![]() ![]() A bunt single by right fielder Gage Canning up the third base line put men at the corners, and sent Vaughn back to the dugout to grab his first baseman's mitt. Vaughn then fell behind shortstop Carter Aldrete 2-0, and served up an RBI double off the base of the wall in right center. ![]() Vaughn then came to the mound with a 1-0 count on pinch hitter Myles Denson and promptly set him down on strikes after falling behind 3-0. By rule, that should have been a dead ball (Rule 7-11-k in the NCAA rulebook), but instead, Snow advanced to second, as the ball kicked to the Cal dugout, and another run scored to make it 9-3. Greene could not find the ball because of that ricochet. In a steady downpour, Sabouri uncorked a wild pitch inside to pinch hitter Andrew Snow to score Shaps. As Sabouri finally looked to regain his footing, striking out Snow, his 1-2 back foot breaking ball actually hit Snow's back foot, on a check swing. Sabouri then walked pinch hitter Tyler Williams on five pitches. A diving try by Davis only pushed the ball onto the warning track, for a leadoff triple. Cal cruised into the ninth up 9-1, thanks to Vaughn (3-for-4, R, 4 RBI) a 3-for-3, 2-RBI day from Jeffrey Mitchell and the first collegiate home run for Ripken Reyes, but in the ninth, the Bears nearly gave up the ghost.įreshman lefty Arman Sabouri - who's given up 8 earned runs in his last two appearances, while getting just one out - wore his third straight rocky outing.Ĭenter fielder Andrew Shaps battled through seven pitches against Sabouri, before sending a fly ball into the left center field gap. Sometimes, Esquer said, growing up is uncomfortable, and it was on Friday for the underclassmen-laden Bears (13-14, 5-5 in Pac-12). We just didn't throw strikes, and we gave them more momentum than we needed to." "It got a little hairy there, at the end," said head coach David Esquer. That rally, though, fell short, as closer Erik Martinez got the final two outs to preserve a 9-6 win. Still, though, the Sun Devils managed to plate one unearned run off of Cal starter Jared Horn, and then rally off of a botched strike three call in the ninth to plate five more. On Friday, a first-inning two-run home run by Vaughn - his eighth on the season - and a two-run double in the third had the Bears up, 5-0, against Arizona State, with starter Eli Lingos having lasted just 16 pitches, and 0.2 innings. Against Stanford on Monday, once again, a big swing from Vaughn - an RBI double - put Cal ahead, only for an eight-run fourth to scuttle the Bears. BERKELEY - lt seemed a familiar script: California got ahead in the early innings, on the back of big swings from Andrew Vaughn, only to see that lead collapse against a Pac-12 foe.Īgainst UCLA, the Bears squandered two 4-0 leads, and lost 9-4 and 9-5, with barely a whimper of protest on offense. ![]()
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