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After a tumultuous 2021 season where they narrowly missed regional playoffs, the Bears will look to come out strong this weekend as they open the 2022 season at the MLB4 Collegiate Baseball Tournament.
4 Bears, commit selected in 1st 10 rounds of 2021 MLB draft
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Following an uncharacteristic year in which zero Cal players were taken in a shortened 2020 draft, four Bears heard their names called during MLB’s 2021 selection show in another successful draft showing for the program. Grant Holman, Sean Sullivan, Ian Villars and Darren Baker represent the 2021 crop of Bears heading to the MLB, solidifying Cal’s reputation as one the best MLB talent-producing programs in the nation.
Holman, the first of the Bear teammates to be taken, was drafted 188th overall (sixth round) by the Oakland A’s. His selection continues the storied pipeline between Cal and Oakland, which has produced numerous MLB players over the past decade, including Marcus Semien, who, though no longer an A, represented the East Bay in this year’s All-Star Game.
BERKELEY – California didn't come away with the result it wanted on Saturday afternoon, but once again proved its worth in a back-and-forth 6-5 loss to No. 10 Oregon in the regular-season finale at Evans Diamond.
The rubber-match loss dropped the Golden Bears to 29-26 overall and 15-15 in Pac-12 play with the NCAA's postseason Selection Show looming ahead on Monday at 9 a.m. PDT on ESPN2. Cal finished the regular season in seventh place in the Pac-12 standings, while Oregon (37-14, 20-10) locked up second place with the series victory.
2 down, 1 to go: Cal clinches huge series against UCLA, eyes Oregon
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Baseball seasons are notoriously long and grueling. In college, clubs play more than 50 games during 11 straight weeks. Single games become less important in this scenario, and a solitary heartwarming or heartbreaking performance rarely makes or breaks a season.
Sometimes, however, a season can come down to one game, one inning or one pitch. For Cal, that moment came out on the 2,756th out of the season.
Trailing 2-0 in Saturday’s matchup against then-No. 18 UCLA, Keshawn Ogans hit a screaming liner into the left-center gap on a 3-2, two-out pitch, clearing the bases and giving Cal a one-run lead.