Playing in his final game at Evans Diamond, senior Josh Satin made sure that his last at-bat was one to remember.

Satin hit a walk-off home run leading off the bottom of the 10th inning against UCLA on Sunday afternoon, giving the No. 20 Cal baseball team a dramatic 7-6 win over the Bruins.

Just hours after being honored alongside 10 other Bears seniors before Cal's final home game of the year, Satin crushed a 2-1 changeup from UCLA reliever Brendan Lafferty over the 365 sign in left-center field for his 18th home run and was mobbed by his teammates as he crossed the plate.

"Yeah, I've had some memories (at Evans Diamond)," Satin said afterward. "But this is probably the best one."

Satin's late heroics seemed to erase most of the bitterness for the Bears after they were shut out in the first two games of the weekend series and then failed to preserve a 4-0 lead in the eighth inning on Sunday.

Cal built up its four-run lead behind a strong start from freshman Kevin Miller-who held the Bruins scoreless through four innings-and closer Matt Gorgen, who relieved Miller in the fifth and preserved the shutout through seven.

But the first three UCLA hitters in the eighth singled off of Gorgen, and after Cody Decker popped out to Bears first baseman David Cooper, pinch hitter Casey Haerther turned on a hanging slider and deposited it over the wall in left-center for a game-tying grand slam.

"It's tough because I thought I was making some good pitches but getting squeezed," Gorgen said. "I got a big pop out, and I just left the slider up and he hit it. He's a good hitter, a power hitter."

The Bruins then pushed across two more runs in the ninth against Cal's Blake Smith on a two-run single by Decker to make the score 6-4.

In need of some late-game offense to avoid being swept for the first time at home all season, and with a lineup that had been stagnant on Friday and Saturday, the Bears' lineup came up huge.

Smith led off the ninth with his second solo home run of the day

"I gave up those two in the ninth, unfortunately, and I wanted to get mad, but I knew I couldn't because I had to try to give us a chance to score," Smith said. "It was just one of those where he threw it there, and I hit it."

Jeff Kobernus followed with a walk, moved to second on a sacrifice bunt by shortstop Michael Brady, stole third and then scored on a clutch two-strike double by freshman Mark Canha that tied the game at 6-6.

Smith then set the Bruins down in order in the top of the 10th to set the stage for Satin.

"Our guys really put their minds to caring about this game," coach David Esquer said. "It tested them, and they had to stay with it to see what would happen. They stayed with it, and what happened was a great comeback."

Satin also scored Cal's first run in the second inning, snapping a streak of 19 scoreless innings by the Bears' normally explosive offense.

In what was probably Tyson Ross' final start at Evans Diamond on Friday, UCLA left-hander Tim Murphy stole the show with a complete game shutout in an 8-0 win.

Cal then managed only three hits against the Bruins' pitching staff on Saturday. The Bears were unable to recover from falling behind 4-0 in the first due to starter Craig Bennigson's wildness and went on to lose the game 7-0, dropping their first home series of the year.

"We just couldn't really find our stride and we were pressing," Satin said. "Once it was at 12 innings and we hadn't scored a run, we were like, we've got to do something. It just got to the point where we needed a run. The biggest thing was in the second inning (Sunday) when we scored a run. And from there, we were back."

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