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PLAYER OF THE WEEK: Travis Bazzana, Jr., INF, Oregon State (Sydney, Australia)       
» 4 GP, .500 AVG, .600 OBP, 1.625 SLG, 11 RBI, 6 HR, 10 R, 8 H, 3 BB, 1 SB, 26 TB

• Hit a leadoff home run in all 4 games.  While no record is listed in the NCAA record book, 4 straight has been done just once in MLB history, by Brady Anderson in 1996
• Had 2 multi-homer efforts and finished with 6 on the week. 6 of his 8 hits on the weekend went over the fence
• Tallied a 1.625 slugging percentage and reached base on 11-of-19 plate appearances
• His home run tally gave him 31 for his career, becoming just the fourth Beaver with 30 or more for a career
• Drove in 11 runs in the 3-game series sweep of the Huskies and midweek victory over Portland. Opened with 5 RBI in the victory over the Pilots
• Recorded 2 or more hits in 3 of the 4 games
• Scored 10 of the Beavers’ 45 runs over the four games
• Also played flawlessly defensively, totaling 14 chances
• Leads the Pac-12 in AVG (.467), SLUG (1.054), OBP (.581), Runs (39), Hits (43), RBI (36), Triples (3), Home Runs (14), Total Bases (97), and Walks (23)
• Ranks in the Top 15 in Division I in AVG (5th), SLUG (3rd), OBP (3rd), Runs (5th), Hits (5th), RBI (15th), Triples (12th), HR (3rd), and Total Bases (2nd)
• 3rd time in first 6 weeks of the season he has won this award
• 1st Pac-12 player to win Player of the Week 3 times in the same season since Arizona State’s Ethan Long in 2021 and 1st OSU player to ever do it
• 4th time in his career being named Pac-12 Player of the Week, most ever by an OSU player

ALSO NOMINATED: Drake Digiorno, UTAH; Duce Gourson, UCLA; Joey Kramer, WSU; Brendan Summerhill, ARIZ

PITCHER OF THE WEEK: Christian Lim, Fr., LHP, Stanford (Nashville, Tenn.)          
» 1 GS, 0-0, 6.1 IP, 0.00 ERA, 3 H, 0 ER, 11 K,  2 BB, 15.63 K/9, 0.79 WHIP

• Allowed just 3 hits and 2 walks while striking out a career-best 11 batters over 6 1/3 scoreless innings on Sunday
• Retired 12 straight from the 2nd out in the 2nd inning through 1 out in the 6th
• Recorded 8 of his first 9 outs via strikeout
• Left the game with a 1-0 lead, 1 out and nobody on in the 7th
• 11 strikeouts surpassed his previous career high of 10 set at Rice on March 2
• Quality start was his 3rd of the season and 3rd in his last 4 turns and has now allowed 2 or fewer runs in each of his last 4 starts
• 41 strikeouts this season is 2nd in Pac-12 behind teammate Matt Scott
• 2nd time in the last 4 weeks Lim has won this award and 3rd time in last 4 weeks a Stanford pitcher has won
• 1st pitcher to win this award multiple times in the same season since Oregon’s Jace Stoffel did it 3 times last year.  Last Stanford pitcher to earn this honor multiple times in a season was 2022, when Quinn Mathews won it 3 times and Alex Williams twice

ALSO NOMINATED: Chase Grillo, WSU; Eric Segura, OSU; Michael Barnett, UCLA; RJ Gordon, ORE; Merit Jones, UTAH; Cam Walty, ARIZ

2024 Pac-12 Baseball Weekly Awards

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