Former Aztec ace Stephen Strasburg gets four years, $15.1 million from Nats
All the San Diego State baseball team needed was 77 more seconds. Had negotiations gone an extra minute or so, Washington Nationals pitcher Stephen Strasburg might have had no other choice than to come back and pitch for SDSU for another season.
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Star pitcher's successful summer may get better with a lucrative contract
There is a mantle — or perhaps an entire room — in the Stephen Strasburg household that has grown quite crowded in the past several weeks. Before this summer, the Strasburg trophy case already included an Olympic bronze medal, two Mountain West Conference Pitcher of the Year awards, countless MWC Pitcher of the Week honors and pretty much any award given to a collegiate baseball pitcher in the past two years.
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Three years ago, 30 Major League Baseball teams had 1,502 chances to take Stephen Strasburg in the MLB draft. None did. On Tuesday afternoon, though, it took the Washington Nationals less than four minutes to make Strasburg the No. 1 overall pick in the 2009 First-Year Player Draft.
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IRVINE — When Virginia’s Phil Gosselin and Steven Proscia were asked what kind of myths and legends they heard about San Diego State’s Stephen Strasburg heading into Friday’s NCAA Regional, the two Cavaliers looked at each other and smiled. They heard all about the 103-mph fastball. They heard all about the devastating slider. They also heard all about how unhittable he was.
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The differences between senior starting pitcher Jon Berger’s first three and last four innings would give night and day a run for their money. After allowing four runs while facing 14 hitters to record the first nine outs, Berger settled down to retire the next 12 University of San Francisco hitters he faced in the San Diego State baseball team’s 12-4 win on Monday afternoon at Tony Gwynn Stadium.
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The San Diego State baseball team has been coming out a little flat lately. “We needed more of a lift today,” head coach Tony Gwynn said. But this past Sunday on Senior Day at Tony Gwynn Stadium, SDSU (34-18, 13-8 in Mountain West Conference play) looked like a team on a mission, pounding out 14 hits in the Aztecs’ 12-2 rout of Air Force to complete a three-game sweep of the struggling Falcons (14-34, 3-15).
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How exactly does a freshman pitcher on Saturday afternoon follow up Stephen Strasburg’s Friday night no-hitter? “It was really cool actually,” freshman pitcher Ryan O’Sullivan said. “It’s hard to top that.”
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Head coach Tony Gwynn has referred to the San Diego State baseball squad as “a young team” all season. There won’t be a greater example of that statement than this Sunday, when just four of the team’s 34 players will be honored for Senior Day.
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The San Diego State baseball team didn’t exactly have the kind of weekend that would please a head coach. “We were making mistakes,” SDSU head coach Tony Gwynn said. “We were missing cutoff men; we had no communication.”
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Coach thinks Strasburg might be better off not pitching after season
Tony Gwynn said Stephen Strasburg could be the Washington Nationals No. 1 starter right now. But that doesn’t necessarily mean the San Diego State baseball head coach thinks he should be.
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Head coach Tony Gwynn is pretty confident of what he’ll get when he sends junior pitcher Stephen Strasburg to the mound for the San Diego State baseball team. So when SDSU’s ace went out and pitched eight shutout innings and struck out double-figures yet again, the normally talkative Gwynn gave a simple response.
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For as well as the San Diego State baseball team started Saturday’s doubleheader at Santa Clara, the ending was a bit of a surprise. After scoring seven runs in the first three innings of the first game, SDSU (30-18, 10-8 in Mountain West Conference play) managed just two runs for the rest of the afternoon, splitting the twin bill against a struggling Broncos (16-27, 4-11) squad.
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After dropping out of the top 25, the fading Aztecs practice fundamentals
Despite getting off to a fast start and being ranked as high as No. 15, the San Diego State baseball team is scuffling as of late. SDSU (28-17, 10-8 in Mountain West Conference play) has dropped out of USA Today’s Top 25 after losing consecutive series to New Mexico and No. 15 TCU.
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Last month, the San Diego State baseball team went to Forth Worth, Texas, and took two out of three games from nationally ranked TCU on its home field.
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The grab to his ribcage was subtle — probably just an itch. He wound up, threw another devastating slider and tugged at his ribs again. It was still faint enough to go widely unnoticed. But after a 100-mph fastball shot out of his arm, he grabbed at his ribs again. For a moment, San Diego State phenom Stephen Strasburg looked human.
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Gwynn's squad loses one-run conference game against TCU
On Saturday at Tony Gwynn Stadium, a strong start wasn’t enough to counter a sluggish finish for the San Diego State baseball team.
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The San Diego State baseball team was tired of leaving men on base. So after stranding a small army of base runners against New Mexico this past weekend, the team figured it was time for a change.
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After striking out New Mexico first baseman Justin Howard in the ninth inning of last Friday night’s 1-0 victory against the Lobos in Albuquerque, San Diego State baseball phenom Stephen Strasburg gave an animated fist pump.
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SDSU falls late in rubber match to first place New Mexico
The San Diego State baseball team and New Mexico looked like two completely different teams in the ninth inning on Sunday afternoon. With the game tied at five, both teams loaded the bases with less than two outs, but it was the Lobos (30-11, 10-5 in Mountain West Conference play) who ultimately executed and won the game 6-5 in Albuquerque.
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Junior pitcher Stephen Strasburg is pretty confident on the mound these days. Going into Friday’s game against New Mexico, the San Diego State baseball team knew it needed its ace at his best.
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As the saying goes, you’re only as good as the next day’s starting pitcher. On a Saturday night after junior pitcher Stephen Strasburg blanked New Mexico for nine innings, senior starter Jon Berger couldn’t get the job done as the San Diego State baseball team fell 12-4 in Albuquerque, N.M.
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Fallen Aztec overshadows a night in which SDSU can't hold on to a late lead
The clouds were dark, the winds were swirling and several members of the San Diego State baseball team huddled in their dugout before and during Tuesday night’s game against UCLA. The team wasn’t huddling just for physical warmth, however. SDSU lost a member of its family this past weekend when former pitcher Brandon Villalobos was killed in a dune buggy accident.
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Jon Berger headlines a list of SDSU players who are battling through injuries
Even though the San Diego State baseball team didn’t have a game yesterday, it was a huge day for the program. Head coach Tony Gwynn said the team will learn more about the injuries that have started to appear up and down the team’s roster.
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Junior ace Stephen Strasburg’s focus on hitting his catcher’s spots is so great that he’ll barely notice what venue he’s pitching in.
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Junior outfielder Pat Colwell had a long walk back to the dugout. This walk, however, was not after a swing-and-miss strikeout. This was after Colwell scored the eventual winning run in the San Diego State baseball team’s 4-3 victory at Long Beach State Tuesday night. “It was a pretty long walk back to the dugout, but I didn’t care,” said Colwell, who went 2-4 in the contest. “I walked by Erik Castro and he was pumped. (The players) were crazy in the dugout.”
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The day just didn’t start off on the right foot for the San Diego State baseball team. With players, coaches and fans removing their hats for the National Anthem in Sunday afternoon’s game between No. 21 SDSU (22-11, 6-3) and UC Davis, system problems led to a belated silence, and fans sung the National Anthem to begin the game.
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The San Diego State baseball team didn’t think it was going to win Monday night’s game against Southern Utah. Down 6-1 entering the eighth inning, head coach Tony Gwynn decided to get a little work in for little-used relief pitcher George Snyder. Little did anyone know that this unknown pitcher would enter his first game for SDSU this season and pick up his first win. The Aztecs (16-8) exploded for seven runs in the bottom of the eighth inning to erase a five-run deficit and won 8-7.
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It was the luck of the Irish for freshman pitcher Ryan O’Sullivan on St. Patrick’s Day. “I’m about 50 percent Irish,” O’Sullivan said.
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The San Diego State baseball team isn’t big on power, but that didn’t matter Sunday. While SDSU faced a UNLV squad that had hit twice as many home runs as the Aztecs coming into this weekend, SDSU rode a monster game from sophomore outfielder Cory Vaughn in its 15-2 win against the Rebels (11-6, 0-3 in Mountain West Conference play).
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Senior starter Jon Berger had a lot to live up to Saturday afternoon. After all, junior ace Stephen Strasburg had just struck out nine of the first 10 UNLV batters he faced the night before, igniting a packed house at Tony Gwynn Stadium.
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The San Diego State baseball team’s ace Stephen Strasburg is not just a pitcher. “He’s a competitor,” head coach Tony Gwynn said following SDSU’s 4-3 win against UNLV Friday night at Tony Gwynn Stadium.
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Meredith and the Aztecs head to UCLA to take on the Bruins
Brandon Meredith knows what it’s like to grow up in San Diego. The freshman first baseman for the San Diego State baseball team went to Montgomery High School, where he became the first high school player ever to hit a home run at Petco Park, a feat he accomplished on April 12, 2008 against Eastlake.
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Junior left-handed pitcher Nate Solow pitched an effective day, even if the box score didn’t show it.
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The home run ball had yet to hit the trees past the left field wall at USD’s Cunningham Stadium on March 5 when a fan screamed, “His fastball is hittable!”
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Sophomore outfielder Cory Vaughn will tell you that his 14th inning walk-off shot last year to defeat Mountain West Conference-rival BYU 5-4 at Tony Gwynn Stadium was huge. “That shot was big,” Vaughn said of his blast against the Cougars on March 13 of last year.
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Freshman pitcher Ryan O’Sullivan saw the same first six batters on Tuesday night wearing the same navy and burnt orange when he stared from the mound to the batter’s box, which sheltered the No. 7 Cal State Fullerton Titans. Just seven days before, O’Sullivan made his career debut against them.
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The way the San Diego State baseball team was swinging the bats coming into Sunday’s home game against Kansas State, it shouldn’t have mattered that junior pitcher Tyler Lavigne didn’t have the same stuff he used to stifle No. 11 USD on Feb. 22.
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While hitting remains inconsistent, hurlers continue to excel
With an entirely new infield and a host of new position players, the San Diego State baseball team has been using its pitching staff as a crutch so far through the early season.
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On Feb. 20, after a dominating performance against Bethune-Cookman, Stephen Strasburg gave himself a B- grade for his effort. The junior pitcher threw 5.2 innings, allowed just three hits, surrendered no earned runs, walked only two and struck out 11 batters — he’s a bit of a perfectionist.
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SDSU commits four errors and gives up three unearned runs in defeat
The San Diego State baseball team didn’t look pretty in its home opener against No. 7 Cal State Fullerton (2-2) on Tuesday night. Then again, neither did the Titans. “It was just an ugly game,” head coach Tony Gwynn said. “But the good teams find a way to win in these situations.”
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Tyler Lavigne wasn’t just nervous. He was sweating bullets. After all, it wasn’t just his first start of the season; it was the first time he had ever pitched in a game for the San Diego State baseball team.
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San Diego State head baseball coach Tony Gwynn didn’t need many words to explain how Southern University pitcher Jarrett Maloy carved up his lineup Saturday night.
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Each time junior ace Stephen Strasburg received the ball back from his catcher after a pitch and looked up at his infield, he saw unfamiliar faces.
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SDSU will kick off the 2009 season against Bethune Cookman in Compton
The San Diego State baseball team hasn’t played a single game yet, but the scout and media circus has already started swirling.
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A Hall of Famer and a 15-year pitching coach are behind closed doors, arguing about a player. The pitching coach wants him bad. The player’s ceiling is tremendously high, and the coach is sure the San Diego State baseball team should go after him. But the Hall of Famer isn’t buying it. Because just a few weeks before, he had seen what the player could do, and he wasn’t impressed.
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Pat Colwell measured in physical terms just doesn’t jump off the page. The team’s roster lists him at 5 feet 10 inches tall and 180 pounds. His clean-shaven mug shot suggests he’s more likely to be someone’s little brother than a key component of a Division I college baseball team. He was, in fact, that little brother.
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