Charles Fischer

Gotta love this question given to John Canzano... Q: Were the stadium lights at the University of Washington baseball field intentionally turned off in their game vs. Warner Pacific because they were losing to an NAIA team? — David Gressett A: Washington suffered a loss to Division III Pacific Lutheran earlier in the season. Warner Pacific led the Huskies 5-4 through six innings. The lights went out. The game was suspended. I like to give programs the benefit of the doubt, even though it looked suspicious. Social media jumped on it, naturally. One person tweeted: “Respect the move. I always turn off the Xbox right before my little brother beats me in Madden.”

But wait! Now Perfect Game ranking REALLY messes up the average with....

The NCBWA poll, (I don't know who they are) have consistently ranked us the worst over the season, and their rankings this week have: No. 6 Oregon State No. 10 UCLA No. 19 Oregon Did an Oregon fan pee-in-their-punchbowl? The Ducks swept Oregon State all four games, and took the series from UCLA...and I have no explanation. So the Ducks are No. 5, No. 7, No. 9....and No. 19th?

Now Jedd....who's your daddy?

As if this last weekend was not enough?

The USA TODAY rankings have Oregon at No. 7, Oregon State at No. 10, and UCLA at No. 15 with no other B1G team ranked other than the two of us. I think 30Duck is right in that the Ducks have to sweep Iowa, and win the B1G Tournament to have a shot at a Super-Regional, and we have not seen the worst of the rankings to come out yet. Now THAT is a great catch!

At one time...the majority of their opponents had barely won over 40% of their games, and that was 2/3rds the way through the season. They have good pitching, but Washington took two out of three from them, and Oregon State did not lose there so...I believe we are the better team--but have to show it.

Good to see Oregon State at No. 7 to further justify Oregon's No. 5 position with D1Baseball, while UCLA is No. 14, and we are the only B1G teams in the top-25 in the D1Baseball rankings. At Baseball America...Oregon is No. 9, while Oregon State is No. 11, and UCLA No. 20. Why such a difference...I do not know. Oregon's RPI has climbed to No. 19 with both RPI ranking services, and we got a boost from Oregon State at No. 6. This is the highest our RPI has been all season, and we could get another boost if the Ducks were to sweep Iowa this weekend. I am feeling good about an NCAA Baseball Regional, but not so much for a Super-Regional at this point. Still waiting on the other polls... Anson Aroz

This is the way it should have been all season, but they got it right for Oregon's clutch series. BTW...Iowa lost two games to Oregon State this last weekend, and they finished in a mutual tie (6-6) in the third. Thursday Game: 4:00 PM PST, FS1 (Fox Sports One) Friday Game: 4:00 PM PST, BTN (Big-10 Network) Saturday Game: 10:00 AM PST, BTN (Big-10 Network) Oregon trails Iowa by two games, and only if we sweep can we overtake them. We need Northwestern to take a game off UCLA this weekend as well, so let the excitement begin! Ryan Cooney stops a steal!

Senior Day Ends with Sweep of Huskies EUGENE, Ore. — By surviving some tense moments in the late innings on Senior Day, the Oregon baseball team kept alive its winning streak entering the final weekend of the regular season. The No. 5 Ducks (38-13, 19-8 Big Ten) took a five-run lead Sunday at PK Park and then held off Washington’s comeback attempt to win for the seventh time in a row, 5-3, before 3,858 fans. Win or lose Sunday, Oregon still would have needed to sweep Iowa next week to have a chance at a conference title, but a win kept the Ducks one game behind second-place UCLA, rather than two. “Us winning three games against Iowa would put us in front of them,” UO coach Mark Wasikowski said. “I don't know how the rest of it shakes out, but that's an awesome place, for us to try to challenge for the league championship in our last weekend of the year.” UO starter Jason Reitz (4-0) gave the Ducks six shutout innings Sunday, and Jaxon Jordan got the final two outs of the eighth with the bases loaded after UW had rallied within 5-3. Mason Neville and Anson Aroz both padded their double-digit home run totals, and catcher Chase Meggers hit his first of the year before throwing out a runner trying to steal second to end the game. “It felt really good,” Meggers said of his homer. “I think the biggest thing was, my mom's here and it's Mother's Day, and I wouldn't be here without her. So it's kind of special to hit that in front of her.” How It Happened: After Reitz pitched around a two-out single in the first, national player of the year candidate Mason Neville extended his UO single-season record by leading off the bottom of the first with his 26th home run of the season. Jason Reitz was superb.... Reitz had to work in the second inning, pitching around two walks. He settled in after that, allowing just two singles over four innings the rest of the way for a scoreless effort with his team in the thick of a conference title race. “The energy is definitely up, but you just got to look at it like a normal game,” said Reitz, who struck out five while walking two and allowing three hits. “Go out and do your thing.” Oregon’s offense backed Reitz in the bottom of the second with three runs. Aroz led off with a solo homer, Maddox Molony followed with a double and then Meggers hit his first home run of the season for a 4-0 lead. With Reitz cruising, the Ducks gave him an insurance run in the fifth. Dominic Hellman led off with a single, Jacob Walsh followed with a base hit and Drew Smith walked to load the bases. Two batters later, Molony lofted a fly ball that scored Hellman on a sacrifice fly. Washington got two back in the seventh after Reitz wrapped up his day, on a double and a one-out home run that made it 5-2. Ryan Featherston came on to retire the next two hitters and end the threat. The Huskies scored again in the eighth, loading the bases with one out and then getting within 5-3 on a wild pitch. A walk loaded the bases again with one out, but Jordan came on to end the inning, striking out the final hitter on a nasty breaking ball with the count full. Jaxon Jordan celebrates a big out... “The most important thing, especially in a situation like that, is just trust your stuff and don't be cautious — just let it go,” Jordan said. “So that's what I tried to do.” Seth Mattox earned his sixth save by getting the final out of the ninth, with some help. He entered with one on and two out, then surrendered a single that put runners at the corners. But the runner from first looked to steal second, and Meggers gunned him down to end the game. “Seth's really good, and it was a right-on-right matchup so I kind of figured that they might gamble a little bit, because it's not an easy matchup for their guy,” Meggers said. “(UO assistant coach Jack) Marder looked at me and said, ‘Throw it through when he goes.’ And he went and so I threw it.” Notable: Neville’s walk in the second inning was his 51st of the season, a new UO single-season record. … Neville came into the day tied for the record with Aaron Zavala (2021). … Neville’s run scored on his leadoff homer was his 64th of the year, tied for second in UO single-season history behind Rikuu Nishida (67, 2023). Up Next: The Ducks play at Iowa on Thursday (4 p.m., FS1). HEY...it is on TV!

A 247 story about the game right here, with more to come.

Ducks win 5-3 on unbelievable drama/excitement at the end. To think that the Huskies had their best batter at the plate, who had gone 3-3 today...and the third out is on an Oregon pickoff? Whew! A sweep over Washington is just GLORIOUS!

5-3 Ducks after eight innings. THREE MORE OUTS!

Such drama at the end of the Husky side in the 8th...as this could have been a bigger disaster!

5-2 Ducks after seven innings, as Umlandt gave up a two-run homer and we saw Ryan Featherston come in and finish out the side to quiet the Huskies for the rest of this inning. Need more runs!

5-0 Ducks after six innings, as Jason Reitz has Washington scoreless.... Will he come out for the seventh? I don't want to injure his arm, but Oregon keeping a Husky quiet...is pretty amazing. Good, a pitching change to Ian Umlandt...where we have a proven performer, and he is a complete change of pitcher for the batters.

5-0 Ducks after five innings, as Jason Reitz put Washington down in order with his fourth KO. Just 71 pitches after five innings? Looking GOOD! I am frustrated when we get bases-loaded, no outs, and do not sacrifice two outs to score two in a tough game. We did score Dominic Hellman from third on a Maddox Molony deep fly-ball to left field. (Hellman beat out an infield single earlier)

4-0 Ducks after four innings, as Jason Reitz gives up a hit, but won't give a dog a bone. He has 61 pitches after four innings, thus looks good for now! Gotta get the bats going again!

4-0 Ducks after three innings, as Jason Reitz put down the Huskies 1-2-3 with just six pitches. He has 47 pitches in three innings, so he could go deeper into the game.

4-0 Ducks after two innings, as the Husky pitcher is giving Oregon batters way-too-many beachballs over the plate. Duck starter Jason Reitz, (Lurch, as 30Duck likes to say) had given up some hits and walks...but kept Washington scoreless. Meanwhile Mason Neville takes the first pitch in the first inning, and gets his 26th home run of the season. Anson Aroz takes the second pitch of the second inning, and puts it over center field! Maddox Molony nails a liner to the deep gap in left/center field to get a double, and then Chase Meggers hits a two-run dinger over the center field wall! We NEED Meggers back with his bat, as he was the leading batter last year, and is only now healing from injuries. Perfect timing! Unfortunately, the Ducks still stranded two base runners!

This becomes very problematic for me. The Sanders family has without a doubt created more moderating problems that ANY topic ever in the history of the forum. It is the only topic that got the forum shut down for four days in 2023, and I have been thinking about disallowing ANY discussion about the Sanders because of the impact on the forum. Then he gets drafted to the same team as Gabriel? And there will be TONS of articles about their competition, their reactions, etc. etc.?

Good gosh...that is clickbait nonsense. As you pointed out, the truth is the opposite. First...how many teams that are in fifth place in ANY conference have a legit chance at a 'Natty? Almost none, as it would have to be some extraordinary circumstance where the starting QB was injured at the beginning of the year, they lost games, and then emerged when he got healthy. But again...we are referring to something that is on the fringe of reality. Second...the ONLY way Nebraska is going to to get into the Playoffs--is with this new formula. They should be applauding...

Game summary at the end of the thread! Soak it in! --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Huskies will pitch Justin Tims, who has a 5.13 ERA, versus Oregon's Jason Reitz, has moved his ERA down to 3.66 due to his recent successful outings. Got him!