CALIFORNIA GOLDEN BEARS (13-10, 5-4 ACC)
at
SAN FRANCISCO DONS (12-12, 2-1 WCC)

MONDAY, MARCH 24 (2 PM PT)
Benedetti Diamond, San Francisco, Calif.

CAL'S PROJECTED STARTING PITCHER
48 – RHP Ethan Foley (2-1, 5.51)
 
SERIES HISTORY/NOTES
All-Time Series: Cal leads, 133-48
Current Win Streak: Cal, 3 (Apr. 18, 2023)
Last San Francisco Win: at Cal (April 19, 2022)
Current Season Series Win Streak: Cal, 2 (2023-24)
Last San Francisco Season Series Win: 2022
— Cal and San Francisco will be playing for the 182nd time on Tuesday
— The Golden Bears have won each of the last three meetings and both times the teams played in 2024
— Cal has won each of the last two games in San Francisco, most recently wan 11-3 victory in their only meeting in The City last season on March 19, 2024
— USF's last victory was in Berkeley on April 19, 2023, which was that season's only meeting between the teams
— The last Dons win in The City was on Feb. 27, 2021
 
MEDIA COVERAGE
Stream: ESPN+
Talent: Pat Olson
Live Stats: Cal.StatBroadcast.com

KEY THINGS TO KNOW
HISTORIC SWEEP - Cal made history Sunday by completing a three-game sweep of No. 14/23/14 [GV1] Stanford with a 6-5 victory in 10 innings at Klein Field at Sunken Diamond. The sweep marked the first time Cal has swept a three-game road series against the Cardinal in recorded history and the first time the Bears swept the Cardinal in a three-game set since taking three straight in Berkeley in 1992. Ethan Kodama's two-out single in the top of the 10th on a 1-2 pitch plated PJ Moutzouridis with the game-winning run.
 
FOUR-GAME WIN STREAK - Cal's current four-game win streak, which started last Tuesday at Saint Mary's and continued with the series sweep of Stanford, is its longest of the 2025 season. Cal has outscored its opponents 45-19 during the streak and have totaled 58 hits, with at least 11 in each game as well as a season-high-tying 17 at Saint Mary's. The Bears are hitting .372 with seven homers and 43 RBI over the four games.
 
FRENCH ON FIRE - Jacob French, who turns 20 today (Monday), is hitting .647 (11-17) with two doubles, three triples and five RBI during Cal's current four-game hit streak. During the Stanford series, he hit .769 (10-13) with two doubles, three triples and four RBI. French reached safely in all nine of his plate appearances in the first two games of the series (8-8, HBP) with a career-high-tying four hits in each contest.
 
ADVINCULA EXTENDS STREAKS - Jarren Advincula has reached base safely in each of the last 18 games, has hit safely in the past nine (.459, 18-42, 5 R, 2 2B, 11 RBI, 2 SB). He's driven in at least one run in each of the last seven.
 
CORE FOUR - Cal has four players who have started all 23 games in 2025 with infielders 2B Jarren Advincula (1 start at DH), 3B Cade Campbell and SS PJ Moutzouridis joined by CF Seth Gwynn.
 
LONG BALLS IN BUNCHES - Cal has hit 16 of its 32 home runs in three games with a school-record-tying eight March 2 at Santa Clara, five March 7 at Duke and three March 21 at Stanford.
 
9-GAME ROAD TRIP - Cal is 4-0 to start its season-long nine-game road trip with wins over Saint Mary's (March 18) and Stanford (March 21-23). The Bears will continue the road swing against San Francisco (March 24), Louisville (March 28-30) and Sacramento State (April 1) before Cal next returns to Berkeley to face Clemson (April 4-6).
 
MORE TOP 25 TEAMS UPCOMING - Cal has played two ranked foes in Virginia and Stanford already in 2025 and its next three series (at Louisville, Clemson, at Georgia Tech) also come against ACC teams currently in the top 25 of at least one national college baseball poll.
 
200TH WIN AT CAL - Mike Neu recorded his 200th win at Cal in Sunday's win over Stanford.
 
FRIDAY FIREWORKS - Cal has won each of its Friday night ACC games by a combined score of 33-5, including a run-rule seven-inning 13-3 win at Stanford in its most recent Friday game.
 
ON THIS DATE IN CAL BASEBALL - March 24 has been a tough date for the Bears in recent history with a current six-game losing streak on the date. The last Cal win on March 24 was a 6-2 victory over Oregon State in a 2016 series opener.
 
BIG LEAGUE CAMPS - Cal has 11 former players currently in MLB spring training camps including six on 40-player rosters in INF/OF Darren Baker (Nationals), RHP Lucas Erceg (Royals), RHP Grant Holman (A's), C Korey Lee (White Sox), INF Marcus Semien (Rangers) and OF Andrew Vaughn (White Sox), while Bob Melvin is the Giants' manager.  RHP Tanner Dodson (A's), INF/OF Nathan Martorella (Marlins), RHP Sean Sullivan (Pirates) and RHP Steven Zobac (Royals) are non-roster invitees who are still currently in big league camps, while OF Dylan Beavers (Orioles) and C Caleb Lomavita (Nationals) started spring training on MLB rosters also as a non-roster invitees but have since been reassigned.