The Bruin dugout explodes after Ryan Kreidler's eighth-inning grand slam.

Bruins Batter Beck, Stanford

LOS ANGELES — Man, it’s tough to be at the top of the mountain. Especially in the rough-and-tumble Pac 12. Just ask Oregon State. Last week the then No. 1-ranked Beavers took to the road and played a three-game series at woebegone Utah. Anybody with two brain cells to rub together would’ve guess a Beavers sweep or at least a series win.

Nope. 

Instead, the Utes stunned the top-ranked Orange and Black and knocked their conference cohorts out of the catbird seat and down to No. 4 when the new rankings came out.

Tonight, there was more upheaval. The second-ranked[…]