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Bears Host Washington In Final Regular Season Series

by calbears.com
May 14, 2024
Cal hosts Washington for a three-game series starting Thursday. All three games will be televised on Pac-12 Bay Area.

BERKELEY – The California baseball team wraps up the regular season with a three-game series against Washington, starting Thursday. All three games between the Golden Bears and Huskies will be televised on Pac-12 Bay Area.
 
Cal (31-18, 14-13 Pac-12) is coming off a 5-3 win over rival Stanford on Monday night. A series win for the Bears will secure a winning record in Pac-12 play for the first time since the 2019 campaign. Saturday will be Senior Day at Stu Gordon Stadium. The Bears will honor its eight senior and graduating student-athletes in a pregame ceremony on the field.
 
Washington (19-25-1, 10-17) is playing at Portland on Tuesday evening before making the trip south to Stu Gordon Stadium. The Huskies are currently sitting ninth in the Pac-12,a game up on rival Washington State for the final spot in next week's Pac-12 Tournament.
 
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QUICK HITS 

  • The Bears are 4-1 on their current, season-long seven-game homestand. With their win over Stanford on Monday, the Bears took the season series against their rival, winning three of the five games during the regular season. 
  • Seven Cal players are hitting over .300. The Bears are hitting .289 as a team, which is third in the Pac-12. Jarren Advincula is hitting .322, which is tied for 10th in the Pac-12.
  • Monday night marked the 14th comeback win of the season for the Bears. Cal trailed 3-2 before scoring two in the seventh and a run in the eighth to secure the 5-3 win.
  • The Bears have gone 15-4 since going 9-13 from March 1-April 9. During that stretch, Cal has series victories over Washington State, No. 5 Oregon State, USC, and San Jose State.
  • The Bears have climbed up to 67 in the latest RPI rankings, which is fourth best among all Pac-12 teams.
    • Cal is 5-2 against Quad 1 teams; no other team in the conference has as many wins against Quad 1 opponents.
    • The Bears are 12-11 against Quad 1 and Quad 2 teams this season.   
  • Five Cal pitchers have recorded at least four wins this season (Christian Becerra, Andres Galan, Trey Newmann, Luke Short, and Tyler Stasiowski). The five pitchers with at least four wins are the most since the 2011 season when Matt Flemer, Kyle Porter, Erik Johnson, Kevin Miller, and Dixon Anderson all won at least four games for a team that finished with 38 wins en route to an appearance in the College World Series.  
  • Freshman 60: Freshman middle infielders Jarren Advincula and PJ Moutzouridis are two of the top-hitting freshmen in the country. Advincula has 64 hits while Moutzouridis has 58.
    • Advincula's 64 hits are the eighth-most in a single season by a Cal freshman, surpassing teammate Caleb Lomavita who had 63 in 2022. Advincula is six hits shy of becoming the sixth freshman in program history to record 70 or more in a season.
      • Moutzouridis is two hits shy of cracking the top-10; the No. 10 spot is currently occupied by Lance Blakenship and Joeff Kobermus.
  • Peyton Schulze clubbed his 20th double of the year on Monday, which ties him for 10th most in a single season with four players. With one more double, Schulze will move into a tie for fourth with four other players.
    • The single-season record at Cal is 28 set by Xavier Nady in 1998.
    • Schulze's 20 doubles are five shy of the national co-leaders Brandon Eike of VCU and Carlow Martinez of UMass-Lowell.
  • Freshman Dominic Smaldino clubbed his second home run in as many games on Monday night. It was the Bears' 72nd home run of the season, which is the ninth-most in a single season. Under Mike Neu, Cal has finished in the top 10 in program history for home runs in a single season four times.
  • Saturday's win over San Jose State was the 30th of the year for the Golden Bears. It is the first time Cal has won 30 games since the 2019 campaign and the 32nd time in the program's 132-year history. 

SERIES HISTORY 

  • Thursday marks the 92nd time the Bears and Huskies have squared off. Cal is 53-39 all-time against Washington and is 11-3 against the Huskies in the Mike Neu era. Last time out, Cal took two of three from Washington in Seattle to close out the 2023 regular season. After losing 12-1 to UW in the opener, the Bears defeated Washington 12-7 and 16-11. In that 16-11 win over Washington, the Bears trailed 4-2 heading into the sixth before scoring 13 runs in the 6th and 7th innings. Jack Johnston drove in four to lead the Bears that day. 

UP NEXT 

  • The Pac-12 Tournament pools will officially be announced after Saturday's regular-season finale. Cal is currently the No. 7 seed and would play in Pool C against the No. 3 seed and No. 4 seed.

 
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