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Baseball: Harvard-Westlake gets Max Fried, giving Wolverines one-two pitching punch

Los Angeles Times staff writer Ben Bolch
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Max Fried has enrolled at Harvard-Westlake, giving the Wolverines one of the top one-two pitching punches in the country with Fried and Lucas Giolito.

Fried, a senior left-hander, left Montclair Prep after it dropped its sports programs.

‘The decision by the school to cancel the sports program there was a shock to me and my family,’ Fried said in a statement. ‘I was looking forward to having a great senior year there.

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‘Because both school and sports are important to me, I decided to explore the opportunity to pursue both at another school. Harvard-Westlake represents the best balance of academics and athletics and I am excited to begin my senior year there.’

Both Fried and Giolito have committed to UCLA, giving Bruins fans two reasons to spend some time in North Hollywood next spring.

--Ben Bolch

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Ben Bolch

Ben Bolch has been a Los Angeles Times staff writer since 1999. He is serving his second stint as the UCLA beat writer, which seems fitting since he has covered almost every sports beat except hockey and horse racing. Bolch is also the author of the recently released book “100 Things UCLA Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die.” He previously covered UCLA basketball from 2010-11 before going on to cover the NBA and the Clippers for five years. He happily traded in gobs of hotel points and airline miles to return to cover UCLA basketball and football in the summer of 2016. Bolch was once selected by NBA TV’s “The Starters” as the “Worst of the Week” after questioning their celebrity journalism-style questions at an NBA All-Star game and considers it one of his finer moments.

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