 Hi, I'm Kelsey Rothaus and welcome to Behind the Hype with CalTV Sports. I'm here on Evans Diamond with senior infielder on the baseball team, Mitchell Cranston. So last season against Texas A&M, you hit the walk-off home run. Can you walk me through what was going through your head when you got up to the plate? I was sitting 2-1 and with a guy throwing all sliders, I was sitting slider and I didn't miss it. I was going around first base. I knew it had a chance to go out, but just like I said, right after the home run, I was jumping when the outfielder was jumping at the wall too and then when I saw it go over easily the best moment of my baseball career. And it got a lot of well-deserved attention. I believe that night was on Sports Center's top 10 plays, so it got nationally broadcasted. It got a lot of support from the Cal community, a lot of tweets referring to you by your nickname, El Gaucho. Can you tell me where that came from? Most people think it's because of the mustache, but one of my favorite places to travel is Seattle. We go up to the third plate University of Washington and my favorite steakhouse in the entire world is in Seattle and it's called El Gaucho's. And so I've been telling the coaching staff, don't plan any team dinners on Saturday night. My dad's already made reservations to go, and so we went Saturday night after the game and then got my cowboy ribeye, which is what I get at a lot of steakhouses and next day went four for five and the nickname kind of stuck. Being a senior, what is it meant to you for you and your family that you've been able to play your college baseball career so close to home? Being so close to my mom lives in Danville and being able to go home whenever I want, get hair cut. When she does my laundry sometimes, when she can cook me a meal, it's been awesome and then my parents are here every game. I remember, I believe it was the night after my home run, you know, we went to the mall just, you know, the college station and him and my brother, they bought a bunch of fake mustaches and then that's definitely one of the best pictures I've seen of my dad. That's awesome. With the fake mustache, it's absolutely hilarious. And I have to ask about the mustache. It seems to be a trend on the team. Did you start the trend? I remember we went up to Washington and we were kind of going through a little tough part of the season and so we decided to, you know, change a couple things up and a couple of us went the stash and, you know, me and Devin Pearson, who's my roommate as well, you know, we can call ourselves the stash bros and, you know, it's kind of taken off and, you know, everyone's kind of buying in. It feels like this year to, you know, either the beard or the mustache and the mustaches are ready. Keeping it going into this season. Yes. You're ready. First opening series against Duke, Friday, February 19th. You guys ready? Mustaches and all? Oh, yeah. I can't wait. Our team's pretty ready. Well, we're excited to watch. Thank you so much for being on the show, Mitchell. We really appreciate it. Next episode, Nassau Reyes will be interviewing someone from the Calmen's basketball team currently undefeated at home. Thanks for watching. Awesome. So we got some Carolinas here with us and you guys must be very excited that the Carolina Panthers are in a Super Bowl. Very excited.