No. 17 Baseball Ready for NCAA Regionals Date with LMU

MEDIA INFORMATION
Game 50: ESPN3 (http://www.espn.com/watch/_/id/3518807/loyola-marymount-vs-baylor-site-1--game-1)
Radio: 1660am/92.3fm
Radio Stream: https://listen.tunein.com/baylor18schedule ($)
Live Stats: https://www.ncaa.com/game/baseball/d1/2019/05/31/loyola-marymount-baylor

SERIES HISTORY (LMU | UCLA | OMAHA )
Overall: 2-1 | 4-6 | N/A
Waco: 2-1| 1-2 | N/A
Away: N/A | 2-4 | N/A
Neutral Site: N/A | 1-0 | N/A
Rodriguez vs: N/A | 1-2 | N/A
First Meeting: 2004 | 2009 | N/A

STORY LINES
• The Bears have been selected as the No. 2 seed in the Los Angeles Regional and will match up with No. 3-seeded LMU in the first game of the NCAA Regional on Friday, May 31 at 3 p.m. CT/1 p.m. PT at UCLA's Jackie Robinson Stadium. The other two teams in the regional include No. 1 seed UCLA, the No. 1 seed overall in the tournament and No. 4-seeded Omaha.
• Baylor is making its third-straight NCAA Regional appearance for the first time since a stretch of four-consecutive appearances between 2009-12. This is the 21st regional selection in program history.
• The Bears won 8-of-10 three game series on the year, including 5-of-6 in the Big 12 and a series over Oklahoma.
• Baylor has finished its home schedule with a .500 record or better (24-6 in 2019) in all 20 seasons at Baylor Ballpark (since 1999) and is 456-204 all-time at the park.
• Baylor led the league for a third-straight year with 12 All-Big 12 honors.
• Baylor has 12 or more wins (14) in Big 12 play for the third-straight season. BU has won 12 or more in three-straight seasons for the first time since 2010-12.
• Baylor has won 30 or more (34) games in a season for the third-straight year (32 in 2018), giving the program back-to-back-to-back 30-win seasons for the first time since 2010-12.

HOW TO WATCH AND STREAM
All games in the UCLA Regional will be streamed live on ESPN3.

AGAINST LMU
• LMU may be an unfamiliar foe to Baylor, as the two squads have only played three times in program history, but head coach Steve Rodriguez is very familiar with the Lions, as his Pepperdine Waves were in the West Coast Conference with LMU during his 12-year career at the helm for the Waves. Assistant coach Jon Strauss, who was the pitching coach for Rodriguez for six seasons at Pepperdine is also very familiar with the Lions, as he was the pitching coach and recruiting coordinator from 2003-05 at LMU.
• The Bears are 2-1 against the Lions, with the lone matchups coming to open the 2004 season. The Bears took two-of-three in Waco, dropping game one, 8-7, before taking game two 5-4 and game three, 1-0. LMU was ranked No. 13 nationally at that point in the season.

AGAINST UCLA
• The Bears are familiar with the Bruins and Jackie Robinson Stadium, having visited in 2018 for a three-game non-conference series, Feb. 23-25, 2018. The Bears lost game one 5-2, took game two, 8-6, setting up a rubber match that Sunday that they lost, 3-0. The Bears have played two series at Jackie Robinson Stadium in program history and have dropped both, 1-2. In addition to the 2018 series, the Bears visited JRS in 2013. In 2012, the Bears welcomed the Bruins to Baylor Ballpark, but also dropped the series after taking the opener, 1-2. The lone neutral site matchup came in the first meeting between the two clubs in 2009 at the Astros College Classic. The Bears won the game, 5-1. UCLA was ranked in at least one poll all four times the clubs have met, but they have never been No. 1 overall as they are in this regional. Their highest ranking while playing the Bears was No. 6/9 in 2009.

AGAINST OMAHA
• A potential meeting between the two clubs will be the first in program history.

No. 17 Baseball Ready for NCAA Regionals Date with LMU

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