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Jodi Legaspi
- 2007 PFX Pro-Rookie Season
- College: UCLA
- Hometown: Garden Grove CA
- Bats/Throws: R/R
- Position: Second Base
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Career Highlights:
National / International :
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USA Softball (2004): Played with the USA Softball Schutt Elite Team at the Canada Cup and Champions Cup in July. Had four hits, three RBIs and three runs scored during the tour. Was perfect defensively on seven chances. Played in eight of nine games at the World University Games, where the USA Elite Team won gold. Had six hits in the tournament, including the team's only home run.
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USA Softball (2003): Named to the 2004 Women's National Elite Team. Played with Team USA on the silver medal-winning Junior World Championship team in October. Hit .346, going 9-for-26 during tournament play. Started nine of her 10 games played. Had five runs scored, a double and a home run with six RBIs.
- USA Softball (2002)Played for USA Softball's Gold Medal team at the 2002 Pan-Am Championships
Collegiate:
- 2007 (Senior) Pac-10 Player of the Week (May 2007). Top Nominee for the USA Softball College Player of the Year ( 2-Time) All-College World Series Team. Easton All-American. 1st Team All Pac-10 selection at shortstop. In Pac-10 play, Legaspi leads all hitters with 17 RBI, and is second in home runs with six. Legaspi is now seventh at UCLA in career RBI with 153, and sixth in home runs with 42. Jodie ranks in the Bruins top-10 in both home runs and RBI.
- 2006 (Junior): Led off the bottom of the seventh inning with a double and came around to score the game-tying run in UCLA's loss to Northwestern at the WCWS. Tripled to drive in UCLA's third run in the 3-1 Game 2 Super Regionals win over South Florida. Also doubled in that game, going 2-for-3 with an RBI. Led the Bruin offense with a .500 average, three home runs, four runs scored and five RBI at Regionals.Had two homers in the opener against Missouri State. Homered again the next day with a solo shot against Long Beach State. Hit .333 against Oregon and Oregon State at the start of May. Went 2-for-3 with a walk and a run scored at Oregon May 5, leading off UCLA's five-run second inning with a single. Went 2-for-3 with a double and an RBI single in UCLA's 7-6 win over Washington on Apr. 26. Hit .500 going 5-for-10 with two home runs, four RBI and a 1.100 slugging percentage against the Oregon schools April 21-23. Homered for UCLA's first run of the day at Washington on Apr 14. Had an RBI single for UCLA's first run of its 2-1 win at Arizona on April 8. Hit .444 on the opening weekend of Pac-10 play, going 4-for-9 with a double and two runs scored. Led off the second inning with a home run to give the Bruins a 1-0 lead vs. Northwestern on March 26. Homered in the bottom of the second inning for UCLA's first run vs. Michigan on March 15. Went 3-for-4 with a first-inning home run, two singles three RBI and two runs scored against UNLV on March 14. Had an inside-the-park home run on Mar. 11 vs. Mercer at Mayfair Park. Went 7-for-17 at the Winsberg Tournament, scoring six runs with one double, four home runs and nine RBI for a 1.176 slugging percentage.Hit .385 at the Palm Springs Classic, going 5-for-13 with two doubles, two runs scored and an RBI. Opened the season with an 8-for-16 (.500) weekend with two doubles, a home run, three runs scored and seven RBI at the Campbell/Cartier Tournament. Went 1-for-2 with a run scored, a three-run home run and four RBI on opening day against Sacramento State. Followed with an RBI double against Cal Poly later that night. Finished the weekend with a 3-for-4 performance against SDSU on Feb. 12.
2005 Honors/Awards: Honorable Mention All-Pac-10. All-Women's College World Series selection.
2005 (Sophomore): Shared the team lead with four hits at the WCWS. Went 2-for-2 with an RBI in UCLA's 3-1 win over Tennessee. Had an RBI single and a run scored against Texas on June 5. At NCAA Regionals, led the team with a .400 batting average, going 6-for-15 with two runs scored, a double, a home run and three RBI. Had RBI singles in both of Saturday's Super Regional wins over Georgia. Homered in consecutive at-bats against UC Santa Barbara on opening day (7th inning of G1 and 1st inning of G2). Had a solo home run to give UCLA a 2-0 lead in the sixth inning of the Bruins win against Georgia on Feb. 18. Had the RBI for both of UCLA's runs in the 14-inning loss to Ole Miss on Mar. 4. Went 2-for-4 with an RBI in UCLA's run-rule win at Cal State Fullerton on Mar. 29. Had a grand slam home run, UCLA's first of the year, on Apr. 22 vs. Washington. Was her second consecutive game with a home run, as she also homered in UCLA's Apr. 17 game vs. Arizona, going back-to-back in the first inning with Emily Zaplatosch. Hit .500 in the home weekend series against Washington, going 2-for-4 with a grand slam. Hit .313 for the week ending May 1 with a double and three RBI. Had a home run, a double, two RBI and three runs scored while hitting .444 on UCLA's trip to Arizona in early May. Followed with a .444 weekend against the Oregon schools with a home run, two doubles and two RBI with a 1.000 slugging percentage for the weekend.
- 2004 (Freshman): Hit .500 at the Women's College World Series, going 6-for-12 with two doubles and two RBIs at for the series. Went 3-for-5 with two doubles in UCLA's 12-inning victory over Stanford on May 30. Walked in the bottom of the fifth inning of the NCAA Championship game before being replaced by pinch-runner Tara Henry. Henry came around to score the third run of the game for UCLA. Hit a three-run walk-off home run to defeat Alabama, 5-3, in nine innings in the winners bracket final of UCLA's NCAA Regional. Went 3-for-4 with three RBIs and a run scored in that game. Hit .417 for the Regional (5-for-12) with a double, a home run and five RBIs. UCLA's top freshman offensively, hitting .361 for the season. Took over the shortstop position this season, replacing U.S. Olympian Natasha Watley. Only Bruin to play shortstop in 2004. Tied for fourth on the team with seven multi-RBI games. Fourth with 15 multi-hit games. Had the team's longest hitting streak of the season with 12 straight games during late February and early March, ending with the Mar. 11 game against Long Beach State at the Clovis Auto Row Classic. Hit .351 against Pac-10 pitching this season. Had the game-winning RBI with a solo home run against Oregon in UCLA's 2-0 win in Eugene on Apr. 30.
Did you Know?
- Parents: John & Nora Legaspi
- Siblings: Brother John
- Her "Uncle Robert" was Bobby Balcena, a career minor-leaguer who became the first Filipino to play major-league baseball when he was called up by the Cincinnati Reds on Sept. 16, 1956.
- Favorite Color is Purple
- Her favorite food is fish tacos
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