{"id":247858,"date":"2026-04-27T03:12:18","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T03:12:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/247858\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T03:12:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T03:12:18","slug":"cal-bested-in-rubber-match-by-miami-4-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/247858\/","title":{"rendered":"Cal Bested In Rubber Match By Miami 4-1"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>                    &#13;<br \/>\n                        &#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/St_Mary_CA.png\" alt=\"Saint Mary's\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                Next Game:<\/p>\n<p>at Saint Mary&#8217;s<\/p>\n<p>4\/28\/2026 | 6:05 PM<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n                        ACCNX\/ESPN+  &#13;\n                    <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n                    Apr. 28 (Tue) \/ 6:05 PM&#13;\n                <\/p>\n<p>                    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"sidearm-story-template-next-game-opponent-logo\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/St_Mary_CA.png\" alt=\"Saint Mary's\"\/><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n                        at\u00a0Saint Mary&#8217;s&#13;\n                    <\/p>\n<p>                             &#13;<\/p>\n<p>                    CORAL GABLES, Fla. \u2014 Despite outhitting the host Hurricanes, the California baseball team could not find a way to get runs across as it dropped its Sunday rubber match with Miami 4-1 at Mark Light Field.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nFor the first time this series, the Golden Bears (22-20, 7-14 ACC) fell behind with the Hurricanes (32-12, 12-9 ACC) scoring on a weak-contact infield single to take a 1-0 lead in the second inning.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThat was the sole run allowed by freshman <a href=\"https:\/\/calbears.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/otto-espinoza\/27323\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"27323\" target=\"_blank\">Otto Espinoza<\/a> who went four full innings and was charged with the loss in his fifth career start. The righty allowed three hits and four walks but got out of trouble when he put &#8216;Canes on the basepaths inducing two double plays. Cal&#8217;s starting rotation ended an impressive weekend with a 2.70 combined ERA with 15 strikeouts in 20.0 innings pitched.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nAs soon as Espinoza exited Miami got right on the Cal bullpen scoring a pair of key runs in the fifth inning to go up 3-0.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nCal&#8217;s best offensive opportunity came in the top of the sixth when the Bears loaded the bases with no outs on three straight singles, but their momentum was promptly killed on a double-play ball that scored their only run of the day.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThe Hurricanes immediately answered with a run in the bottom half to go up 4-1, but the damage was limited by Cal reliever <a href=\"https:\/\/calbears.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/cole-clark\/27293\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"27293\" target=\"_blank\">Cole Clark<\/a> who entered with the bases-loaded and got out of the jam with one pitch. The senior went on to throw the final two innings and ended the night with a nearly perfect performance allowing zero hits, zero runs, and just one walk while striking out a batter in his 2.1 innings of work.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nShortstop <a href=\"https:\/\/calbears.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/jett-kenady\/27316\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"27316\" target=\"_blank\">Jett Kenady<\/a> added to his impressive weekend going 3-for-4 with a run scored and totaled six hits in the series. First baseman <a href=\"https:\/\/calbears.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/daniel-murillo\/27318\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"27318\" target=\"_blank\">Daniel Murillo<\/a> and designated hitter <a href=\"https:\/\/calbears.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/lawson-olmstead\/27327\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"27327\" target=\"_blank\">Lawson Olmstead<\/a> joined him with multi-hit efforts as each went 2-for-4 to give Cal a series-high 10 hits on the day.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThe Bears\u00a0now return to California for a five-game week beginning on the road at Saint Mary&#8217;s on Tuesday before hosting UC Davis on Wednesday and Virginia Tech in a weekend series that begins Friday.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nSTAY POSTED<br \/>\nFor coverage of Cal baseball, please follow the Bears on X (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/calbaseball\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@CalBaseball<\/a>), Instagram (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/calbaseball\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@CalBaseball<\/a>) and Facebook (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/calbaseball\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\/calbaseball<\/a>).<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>                <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; &#13; &#13; Next Game: at Saint Mary&#8217;s 4\/28\/2026 | 6:05 PM &#13; ACCNX\/ESPN+ &#13; &#13; Apr. 28&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":247859,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-247858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247858\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}