CALIFORNIA GOLDEN BEARS (14-10, 5-4 ACC)
at
No. 18/22/20 LOUISVILLE CARDINALS (18-6, 3-3 ACC)
 
FRIDAY-SUNDAY, MARCH 28-30 (3 PM/11 AM/9 AM PT)
Jim Patterson Stadium, Louisville, Ky.

CAL'S PROJECTED STARTING PITCHERS
Friday – 5 - RHP Austin Turkington (4-2, 3.48 ERA)
Saturday – 46 - RHP Gavin Eddy (2-1, 2.08 ERA)
Sunday – TBA
 
SERIES HISTORY/NOTES
All-Time Series: Louisville leads, 1-0
Current Win Streak: Louisville, 1 (March 10, 2007)
Current Season Series Win Streak: Louisville, 1 (2007)
— Cal and Louisville have played just once previously with the Cardinals a 12-9 winner at the Cardinal Baseball Classic in Louisville on March 10, 2007
— Cal trailed 9-1 after one inning in the team's lone meeting in 2007 and scored four times in the top of the ninth before its comeback bid fell short
 
MEDIA COVERAGE
Stream: ACCNX/ESPN+ (Friday, Saturday)
Talent: Jack Kizer (PxP, Friday), Sterling Riggs (PxP, Saturday), Josh Rogers (Analyst, Friday And Saturday)
 
Television: ACC Network (Sunday)
Talent: Dani Wexelman (Play-By-Play), Daron Vaught (Analyst)
 
Live Stats: Cal.StatBroadcast.com
 
KEY THINGS TO KNOW
5 IN A ROW - Cal's current five-game win streak – with all victories coming on the road - started March 18 at Saint Mary's before continuing with a three-game sweep at No. 14 Stanford (March 21-23) and a victory at San Francisco (March 24). Cal has outscored its opponents during its current five-game win streak, 55-25.
 
RECENT WIN STREAKS - Even though Cal's current five-game win streak is the Golden Bears' longest of 2025. the club is no stranger to long win streaks with four stretches of five or more straight victories in 2024, including a season-long nine-game win streak from April 10-23. The current five straight wins on the road are also the most since April 10-23 when Cal won its first four and final game of its nine-game win streak on the road.  
 
SEASON-LONG ROAD TRIP - Cal closes out its current season-long nine-game road trip at No. 18 Louisville (March 28-30) and Sacramento State (April 1) before returning to Berkeley to face No. 6 Clemson (April 4-6). 
 
HISTORIC SWEEP - Cal made history last weekend with a three-game sweep at No. 14 Stanford to mark the first time Cal has swept a three-game road series against the Cardinal in recorded history and the first time the Bears have swept the Cardinal in a three-game set at any venue since taking three straight in Berkeley in 1992. Ethan Kodama's two-out single in the top of the 10th of a 6-5 win on Sunday plated PJ Moutzouridis with the game-winning run to finish off the sweep.
 
FRENCH ALSO MAKES HISTORY - Jacob French became the first Cal baseball player to win ACC Player of the Week honors last week after hitting .647 (11-17) with nine runs scored, two doubles, three triples, five RBI, one hit by pitch and one sacrifice fly during Cal's four wins. French reached safely in all nine of his plate appearances in the first two games of the Stanford 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 19 games, hit safely in the past 10 and driven in at least one run in the last eight.
 
CORE FOUR - Cal has four players who have started all 24 games in 2025 with infielders 2B Jarren Advincula (1 start at DH), 3B Cade Campbell and SS PJ Moutzouridis joined by CF Seth Gwynn.
 
PITCHING PROWESS - Cal has received several strong starting pitching performances of late, especially from its starters  - led by No. 1 starter Austin Turkington, who has won three straight, including a pair of complete games in run-rule seven-inning contests. No. 2 starter Gavin Eddy posted career highs of 6.2 innings and eight strikeouts in his most recent start in a 13-4 win at Stanford last Saturday, while Ethan Foley recorded 13 of the team's school-record-tying 19 strikeouts on Monday at San Francisco. 
 
FRIDAY FIREWORKS - Cal has won each of its first three 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.
 
5 TOP 25 SERIES IN A ROW - Cal is in the midst of a stretch of five consecutive ACC series against teams in the top 25 of at least one national college baseball poll (currently or at the time the teams played) starting with Virginia and Stanford. Louisville, Clemson and Georgia Tech are next on the docket.
 
BIG LEAGUERS - Cal is expected to have five former players on Major League Baseball rosters when the 2025 season opens Thursday in RHP Lucas Erceg (Royals), C Korey Lee (White Sox), MGR Bob Melvin (San Francisco Giants), INF Marcus Semien (Rangers) and OF Andrew Vaughn (White Sox).