Charles Fischer Administrator No. 1 Share Posted February 23 See end of thread later... --------------------------------------------------------------------- A noon start, and it is 3-1 Oregon after one inning. Freshman sensation Will Sanford started out very shaky, but recovered and shut down bases loaded giving up only one run. The Ram pitcher gave the Ducks a bases loaded gift in two walks and a hit batter, and Ducks got three runs off of it. Boy, the Freshman catcher Burke-Lee Mabeus had a great hit scoring two, and he looks impressive already. 1 Mr. FishDuck Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charles Fischer Author Administrator No. 2 Share Posted February 23 After two innings it is 4-1 Oregon, as Sanford gave the Ducks another shaky start loading the bases, but got out of it. Boy he has a nasty curve/drop pitch to go along with his low 90s fastball. 1 Mr. FishDuck Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charles Fischer Author Administrator No. 3 Share Posted February 23 It is POURING in Eugene, with big drops, thus a RAIN DELAY. Mr. FishDuck Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charles Fischer Author Administrator No. 4 Share Posted February 24 8-2 Oregon after four innings! Heralded freshman Burke-Lee Mabeus hit a GRAND SLAM and is responsible for six runs today already! Will Sanford got into some trouble just before the rain delay, and has two earned runs against him. After the three hour delay--both teams brought in new pitchers. For Oregon...it is another freshman, Michael Mekna, the top RHP in Nebraska and a top 500 recruit for over 300 D1 Baseball teams that would contend for recruits, although most of the best ones go straight to MLB. Mr. FishDuck Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charles Fischer Author Administrator No. 5 Share Posted February 24 11-2 Oregon after five innings! We got a walk, then bunted twice to advance the runner...and then got a balk to score the runner from third! Not power-ball, but it works. Then Jacob Walsh came to the plate and hit a double that scored two more runs...love it! Oregon's freshman pitcher Michael Mekna has gone two and two-thirds innings and kept them scoreless! Mr. FishDuck Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charles Fischer Author Administrator No. 6 Share Posted February 24 Oregon wins 15-2 on the ten-run rule with a Anson Aroz GRAND SLAM. Two in one game? Sheesh! Jaxon Jordan came in and pitched a scoreless seventh inning before the fireworks from Aroz. Nice ending, but our depth at pitching was deeper than theirs. Can't draw too much from that yet, but nice nonetheless. 1 Mr. FishDuck Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
30Duck Moderator No. 7 Share Posted February 24 Couple of grand slams is good, holding them to 2 is even better! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charles Fischer Author Administrator No. 8 Share Posted February 24 EUGENE, Ore. — An extended weather delay couldn’t dampen the power of Oregon’s bats Sunday. Wrapping up a four-game series against Rhode Island at PK Park, the No. 11 UO baseball team had two grand slams on the way to a 15-2 victory in seven innings. The two teams mutually agreed to implement a 10-run rule for Saturday’s second game of a doubleheader and Sunday’s series finale, and Oregon’s Anson Aroz brought it into play with a walk-off grand slam in the bottom of the seventh Sunday. Following a weather delay with one out in the top of the third inning, the Ducks got shutout pitching from two relievers and scored 11 runs over the next five innings, with grand slams from freshman Burke-Lee Mabeus and Aroz. “I thought we played a complete game,” UO coach Mark Wasikowski said. The Ducks improved to 6-2 on the season with their second straight 3-1 series win to open the spring campaign. They remain at home this next week, hosting Columbia in a four-game series beginning Friday. How It Happened: Oregon pitcher Will Sanford got off to a shaky start but was able to battle through it in the first inning. A leadoff walk, a double and two more walks gave Rhode Island a 1-0 lead with the bases still loaded. After the bases-loaded walk, Sanford was able to find the strike zone and fanned the next three hitters to get out of the inning. “It was tough conditions when he was out there — he fought through it,” Wasikowski said. “For him to give up only a one in the first and then a zero in the second, I thought was critical.” Oregon answered the first-inning run in the bottom of the frame, taking the lead with three runs in the bottom of the first. Mason Neville continued to swing a hot bat, doubling to lead off the inning after homering twice in game two of Saturday’s doubleheader. A Dominic Hellman hit-by-pitch and a Jacob Walsh walk loaded the bases, setting the table for the middle of the Ducks’ lineup. After a strikeout, Mabeus gave the Ducks the lead with a two-run single that scored Neville and Hellman. Fellow freshman Jax Gimenez pushed the lead to two with an RBI groundout. Oregon tacked on another run in the bottom of the second when Hellman drove in Carter Garate with a base hit through the right side of the infield. Jacob Walsh steals third base! URI cut the lead to 4-2 with a run in the top of the third, which was interrupted by the weather delay. Mabeus stepped to the plate in the fourth inning with the bases loaded and launched his first career home run over the right-field wall for an 8-2 lead. “I thought that was a tremendous at-bat with the 1-2 count, to be able to shorten up and just really put his best swing on a ball in that spot,” Wasikowski said. “I thought was a really old, veteran swing.” The Ducks added to the lead in the fifth inning with three more runs. Jack Brooks walked before coming around to score on a balk. Then, after back-to-back walks to Neville and Hellman, Walsh doubled to score two, giving UO an 11-2 lead. Michael Meckna (1-0), who relieved Sanford after the weather delay, pitched around a one-out walk in the top of the sixth to wrap up his outing. “Michael Mechna was just tremendous,” Wasikowski said. “He did really well. Jaxon Jordan did really well (throwing a scoreless seventh). The pitchers came in and they did a good job. It was a complete game.” With the Ducks up 11-2 entering the bottom of the seventh, a single run would have ended the game. Garate led off with an infield single, Neville doubled to put two in scoring position and Hellman walked before Aroz lofted a one-out homer to left-center, for a walk-off grand slam. “It’s a run-rule scenario there with just a sac fly,” Wasikowski said. “That's the same kind of feel of a 3-3 game type situation, where you get a chance to be able to walk somebody off. That's exactly what that was, and he did a nice job.” Box Score Notes: Rain delayed the game in the top of the third inning for two hours and 54 minutes … Walsh’s two-RBI double in the fifth gave him 38 career multi-RBI games breaking Spencer Steer’s program record of 37 … Mabeus’ six RBIs were the most in a game by UO true freshman since Mitchell Tolman drove in seven on April 30, 2013. On Deck: Oregon resumes its 13-game homestand on Friday when the Ducks open a four-game series against Columbia. First pitch is scheduled for 3:05 p.m. 1 Mr. FishDuck Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
