2020 Cal Poly Baseball 2014 Big West Champion | NCAA Regionals: 2009, 2013, 2014 Eleven Division I All-Americans | 18 Major Leaguers | 68 Players Drafted Since 2005 Weekly Release -- February 10, 2020 Cal Poly Athletics Communications • 1 Grand Avenue, San Luis Obispo, CA 93407-0388 (805) 756-6550 • (805) 756-2650 Fax • www.GoPoly.com • Contact: Eric Burdick ([email protected]) Taylor Dollard, who post- 2020 Baseball Schedule (0-0) ed a 5-0 record, 2.89 ERA Date Team Time and four saves as a relief Feb. 14 ^vs. Connecticut . .12 noon pitcher a year ago, will Feb. 15 ^vs. Michigan . .12 noon Feb. 16 ^vs. Vanderbilt . .1 p.m. move to the starting rota- Feb. 18 Pepperdine . .6 p.m. tion as Cal Poly’s Friday Feb. 20 BYU . .6 p.m. night starter for the 2020 Feb. 21 BYU . .6 p.m. season. A graduate of Feb. 22 BYU (DH) . .1 p.m. Feb. 25 at Fresno State . .6:05 p.m. Crespi Carmelite High Feb. 28 Michigan . .6 p.m. School in Encino, Calif., Feb. 29 Michigan . .4 p.m. Dollard was a first-team March 1 Michigan . .1 p.m. All-Big West Conference March 3 at Santa Clara . .6 p.m. selection a year ago. March 6 Baylor . .6 p.m. March 7 Baylor . .4 p.m. March 8 Baylor . .1 p.m. Photo by Owen Main March 10 at Pepperdine . .2:30 p.m. March 12 Oklahoma . .6 p.m. March 13 Oklahoma . .6 p.m. March 14 Oklahoma . .4 p.m. March 15 Oklahoma . .1 p.m. March 20 San Diego State . .6 p.m. March 21 San Diego State . .4 p.m. Cal Poly Seeks Strong Start as 2020 March 22 San Diego State . .1 p.m. March 25 Stanford . .6 p.m. March 27 at Oregon . .4 p.m. March 28 at Oregon (DH) . .1 p.m. MustangsSeason Have Opens Struggled WithWith Slow MLB4 Starts Four Tournament Times in Last Five March 29 at Oregon . .12 noon March 31 at San Jose State . .6 p.m. Seasons; Came Within One Victory of Earning Playoff Berth in 2019 April 3 *UC Irvine . .6 p.m. Cal Poly, which finished one victory shy of a Big West Conference championship in 2019 and its fourth April 4 *UC Irvine . .4 p.m. NCAA Division I regional playoff berth in program history, opens the 2020 campaign this weekend with April 5 *UC Irvine . .1 p.m. three games in the MLB4 Tournament against defending April 7 CSU Bakersfield . .5 p.m. national champion Vanderbilt, runner-up Michigan and April 9 *at Hawai’i . .9:35 p.m. regional qualifier Connecticut. April 10 *at Hawai’i . .9:35 p.m. Coach Larry Lee’s Mustangs face UConn on Friday at April 11 *at Hawai’i . .4:05 p.m. noon, Michigan on Saturday, also at noon, and Vanderbilt April 14 Fresno State . .6 p.m. on Sunday at 1 p.m. (all times Pacific) at Salt River Fields April 17 *UC Santa Barbara . .6 p.m. MLB4 Tournament at Talking Stick, the spring training home of the Colorado April 18 *UC Santa Barbara . .4 p.m. Scottsdale, Ariz. April 19 *UC Santa Barbara . .1 p.m. Rockies and Arizona Diamondbacks in Scottsdale, Ariz. April 24 *at CSUN . .3 p.m. Friday, 12 Noon PST All three games will be broadcast live on ESPN Radio 1280 April 25 *at CSUN . .1 p.m. Cal Poly vs. Connecticut with Eric Burdick calling the play-by-play. Each contest April 26 *at CSUN . .1 p.m. Salt River Fields at Talking Stick also will be video streamed on MLB.com. Links for audio April 28 Santa Clara . .6 p.m. CP -- RHP Taylor Dollard (5-0, 2.89 ERA) and video streams as well as live stats are available on the May 1 *at Cal State Fullerton . .7 p.m. UC -- RHP Joe Simeone (2-1, 5.00 ERA) baseball schedule page at www.GoPoly.com. May 2 *at Cal State Fullerton . .2 p.m. Saturday, 12 Noon PST May 3 *at Cal State Fullerton . .1 p.m. Starting with the good news, the Mustangs battled back Cal Poly vs. Michigan from a 2-9 start to even their overall mark at 28-28. At one May 5 at CSU Bakersfield . .6 p.m. Salt River Fields at Talking Stick May 8 *Long Beach State . .6 p.m. time, Cal Poly was three games above the .500 mark at 20- CP -- LHP Andrew Alvarez (1-3, 5.10 ERA) 17, winning 18 of 26 games, before falling back. On the May 9 *Long Beach State . .4 p.m. UM — TBA May 10 *Long Beach State . .1 p.m. final weekend of the season, the Mustangs won their first May 11 San Jose State . .6 p.m. Sunday, 1 p.m. PST two games at No. 4-ranked UC Santa Barbara before drop- May 15 *at UC Riverside . .6 p.m. Cal Poly vs. Vanderbilt ping the season finale with a share of the Big West title and May 16 *at UC Riverside . .6 p.m. Salt River Fields at Talking Stick an NCAA regional berth on the line. The Mustangs finished May 17 *at UC Riverside . .1 p.m. CP -- RHP Drew Thorpe (0-0, 0.00 ERA) in the upper half of the conference standings for the 15th May 21 *UC Davis . .6 p.m. VU — TBA time in Lee’s 17 seasons at the helm with their third consec- May 22 *UC Davis . .6 p.m. Radio: ESPN 1280 AM utive second-place finish. May 23 *UC Davis . .1 p.m. Internet (Audio): www.GoPoly.com M.29-J.1 NCAA Regionals . .TBA The bad news is that Cal Poly has been victimized by slow Internet (Video): MLB.com June 5-8 NCAA Super Regionals . .TBA starts four of the last five seasons and will play 15 games Live Stats: www.GoPoly.com June 13-24 College World Series (Omaha) .TBA against seven teams that qualified for the postseason a year ^MLB4 Tournament (Scottsdale, Ariz.) ago. In addition to Vanderbilt and Michigan, the 2020 schedule also features five consecutive weekend *Big West Conference game All times Pacific series at home, including three more with the Wolverines, after the trip to Arizona along with five games (Continued on Page 10) Location . Quick. .Facts . .San Luis Obispo, CA 93407-0388 Founded . .1901 Mustangs at the Plate ...Mustang Notes Enrollment . 21,242 (Fall 2019) Cal Poly returns 84 percent of its at-bats and 77 percent of its hits from the 2019 squad which President . .Dr. Jeffrey D. Armstrong (Murray State ‘81) rallied from a 2-9 start by winning 18 of 26 games midway through the season and taking the Director of Athletics . .Don Oberhelman (Kansas State ‘93) Senior Associate Athletics Director . .Dr. Nick Pettit Big West title chase to the final game of the regular season, finishing 28-28 overall and 17-7 Senior Woman Administrator . .Keri Mendoza for its third straight second-place Big West finish. The returnees include 10 position starters Faculty Athletics Representative . .Dr. Tom Mase (20 or more starts) and eight of last year’s 13 pitchers. Athletics Department Phone . .(805) 756-2924 Nickname . .Mustangs The Mustangs opened their 2019 season with a .248 batting average in a three-game series at Colors . .Forest Green (Pantone 3308) and Gold (Pantone 7402) Oklahoma. With temperatures in the 30s and low 40s, only one Mustang collected more than Affiliation . .NCAA Division I three hits as junior center fielder Bradlee Beesley went 7-for-12 (.583) with two doubles and Conference . .Big West three RBI, including his fifth career four-hit contest on Feb. 16. Cal Poly hit .250 in the Cal Ticket Office . .(805) 756-4TIX / (866) GoStangs series, led by Beesley again as he went 6-for-13 with a double and an RBI. Redshirt freshman Cal Poly Radio Affiliate . .ESPN (1280 AM) second baseman Connor Gurnik was 5-for-13 and sophomore right fielder Elijah Greene 4- for-13. Against Washington, a trio of Mustangs — Gurnik, Greene and Nick DiCarlo — had Baggett Stadium Date Opened . .Jan. 21, 2001 (Cal Poly 6, Stanford 5; 12 innings) four hits and one RBI each as Cal Poly hit just .214. In the four-game sweep of Columbia, Capacity . .3,138 (768 permanent seats, 2,370 bleacher seats) Greene was 6-for-16, Tate Samuelson 5-for-12 with a home run and four RBI and Willie Cano Dimensions . .335 (L & R foul poles), 385 (alleys), 405 (center) 5-for-10 with a triple and three RBI. Cal Poly hit .189 at Baylor, Tate Samuelson going 5-for- Press Box Phone . .(805) 756-7456 11, and .256 versus Saint Mary’s, Samuelson going 7-for-14 with a double and three RBI. The Mustangs hit .302 versus CSUN, Gurnik going 6-for-11 with a double, but slipped to .255 Coaching Staff against Cal State Fullerton, then hit a season-high .320 in sweeping UC Davis, Conagher Head Coach / Alma Mater . .Larry Lee / Pepperdine ‘83 Sands driving in five runs with a 4-for-10 weekend. Greene was 5-for-13 as Cal Poly hit .252 Record at Cal Poly / Years . .541-419-2 (.563) / 18th Season in the sweep over Long Beach State and Sands was 5-for-13 with five RBI in the USC series Career (NCAA) Record / Years . .541-419-2 (.563) / 18th Season (.271). Myle Emmerson was 6-for-11 with five RBI in the Hawai’i series (.229) and Cal Poly Career (Overall) Record / Years .