Posted April 13, 20241 yr Administrator See end game updates at the bottom of this thread. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Taking on the Bastard Trojans at 2:50 PM. (Updated) To watch on your computer...go to GoDucks.com, then Baseball, then schedule, and scroll down to today's game and click on "Oregon Live-Stream." The second game of USC-Oregon State is when the Beavers suffered their worst loss this year (28-4) at 17-4. Get the bats ready! Mr. FishDuck
April 13, 20241 yr Moderator Game two between No. 17 Oregon and USC Follow along for live updates between Oregon and USC. Catch game two of the Ducks series with USC at PK Park, 2:05 p.m. first pitch #GoDucks Watch ? https://t.co/VUIyWBZhHM Listen ? https://t.co/bxMwp3wAcn Stats ? https://t.co/8fVOgd6ynj pic.twitter.com/2dA1kjbJ5w Live baseball updates: Game two between No. 17 Oregon and USC 247SPORTS.COM Follow along for live updates between Oregon and USC.
April 13, 20241 yr Author Administrator Game delay until 2:35 PM, due to a massive downpour 20 minutes ago. Still raining, but a normal drizzle… Perhaps the Trojans will shudder at this, being used to SoCal weather? For Oregon? Just water-off-a-Duck! Mr. FishDuck
April 13, 20241 yr Author Administrator New Update: Game's first pitch is 15 minutes later at 2:50 PM PST. Mr. FishDuck
April 13, 20241 yr Author Administrator Oregon leads 1-0, after two innings. Some brilliant defensive plays to thwart a serious USC threat. Mr. FishDuck
April 14, 20241 yr Author Administrator After four innings, Oregon leads 5-3. The pride of Springfield, Maddox Molony, bunted perfectly down to first base to sacrifice for the runner on third. But the Bunt was so perfect, that he was safe at first, and the whole play so distracted the USC infield that the runner from second scored as well! Next play Bryce Boettcher hits a single to score Maddox. Grayson Grinsell is very shaky, And he may not last much further… Mr. FishDuck
April 14, 20241 yr Author Administrator Then Grinsell strikes all three Trojan batters! (it goes to show what I know!) Mr. FishDuck
April 14, 20241 yr Author Administrator End six innings; Oregon still leads 5-3. Featherston came in relief and did well. Mr. FishDuck
April 14, 20241 yr Author Administrator After eight innings, Ducks lead 5-3. Three more outs! The last two innings ended with sweet double plays! The Oregon infield has solidified and become really good in the past 10 games. Mr. FishDuck
April 14, 20241 yr Author Administrator Bradley Mullan came in to close it out, and it got dicey with bases loaded, but he pitched out the save! Grayson Grinsell was shaky, but got the win with three runs given up in five innings. Ryan Featherston went three innings that was also "iffy" at times, but he held Tommy-Trojan scoreless, and Mullan finished the ninth with the save. Whew! A record FIVE Pac-12 series wins in a row, and this marks the halfway point of the Pac-12 season. Five big series to go! Mr. FishDuck
April 14, 20241 yr Author Administrator Good gosh, what a great bunt from the Springfield freshman! Mr. FishDuck
April 14, 20241 yr Author Administrator The play of the year? Look how hard it is raining, and how it went off the third baseman's mitt and Maddox Molony scooped it and made the throw to prevent the run! Mr. FishDuck
April 14, 20241 yr Author Administrator Gritty Effort Clinches Another Series Win EUGENE, Ore. — A similar formula provided a similar result for the second day in a row Saturday, as the No. 17 Oregon baseball team parlayed a solid start buoyed by strong defense and timely hitting for a 5-3 victory over USC before 2,494 fans at PK Park. The start of the game was delayed 90 minutes by rain, before UO starter Grayson Grinsell grinded through five innings. Ryan Featherston followed with three shutout innings helped by two slick double plays turned by Oregon’s infield, protecting a lead the Ducks took thanks to a four-run fourth inning that didn’t include a single extra-base hit. “With the weather conditions today, that was just a real challenge,” UO coach Mark Wasikowski said. “… I really respect our guys, being out there and fighting through that and coming out on top with the win. It was a very gutsy performance.” The Ducks improved to 25-9 overall and 10-4 in the Pac-12, a game behind first-place Oregon State pending the result of OSU’s game later Saturday. The victory for Oregon clinched the Ducks’ fifth straight series win to open conference play, two more than the program’s previous best to open a Pac-12 season. “There’s a lot of room to improve, a lot more we can do, but we’re still getting the job done,” freshman shortstop Maddox Molony said. “And that’s what’s fun about it, is that you’re getting the job done but you know, I can get better. It makes every day fun. It makes the game fun.” How It Happened: Grinsell had to warm up multiple times due to the pregame weather delay, then pitched around a four-pitch walk to open the game. Oregon’s infield defense had its first of several highlights in the second when, with runners at second and third and one out, a ball to third base caromed to Molony at short. The freshman was able to throw home, getting an out that saved a run. USC then loaded the bases, but Grinsell got out of the jam. “The game ball went to our infield coach, (Marcus) Hinkle,” Wasikowski said. “He’s really worked hard with this infield group this year, and it shows. We’re starting to get some real returns on the diamond, and that was probably the biggest reason we won the game.” The Ducks gave Grinsell a lead in the bottom of the second, when Jeffery Heard walked, took second on a wild pitch and scored on a double by Anson Aroz. But USC took a 2-1 lead in the third on a sacrifice fly and a UO throwing error, then added on in the fourth with a solo homer. Grinsell then struck out the side in the fifth, however, ending his outing on a high note. “It was just a day to go out and compete and give everything I had,” Grinsell said. “Obviously we got the ‘W’ on the board. So that's all that matters.” But that time, his team had the lead. Heard walked again to open the fourth, and Aroz followed with a single. With one out, Chase Meggers came up and singled up the middle, drawing the Ducks within a run. Aroz took third on the play, and Meggers ended up at second after an error. He's OUT! Meggers drove in a run for the second game in a row, after his RBI groundout Friday encapsulated Oregon’s unselfish approach at the plate in the Ducks’ series-opening win. “We talk about plus-ABs, and just being positive in the box — whatever that looks like,” Meggers said. “We don’t need everybody to hit a home run. Just consecutive plus-ABs, good at-bats, show presence in the box. Doing that will lead to scoring runs. We’re a gritty group; we’re going to find ways to score runs.” Molony proved that again in Oregon’s very next at-bat, dropping down a bunt on a play designed to try and bring across both runners in scoring position. It was executed to perfection, and Oregon had a 4-3 lead after Meggers slid into home safely behind Aroz. “Our whole lineup knows that at the end of the day, we're all gonna be better off — we're all gonna play better — when we want the team to win,” Molony said. “And wanting the team to win doesn't mean you go up and try to hit a home run every time. You do what the situation needs.” After Molony took second on an error, Bryce Boettcher capped the four-run inning with an RBI single for a 5-3 lead. Grinsell wrapped up his outing in the fifth, then handed the ball to Featherston, who pitched a 1-2-3 sixth. In both the seventh and eighth innings, USC put two runners on with one out. And in both innings, the UO infield turned inning-ending double plays behind Featherston. Bradley Mullan pitched the ninth for the Ducks, and induced a grounder to first with the bases loaded and two out to finish off his fourth save of the year. On Deck: The Ducks and Trojans close out the series Sunday at noon. Mr. FishDuck
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