![Jonathan Chu](/sports/bsb/2010-11/photos/39JonChu.jpg?max_width=600&max_height=800)
Nickname: | Jon |
Height: | 5-9 |
Weight: | 185 |
Year: | Jr. |
Hometown: | Hollis Hills, N.Y. |
High School: | Bronx High School of Science |
Position: | 3B |
Bats/Throws: | R/R |
2010: Started every game but one, at four different positions (19 DH, 10 3B, 3 RF, 2 LF)… Hit .325 (40-123), second on the team… Tied for second on squad with 22 RBI… Led squad with .392 on-base percentage, thanks to team-high 10 walks and six hit-b-pitches…Also led team with 13 multi-hit games and tied for first with six multi-RBI contests… Nine doubles, 54 total bases were second on squad for a .439 slugging percentage, third best… Fourth with 30 hits and 20 runs scored… His .319 average (22-69) with runners on base is tops among returners… Reached team-best 65 percent of the time as a lead-off hitter (13-20)… Doubled in three of four contests on season-opening trip to Texas, including two-run double in team's first win of season, a 7-6 win at Trinity (Texas), Feb. 19… Hit first career triple March 10 against Case… Helped Judges to doubleheader sweep of Springfield by going 4-for-6 with three RBI, a double and a run scored… Had two hits in five ABs in split with Framingham State, March 28, knocking in three runs… Had three hits in a game for the first time in the season in 8-7 loss to Johnson and Wales, April 15, driving in two… Had a scorching five-game stretch from April 20 to 29 in which he hit .565 (13-23) with four doubles, one home runs, eight RBI and eight runs scored… Raised his average 56 points from .280 to .336 in that stretch and earned May 3 UAA Hitter of the Week honors… Hit his third career home run on April 23 at Suffolk…Helped Judges to 11-6 win in five innings against UMass Dartmouth on April 27 by going 2-for-3 with two RBI, a double and a sac fly… Had one of the outstanding performances of the season April 28 against Bowdoin, going 5-for-6, the team's best performance of the season… Had two doubles, three RBI and four runs scored as the Judges won a wild 17-15 game… Produced two RBI hits in the decisive eighth inning… 2009: Played and started 34 games, including 16 in LF, 14 at 3B and four at DH… Finished fourth on the team with a .313 batting average and 36 base hits… Led the team with nine doubles and tied for team-high with 11 extra-base hits… Third on squad with 22 RBI, a .443 slugging percentage and tied for third with two home runs… Ten multi-hit games and four multi-RBI games were both fourth-best on the squad… Hit .714 (5-for-7) with the bases loaded… Made a splash in his collegiate debut, going 4-for-5 with two RBI and two doubles in a 19-15 slugfest win over NAIA Hastings College, Feb. 19… Hit safely in his first seven games, highlighted by a game-winning, three-run double in the top of the ninth in the team's first contest up north, a 9-5 win over Bridgewater State on March 18… In a 7-6 win over Salve Regina on March 26, went 3-for-4 with a double, and RBI and a two-out walk in the top of the ninth inning that sparked a two-run comeback rally… That game sparked a career-high eight-game hitting streak… Hit first collegiate home run in the bottom of the first inning of a double header against Trinity College, April 26… On May 1 against Wheaton (Mass.), went 2-for-5 with two runs scored and career-high four RBI… In the Judges' nine-run fourth inning, singled to lead off the frame and scored on a wild pitch… Later in the frame, his second career home run was a grand slam to left-center field... The Judges couldn't hang on, allowing six runs in the final three innings to suffer a 12-9 loss… Academic/Extracurricular: Economics major… High School: Native of Hollis Hills, N.Y... Attended Bronx High School of Science in the Bronx, N.Y….
Year | avg | gp-gs | ab | r | h | 2b | 3b | hr | rbi | tb | slg% | bb | hbp | so | gdp | ob% | sf | sh | sb-att | po | a | e | fld% |
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2009.... | .313 | 34-34 | 115 | 16 | 36 | 9 | 0 | 2 | 22 | 51 | .443 | 12 | 6 | 8 | 1 | .400 | 2 | 0 | 1-1 | 30 | 29 | 8 | .881 |
2010.... | .325 | 34-34 | 123 | 20 | 40 | 9 | 1 | 1 | 22 | 54 | .439 | 10 | 6 | 15 | 2 | .392 | 4 | 0 | 1-1 | 7 | 17 | 4 | .857 |
TOTAL... | .319 | 68-68 | 238 | 36 | 76 | 18 | 1 | 3 | 44 | 105 | .441 | 22 | 12 | 23 | 3 | .396 | 6 | 0 | 2-2 | 37 | 46 | 12 | .874 |