Pitiful 8-3 loss for Cal on Sunday to lose the series to Oregon State. A couple of comments, it's become evident that Kamalani Dung is not cut out to be a relief pitcher. Today-she came in to face five batters and retire none of them. She walked four and yielded a single that broke the game completely open in favor of the Beavers. The score was 3-3 when she entered the contest but she allowed four earned runs...One was legit on a single to left
field but she walked in three other runs before being replaced. Zoe Conley, the other hand, has shown the ability
to close out games for Cal. The Bear pitching staff had not given up more than five earned runs in a game this season but yielded 9 and 8 earned runs in the two bad losses to the Beavers. Cal captured the other affair, 12-0.
https://s3.amazonaws.com/sidearm.sites/calberk.sidearmsports.com/documents/2018/3/18/Cal_OSU_3.pdfThe Bears also had tons of base runners but left the bases loaded three times (12 LOB). The lack of clutch hitting is hurting the chances of this team badly. Cal had three Pac Nine series that they "on paper" had an opportunity to win: @ Oregon State, @ Stanford & Utah. Wins could be hard to come by in conference the rest of the way.
GO BEARS!