Oregon State baseball again falls to Cal in walk-off fashion

The road woes for the Oregon State baseball team continued on Saturday night.

California scored three runs in the bottom of the ninth inning to rally past the Beavers 8-7 at Stu Gordon Stadium in Berkeley, California, and also clinch the series victory.

The loss came one night after Cal beat OSU 10-8, also in walk-off fashion.

Oregon State is 19-1 at home this season and 7-1 at neutral sites, but now just 4-6 in road games.

Oregon State had led 7-3 before the Golden Bears put up five runs across the final three innings.

Travis Bazzana hit a three-run homer in the fourth inning that gave the Beavers a 3-2 lead. OSU (30-8, 10-6 Pac-12) tacked on two runs in the sixth, on Bazzana’s bases-loaded walk and Mason Guerra’s sacrifice fly.

After Cal cut it to 5-3 in the bottom of the sixth, Dallas Macias put the Beavers back in control with his two-run single in the seventh.

But Seth Gwynn and Caleb Lomavita homered in consecutive innings for the Bears (23-14, 10-10) to cut the OSU lead to 7-5.

Meanwhile, Cal’s bullpen held the Beavers scoreless across the eighth and ninth.

That set up the Bears’ three-run ninth, with Cal scoring on a throwing error, a bases-loaded hit by pitch and a walk with the bases loaded.

Oregon State starter Jacob Kmatz allowed three runs on three hits in 5 1/3 innings, striking out five and walking one. Reliever Bridger Holmes (2-3) took the loss for the Beavers.

Cal’s Robert Aivazian (2-0) kept OSU hitless over the final 2 1/3 innings to pick up the win.

Next up: The Beavers and Bears close out their series at 1 p.m. Sunday (streaming on Pac-12 Insider).

— Joel Odom