{"id":7064,"date":"2013-06-27T11:22:17","date_gmt":"2013-06-27T15:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com.\/?p=7064"},"modified":"2013-06-27T11:22:17","modified_gmt":"2013-06-27T15:22:17","slug":"college-world-series-finals-ucla-wins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=7064","title":{"rendered":"College World Series Finals: UCLA Wins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UCLA Wins the 2013 College World Series.<\/p>\n<p>To recap the entire NCAA post-season tournament with links to my previous posts:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Here&#8217;s my look at the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com.\/?p=6755 \">Field of 64<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Here&#8217;s a review of the First round and a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com.\/?p=6839\">look at the Super Regionals<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Here&#8217;s a review of the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com.\/?p=6925\">Super Regionals and the CWS field<\/a>\u00a0with predictions.<\/li>\n<li>Here&#8217;s a look at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com.\/?p=6988\">first four days<\/a> of the CWS.<\/li>\n<li>Here&#8217;s a look at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com.\/?p=7018\">rest of the CWS bracket play<\/a> and a finals preview.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>CWS Finals:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Game 1: UCLA&#8217;s #1\/Friday starter <strong>Adam Plutko<\/strong> pitched 6 innings of solid one-run ball and the Bruins got just enough from the <strong>Trevor Fitts\/Chad Girodo<\/strong> Mississippi State combo starter offering to take the first game 3-1 (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.uclabruins.com\/sports\/m-basebl\/stats\/2012-2013\/ucla65.html\">box<\/a>\/<a href=\"http:\/\/www.minorleagueball.com\/2013\/6\/25\/4461852\/cws-ucla-ace-adam-plutko-solid-in-bruin-win\">gamer<\/a>).\u00a0 Plutko, an 11th round pick by Cleveland, wasn&#8217;t overly dominant (just 2 strikeouts) but was effective and the UCLA bullpen shut down the Bulldog offense.<\/li>\n<li>Game 2: UCLA&#8217;s #2\/Saturday starter <strong>Nick Vander Tuig<\/strong> completed the two-game sweep with 8 shut-out innings while Mississippi State&#8217;s rotational depth issues were exposed badly.\u00a0 UCLA battered the bullpen-by-committee efforts and <a href=\"http:\/\/scores.espn.go.com\/ncaa\/baseball\/cws\/recap?gameId=330625166&amp;league=CWS\">won the game and championship with ease 8-0<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>UCLA just had the better pitching.\u00a0 Mississippi State&#8217;s missing friday starter and then the subsequent burning of their saturday starter (best remaining starter) to get to the final ended up costing them dearly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UCLA Wins the 2013 College World Series. To recap the entire NCAA post-season tournament with links to my previous posts: Here&#8217;s my look at the\u00a0Field of 64. Here&#8217;s a review of the First round and a\u00a0look at the Super Regionals. Here&#8217;s a review of the\u00a0Super Regionals and the CWS field\u00a0with predictions. Here&#8217;s a look at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[1847,1852,1839,1851],"class_list":["post-7064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-college","tag-adam-plutko","tag-chad-girodo","tag-nick-vander-tuig","tag-trevor-fitts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7064"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7078,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7064\/revisions\/7078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}