Anthony Martinez Award Field Player of the Week Week Of 5/15/2023 Sport Baseball School UC Irvine Year Freshman Position First Baseman / Catcher Hometown Fairfield, Calif. High School De La Salle HS True freshman first baseman Anthony Martinez led UC Irvine to a 2-2 road record in garnering a second Big West Field Player of the Week honor. Martinez homered three times and drove in multiple runs in all four contests to total 11 RBI. The left-hander batted .611 (11-for-18) and slugged 1.167 with five runs, a double, one hit-by-pitch, a .571 on-base percentage, a 1.738 OPS, and just two strikeouts. Martinez put together a pair of four-hit, three-RBI efforts in 10-2 Anteater wins, at the University of San Diego on Tuesday night and in Saturday’s middle contest at CSUN, and now has two streaks this season of at least three straight contests with a long ball. The product of Fairfield and 2022 graduate of De La Salle High School in Concord handled 42 putouts cleanly on defense and was part of eight double plays. Martinez is a leading candidate for the upcoming Big West Freshman Field Player of the Year announcement, pacing the conference in several offensive categories like batting average (.408), on-base percentage (.479), OPS (1.141), hits (82) and RBI (54). Martinez is the 2023 season’s first two-time Big West Field Player of the Week, having earned an initial selection back on March 6, which also came with a D1Baseball National Player of the Week nod.