BERKELEY – The California baseball team makes the first of its two trips to the Farm this Tuesday for a nonconference showdown against No. 3 Stanford at Klein Field at Sunken Diamond. The first pitch between the Golden Bears and Cardinal is slated for 6 p.m., and the game will be televised on Pac-12 Bay Area.
 
HOW TO FOLLOW

• Game 4: Pac-12 Bay Area (Roxy Bernstein, play-by-play; Dean Stotz, analyst) | Live Stats

 
PROBABLE PITCHERS

• Game 4: TBD vs. TBD

 
QUICK HITS

• The Bears opened the season with a convincing series win at Houston, taking the first two games, 7-0 and 5-3, before falling to the Cougars 8-6 in the finale. It was the Bears' first true road series victory to open a season in more than 23 years. Cal got off to a hot start last season as well by sweeping the MLB4 Tournament in Scottsdale, defeating Houston, TCU, and San Diego State.
• The Bears put up some impressive numbers over the weekend. Through three contests, Cal is hitting .260 as a team, but .310 with runners on base and .324 with runners in scoring position. The Bears have tallied 18 total runs and are averaging six runs per contest.
• Cal got a tremendous 2023 debut from lefty Ian May on the mound. May threw a career-best eight shutout innings in the season-opening win over Houston. He threw a career-high 103 pitches while scattering three hits and a walk. His seven strikeouts were one shy of his career high. The key to May's success was leadoff hitters going 0-for-8 in the contest.
• Cal's top-two hitters this weekend, Caleb Lomavita and Rodney Green Jr., were fantastic table setters, batting a combined 13-for-28 (.464) in the series. Lomavita was 6-for-14 with seven runs scored and a home run and was a web gem away from crushing his second home run of the series in game two. Green Jr. was 7-for-14 from the plate while scoring four runs and driving in four. In the opening-day win over Houston, Green. Jr. was 4-for-5 with a double a three-run home run.
• Sophomore shortstop Carson Crawford also had a stellar weekend. Crawford hit .455 over the weekend (5-for-11) but was stellar with runners in scoring position, going 4-for-6 (.667). His ninth-inning RBI double was the game-winning hit in the series-clinching win over Houston on Saturday night.
• The Bears have a large sophomore class with 11 players in their second college season/. On Friday, Cal had seven of those sophomores in the starting lineup and an eighth, Christian Becerra, came on in relief of May and closed the 7-0 win out with a quiet ninth.

 
UP NEXT
Cal will make its 2023 home debut this weekend when Cal Poly and UConn come to Stu Gordon Stadium for the Cal Baseball Classic. The Bears will open the tournament against Cal Poly at 3:05 p.m. on Friday. Game two of Friday's doubleheader will take place between the Mustangs and the Huskies at approximately 7:05 p.m.
 
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