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Coach Esquer earned his 301st win tonight (Tuesday) vs Saint Mary's in Stanford's final home game of the season. Stanford entered the top of the 9th with a 7-3 lead and almost choked it away. But a win is a win, even if it's a 7-6 squeaker vs the #137 RPI-ranked team.
Regular season ends @ Cal x 3, Thursday-Saturday. Cal's undergraduate commencement is Saturday at 10:30 am and the baseball game is at 3:05 pm, but I have to think the graduating Cal players will skip commencement, especially since it's their Senior Day. I don't think I've ever seen that kind of scheduling, but then again I've only attended quarter-system schools.
Seeds 5-8 get a first-round bye in next week's ACC tournament in Charlotte, NC. Stanford, at 12-15 in the conference, is sitting all alone in 10th place right now, but there's a three-way tie for 7th place at 13-14. Stanford actually has the head-to-head advantage over two of those teams, NC State (vs UNC this weekend) and Va Tech (vs Clemson). The Cardinal hasn't played Virginia (@ Louisville), the remaining team tied for 7th.
Even if Stanford gets the first-round bye, they would still need to win 4 games in 5 days to get the automatic NCAA bid. Very slim chance of that happening, but it's higher than winning 5 games in 6 days.
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)
