Morgan Hill native named CCAA Player of the Week after batting 4
for 4 with four home runs, 10 RBIs and a conference-record six runs
scored Sunday in a 19-2 victory over Cal State Dominguez Hills
CARSON — Walking away from his final collegiate game wasn’t easy for Douglas Porras. It was the best he ever played.
The 22-year-old senior from Morgan Hill donned his Cal State Stanislaus baseball uniform one last time Sunday against Cal State Dominguez Hills in Carson, not knowing he was about to make history. By the end of the day, Porras held the California Collegiate Athletic Association record for RBIs in a game and was tied for the conference’s all-time single-game mark in home runs and runs scored.
With several friends and family members in attendance, he homered a program-best four times in as many at-bats, drove in 10 runs and scored six times as the Warriors ended the season with a 19-2 victory.
Porras was one round-tripper shy of tying a single-game NCAA Division II record.
“I never dreamed of doing anything like that,” the Live Oak High School alumnus and former West Valley College player said Wednesday. “It really was kind of ridiculous. I stayed on the field afterward and tried to take it all in. It was hard to get a grasp of what I did.”
Batting second, Porras reached base in all six of his plate appearances. He drew a walk in the sixth inning after his solo shot in the first, three-run blast in the third and two-run homer in the fourth, and was hit by a pitch in the ninth — two innings after the utilityman belted a second three-run shot.
“You always want to go out huge in your final game,” he said. “I just wanted to have the best day I could. I had no idea I was in for something like that.”
The farewell performance was the stuff of Kevin Costner films, and it was part of a huge final weekend that included three more hits Porras scattered across a doubleheader Saturday and another game Friday at Dominguez Hills. He finished the four-game series 7-for-13 batting with 11 RBIs.
For his effort, Porras was named CCAA Player of the Week.
“It couldn’t have happened to anyone better on their final weekend,” Cal State Stanislaus director of athletics Milt Richards said Monday.
The Warriors (23-26 overall, 19-21 conference) were a victory away from making the playoffs.
Porras, a health and wellness major, is set to graduate in summer and plans to pursue coaching football — possibly under his older brother, Jon Michael Porras, at LOHS.
“That would be the ultimate goal, but we’ll see,” Douglas said. “I’m definitely going to miss playing here. It’s been a great two years for me.”
