The Cal baseball team will finish its season with seven straight matches at home — but don’t expect their luck to get much better. A week after being swept by No. 5 Oregon State, Cal now has to face No. 13 Arizona State in a weekend series beginning on Friday Read More…
From the moment Oregon State scored its first run against the Cal baseball team, the Bears couldn’t find an answer to get back into the game — let alone the entire series. Junior designated hitter Devon Rodriguez’s lead-off home run during the seventh inning in the first game of the Read More…
After delivering a hit that will go down in Cal baseball lore in 2011, Devon Rodriguez’s bright future has been tempered by injuries. A balky shoulder has kept the junior out of the field this year, but it hasn’t kept him out of the game. The pain of leaving the game completely would be too much to bear. 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…
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…
Heading into its second weekend of conference play, the Cal baseball team hoped to continue rolling with an eight-game winning streak. But a 3-1 loss to San Jose State on Wednesday night brought the streak to a grinding halt. As the Bears (13-8, 3-0) head to Jackie Robinson Stadium in 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 last time Cal first baseman Devon Rodriguez faced Baylor in Houston, it was the most memorable moment of his career. The Bears’ backs were against the wall, and they were one loss away from elimination in the 2011 NCAA Regionals. There were two outs and two strikes, and Rodriguez Read More…
Balls were jumping off the bat of Devon Rodriguez in practice on Wednesday, several falling in places that would be sure-fire hits. But Rodriguez won’t be taking the field against No. 14 Stanford at Sunken Diamond in Stanford, Calif., as the Cal baseball team opens the regular season’s final series Read More…
“We’ve been fighting ourselves a little bit toward the end of the season. Somewhere around the 10th hour out here, we found our team.” Coach David Esquer said this on Sunday night, after his team had scratched out two wins to preserve their season in what was a long, long Read More…
