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Former UCLA star Griffin Canning dominates latest outing

Former UCLA pitcher Griffin Canning was great in the latest win over the Dodgers.

It has been a tough season for former UCLA Baseball pitcher Griffin Canning and his Los Angeles Angels teammates. Canning is just 5-12 on the season, but his latest outing may have been his best of the 2024 season.

Canning threw 6.2 innings, allowing just 4 hits and a single run against the cross-town rival Dodgers. The right-hander struck out 7 batters and walked 4 in the 10-1 blowout win.

The win for the Angels was their third in the last four games.Β  Despite that, the Angels are in last place in the American League West with a 58-81 record. Canning will likely make an additional 3-4 starts before the 2024 season comes to an end.

The 28-year-old made his debut with the Angels back in 2019. The Mission Viejo native has a career 24-33 record, with an ERA just under 4.75. He was the winner of the Gold Glove Award in the American League during the 2020 season.

At UCLA, he went 7-4 in 17 starts, striking out 140 batters. Canning is a free agent following this season.

UCLA Bruins featured in list of impressive NCAA championships

Lots of titles for UCLA.

The first thing that comes to mind when thinking of college basketball is the UCLA Bruins’ 11 NCAA titles. But UCLA’s success goes beyond just basketball.

In a recent post by College Basketball Report on X, the Bruins are one of six teams in the nation to have won NCAA titles in basketball, football, and baseball. The Bruins join Ohio State, Stanford, Cal, Michigan, and Florida on the list.

Though no team has taken home a national title since 2013, when UCLA baseball won the College World Series, their combined thirteen titles is certainly an impressive feat. Today, the Bruins are in the midst of rebuilding all three programs into potential title-winners.

With Mick Cronin revamping the Bruins on the hardwood through the transfer portal, DeShaun Foster ushering in a new day in Westwood on the gridiron, and the Bruins’ baseball team working through the kinks, it may not be long until Bruins fans see another national title win in the near future.

LSU lands UCLA pitcher from the transfer portal

The Tigers are going back to the UCLA pitching well with Gage Jump.

Stop me if you have heard this before: LSU lands a pitcher from UCLA in the transfer portal. We have seen this story already, and it helped bring the Tigers a national championship.

Thanks, [autotag]Thatcher Hurd[/autotag].

[autotag]Gage Jump[/autotag] is a 6-foot, 200-pound left-handed pitcher from UCLA that missed the 2023 season due to having Tommy John surgery. In 2022, Jump was 1-1 with a 3.86 ERA. He had 22 strikeouts and 11 walks in 16.1 innings.

Coming out of high school in 2021, he was selected in the 18th round of the MLB draft but he opted to go to UCLA instead of signing with the San Diego Padres.

[autotag]Jay Johnson[/autotag] was masterful in the transfer portal last offseason as he brought in [autotag]Paul Skenes[/autotag], [autotag]Tommy White[/autotag] and Hurd. Those three players made a huge difference in the Tigers’ season.

Johnson is already off to a hot start in the portal and he has more stars on the way.

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USC baseball walks off UCLA in bottom of 9th, wins weekend series vs Bruins

Ripley’s Believe It or Not: This is #USC baseball’s first home-series win over UCLA since 2005. 18 years?! Wow!

The USC Trojans waited 18 long years for this moment, the moment when they could say they beat UCLA in a home-field baseball series. Has it been that long? Yes it has. It underscores how dark and difficult life has been for the USC baseball program. Now the clouds are beginning to part and the sunshine is flowing in.

USC, the school with more College World Series championships than any other in major college baseball, has fallen on very hard times over the past quarter of a century. However, first-year head coach Andy Stankiewicz is turning things around. Signs of that turnaround were apparent over the weekend. USC got punched in the mouth on Friday in Game 1 of the three-game set, but the Trojans bounced back to beat UCLA on both Saturday and Sunday to win the series and move upward in the Pac-12 baseball standings.

The series win was USC’s first home series win over UCLA at Dedeaux Field since 2005. The drought is over!

USC’s Cole Gabrielson knocked in the winning run with this walk-off hit in the bottom of the ninth, giving the Trojans a 6-5 triumph over the Bruins:

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