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The season seems to slowly be slipping away from the Cal baseball team. The Bears (16-19) keep showing why they have the potential to be a great team — like their most recent win over No. 7 Washington — but they haven’t been able to maintain any sort of high-caliber
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Those who were late to the game-four showdown between Cal and Cal Poly’s baseball teams missed the entirety of the game — well, most of what mattered. In one of the most lopsided box scores one will ever come across, the Bears and the No. 5 Mustangs combined for 23
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Get out a broom, because the Cal baseball team (8-2) just pulled off its second consecutive tournament sweep, this time at the University of San Diego Tournament this past weekend. After beating Baylor (5-6) on Saturday, the Bears beat Baylor again on Monday as well as No. 24 San Diego
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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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The gloom finally lifted Sunday over Evans Diamond, but the sun did nothing to brighten Cal’s play as the Bears fell to their fourth straight defeat. In losing 13-5 to Oregon State — the final nail in an embarrassing home sweep — Cal (11-7, 0-3 in the Pac-12) looked everything
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Most people, if they got hit in the face by a baseball, would think about taking one or two days off. Not Mitch Delfino. The Cal third baseman not only started the game after his beaning on Friday but also did some damage of his own, standing out offensively over
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A few months ago, the Cal baseball team’s pitching situation looked a lot more certain than it does now. In the past month, pitching coach Dan Hubbs has taken a job at alma mater USC and lefty Louie Lechich has transferred. That leaves the Bears very thin experience-wise in the
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2012 is already a good year for the Cal baseball team. Because, win or lose, they’ll be on the field, playing. Their happy existence aside, the standard of Omaha has been set. They’re no longer an underdog, and they won’t be skimming under the radar. With the spotlight on Berkeley,
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OMAHA, Neb. — For a game unfurled quietly and quickly for the first four innings, Cal’s final 7-3 win to knock out Texas A&M Tuesday afternoon ended up becoming surprisingly lopsided. The Bears, as they were in the Houston Regional, were on the verge of elimination after losing their College
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