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Schultz’s Numbers Are Adding Up to the Draft

By STEVE HENSON
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At 6 feet 7, lanky right-hander Mike Schultz of Loyola Marymount is accustomed to taking long strides. He added another big step toward becoming a top draft choice by tossing a complete-game victory against Pepperdine on Sunday.

Schultz, who attended Cleveland High, struck out nine to give him 276 in his career, the sixth-highest total in Loyola history. The victory was his 21st, good for 10th on the Lions’ all-time list.

Schultz allowed seven hits in Loyola’s 4-3 victory, which pulled the Lions (23-13, 11-4) within a half-game of Pepperdine (22-16, 11-3) in the West Coast Conference.

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Baseball America magazine rates Schultz as a possible first-round draft choice. If that’s the case, the former Lion pitchers ahead of him on career lists can breathe easy. He won’t be back for his senior season.

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Steve Henson

Steve Henson is a reporter with the Fast Break sports team at the Los Angeles Times. He previously served as an assistant editor and reporter in the Sports department. Henson was a leader in digital-only newsrooms from 2007-19 as a senior editor and columnist at Yahoo Sports and as senior editor at the USA Today Sports Media Group. This is his second stint at The Times, having covered the Dodgers and UCLA as well as doing enterprise, investigative and features writing from 1985-2007. Henson was awarded first place in sports features in 2021 by the L.A. Press Club and has been honored several times by the Associated Press Sports Editors (APSE) and also by the California News Publishers Assn., the Football Writers Assn. of America and U.S. Basketball Writers Assn.

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