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Jersey Number 25
Nathan Martorella
- Position:
- First Base
- Class:
- Junior
- Height/Weight:
- 6-1 / 218
- Bat/Throw:
- L/L
- Hometown:
- Salinas, Calif.
- High School:
- Salinas HS
- Major:
- American Studies
Accolades
At Cal
2022 (Jr.)
High School
Personal
- 2x MLB First-Year Player Draft selection (2022 - 5th round, No. 150, San Diego; 2019 - 30th round, Boston)
- All-Pac-12 First Team (2022)
- MLB Draft Combine Invitee (2022)
- Pac-12 Player of the Week (April 4-10, 2022)
- Nathan Martorella on Cal Baseball: 'When we play a full game, we can play with anybody' (Pac-12 Network)
- Nathan Martorella named Pac-12 Baseball Player of the Week (Pac-12 Network)
At Cal
2022 (Jr.)
- Selected 150th overall by the San Diego Padres in the fifth round in the 2022 MLB First-Year Player Draft
- Emerged as one of the Pac-12's most fearsome hitters in a breakout junior season
- Voted onto the All-Pac-12 first team after slashing .333/.424/.553 with 11 home runs & 46 RBIs
- Started all 55 games played at first base, missing just one game due to illness
- Topped all Golden Bears with 76 hits & tallied 47 runs, 15 doubles & 34 walks
- Led all Pac-12 players in batting average (.388) and hits (47) during the 30-game conference slate
- Hit everything in sight throughout 16 games in the month of April, batting .421 (31-for-72)
with an OPS of 1.389, eight home runs, seven doubles, 21 runs scored & 24 RBIs - Batted .408 (31-for-76) during a 19-game hitting streak from April 16-May 25, which was tied with Mark Canha for the longest by a Bear since 2009
- Did the majority of his damage at the top of Cal's lineup, batting .365 with all 11 home runs in 40 games played as the leadoff man
- Named Pac-12 Player of the Week (April 4-10) after slashing .526/.550/1.158 with seven extra-base hits – two home runs, four doubles & one triple – eight runs & six RBIs in four games
- Delivered go-ahead hits in both victories against Washington, smacking a two-run home run in the seventh inning of a 6-3 win (April 9) & doubling home the go-ahead run in the fourth inning of a series-clinching 14-5 win (April 10)
- Belted the first of back-to-back-to-back home runs in the Bears' series-opening win vs. #13 UCLA (April 22), joining Dylan Beavers & Hance Smith as the first Cal trio to do so since 2008
- Homered twice in the series-opening win vs. #13 UCLA (April 22) & finished 3-for-3 with five RBIs
- Went deep in three consecutive games played vs. #13 UCLA (April 24), Pacific (April 26) & at #25 Oregon (April 30)
- Totaled six three-hit games & led Cal with 22 multi-hit efforts
- Earned 53 starts and was one of four Golden Bears to play in all 55 games
- Made all but eight of his starts at first base & slashed .237/.341/.354
- Was fourth on the team in RBI (31) & home runs (5)
- Drew 31 walks to go along with 24 runs scored, 47 hits, 13 extra-base hits & 70 total bases
- Batted out of a midseason slump for a strong finish, batting .272 (21-for-77) from April 18-May 29
- Opened the season with at least one hit in eight of his first nine games, highlighted by a two-homer, seven-RBI outburst vs. Saint Mary's (March 4)
- Went 3-for-4 with a home run & a double in Cal's walk-off win vs. #12 Stanford (May 15)
- Also homered in a blowout win at #18 UCLA (May 21) & tallied six total hits in the Bears' final series vs. #10 Oregon (May 27-29)
- Drove in six runs in Cal's road series sweep at Washington (April 30-May 2)
- Hit a walk-off sacrifice fly in the bottom of the 11th inning to defeat Saint Mary's (March 5)
- Totaled nine multi-RBI efforts & 11 multi-hit games
- Made immediate impact as a freshman with 14 starts in 15 games played
- Split time between first base & designated hitter
- Slashed .241/.369/.444 54 at-bats, the fifth most on the team
- Led Cal with three home runs, all coming in the final four games of the season (March 6-10)
- Ranked among team leaders in OPS (.813), runs scored (11), walks (11), hits (13) & doubles (2)
- Earned his first collegiate start in the Bears' season opener at Long Beach State (Feb. 14)
- Played key role in Cal's first win of the year at Long Beach State (Feb. 16), going 3-for-4 with two doubles, three runs & one RBI
- Totaled four multi-hit performances, including two straight to end the season
- Posted a .970 fielding percentage over 66 defensive chances
High School
- Graduated from Salinas High School (Salinas, Calif.) in 2019
- Drafted by the Boston Red Sox in the 30th round of the 2019 MLB First-Year Player Draft, but did not sign
- Four-time All-League & All-County selection
- Excelled in the classroom with a 3.9 GPA & was a four-time honor role student
- Two-year football letterman at Salinas, earning a pair of All-League selections
- Prep career highlight was playing in the Bronco World Series
Personal
- Full name is Nathan Adam Martorella
- Born on Feb. 18, 2001 in Monterey, Calif.
- Son of Gina & Kirk Martorella
- Has two siblings, Kyle & Marie
- Mother, Gina, played tennis at Fresno State
- Relative, Mike Martorella, played professionally for the Los Angeles Angels
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