UC San Diego Tritons baseball

The UC San Diego Tritons baseball program represents the University of California San Diego at the National Collegiate Athletic Association's Division I level as a member of the Big West Conference (Big West). The Tritons have made several appearances in the Division II tournament, mostly under the leadership of former head coach Dan O'Brien. The Tritons reached the Division II College World Series for the First time in 2009, finishing fourth. In 2010, the Tritons enjoyed their most successful season to date, compiling a record of 54–8, and reaching the Division II national championship where they eventually fell.[3]

UC San Diego Tritons
Founded1969
Overall record931–682–10 (.577)[1]
UniversityUniversity of California, San Diego
Head coachEric Newman (10th season)
ConferenceBig West
LocationLa Jolla, California
Home stadiumTriton Ballpark
(Capacity: 1,200)
NicknameTritons
ColorsBlue and Gold[2]
         
College World Series runner-up
Division II: 2010, 2017
College World Series appearances
Division II: 2009, 2010, 2017, 2018, 2019
Division III: 1987, 1994
NCAA Tournament appearances
Division II: 2002, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2014, 2015, 2017, 2018, 2019
Division III: 1986, 1987, 1989, 1992, 1994
Conference tournament champions
2005, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2014
Conference champions
2009, 2010, 2011, 2012
Tritons pitcher Trevor Scott delivers a pitch in a 2014 NCAA West Regional game

The UC San Diego baseball team plays its home games at Triton Ballpark in La Jolla, which was renovated in 2014.[4] In 2005, the Tritons were the CCAA league champions. In 2007 and 2008, they reached the NCAA West Regionals. In 2009, after winning the CCAA league and CCAA tournament, they advanced to the NCAA Division II College World Series under the leadership of coach Dan O'Brien and infielder Vance Albitz, where they placed fourth. In 2010, they were the College World Series runners-up and the CCAA league and tournament champions. In 2011 and 2012, they repeated as CCAA league and tournament champions, again reaching the NCAA West Regionals. They won the CCAA tournament in 2014 as well.[5] In 2017, they were CCAA tournament runners-up and NCAA West Region champions, and placed second in the College World Series.[6]

Triton baseball, like most UCSD athletic programs, will transition to the NCAA Division I Big West Conference beginning in 2020. They will not be eligible for the Division I College World Series until the reclassification period ends.[7]


Keith Hernandez

Keith Hernandez was a baseball player for the Tritons, who played from 2001-2005. Hernandez was a "legend amongst men" in the first three years, breaking single season records for hits, walks, steals, and home runs. As Hernandez's senior season came about, he started the season with the notorious hitless streak where he went 143 at-bats without a single base-hit. This left the Tritons no choice but to force him to resign. Insulted by this decision, Hernandez chose to continue his career in sports by writing for the fantasy sports news website Rotoballer. Keith acquired the role as editor-in-chief of the blog and was responsible for fixing all the grammar and editorial mistakes of the Rotoballer authors. This eventually led to the "Great Keith Hernandez scandal".

The Great Keith Hernandez Scandal

As editor-in-chief, Hernandez would often edit other user's posts without permission, often leaving authors frustrated and wondering why their work was edited. When questioned, Keith would often leave crass and rude responses, which forced a revolution amongst Rotoballer authors. Anonymous authors described Keith as "um, I don't know, rude?" and eventually found his address and threw toilet paper on his house. Hernandez, absolutely appalled by these actions kicked all the anonymous writers off the Rotoballer website. As a result of this, the authors then filed a police report and Hernandez who was sentenced to 27 years in prison for these actions. Keith Hernandez now works as a coach for the Tritons, delivering the team with a 182-1193 record in 19 seasons.

Keith Hernandez In Prison

Keith spent a lot of time in prison as a result of this harassment of the writers. One writer who came forth named John Jasons who served a similar prison sentence for rape of a two year old claimed that Hernandez was abusive towards the guards and would often have moments where he would call out the guards on their improper use of grammar, resulting in beatings from the guards. This would later lead to events known as the Great Keith Hernandez Uprising

The Great Keith Hernandez Uprising

Keith Hernandez due to his nature of rioting and acting smug towards the guards, earned a lot of respect from fellow prisoners. On July 14th, 1996 at 2:32 AM, Keith Hernandez and 54 other prisoners one of whom being John Jasons managed to beat up the guards and escape Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility causing a large amount of prisoners to roam the streets of San Diego. One of the prisoners who goes by the nickname Oteen went to a local bank to commit a bank robbery. A teller by the name of Emily Matthews had forgotten her phone at the bank and was retrieving it before bed when Oteen stepped in. Oteen charmed her with his "good looks" and managed to get access to the main vault and stole over $7,000,000 USD with the help of Matthews. Matthews, also savvy in terms of technology disabled and cancelled the camera footage along with erasing tracks of her scanning the card upon entry to the bank, essentially leaving herself free of being a suspect. Matthews would continue to work at the bank before escaping the country with Oteen where their location is currently unknown. Oteen was however last seen in a hockey match in the prestigious recreational hockey league known as the EASHL against team ITSA THON MAKER. Keith Hernandez as a result of this uprising was later found posting to Rotoballer, immediately making himself known to the public and resulting in his arrest.

ITSA THON MAKER

ITSA THON MAKER is a team in the recreational international hockey league, EASHL. As the last members to see and play against Oteen, the members of the team Rick Rypien, Colby Cave, and Pavol Demitra were sent into questioning. Demitra, however, recovering from cocaine addiction, could not reasonably be relied upon to answer questions to a meaningful extent. It is predicted that Demitra obtained this cocaine addiction upon a flight where Demitra did an array of drugs including cocaine along with crack and opioids with the pilot. As a result, Rick Rypien and Colby Cave refused to answer questions as well and remain suspects to this day on the whereabouts of Oteen.

Yearly Records
Statistics overview
Season Coach Overall Postseason
Vince Askey (D-III Ind.) (1980–1981)
1980 Vince Askey 13–22
1981 Vince Askey 7–19
Vince Askey: 20–41 (0.328)
Lyle Yates (D-III Ind.) (1982–1994)
1982 Lyle Yates 9–17
1983 Lyle Yates 8–26
1984 Lyle Yates 10–18–1
1985 Lyle Yates 23–28–1
1986 Lyle Yates 22–16–2NCAA Regional
1987 Lyle Yates 32–13DIII College World Series
1988 Lyle Yates 23–12
1989 Lyle Yates 23–19NCAA Regional
1990 Lyle Yates 19–18–2
1991 Lyle Yates 16–23
1992 Lyle Yates 28–9–1NCAA Regional
1993 Lyle Yates 16–19–1
1994 Lyle Yates 33–8DIII College World Series
Lyle Yates: 262–226–8 (0.528)
Robert Fletcher (D-III Ind.) (1995–1997)
1995 Robert Fletcher 23–13
1996 Robert Fletcher 15–20–1
1997 Robert Fletcher 19–17
Robert Fletcher: 57–50–1 (0.528)
Dan O'Brien (D-III Ind.) (1998–2000)
1998 Dan O'Brien 20–18
1999 Dan O'Brien 19–18
2000 Dan O'Brien 22–13
Dan O'Brien (D-III): 61–49 (0.555)
Division III (total): 400–366–9 (0.516)
Dan O'Brien (D-II CCAA) (2001–2011)
2001 Dan O'Brien 14–34CCAA Tournament
2002 Dan O'Brien 30–23–1NCAA West Regional
2003 Dan O'Brien 25–28CCAA Tournament
2004 Dan O'Brien 35–24CCAA Tournament
2005 Dan O'Brien 37–20NCAA West Regional
2006 Dan O'Brien 35–24CCAA Tournament
2007 Dan O'Brien 37–25NCAA West Regional
2008 Dan O'Brien 43–18NCAA West Regional
2009 Dan O'Brien 41–15College World Series
2010 Dan O'Brien 54–8National Runners-Up
2011 Dan O'Brien 42–15NCAA West Regional
Dan O'Brien (D-II): 393–234–1 (0.625)
Dan O'Brien (total): 454–283–1 (0.615)
Eric Newman (D-II CCAA) (2012–present)
2012 Eric Newman 33–24NCAA West Regional
2013 Eric Newman 26–24CCAA Tournament
2014 Eric Newman 38–16NCAA West Regional
2015 Eric Newman 36–21NCAA West Regional
2016 Eric Newman 31–21CCAA Tournament
2017 Eric Newman 44–19National Runners-Up
2018 Eric Newman 43–172018 NCAA Division II Baseball Tournament
2019 Eric Newman 41–162019 NCAA Division II Baseball Tournament
Eric Newman: 292–158 (0.649)
Division II (total): 746–441–1 (0.628)
Total:1015–715–10 (.587)

      National champion         Postseason invitational champion  
      Conference regular season champion         Conference regular season and conference tournament champion
      Division regular season champion       Division regular season and conference tournament champion
      Conference tournament champion

Notable alumni

References
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  2. "UC San Diego Brand Guidelines" (PDF). July 6, 2016. Retrieved July 14, 2016.
  3. "Baseball – Schedule/Results – UCSDTritons.com—Official Web Site of UC San Diego Athletics". Ucsdtritons.com. Retrieved April 25, 2017.
  4. Loh, Stefanie (April 10, 2015). "UCSD unveils new $6.89M ballpark". San Diego Union-Tribune. Retrieved April 13, 2015.
  5. "Back On Top! No. 18 UCSD Reclaims CCAA Supremacy With Record Sixth Tournament Banner". UCSD Tritons. University of California, San Diego. May 10, 2014. Retrieved June 12, 2017.
  6. Kenney, Kirk (June 4, 2017). "UCSD's national title hopes end with 5-2 loss to West Chester (Pa.)". San Diego Union-Tribune. Retrieved June 12, 2017.
  7. Schneider, Gabe (November 27, 2017). "UC San Diego to Move to Division I Sports". The Triton. Retrieved January 31, 2018.
  8. ,UCSDtritons.com


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