2024 USC Trojans baseball team

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2024 USC Trojans baseball
USC Trojans logo.svg
Conference Pac-12 Conference
Record31-28 (17–12 Pac-12)
Head coach
Assistant coaches
  • Andy Jenkins (2nd season)
  • Seth Etherton (2nd season)
  • Travis Jewett (2nd season)
Home stadium OC Great Park Baseball Complex
Anteater Ballpark
Page Stadium
Seasons
  2023
2025  
2024 Pac-12 Conference baseball standings
ConfOverall
TeamW L T PCTW L T PCT
No. 25 Arizona  y20100 .66736230 .610
No. 10 Oregon State  y19100 .65542140 .750
No. 12 Oregon  y19110 .63337180 .673
USC  17120 .58631280 .525
California  17130 .56736190 .655
Arizona State  17130 .56732260 .552
Utah  16140 .53333220 .600
Stanford  11190 .36722320 .407
Washington  10200 .33319311 .382
Washington State  9210 .30021320 .396
UCLA  9210 .30019330 .365
Conference champion
Tournament champion
y Invited to the NCAA Tournament
As of May 25, 2024 [1]
Rankings from D1Baseball

The 2024 USC Trojans baseball team represents the University of Southern California (USC) during the 2024 NCAA Division I baseball season. Due to Dedeaux Field being renovated the Trojans played their home games OC Great Park Baseball Complex, Anteater Ballpark in Irvine, and Page Stadium in Los Angeles. [2] The team was coached by Andy Stankiewicz in his 2nd season at USC.

Contents

Previous season

The Trojans ended the 2023 season with a record of 17–13 in conference play and 34-23-1 overall record good for 4th place in the Pac-12. They would play in the Pac-12 tournament as the #4 Seed on Pool C in Game 1 of Pool Play they would beat rival UCLA by a score of 6–4, then in Game 2 of Pool Play they would lose to Washington eliminating them from the tournament and ending their season.

2023 MLB Draft

The Trojans had one player drafted in the 2023 MLB draft. [3]

PlayerPositionRoundOverallMLB Team
Johnny OlmsteadINF19th563 Miami Marlins

Roster

2024 USC Trojans roster [4]
 

Pitchers

  • 3 – William Watson – Junior
  • 4 – Brock Blatter – Sophomore
  • 11 – Michael Ebner – Sophomore
  • 12 – Caden Aoki – Junior
  • 14 – Xavier Martinez – Junior
  • 18 – Josh Blum – Junior
  • 21 – Jared Feikes – Graduate
  • 22 – Michael Ryhlick – Senior
  • 24 – Tyler Stromsborg – Senior
  • 25 – Fisher Johnson – Junior
  • 30 – Mason Edwards – Freshman
  • 31 – Eric Hammond – Redshirt.svg Sophomore
  • 35 – Andrew Harbour – Freshman
  • 36 – Garren Rizzo – Freshman
  • 37 – Adrian Blanchet – Freshman
  • 38 – Sax Matson – Freshman
  • 39 – Brodie Purcell – Freshman
  • 41 – Thomas Di Landri – Junior
  • 45 – Dylan Tostrup – Junior
  • 95 – Channing Austin – Redshirt.svg Junior

Catchers

  • 5 – Connor Clift – Graduate
  • 26 – Luca DiPaolo – Sophomore
  • 40 – Jacob Galloway – Sophomore
  • 55 – Gavin Mez – Junior

Infielders

  • 2 – KaiKea Harrison – Sophomore
  • 6 – Dean Carpentier – Freshman
  • 13 – Ryan Jackson – Senior
  • 15 – Ethan Hedges – Sophomore
  • 20 – Chris Brown – Graduate
  • 27 – Bryce Martin-Grudzielanek – Redshirt.svg Sophomore
  • 77 – Abbrie Covarrubias – Freshman
 

Outfielders

  • 9 – Carson Wells – Senior
  • 10 – Austin Overn – Sophomore
  • 16 – Brayden Dowd – Freshman
  • 23 – Ty Silva – Freshman
  • 32 – Duce Robinson – Freshman

Two Way Players

  • 8 – Kevin Takeuchi – Freshman
  • 28 – Riley Hunsaker – Freshman
  • 29 – Andrew Lamb – Freshman
  • 34 – JT Waldon – Junior

Coaches

2024 USC Trojans baseball coaching staff [4]
  • Andy Stankiewicz – Head coach – 2nd season
  • Travis Jewett – Assistant coach – 2nd season
  • Seth Etherton – Assistant coach – 2nd season
  • Andy Jenkins – Assistant coach – 2nd season

Note: Season counter accounts for all stints at USC.

Opening Day

Opening Day Starters [5]
NamePosition
Austin Overn CF
Ryan Jackson SS
Jacob Galloway C
Bryce Martin-Grudzielanek 2B
Chris Brown DH
Luca DiPaolo LF
Carson Wells RF
Ethan Hedges 1B
Abbrie Covarruibias 3B
Caden Aoki P

Game log

2024 USC Trojans Baseball Game Log
Regular Season (28–27)
Overall: 31–28
Postseason (3–1)
Legend:       = Win       = Loss       = Canceled
Bold =USC team member
Rankings are based on the team's current ranking in the D1Baseball poll.

[6]

Game summaries

Pool C

Pool COREUSCUTAH
3 Oregon 2-42-4
4 USC 4-27-6
7 Utah 4-26-7
PosTeamPldWLRFRARDPCTQualification
1(4) USC 220114+71.000Advanced to Semifinals
2(7) Utah 211671.500Eliminated
3(3) Oregon 202484.000
Source:
May 21
2:30 p.m.
Game 2
(7) Utah 6-7 (4) USC Scottsdale Stadium, Scottsdale, AZ
Attendance: 1,738
Umpires: HP: Nate White
1B: Steve Mattingly
2B: Mike Lusky
3B: Joe Burleson
LP: Micah Ashman (1-4) WP: Xavier Martinez (4-0)
Sv: Josh Blum (8)
HR: K. Carpenter (7) HR: Carson Wells (4)

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May 23
2:30 p.m.
Game 8
(4) USC4-2 (3) OregonScottsdale Stadium, Scottsdale, AZ
Umpires: HP: Ramon Armendariz
1B: Darren Hyman
2B: Mike Fichter
3B: Pat Riley
WP: William Watson (5-2)
Sv: Josh Blum (9)
LP: RJ Gordon (7-5)
HR: Ryan Jackson (4) HR: None

Finals

Semifinals May 24 Final May 25
      
4USC'7
6 California 4
4 USC 3
1 Arizona4
1Arizona6
8 Stanford 3

Semifinal

May 24
2:30 p.m.
Game 1
No. 6 California4-7 No. 4 USCScottsdale Stadium, Scottsdale, AZ
Umpires: HP: Bill Van Raaphorst
1B: Mike Fichter
2B: Steve Mattingly
3B: Scott Letendre
LP: Trey Newmann (4–6) WP: Mason Edwards (1–3)
Sv: Josh Blum (10)
HR: Caleb Lomavita HR: Brayden Dowd

Final

May 25
7:00 p.m.
Game 11
No. 4 USC3–4 No. 1 ArizonaScottsdale Stadium, Scottsdale, AZ
Attendance: 3,813
Umpires: HP: Darren Hyman
1B: Kellen Levy
2B: Joe Burleson
3B: Bill Van Raaphorst
LP: Josh Blum (2–1) WP: Anthony Susac (2–2)

Rankings

Ranking movements
Week
PollPre123456789101112131415Final
Coaches' [7] *
Baseball America [8]
NCBWA [9]

NCBWA ranks 35 teams in their preseason poll, but only ranks 30 teams weekly during the season.
* A new poll was not released for this week, so for comparison purposes, the previous week's ranking is inserted in this week's slot.

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