Blaine Traxel Award Pitcher of the Week Week Of 4/18/2022 Sport Baseball School CSUN Year Senior Position Right Handed Pitcher Hometown Burbank, CA High School Bishop Alemany HS CSUN senior right-hander Blaine Traxel twirled a nine-inning complete-game shutout in Thursday night’s 6-0 victory at UC Riverside. It was a six-hitter, all singles, with eight strikeouts falling one shy of Traxel’s season high. He did not walk a batter in the 123-pitch effort. It was Traxel’s first career shutout, and fifth complete game, with four of the nine-inning variety. No UCR base runner reached scoring position until the seventh. Traxel escaped a bases-loaded, one-out jam in the eighth by inducing an inning-ending 4-6-3 double play. He retired the side in order for the fourth time in the ninth with two final punch-outs. Traxel ignited a tremendous weekend pitching performance for the Matadors, as they went on to two more combined shutouts by scores of 5-0 and 1-0 to entirely blank the Highlanders and set a new Division I-era program record for consecutive shutouts. Traxel moved his win-loss record to 4-2 on the year, and lowered his season ERA from 4.47 to 3.71. Traxel is the Big West Pitcher of the Week for the first time in his four seasons at CSUN, and is the first Matador hurler chosen this year, after current staff mates Gavin Lizik and Blake Sodersten in 2021.