Payton Brennan’s fifth RBI of the Big Ten tournament evened the Bruins and Wolverines for the second time Thursday, when the redshirt sophomore center fielder’s second hit of the day drove home sophomore third baseman Roman Martin in the bottom of the eighth.

No. 2 seed UCLA baseball (39-15, 22-8 Big Ten) missed out on the conference playoffs last season but will enter its first-ever Big Ten tournament as co-conference regular season champions, with No.

Roch Cholowsky seemingly hit a grand slam in the bottom of the seventh, with the sophomore shortstop launching his 19th long ball of the year with the bases loaded.

This post was updated May 8 at 10:23 p.m.
The Bruins entered their 2025 campaign not having made the NCAA tournament since 2022.
And for the first time in over five years, UCLA appeared destined to host its first regional since 2019, when it was 25-5 and a top-10 team in the country.

The Bruins were three outs from snapping their two-game skid.
Then the Nittany Lions scored four in the top of the ninth, and suddenly, the Bruins were down one and three outs away from a season-long three-game losing streak.

James Hepp’s day was done after facing just three hitters Tuesday as the junior right-hander failed to record a single out.
And though the Bruins would eventually shut out the Anteaters from the second inning on, the five runs No.

The Bruins’ nine-game win streak may have come to an end Sunday, but their four-bout tear in midweek affairs persists.
And the team will have a chance to extend the latter Tuesday.

Roch Cholowsky, a projected first-rounder in the 2026 MLB Draft with a top-10 OPS in the Big Ten this year, may be the face of the Bruins.

Gerrit Cole was the Bruins’ ace the last time they faced the Cornhuskers.
The right-hander – just months away from being selected first overall in the 2011 MLB Draft – took a perfect game into the seventh and finished the series opener with nine shutout innings and eight strikeouts in UCLA’s 1-0 extra-innings victory.

Roch Cholowsky stepped into the batter’s box amid a 0-for-14 stretch – hitless in the three games prior to Sunday.
Nonetheless, the crowd at Jackie Robinson Stadium roared when the sophomore shortstop’s name was announced over the PA system in the bottom of the fifth.