When UCLA baseball has been at its best under John Savage, pitching and defense have been the Bruins’ calling cards.<\/p>\n
All is well in those areas through two weeks. UCLA pitchers struck out 35 in a three-game weekend sweep of Big 12 preseason favorite TCU and the Bruins are one of two teams in the nation yet to commit an error.<\/p>\n
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