Izaak Martinez Award Pitcher of the Week Week Of 5/22/2023 Sport Baseball School UC San Diego Year Position LHP Hometown Glendora, Calif. High School Glendora HS Senior southpaw Izaak Martinez picked up the save in all three games of first-time Big West champion UC San Diego’s sweep at UC Riverside over the weekend to earn a second Big West Pitcher of the Week award. The fourth-year senior out of Glendora threw 6.1 frames (90 pitches), allowing six hits and a solitary run, that in Sunday’s eighth inning, while striking out six against zero walks. Martinez bookended a pair of three-inning saves around Saturday’s one-out stint. Entering a 10-6 game with Highlanders at first and second and the tying run in the on-deck circle, Martinez got a six-pitch flyout to shut the door and clinch the series win. Martinez notched a three-inning save in Friday night’s opener with UCR managing just an infield single to begin the eighth and striking out four times. With eight saves over the final four weeks of the season (nine outings, all Triton wins, since April 28) to make it a career-high nine on the year, Martinez moved up to sole possession of second place among The Big West leaders behind only CSUN’s Joshua Romero (11). This weekend marked the second time in 2023 that Martinez saved all three games of a road series sweep, having nabbed a first Big West Pitcher of the Week honor on May 1 after registering the final out of three victories at Cal Poly to wrap up April. UC San Diego went 20-4 in Martinez’s team-high 24 appearances, all but one out of the bullpen. Martinez joins Matt Ager of UC Santa Barbara and Graham Osman and Nico Zeglin of Long Beach State at two Big West weekly awards each for 2023.