No. 1 UCLA baseball defeats Michigan State with four runs in the first

No. 1 UCLA baseball took the second game of their Big Ten Conference series 4-3 against Michigan State at Jeff Ishbia Field at McLane Stadium in East Lansing, Mi. on Saturday.

The Bruins remained undefeated in the Big Ten action by relying heavily on their pitching staff, just like they did in their series opener. In the second game against Michigan State, UCLA's pitching staff limiting the Spartans success at bat to only eight hits over the nine innings. All in the first UCLA was aggressive in the top of the first and it resulted in them scoring all four of their runs off of four hits to give them a 4-0 lead.

Payton Brennan and Cashel Duggar each delivered two-run singles for UCLA. Spartans strike back Michigan State got on the board in the bottom of the second with their only hit of the inning being a double that allowed their runner to cross home plate from second. Hanging on to the lead UCLA managed to keep the lead over the third and fourth innings with no runs being scored by either team.

The Bruins had a hit in each inning and the Spartans had no hits in the third, but two in the fourth. Walking to score The Spartans scored their second run in the bottom of the fifth off of walk with the bases loaded. Michigan State was unable to put up more runs, despite the bases being loaded and UCLA was able to maintain the 4-2 until the bottom of the eighth.