Charles Fischer

Ducks win 2-0! Ryan Cooney hits to the RF corner, as the fielder lost it in the sun. He charges past second and barely gets into third for a triple. Jax Gimenez was plinked, and Dominic Hellman hits a grounder, but they threw home to get Cooney out. Both remaining runners are in scoring position... Drew Smith was intentionally walked to load the bases...so we have Ducks-on-the-Pond! A wild pitch scores Gimenez for our second run! Closer Devin Bell was brought in, got an out, and then walked a batter, and looked shaky on his first pitch to the next one. That brought a mound visit, and he generated 95-96 mph heaters to create two fly-balls to finish the game. Santa Barbara has one of the best pitching staffs in the nation, as their problem as of late was scoring as much as they'd like. But Oregon really matched that staff with stud pitching today by Cal Scolari, (who got the win) Tanner Bradley, and Devin Bell. (Who got the save) We went 4-1 on the road trip, and getting our butts-kicked yesterday was the perfect wake-up call to remind the team how much they hate losing. Sorry for no videos, as UCSB did not provide any, and the game recap will be here in 2-3 hours. Way to go DUCKS! Cal Scolari Today...

1-0 Ducks after eight innings. Nothing on offense... Tanner Bradley was sharp, and made it look easy to dispose of the Gaucho side. On to the ninth... Nervous Time!

1-0 Ducks after seven innings. Stranded two again... Tanner Bradley made his second relief appearance this weekend, and after a short stint on Friday. He is our No. 1 reliever, and gave up a double, but then finished them off.

1-0 Ducks after six innings. We stranded one base runner... Cal Scolari pitched the sixth and finished with nearly 100 pitches, and six scoreless innings!

1-0 Ducks after five innings. Santa Barbara brought in a relief pitcher, but Oregon still stranded two on base! Cal Scolari is sharp, putting them down 1-2-3.

1-0 Ducks after four innings. Angel Laya caught an inside 89 mph pitch and blew it over the CF wall! Cal Scolari struck out the side and four-out-of-five of the last batters. Whew!

0-0 after three innings. Ducks left a runner stranded on second... The Gauchos got two in scoring position, but Cal Scolari snuffed the threat with a strikeout featuring a tough breaking ball that caught the batter by surprise for the third strike and out!

0-0 after two innings. The Gaucho pitcher is really good, and having a great day thus far. Hard to hit... Oregon's Cal Scolari walked two batters after two outs, but after a mound visit from pitching coach Matt Flores...he generated a long fly-out to finish the inning.

0-0 after one inning. Ducks left two stranded in scoring position! Oregon's Cal Scolari created to fly-outs and a strikeout. He was fired up coming off the mound, and I imagine the team is fired up after not playing their best yesterday.

The group of pitchers used on Friday for Oregon were superb, while the pitchers on Saturday...disappointed us. Today we have Gaucho pitcher Kellen Montgomery, who has an ERA of 3.86 to face against Oregon's Cal Scolari (3.27) and it should be a dandy again. Can the relief pitchers on Sunday come through? Cal Scolari

Gauchos win 8-2 as my "pitching depth" did not deliver today. Ugly.

8-2 Gauchos after eight innings. Oregon did nothing at the plate, and our pitchers of Blake Crawford, Leo Uelmen and Cooper Markham gave up hits, walks, plinked batters and the floodgates opened against the good-guys.

4-2 Gauchos after seven innings. Oregon is being tortured by opposing pitchers today, as their reliever is pretty darn good. The Ducks new pitcher brought in, RS Freshman Blake Crawford, who had only pitched three innings this year, but must have inspired the confidence of the coaches. He delivered with a scoreless inning.

4-2 Gauchos after six innings. Nothing from our batters, but Michael Meckna came in to relieve Clarke and did well with a 1-2-3 inning.

4-2 Gauchos after five innings, as the Santa Barbara pitcher finally tired. With two outs--a flurry of four Oregon hits began. Ryan Cooney got a hit with a grounder up the middle, and Jax Gimenez got a hit through the right infield, while Cooney put on the jets to move to third. Then Dominic Hellman drove a hit through the right infield as well to score Cooney, and put Gimenez on third. Drew Smith then hits to mid-CF to score Gimenez! Then Collin Clarke got tired. Bottom line is that he gave up a slew of hits to allow two more runs.