Names & Faces: Jon Olsen, Mark McGwire

Jon Olsen

In his five decades in baseball, UCLA head coach John Savage had not seen an injury like the one pitcher Jon Olsen sustained when he was hit in the face by a line drive last month. “There was massive blood coming from his face,” Savage said. “It was a little beyond scary.” Yet Olsen was back on the mound less than a month after the March 11 incident. Wearing a protective facemask, he started against Stanford on Sunday and allowed two hits and struck out five in three innings. UCLA won 7-2. “I wasn’t scared or anything. Didn’t feel off,” Olsen said. “Even watching the line drive (on video), it doesn’t bother me. It’s weird. It happened, and you have to move on.