This time, they didn’t need a walk-off home run to come away with a win. But the Cal baseball team did need some late-game heroics in their Saturday night matchup against USC.
Cameron Eden hit a two-run homer to left field to tie the game at eight and Jeffrey Mitchell Jr. Drilled the go-ahead RBI single afterwards in the Bears 9-8 win over the Trojans in Berkeley.
“In my first couple at-bats, I got a couple of hustle hits, and at that point I was just trying to do something for my team,” Eden said. “They’ve picked me up every game this whole year, so it was my turn to return the favor.