Charles Fischer Administrator No. 1 Share Posted Sunday at 08:00 PM Great to see Our Beloved Diamond Ducks bounce back! More at the bottom of the thread later.... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a pretty big game in so many ways...how will Oregon respond after yesterday? We are not playing like a No. 9 team right now, and I have to admit that Rutgers has good players, and are well coached. Win the series, DUCKS! Will Sanford on the Hill today... Mr. FishDuck Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charles Fischer Author Administrator No. 2 Share Posted Sunday at 08:02 PM 2-0 Ducks after two innings. So great to have Chase Meggers back from injury and making timely hits again! Mr. FishDuck Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charles Fischer Author Administrator No. 3 Share Posted Sunday at 08:39 PM 2-1 Ducks after four innings. Boy we have stranded a ton on base...we need more timely hits! Mr. FishDuck Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charles Fischer Author Administrator No. 4 Share Posted Sunday at 08:59 PM 3-1 Ducks after five innings. Oregon got one run, but has bases loaded with no outs! Damn. Mr. FishDuck Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charles Fischer Author Administrator No. 5 Share Posted Sunday at 09:00 PM Top of the sixth with Will Sanford pitching for Oregon... Mr. FishDuck Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charles Fischer Author Administrator No. 6 Share Posted Sunday at 09:23 PM 3-1 Ducks after seven innings. Oregon got six great innings from Will Sanford, and then big 6'11" Jason Reitz came in and continued the scoreless innings! Mr. FishDuck Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charles Fischer Author Administrator No. 7 Share Posted Sunday at 09:54 PM 4-2 Ducks after eight innings! Jacob Walsh has been so much better this year at not going for the homer every time, but getting us a hit when needed. Oregon was 1-11 today with runners in scoring position until Walsh came to the plate... Mr. FishDuck Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charles Fischer Author Administrator No. 8 Share Posted Sunday at 10:00 PM Santiago Garcia comes in, and pitches the third out in the eighth...and ALL of them in the ninth for the save! 1 Mr. FishDuck Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charles Fischer Author Administrator No. 9 Share Posted Sunday at 10:16 PM I am a Happy Cat again... 1 Mr. FishDuck Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charles Fischer Author Administrator No. 10 Share Posted Monday at 03:01 AM Ducks Clinch Series With Gutty Win EUGENE, Ore. — Oregon relief pitcher Santiago Garcia inherited a bases-loaded jam in a one-run game when he came out of the bullpen in the top of the eighth inning. Unfazed, Garcia got a weak ground out to third to end the threat before getting a 1-2-3 inning in the ninth to clinch the series for the No. 9 Ducks over Rutgers in a 4-2 win on Sunday at PK Park. After Garcia got out of the eighth inning with the Ducks still leading, Oregon (19-5, 7-2 Big Ten) got the Ducks’ lefty some insurance he would not eventually need. Mason Neville worked a one-out walk on a full count and then swiped second on a delayed steal with two outs. Jacob Walsh took advantage of Neville’s hustle lining an RBI single to right center for a two-run lead. How It Happened: The Ducks drew first blood for the first time in the series scoring a pair of runs in the bottom of the second inning. After three walks loaded the bases, Chase Meggers ripped a double up the right-field line scoring Parker Stinson and Ryan Cooney. After Rutgers cut the lead in half with a sacrifice fly in the fourth, Oregon got the run back in the fifth when pinch-hitter Burke-Lee Mabeus grounded out with the bases loaded and drove in Anson Aroz. Rutgers (10-14, 2-4) cut the lead back to one in the top of the eighth before Garcia game out of the pen to shut the door. Ducks’ starter Will Sanford (2-1) (above) picked up the win after giving Oregon his second quality start of the season. The freshman allowed just one run on two hits through six innings while striking out five. Box Score Notes: Parker Stinson, who made his Ducks’ debut with a pinch-hit walk-off sacrifice fly on Friday, made his first career Oregon start at designated hitter … Oregon’s 19-5 start to the season is its second-best start in program history, behind the 1963 team’s 20-4 record … Oregon has won all six weekend series it has played this season and has not lost a regular-season weekend series since losing two of three games at Stanford last season (April 19-21). On Deck: The Ducks hit the road for a three-game series at Ohio State starting on Friday. Quotes: Head Coach Mark Wasikowski On the series and win today… “We won the series and that was the objective today because that’s all we can control. We went 1-0 today and that was good, we won.” On Will Sanford’s performance… “He got more competitive as he went. I think through 4.0 innings he wasn’t perfect, but then in the fifth and sixth he was able to have 1-2-3 innings. I think he had a five and 12-pitch inning. I thought his competitiveness was elevated then and we really needed that. It was great to be able to see Will (Sanford) lock in like that.” On Santiago Garcia’s performance out of the pen… “He was huge. I think he probably got the save or whatever it is scored as. He got the save in the game and he saw four hitters. He pitched in the toughest time of the game and he elevated his game. I don’t know if he threw any balls at all today, he was that good and he was really on point with his stuff.” Will Sanford On the start today… “It felt good. Just some things to work on, but I battled through some tough innings and made pitches when I needed to. Overall, it felt pretty good.” Maddox Molony (No. 9) and Ryan Cooney complete an ALL-Oregon double play! On what was clicking today… “I was just making pitches when I needed to. My defense played well and made a lot of good plays behind me. They probably saved a couple runs for me, but I was really trying to land off speeds when I needed to, get early strikes, and keep it simple.” Santiago Garcia On coming in during a crucial situation... “Yeah, I mean we got a coach out there. He tells us what the situation is and I kind of get mentally ready to go into the game. I just think of the battle that's coming in and I kind of just go out there and just execute in my mind what's rehearsed that's it.” On what was working today... “Fastball felt really good off the hand. I just gave it everything up there.” Chase Meggers On swing adjustments... “Yeah, I got some video after my first series back, and Marder and I had a little meeting about some swings that I had late in the year last year when I was hitting well. Made a few adjustments and then kind of built off of it during practice and then it showed in the game.” On where the team is at now following this weekend... “I mean, we're in first place, we're in a good spot, but we're not playing our best baseball, so that tells us that, you know, we need to start hitting on the details that we're missing on and keep building off what we're doing, we're not playing our best baseball and we're still winning. So, you know, we just need to keep building off of everything we're doing and getting better, every day. Nailing the details, and I think that we will get better from there.” 1 Mr. FishDuck Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon Joseph Moderator No. 11 Share Posted Monday at 06:33 PM College Baseball Coast-to-Coast College Baseball Rankings: D1Baseball shakes up top 25 after nine ranked series losses in Week 6 - On3 WWW.ON3.COM The sixth week of college baseball brought a ton of upsets, leading to substantial changes in D1Baseball's top 25 rankings. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
