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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
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The Cal baseball team and the Arizona baseball team have a lot in common. After advancing to the College World Series for the first time in 20 years in 2011, the Cal baseball team failed to make the postseason in 2012. The Wildcats have also fallen on hard times; after
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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
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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
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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.
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For the Cal baseball team, there truly is no place like home. After beginning the season with three consecutive walk off wins over Michigan at Evans Diamond, the Bears have struggled through two rough weeks on the road, winning just two of their nine games on the road since the
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It was the top of the ninth inning in a 0-0 game against No. 19 Rice on Monday afternoon, with a runner on third and two outs. Star catcher Andrew Knapp stood at the plate with an opportunity to significantly alter the momentum of the Bears’ season with one swing
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Last weekend, pitcher Michael Theofanopoulos was a beacon of consistency in an otherwise scattered and wild performance from the rest of the starting rotation. Against UC Irvine on Sunday afternoon, the word “consistency” and Theofanopoulos didn’t belong in the same Zip code. After the Bears’ offense went down quietly in
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Small sample sizes do not faze Cal baseball coach David Esquer. Despite kicking off the season with a 3-0 record after a sweep of Michigan, Esquer declined to renege on his preseason worries about the lack of consistent starting pitching hampering the Bears’ chances at lasting success. “No, (my expectations)
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Even three consecutive walk-off thrillers over Michigan at Evans Diamond this weekend to begin the 2013 campaign were not enough to quell the Bears’ starting pitching uncertainties. The Bears’ top two starters, Justin Jones and Kyle Porter, both struggled in their first starts of the season. In Friday’s season opener,
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