Next Up
Following the three-game series with Stanford, the Bears will head to the Midwest to take on Northwestern, for a four-game set against the Wildcats that gets underway on Saturday, May 14 at 12 p.m. PT.

Poll Position
The Bears are currently 24th in the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association poll, and are unranked in the USA Today Coaches Poll, the D1Baseball poll, the Baseball America poll, Collegiate Baseball poll, as well as the Perfect Game poll.

Rip It Robbie
California junior second baseman Robbie Tenerowicz has worked his way into the running of first-team all Pac-12 Conference. The junior has yet to be named to a conference honor but has seen his batting average continuously rise to now uncharted territory. Tenerowicz enters the Stanford series with a .316 average, which is well over .100 points higher than his 2015 average.

Entering the Stanford series Tenerowicz is riding a career-best eight-game hitting streak. During that hit streak he has racked up 14 hits and 12 RBI. Entering 2016 the most RBI the three-year starter had ever had in a single season was just eight.

The Golden Bears have played 40 games. In the last 20 games Tenerowicz has recorded at least one hit in 17 of them. In 10 of those 17 games he's had multi-hit performances, including a four-hit game on April 23. In total, 30 of Tenerowicz's 48 total hits this season have come in the last 20 games. During that time span Tenerowicz has seen his batting average rise from .250 to its current .316 mark.

Tenerowicz has already set single season career-highs in runs, at bats, doubles, home runs and RBI.

Twin Killings
California turned two double plays last week against Washington. The Golden Bears' now have a Pac-12 leading 41 double plays on the season. They are tied for the 26th most in country.

They are averaging the 13th most double plays per game in the country at 1.03. They are on track to turn 58 double plays by the end of the regular season. Last season Cal finished with 65 double plays turned, which was good enough for the third most in the nation. Notre Dame had the most double plays turned last year with 75.

Holding Them Under Two
Heading into the Stanford series, California is undefeated this season when they hold their respected opponents to two or less runs. The Golden Bears are 14-0 when holding the other team to two or less.

In many of those 14 games Cal scored first. When the Bears have jumped on opponents and scored first they have done a good job at holding the other team and winning games. Of the 21 games Cal has scored first the Bears have won 15 of them.

When Leading After Four
California is nearly unbeatable when leading after four innings. The Golden Bears currently have a record of 20-2 when they have a lead headed into the fifth inning.

A key reason to the Bears' dominance when leading after three innings has been their ample scoring in the fourth, fifth and sixth innings. So far this season in those three innings combined Cal has scored a total of 95 runs, which is 41 percent of the Bears' 227 total runs. Cal has averaged 2.5 runs per game in those three innings. The fourth inning is tied with the first innings as its most productive inning. They average nearly one run every fourth inning.

Cal is on track to score 312 runs this season. They average 5.7 runs per game. The Bears scored 307 runs last season.

Going Up On a Thursday
California begins its three-game series with Stanford Thursday. It'll be the fourth time this season the Golden Bears have started a series a on a Thursday. Thus far, Cal is undefeated in Thursday games and has outscored its opponents 15-7.

Thursday's game against the Cardinal will be the last scheduled Thursday game of the regular season for the Bears. They were 1-1 last year in Thursday games.

Televised Games
All three games of the California series at Stanford will be aired on Pac-12 Networks or Pac-12 Bay Area. Cal is 8-4 this season in games televised. This will be the first time since the Golden Bears' series with Texas that all games of a series will be televised. Cal swept the Longhorns in the four-game series back in early March in Austin.

Multi-Home Run Games
California currently is the Pac-12 Conference leader in multi-home run games with 11. USC is the next closest with nine. Cal's 10-1 record in games where they've hit multi-home runs is the highest winning percentage of Pac-12 teams with more than five multi-home run game. Cal had 12 multi-home run games all of last year.

The Golden Bears' weekend opponent, Stanford, has only two multi-home run games and have posted a 1-1 record in those games. Only four times this year have Bears' opponents hit more than one home run against them in a single game.

Farney, Halamandaris Approach 150 Club
California seniors Nick Halamandaris (148 games) and Brenden Farney (147 games) could each potentially play in their 150th career games, respectively this week at Stanford. Halamandaris could do so as early as Friday, while Farney would need to play in all three games this weekend. Each would join the 150 club, which includes three current Bears; Devin Pearson (174 career appearances), Brian Celsi (172 career appearances), Mitchell Kranson (164 career appearances).

Dodson Dominates
Freshman right-hander Tanner Dodson dealt in his last start this past Saturday against the Washington Huskies, going seven strong, allowing just one run on seven scattered hits to pick up his second career win.

Akaash Gets Win Number One
California redshirt sophomore left-handed pitcher Akaash Agarwal earned his first collegiate last Tuesday against Cal Poly. In a relief appearance out of the bullpen, Agarwal went a career-long 1.2 innings and gave up zero hits.

Agarwal has been on the team since 2014 but had never appeared in game until February of this year.

Over the weekend Agarwal made his eighth appearance on the year. His 1.50 ERA is the second lowest on the team for pitchers who have made over two appearances on the year. Out of the Cal pitchers who have made more than two appearances opposing batters are hitting a team-low .125 against Agarwal.

Alpha Dog
The Golden Bears' redshirt senior relief pitcher Keaton “Dog” Siomkin has returned from injury in 2016 to post a 3.54 ERA in 28.0 innings of work in 21 appearances. Siomkin missed a majority of his junior year in 2014 after having Tommy John surgery and nearly all of of 2015 while recovering from the injury. The save was Siomkin's third at Cal.

One-Run Games
Last Tuesday California won its fourth one-run game this season by defeating Coly Poly 5-4. It was the Golden Bears' 18th one-run win in the past three years. In 2014 and 2015 Cal won seven one-run games each year.

Wear It
On Saturday in California's 7-1 win over Washington, the Golden Bears' designated hitter Devin Pearson was hit by another pitch. This season Pearson has been hit a team-high 14 times. While he has been the team leader for most of the season, the hit by pitch on Saturday puts him into second in the conference, only behind USC's Jeremy Martinez, who has now been hit 15 times. It also set a new single season career-high in hit by pitches for Pearson, which he previously set in 2014 as a sophomore. Out of all his current teammates no Bear has been hit as much as Pearson. Since coming to Berkeley in 2013 Pearson has been hit a total of 45 times. Catcher Brett Cumberland has been hit the next most at 21.

As a team Cal has been hit 46 times this year. That, however, is only the third most in the conference. Utah has been hit 10 more times than the Bears this year. Cal is encroaching on last season's total of 51 but they are still well behind the program-high of 85 set in 2003.

Cumberland Crushes
California sophomore catcher Brett Cumberland is the team-leader in batting average, hitting .358. He ranks sixth in the conference in batting average, and is the Pac-12 home run leader (12), RBI leader (38), SLG (.694) leader and leader in total bases (93). He is also second in the conference in OBP (.491) and tied for sixth in walks (29). Former Golden Bear Mike Wolger owns the program's highest single-season batting average with at least 100 at bats at .432, which he set in 1995.

Against right-handed pitchers the sophomore hitter has 33 hits in 76 at-bats (.434). No Cal batter who played in a majority of the team's games has hit higher than .395 against right-handed pitchers in a single season in the past four seasons. He now has 15 mult-hit games on the season, which ties for the team lead.

In two out situations Cumberland is nearly as dangerous. He's 12-for-34 (.353) when batting with two outs.

He doesn't just drive runs in either. Cumberland is a table setter. With the bases empty he's hitting .343 (24-for-70) and he leads the team in walks with 29.

Even behind the plate on defense Cumberland gets it done. The Bears' catcher has thrown out 19 runners. Out of all regular starting catchers in the Pac-12, Cumberland has thrown out the second most, only behind Arizona State's Brian Serven and USC's Jeremy Martinez who have each thrown out 20 apiece.

Double Gaucho
Senior third baseman Mitchell Kranson enters Thursday's game as the Pac-12 Conference leader in doubles (15), tied with Arizona State's David Greer, seven off the NCAA leader. Kranson is averaging nearly a double every other game.

Starting Off Hot
California has scored a run in the first inning in 13 of its 40 games. The Bears have scored more runs in the first inning (34) than any other inning (aside from the fourth, where they have also scored 34) so far this season. They have outscored their opponents 34-23 in the inning. On April 8th at Oregon, the Golden Bears scored five runs in the first inning, which is the second most they have scored in the first inning of a game this season. On February 28th against Purdue, Cal scored eight runs in the first inning.

The Bears are 8-5 when they score at least one run in the first inning. Between April 1st and April 8th, Cal scored at least one run in the first in five consecutive games, the longest streak to date this season.

Under the Lights
Heading into Thursday night's game vs. Washington, California is 17-7 during night games. The Golden Bears have outscored their opponents 134-86 in night games and have shutout an opponent three times. Their seven night losses came this past Friday at home against Washington, twice against Arizona, on April 15th at Arizona State, April 5th against Stanford, March 18th at USC and February 29th against Michigan. Including Tuesday's game, Cal has 10 night games left on the season.

Halamandaris Making Most of Senior Year
California first baseman Nick Halamandaris is enjoying what has easily been his best offensive year since joining the Golden Bears as a freshman in 2013. The once 2012 eighth round MLB draft pick by the Seattle Mariners has never finished a season with a batting average higher than .244 at Cal. Nor has he ever hit more than two home runs in a season. Entering Thursday's game with Stanford, the now senior owns a .308 batting average and has hit three home runs in 2016.

Furthermore, Halamandaris has found his power. The first baseman went the first 25 games without hitting a home run. In the Bears' last 15 games he's hit three home runs. With still 13 regular season games left on the schedule, Halamandaris has already set a personal single-season high in hits, runs, doubles, home runs and RBI. He just recently broke his single-season at-bat record (146), and if the season were to end today he'd have a record high batting average (.308), on base percentage (.346) and slugging percentage (.459).

Can I Get an E.R.A. on That?
The California pitching staff has been very solid in 2016 under new pitching coach Thomas Eager, having posted a staff ERA of 3.31 in 2016 thus far. That mark ranks them third in the Pac-12 behind this week's opponent, Stanford (3.11) and Arizona (3.29).

El Gaucho Keeps Hitting
Senior third baseman Mitchell Kranson is batting .313 with four home runs, 15 doubles, 25 RBI and 26 runs scored. He belted his fourth long ball of 2016 in an 8-2 win over UCLA on April 2.

Double Trouble
As of April 25, The Bears are tied for third in the Pac-12 in doubles with 77, just one behind co-leaders Arizona State and Oregon State who lead the conference. Each of the Bears in the starting lineup has at least four to his name this season, and senior third baseman Mitchell Kranson is leading the way with 14, which ranks him first in the Pac-12. Fellow senior, first baseman Nick Halamandaris, is tied for seventh in the conference with 11.

Locking It Down
The Bears are an impressive 23-1 in 2016 when leading after seven innings of play or later.

Everyone's Doing It
Cal has had a very balanced offensive attack this season; as every spot in the lineup is doing their part in the RBI category. All nine Bears' regular starters have double-digit RBI totals thus far (Brett Cumberland -38, Robbie Tenerowicz -27, Brenden Farney -26, Nick Halamandaris -25, Mitchell Kranson -25, Aaron Knapp -20, Devin Pearson -15, Brian Celsi -13 and Preston Grand Pre -13), but others have contributed as well. Every starting position player has a minimum of 13 RBI on the season, and several individuals have come through in important spots to help the ballclub this season.

#Dingers
California led the Pac-12 in long balls in 2015 with a whopping 45 and they are on a similar path thus far in 2016, having hit 32 in their last 37 games; which ranks second in the conference only to USC (36). Cal sophomore catcher Brett Cumberland has paced the Bears with 12 homers on the season. Six other Bears have homered in 2016, as Mitchell “El Gaucho” Kranson, Brenden Farney and Robbie Tenerowicz each has four, while senior Nick Halamandaris has three, seniors Devin Pearson and Brian Celsi each have a pair, and sophomore Denis Karas has gone yard once.

(Re-) Transitioning to Third
Senior Mitchell “El Gaucho” Kranson has been a utility man for the Golden Bears over the past four years. As younger Bears establish themselves at positions Kranson has been familiarizing himself once again with the hot corner. Kranson grew up playing third base and was recruited to play the position. In 2012, Perfect Game ranked the then high school senior as the No. 6 California third base recruit.

Welcome Back Farney
Redshirt senior Brenden Farney returns to the Golden Bears after missing all of 2015. Farney led the Bears in hitting in 2014, his junior season, batting .260 with four home runs, eight doubles and 26 RBI. He hit his first career home run at USC on March 18, and followed that up with a two-home run game on April 2 in a win over UCLA. He also went yard in a 12-2 win at Oregon on April 8.

Esquer Among Nation's Best; Approaching 500
Esquer, 51, is in his 17th season with a career record of 492-433-2 (.531). In 2011 he led the Bears to the program's first appearance at the College World Series since 1992, and was named the National Coach of the Year.

#MLBBears
Proving that a top academic institution can also produce top professional athletes, the Cal baseball program showcases four former standouts – Mark Canha (Oakland Athletics), newly promoted Erik Johnson (Chicago White Sox), Tyson Ross (San Diego Padres) and Marcus Semien (Oakland Athletics) – all on Major League Baseball rosters at the moment.

Highlighting the list is Ross, the Padres opening day starter, who is a former MLB All-Star in 2014. Semien and Canha provide some local flavor, while playing for another Golden Bear, Bob Melvin, the manager of the Oakland Athletics, who was a member of Cal's 1980 College World Series team that placed third in the country.

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