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The Cal baseball team entered Tuesday’s contest with San Francisco with 35 errors in the season. That number didn’t change by the game’s end at Benedetti Diamond. For the first time in 11 games, coach David Esquer’s squad didn’t commit a single error, and it was rewarded with a 4-3
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The Cal baseball team’s bats were hurled on the ground of the dugout in the fifth inning. “Do something!” a frustrated Bear implored, yelling loud enough for most of Evans Diamond to hear. The challenge worked — Cal got a run in the bottom of the fifth on a single
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Defense has been a glaring weakness for the Cal baseball team in the first 15 games of the season. The Bears have committed a staggering 25 errors, the most in the Pac-12. The good news: Oregon State — which rolls into Evans Diamond for a three-game series starting with a
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After Saturday’s game, the Cal baseball team has surely learned something about Nebraska: The Huskers go off late in games. On Friday, Nebraska rallied from a 7-0 deficit gradually but pushed the game into extra innings with four runs over the eighth and ninth inning. In Saturday’s game at Hawks
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The last time the Cal baseball team ventured to Nebraska, it became a local favorite overnight. The Bears were riding the wave of momentum that carried them into the College World Series. Their story of battling back from elimination and seemingly insurmountable late-game deficits endeared them to the Omaha natives,
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During last season’s run to the College World Series, the Cal baseball team practiced at Creighton’s home field in Omaha, Neb. On Tuesday, the Bears finally met their gracious hosts in a sloppy affair at Evans Diamond. Cal (9-2) came away with a 7-5 victory behind a stalwart bullpen and
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The Cal baseball team did not commit any errors on Saturday afternoon against Lehigh — a feat the Bears have achieved in only one other game this season. But the defense, while impressive, was not the story at Evans Diamond in Cal’s 9-3 win over the Mountain Hawks. The Bears’
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Lehigh played its first season of baseball in 1885. Despite its long-standing history, the Mountain Hawks will etch their names in the school’s books this Saturday. The baseball team from the Patriot League will set foot on California soil for the first time in program history. The Mountain Hawks begin
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Following Tuesday afternoon’s game against San Francisco, coach David Esquer had a much longer meeting than usual with the Cal baseball team in the outfield. These sorts of elongated talks are usually reserved for awful losses. But on Tuesday at Evans Diamond, the Bears beat the Dons, 5-3, in an
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On Saturday, the winning run crossed the plate in the top of the 10th inning as the Cal baseball team escaped with a 2-1 victory over Long Beach State. On Sunday, that run was scored in the second inning in what became another pitcher’s duel between the two squads at
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