The first collegiate indication of Jackie Jensen's athletic prowess came in the 1947 College World Series, when he helped Cal win a national baseball championship
As the Pac-12 Conference era comes to a close after more than a century, we count down the Top 50 moments involving Cal athletics.Two moments in the 1947 College World Series were harbingers of things to come for a Cal freshman named Jackie Jensen. On June 27, 1947, in Kalamazoo, Michigan, Jensen entered the first game of the best-of-three national championship baseball series against Yale as a pinch-hitter in the seventh inning and delivered an RBI single to tie a game the Bears eventually won.
Cal trailed Yale 4-2 entering the seventh inning of Game One on June 27, 1947, but Cal scored one run to cut the deficit to 4-3 in the top of the seventh and had two runners on base when Yale opted to walk eighth-place hitter Doug Clayton to get to the pitcher’s spot in the order. Jensen pinch-hit for the pitcher and laced an RBI single that tied the game and began a run-scoring binge that ended with Cal winning the game 17-4.
Jensen ran out of steam in the fifth, when Yale scored four times to get within 7-6, knocking Jensen out of the game with Cal holding the lead. Yale tied the game in the sixth, but a throwing error by Yale catcher Richard Felske allowed Cal to score the go-ahead run in the seventh. Bears pitcher Virgil Butler got the final out in the ninth to complete the 8-7 victory and the Cal sweep.
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