The 2008 UCLA Bruins baseball team represented the
University of California, Los Angeles
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in the
2008 NCAA Division I baseball season
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. The Bruins played their home games in
Jackie Robinson Stadium
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. UCLA finished the regular season as the #3 team in the
Pacific-10 Conference
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behind #2
Stanford
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and #1
Arizona State
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. The Bruins made it to the
2008 NCAA Division I baseball tournament
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for the third year in a row, competing in the Fullerton Regionals. After beating
Virginia
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3–2 in the first round, the Bruins beat the number 1 seeded Cal State Fullerton Titans 11–4. Since the Titans beat Virginia in their double elimination game, the Bruins faced the Titans again in the Regional Finals. The Bruins lost 11–8 and 5–4 to the Titans to finish the season as runners-up in the Fullerton Regionals.
Previous season
The 2007 season saw the Bruins finish 33–28 and third in the Pac-10 Conference behind #1
Arizona State
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and #2
Arizona
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. The 2007 season ended in the
Fullerton Super Regionals when the Bruins lost two games in a row to Cal State Fullerton.
Roster
Schedule
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Oklahoma
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Jackie Robinson Stadium
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Cal State Northridge
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Matador Field
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UC Santa Barbara
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Southern
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Rankings
UCLA Bruins in the 2008 MLB Draft
The following members of the UCLA Bruins baseball program were drafted in the
2008 Major League Baseball Draft
The 2008 Major League Baseball First-Year Player Draft continued Major League Baseball's annual amateur draft of high school and college baseball players, and was held on June 5 and 6, 2008.
First round selections
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References
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UCLA
The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is a public land-grant research university in Los Angeles, California. UCLA's academic roots were established in 1881 as a teachers college then known as the southern branch of the California St ...