LOS ANGELES -- Bryant baseball alum Ryan Ward has been called up to the Los Angeles Dodgers and will join the team Sunday afternoon in Colorado.

Ward becomes the fourth Bryant alum to reach the MLB, joining Keith MacWhorter (Boston), James Karinchak (Cleveland) and Mickey Gasper (Boston). Karinchak, Gasper and Ward were all teammates at Bryant in 2017.

The Millbury, Mass., native was drafted in the eighth round by the Dodgers in 2019 and has spent the last eight years working his way through the organization. He was named the Pacific Coast League (PCL) MVP in 2025 after he led Minor League Baseball with 36 home runs, 122 RBI, 73 extra-base hits and 315 total bases. Among PCL leaders, Ward ranked second with 113 runs scored, third in both slugging percentage (.557) and OPS (.937) and fourth with 164 hits. He recorded the most RBI by a PCL player since 2010 and the most total bases since 2001. For the second time in his three seasons with OKC, he topped the circuit in games played (143).

Ward is off to another outstanding start this year, hitting .324 with four home runs and a 1.020 OPS in 18 games. For his career, Ward has hit 154 home runs, driven in 520 and owns a career .849 OPS in 696 minor league games.

At Bryant, Ward put together two of the greatest seasons in program history in 2018 and 2019 on his way to being selected by the Dodgers. His true freshmen season in 2017 was over after 10 games following an injury but he returned in 2018 to have the greatest individual season in school history. Ward hit .409 with a program-record 101 hits, 157 total bases, 22 doubles, eight home runs, 52 RBI and 51 runs scored on his way to Collegiate Baseball Newspaper Co-National Freshman Player of the Year honors as well as Northeast Conference and New England Player and Rookie of the Year honors. 

Ward followed up his record-breaking campaign with 95 hits, becoming the only player in program history with 90+ hits in multiple seasons. He finished his career with 206 hits in 124 games and still ranks first in DI program history in career average (.383) and slugging (.606) and third in OBP (.438).