in December of 1915 as the Pacific Coast Conference, which eventually grew to become the Pac-12.
For more information on the UW baseball team, follow @UW_Baseball on Twitter and Instagram.
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All three games will be available on Washington Live Stream 2. Links to live coverage are available at GoHuskies.com.
PROMOTIONS
β’ Friday: Trucker Hat Ticket Package β Fans who purchase the package will receive a ticket to Friday's series opener as well as a special Husky baseball trucker hat, $18 for general admission and $23 for home plate reserved
β’ Saturday: Dubs Club Day β Dubs Club members get free admission into the game, plus discounted guest tickets
β’ Sunday: Bark in the Park β The first 50 dogs in attendance will receive a Bark in the Park bandana (liability waiver will be signed upon entrance)
DAWG BITES
β’ Continuing a five-game homestand, Washington returns to Pac-12 play with a three-game set against UCLA.
Β
β’ The last time the Bruins visited Husky Ballpark, Washington swept UCLA, kicking off a 12-game winning streak to close the 2022 season.
Β
β’ UW has won five straight matchups with the Bruins in Seattle.
Β
β’ Washington and UCLA split four meetings in 2023.
Β
β’ The Huskies are coming off of a 7-6 loss to Seattle U in midweek action on Tuesday.
Β
β’ Washington is now 1-7 in one-run games in 2024.
Β
β’ It was the first loss of the season for the Huskies after scoring more than five runs.
Β
β’ The loss snapped a five-game winning streak over the Redhawks.
Β
β’ Despite the loss, AJ Guerrero put together a career day, matching his career highs with four hits, two home runs and three runs scored.
Β
β’ Aiva Arquette also left the yard as part of a two-hit game. It was the fifth multi-hit game in the last seven for the sophomore. Arquette is batting .452 during the seven-game stretch.
SERIES HISTORY VS. UCLA
Built in large part thanks to winning the first 16 matchups between the two sides, UCLA leads the all-time series with Washington 58-32, with the Huskies not defeating the Bruins for the first time until 1999. However, in recent years the series has been far more even, with Washington winning 14 of the last 25 matchups. The Dawgs have claimed three straight series over the Bruins in Seattle, including a sweep in 2022. UW and UCLA split four games last season, with the Huskies taking 2-of-3 games in LA and the Bruins besting Washington at the Pac-12 Tournament.
BOMBS AWAY
AJ Guerrero has been demonstrating plenty of power in his bat in recent games, with half of the junior's last 14 base hits leaving the park for home runs. Guerrero homered as part of a five-RBI day in the series finale at USC and blasted a pair of solo shots on Tuesday against Seattle U, the second multi-homer game of the junior's career.
TWO BIRDS, ONE STONE
Washington ranks sixth in the nation at 1.08 double plays per game, having turned 28 double plays overall. The Huskies have turned at least one twin killing in 17-of-26 games, posting multiple double plays nine times.
ONE-TWO PUNCH
All season long, Washington's bullpen duo of Grant Cunningham and Sam Boyle have been giving opposing batters fits. Cunningham and Boyle rank first and second in the Pac-12 in ERA at 1.91 and 2.36, respectively, allowing just 13 earned runs over 55.0 innings of work. Over his last six appearances, Cunningham has surrendered a single run, totaling 17.1 frames.
GOING STREAKING
Each collecting at least one knock Tuesday against Seattle U, Jeter Ybarra extended his active hitting streak to nine games, while Aiva Arquette stretched his own streak to seven games.
EXTRA! EXTRA!
Of the 34 base knocks Jeter Ybarra has recorded in 2024, 12 of them have gone for extra bases. The redshirt-junior has racked up 10 doubles and a pair of home runs this season, already four extra-base hits more than he produced over the entirety of 2023.
Following UW's series win at No. 14 Texas, Ybarra became the first Husky to be named the Pac-12 Player of the Week since 2019, when Braiden Ward received the honor. Ybarra batted .636 during the series with five RBIs and three runs scored. In game one in Austin, Ybarra was a perfect 5-for-5 at the plate with three doubles, becoming the first UW player with a five-hit game since 2019.
WORKING OVERTIME
Playing into the 17th inning at Long Beach State and completing 15 frames versus Santa Clara, Washington has played in the two longest games in college baseball this season. The Huskies' 15 inning affair with SCU is tied with a game between Memphis and Rice.
GOING LONG
After entering the season with no career outing at UW going longer than 1.2 innings over the past two seasons, Gianluca Shinn has made three relief appearances of 2.0 frames or longer in 2024, including a career-long 4.0 innings versus Long Beach State.
SOPHOMORE YEAR
Washington is in its second season under head coach Jason Kelly after an impressive rookie campaign on Montlake. Not only was Kelly's 35 wins the second-most in program-history by a first year head coach, but the skipper became the first coach at Washington to lead the Huskies to the NCAA Tournament in his first season.
PRE-APPROVED
One year after Johnny Tincher was the lone UW representative on the Preseason All-Pac-12 Team, three Huskies were named to the list ahead of the 2024 season. Turning down a potential MLB Draft selection to return to Montlake, shortstop Cam Clayton earned a spot after batting .325 with 32 extra base hits a season ago. Leading the team with a .345 average in 2023, AJ Guerrero joined Clayton, adding a steady outfield glove to his accomplished bat. Reliever Josh Emanuels rounded out the Dawgs honored, collecting six saves and a 3-2 record on the hill a year ago.
SAFE HANDS
A year after leading the Huskies with six saves, redshirt-junior relief arm Josh Emanuels was named to the 2024 NCBWA Stopper of the Year Watch List. Emanuels was one of five Pac-12 relievers to be named to the watch list.
DRAFT DEPARTURES
Washington had a number of key pieces to replace after six Huskies were drafted in the 2023 MLB Draft, the most in a single class for UW since the Dawgs saw six players drafted in 2019. Kiefer Lord was the first Husky selected, picked in the third round by the Baltimore Orioles. At 86th overall, Lord was UW's highest draftee since Austin Rei was drafted 81st overall in 2015. Case Matter was also drafted on Day 2, going to the Texas Rangers in the 10th round. Stu Flesland III was next off the board to the Colorado Rockies in the 11th round. Johnny Tincher joined Flesland in the 11th round, selected by the Cleveland Guardians, while Will Simpson was picked by the Oakland Athletics in the 15th round. Finishing things off was Coby Morales, who had his rights selected by the New York Yankees in the 18th round.
D3 DIAMONDS
For the second straight year, Washington has hit the NCAA Division III ranks to add to its pitching staff through the transfer portal. The Huskies added right-hander Spencer Dessart out of Middlebury College in Vermont, who posted a 4.32 ERA with 63 strikeouts over 50 innings. Last off season, UW brought in D3 transfer Kiefer Lord out of Minnesota's Carleton College, with Lord going on to be a third round draft choice in the 2023 MLB Draft.
DRAFT KINGS
Washington had seven players featured this offseason when D1Baseball released their Pac-12 MLB Prospect Rankings for the 2024 and 2025 draft classes.
D1Baseball Pac-12 MLB Draft Prospect Rankings
Cam Clayton - 2024 - No. 8 (No. 68 nationally)
AJ Guerrero - 2024 - No. 16
Josh Emanuels - 2024 - No. 45
Jeter Ybarra - 2024 - No. 48
Aiva Arquette - 2025 - No. 6 (No. 51 nationally)
Sam Boyle - 2025 - No. 21
Grant Cunningham - 2025 - No. 25
YOUNG BUCKS
The Huskies landed three rookie players on D1Baseball's Pac-12 Impact Freshman Rankings, announced during the preseason.
D1Baseball Pac-12 Impact Freshman Rankings
Blake Wilson - No. 14
Carson Ohland - No. 22
Carston Pearson - No. 23
TOP DAWGS
Washington had two players recognized in D1Baseball's national position rankings. Cam Clayton checked in as the No. 8 shortstop in the country, while AJ Guerrero was tabbed at No. 29 among outfielders.
IT CAN WAIT
For the second year in a row, a Washington commit turned down the opportunity to sign with an MLB team to join the Husky roster after Blake Wilson was drafted in the 20th round of the 2023 MLB Draft by the Kansas City Royals but still made his way to Montlake. Husky sophomore Aiva Arquette was a 18th round draft choice by the Arizona Diamondbacks before coming to campus.
A DECADE ON THE DIAMOND
Opened on March 21, 2014, Washington will be celebrating the 10th anniversary of the inaugural game played at Husky Ballpark. The Huskies are 161-105 all-time at the stadium.
FAMILIAR FACES
The UW roster features two newcomers with previous Pac-12 ties. Tommy Brandenburg, a junior college graduate of Central Arizona College, spent his true freshman season at Oregon, making eight pitching appearances and four starts. Meanwhile, catcher Colton Bower redshirted the 2023 season at Washington State.
PRO PEDIGREE
Jason Ellison, a six-year Major League Baseball player with the San Francisco Giants, Seattle Mariners, Cincinnati Reds and Texas Rangers, was added to Jason Kelly's staff as UW's hitting and outfield coordinator during the offseason following the departure of Billy Boyer. Ellison, a native of Port Orchard, Washington, had worked as an MLB scout since 2011 with the Los Angeles Angels and Pittsburgh Pirates organizations.
Kelly also promoted Jake Silverman and Mike Gange to associate head coach and recruiting coordinator, respectively.
WELCOME BACK, JOE
One of the all-time great Huskies, Joe DeMers has returned to Montlake as an undergraduate assistant. An All-Pac-12 standout, DeMers led the Dawgs to their first-ever College World Series in 2018, delivering a 1.80 ERA over four postseason starts. In addition to all-conference laurels, DeMers was awarded the ABCA/Rawlings Gold Glove. He was selected by the Oakland Athletics in the 11th round of the 2018 MLB Draft.
GROWING 'EM LOCAL
Well over half of the Husky roster, 24 of 41 players overall, are homegrown talents from the state of Washington. Of those 24 local products, 16 hail from the greater Seattle Metropolitan area. Below is a breakdown of the counties UW's Washington natives call home.
UW Washington Natives by County
King County - 15
Clark County - 4
Cowlitz County - 1
Kitsap County - 2
Pierce County - 1
Snohomish County - 1
Spokane County - 1
PAC-12 SWAN SONG
Washington is competing in its final Pac-12 season before joining the Big Ten Conference in 2025. UW was one of the four founding members of what started in December of 1915 as the Pacific Coast Conference, which eventually grew to become the Pac-12.
For more information on the UW baseball team, follow @UW_Baseball on Twitter and Instagram.
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