05-23-2019, 11:18 PM
I hate to second-guess the manager, but why intentionally walk Carter Aldrete--nephew of Stanford great Mike Aldrete--to load the bases with no outs? I know that the runner on first doesn't matter since it was a one-run game, but you've left your pitcher no margin for error, and the batters know that he's going to throw strikes.
If there's one thing people have learned in Berkeley, it's that you can't put "Cal football" and "Rose Bowl" in the same sentence. The words just don't fit. You'd be better off linking "covered wagons" with "Mars travel." (Bruce Jenkins, Cal '70, SF Chronicle, Nov. 11, 2017)