/ STAFF WRITER
As an annual preseason ritual, the UCLA baseball team thinks of key words it hopes will define the coming season. The words go on posters and the posters go on the locker room walls. They are then used to make a mission statement. The mission statement goes in every player’s locker.
The mission statement is a steadying presence during a wild season. Five days before their season opener, the Bruins had yet to finalize their statement for this year, but they found a guiding word.
“This year, the biggest word is ‘edge,’” junior pitcher Griffin Canning said.