CORVALLIS, Ore. – When the Cal baseball team scored twice in the first inning to take an early lead Saturday, it seemed like a good omen.

It wound up being the Bears' highlight.

They couldn't break through again with the bats and fell to No. 7 Oregon State, 3-2, at Goss Stadium to even this three-game series at one apiece.

Cal got off to a fast start with Cameron Eden leading off the game with a walk and Darren Baker singling to center. Both scored on Korey Lee's two-run double and the Bears were up 2-0.

But Cal (11-9, 2-3 Pac-12) managed just five base runners after the third inning and saw its three-game winning streak snapped.

Oregon State left fielder Alex McGarry led off the fourth with a solo homer off Jared Horn to pull the Beavers (15-4-1, 2-3) within 2-1. Then they took the lead with two in the fifth off reliever Rogelio Reyes.

Matthew Gretler led off that inning with a single and came around to score on Beau Philip's single to left. Then No. 3 hitter Adley Rutschman, Oregon State's most dangerous threat, punched a two-out single through the right side that would score Philip from third and put the Beavers ahead, 3-2.

Rutschman, a consensus preseason All-America catcher who came in as the Pac-12's second-leading hitter (.441), had been hitless in the series until that go-ahead single.

If there was a silver lining for Cal, it was the pitching of Horn, who gave up one run with three strikeouts over four innings in his third start of the season. The junior threw two scoreless innings March 12 against San Jose State – his 2019 debut after missing roughly the first month after an appendectomy – and then tossed three innings of one-run ball last Saturday against USC.

He kept the Beavers off-balance with his breaking ball, his only mistake being the homer by McGarry.

The series will wrap with a 2:05 p.m. game Sunday that will air on the Pac-12 Network.