Most Berkeley students harbor dreams of reaching the pinnacle of their profession. For one former Bear, his moment arrives tonight. Erik Johnson, who most recently pitched for Cal during their miracle run to the College World Series in 2011, is set to make his major league debut for the Chicago Read More…
When the Cal baseball team made an improbable run at the College World Series two years ago, the young talent that unveiled itself seemed to promise success for years to come. Pitcher Justin Jones was just a sophomore, and freshman Kyle Porter posted a 6-0 record, emerging as one of Read More…
Finally, mercifully, a wild pitch helped put an end to one of the wildest games of the season for the Cal baseball team on Sunday afternoon. With the bases loaded and two outs in the top of the 14th inning with the game tied 5-5, Cal pinch-hitter John Soteropolus stood Read More…
Devon Rodriguez should be counting down the days until the MLB draft in June. Instead, he’ll spend this summer in the batting cages, preparing for another season at Evans Diamond. Rodriguez, who missed all of 2012 due to a knee injury, wasted no time blistering opposing pitchers to start the Read More…
On a day when the cloudless sky and the simmering heat embodied the perfect ballgame scene, Cal’s hitting with runners in scoring position was anything but. Until the bottom of the ninth inning, that is, when an explosion of clutch-hitting, capped by a line-drive RBI single from shortstop Mike Reuvekamp, Read More…
There’s always next year. It’s a mantra repeated coast to coast by even the most pessimistic of baseball fans, consoling themselves for yet another lost season. Down on Evans Diamond, the phrase has lingered in the back of Cal baseball coach David Esquer’s mind since the first pitch of the Read More…
Coach David Esquer probably feels like he’s playing whack-a-mole with all of the issues that keep popping up with his Cal baseball team. When the starting pitching struggled, Esquer yanked out his opening day rotation and stuck in underclassmen. The new starters pitched better, but the hitters began to slump. Read More…
All season long, the Cal baseball team looked forward to this weekend’s series against USC. On Thursday night, the Bears played a night game at home for the first time in program history after installing lights atthe 80-year-old Evans Diamond. But the Trojans spoiled the celebration, beating Cal in both Read More…
Who else but Devon Rodriguez? Cal’s junior first baseman and cleanup hitter stepped up to the plate with two outs and a runner on third with the score tied 4-4 in the seventh inning in Salt Lake City Sunday afternoon. Etched in Bears baseball lore for his heroics in the Read More…
The Cal baseball team has not been a model of consistency this season. But as the Bears (10-7) head to Salt Lake City this weekend to begin Pac-12 conference play against Utah (8-6), they have been riding an offensive surge and performances of stable pitching to a five-game winning streak. Read More…