{"id":201929,"date":"2026-03-03T08:11:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T08:11:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/201929\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T08:11:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T08:11:11","slug":"cal-set-for-5-home-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/201929\/","title":{"rendered":"Cal Set For 5 Home Games"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\tThe California baseball team rides a six-game win streak into a five-game homestand this week as the Golden Bears host CSU Bakersfield on Wednesday before welcoming in San Diego for a four-game weekend series.
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\nThe Golden Bears (8-3) are coming off a weekend sweep of Sacramento State last weekend to give them their second straight series win. The Roadrunners (5-7) come to Berkeley slightly under the .500 mark after losing three of the last four and the Toreros (7-4) have dropped their last two games after starting the season 7-2.
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\nGame Information\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\nCSU Bakersfield
\nGame 1
\n\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Date and Time: Tuesday, March 4, at 6:05 p.m. PT
\n\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Location: Berkeley, CA | Evans Diamond at Stu Gordon Stadium
\n\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Live Stream: ACCNX\/ESPN+<\/a>
\n\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Live Stats: Statbroadcast<\/a>
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\nSan Diego
\nGame 1
\n\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Date and Time: Friday, March 6, at 6:05 p.m. PT
\n\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Location: Berkeley, CA | Evans Diamond at Stu Gordon Stadium
\n\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Live Stream: ACCNX\/ESPN+<\/a>
\n\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Live Stats: Statbroadcast<\/a>
\nGame 2
\n\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Date and Time: Saturday, March 7, at 1:05 p.m. PT
\n\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Location: Berkeley, CA | Evans Diamond at Stu Gordon Stadium
\n\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Live Stream: ACCNX\/ESPN+<\/a>
\n\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Live Stats: Statbroadcast<\/a>
\nGame 3
\n\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Date and Time: Saturday, March 7 (45 minutes after the completion of the first game)
\n\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Location: Berkeley, CA | Evans Diamond at Stu Gordon Stadium
\n\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Live Stream: ACCNX\/ESPN+<\/a>
\n\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Live Stats: Statbroadcast<\/a>
\nGame 4
\n\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Date and Time: Friday, Feb. 27, at 6 p.m. PT
\n\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Location: Berkeley, CA | Evans Diamond at Stu Gordon Stadium
\n\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Live Stream: ACCNX\/ESPN+<\/a>
\n\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Live Stats: Statbroadcast<\/a>
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\nPromo Schedule
\nThe 2026 Cal Baseball promotional schedule<\/a> is now available and features several theme days, giveaways and discounts. Season tickets and single-game tickets can be purchased on CalBears.com<\/a>.
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\nProbable Starters
\nCSUB
\nRHP Trent Roach<\/a> (0-0) vs TBA
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\nUSD
\nGame 1: RHP Oliver de la Torre<\/a> (0-2) vs RHP Diego Gutierrez (0-0)
\nGame 2: RHP Ethan Foley<\/a> (2-0) vs LHP Kyle Bade (1-1)
\nGame 3: RHP Gavin Eddy<\/a> (2-0) vs RHP Drake Frize (1-2)
\nGame 4: TBA vs TBA
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\nStreaks
\nCade Campbell<\/a> has recorded a hit in all 11 games this year and both Hideki Prather<\/a> (9) and Daniel Murillo<\/a> (7) are also on significant hit streaks. Jordy Lopez<\/a> has reached base safely in five straight games since taking over as the starting left fielder.
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\nSac State Sweep
\nThe Bears earned their second straight series win and first sweep of the year last weekend after winning all three games with Sac State. After falling behind 4-0 on Friday, the Bears used four solo home runs to come back and walk off the Hornets. It was sophomore Jordy Lopez<\/a> who collected his first career homer in a tie game in the bottom of the ninth to get the series started with a win. From there the tone was set as starting pitchers Ethan Foley<\/a> and Gavin Eddy<\/a> went deep into Saturday and Sunday’s games to ensure the Bears could bring out the brooms. Cal’s pitching staff had a 1.33 ERA in the series and the offense doubled up the Hornets with a run differential of 16-8. Third baseman Cade Campbell<\/a> led the Bears with a slash line of .583\/.615\/1.250 to go with two home runs, two doubles, four RBI, and four runs.
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\nNew Bear Production
\nMuch of Cal’s success so far this season can be attributed to its freshmen and transfers as that group has combined for 56 of the Bears’ 95 hits, scored 30 of their 56 runs, and hit 16 of their 24 doubles. On the mound, the newcomers accounted for 28 of the team’s 46.2 innings pitched in relief, with seven Bear arms making their collegiate debuts during the opening weekend of the season. Freshman Otto Espinoza<\/a> leads that group, ranking second on the team with 14 strikeouts in 11 innings of work and has only allowed one earned run for a 0.82 ERA.
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\nRotation + Prather Lead Bears To Series Win
\nCal’s 2-1 road series win over UC Irvine, a team that was receiving votes in multiple polls, was heavily influenced by its starting rotation and its new starting catcher, Hideki Prather<\/a>. The weekend rotation of Oliver de la Torre<\/a>, Ethan Foley<\/a> and Gavin Eddy<\/a> combined for 14 innings and allowed just four runs (2.57 ERA), two walks, and a .241 batting average to the Anteaters while striking out 14. Foley earned his first win of the season with five innings of two-run ball and Eddy picked up his first win as well, spinning five full scoreless innings with a career-high tying eight strikeouts.
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\nPrather, who had four collegiate plate appearances to his name at Clemson, emerged as one of the top bats in the lineup for the Bears. In addition to catching all three games, the junior went 6-for-13 (.461) with two home runs, three doubles, five runs and four RBI at the plate. In the leadoff spot, he had a slugging percentage of 1.154 and only struck out once. He jumped on the very first pitch of the game on all three days, falling just feet short of a home run on Friday, crushing his first collegiate home run to the same part of the field Saturday and roping a double down the left-field line on Sunday.
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\nWalk-Off D\u00e9j\u00e0 Vu
\nThe Bears’ first two wins of the season both came in walk-off fashion on the same day. Due to an inclement weather forecast, Cal and Santa Clara played a Saturday doubleheader, which boded well for the Bears as they collected two come-from-behind wins. Trailing 4-1 in the bottom of the fifth inning of game one, the Bears put up a two-spot and scored a single run in the eighth to tie the game at 4-4 before junior transfer Hideki Prather<\/a> roped a walk-off double in the bottom of the ninth to give his new team its first win of the season. Cal trailed early once again in game two but found itself tied 3-3 in the bottom of the ninth. This time it was graduate transfer Daniel Murillo<\/a>, who scored the game-winning run in game one, that slashed a walk-off double of his own.
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\nD1Baseball Preseason Positions List
\nThree Bears were named to D1Baseball’s preseason positions lists, with Jacob French<\/a> checking in as the 13th-ranked second baseman in the nation and sixth in the ACC. Third baseman Cade Campbell<\/a> was ranked 31st nationally and fifth in conference while starting pitcher Oliver de la Torre<\/a> came in at 97th on the list of 200.
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\nThe 2026 Roster
\nThis year’s team features several new faces, with 14 new pitchers and 14 new position players making up over half of the dugout. Eighteen of those 24 first-year Bears are freshmen while the others came over through the transfer portal. Cal returns 17 letterwinners from 2025, including 12 pitchers and three starting position players.
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\nSecond Time Through
\nThis will be Cal’s second ACC campaign after joining one of the top conferences in the sport last year. The Bears went 9-21 in conference in 2025 but picked up five nationally-ranked wins, including a 5-0 shutout over No. 2 Florida State. This year, the Bears will face five ACC opponents that were ranked in D1Baseball’s preseason top-25 poll, including conference favorites No. 5 Georgia Tech and No. 1 North Carolina.
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\nHead Coach Mike Neu<\/a>
\nMike Neu<\/a>\u00a0is in his ninth season at the helm and has led the Golden Bears to winning campaigns in five of his first seven seasons, excluding the shortened 2020 season. Neu is only the third Cal head coach since 1977 (Bob Milano 1977-99, David Esquer 2000-17,\u00a0Mike Neu<\/a>\u00a02018-present).
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\n2025 Recap
\nA young 2025 Cal baseball team came on strong at the end of the campaign by reaching the quarterfinals at the ACC Championship as the Golden Bears knocked off No. 9 and No. 8 seeds Miami and Wake Forest in their first two contests. The performance in Durham capped a strong final month that also included a 5-0 shutout victory over aNo. 2 Florida State squad and a series victory against Boston College. The win over the Seminoles was one of four over ACC teams that reached the NCAA Super Regionals (Duke, Florida State, Louisville, Miami), with the Cardinals also a College World Series participant. In addition, the 2025 campaign featured a 7-2 record on a season-long nine-game road trip that was highlighted by a historic series sweep of then No. 14 Stanford that was Cal’s first three-game road sweep of the Cardinal in recorded history. Third-Team All-ACC selection Jacob French<\/a> (.390) had the team’s highest batting average and Cal pitchers spread the wins around with 11 recording at least one victory apiece.
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\nSTAY POSTED
\nFor coverage of Cal baseball, please follow the Bears on X (@CalBaseball<\/a>), Instagram (@CalBaseball<\/a>) and Facebook (\/calbaseball<\/a>).
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