Saturday’s game started with a firework and ended with a dud that fizzled out despite great anticipation. On just the fourth pitch of the game, Arizona’s Joey Rickard blasted a ball just over the left field wall to give the Wildcats a 1-0 lead. The Cal baseball team was down Read More…
The Cal baseball team succumbed to a dominant pitcher Friday afternoon at Evans Diamond, falling 3-1 to No. 10 Arizona. Despite taking a one-run lead in the first inning, the Bears had no answers over the next eight as Wildcats starter Kurt Heyer stymied the Cal bats for a complete Read More…
Coming off a 10-4 loss at Washington State last Friday, the Cal baseball team found itself in dire straights. Four straight losses had sent the Bears to the bottom of the Pac-12. Cal’s hopes of a postseason run — let alone another appearance in the College World Series — grew Read More…
For Cal pitcher Justin Jones, it’s been a long way back since his injury last season. The lefty’s return to the mound this season has been marred by inconsistency, but on Sunday at Washington State, he was back to his old dominant self. Jones pitched a complete game shutout for Read More…
A night after failing to come up big in the clutch, the Cal baseball team came through when it mattered most Saturday night. Cal (24-19, 8-12 in the Pac-12) scored four runs in the fifth inning, and a Chad Bunting 3-run homer opened a five-run lead for the Bears, who Read More…
The Cal baseball team entered the bottom of the third inning on Friday with a tenuous 3-2 lead over Washington State. That would be the high point of the evening for the Bears. Two doubles, two singles, two wild pitches, a hit batter and five runs later, Cal’s one-run lead Read More…
Following a sweep at the hands of No. 10 Oregon last weekend, the Cal baseball team stressed the need for timely hitting. “We need to win the big spot, I think, offensively,” outfielder Chad Bunting said. “We need to get the big hit with runners in scoring position. We left Read More…
The Cal baseball team had something to prove this weekend. The Bears dropped their first three Pac-12 series of the season, but feasted on bottom-dwellers Washington and Utah the past two weekends. This weekend at PK Park in Eugene, Ore., Cal wanted to establish it could hang with the big Read More…
For the second consecutive day, the Cal baseball team took a late-inning dagger to its postseason hopes. In a 4-1 loss at No. 10 Oregon on Friday, the Bears fell apart in the eighth inning, giving up three runs to crack the 1-1 deadlock. On Saturday, the Ducks scored a Read More…
For 27 years, Oregon was a school without a baseball team. In 1981, the 75-year-old program was felled by the same sword that Cal’s storied squad narrowly avoided last year: budget cuts. Three years ago, Oregon’s program was revived from the dead, and the team has quickly become one of Read More…