sports fan No. 1 Share Posted Wednesday at 05:30 PM Has anyone noticed the Big Ten baseball standings recently? Four of the top six teams are the former PAC-12 schools. And though I am not a fan of the Bruins, Trojans or the Huskies, it's nice to see them along with the Ducks on top of the standings. A look at the top six... UCLA 12-3 Iowa 14-4 Oregon 12-6 USC 11-7 Washington 9-6 Illinois 9-6 Now here comes the scary part. Oregon's remaining conference games are daunting. They have home games with UCLA (this week-end) and against the Huskies. The Ducks road games are at Michigan State and at Iowa. Although the Spartans don't have an impressive record, the Ducks have had their challenges on the road this season. In addition to this brutal schedule, Oregon plays four games against the always dangerous OSU Beavers. Three are in Eugene, one in Corvallis. The Ducks have some big bats in their lineup, but they will only go as far as their pitching will take them. Go Ducks! 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charles Fischer Administrator No. 2 Share Posted Wednesday at 06:03 PM Good stuff, and you beat me to it, as I was going to review this tomorrow. The good news is that the two major leaders above us in the standings, (UCLA and Iowa) are on Oregon's schedule, thus we have the chance to catch them. Playing Beavis helps both our RPI, and theirs, and both teams need it. I think a major element contributing to the team's frustrations are how the Ducks' team mental attitude has been, "we are the hunted." In every telecast you hear how the other team would "have our greatest ranked win in years by beating Oregon," thus we got everyone's best shot. Ohio State pitchers were bad before they played us, and have been bad since...but when they played us--they threw out of their mind to beat us. It reminds me of a few years ago when we had a good pitcher, but not great. Against a highly ranked Stanford team...he pitched the game-of-his-life and went nine innings to shut them down. He never did that before, and never did it again, but going up against the best brought out his best. I now believe that is now going to happen for Oregon, as we are No. 16 in the nation with D1Baseball, while UCLA is No. 10 and Oregon State is No. 6. Now, "we are the hunter," for once this season, and thus I think we will see our best baseball emerge from Our Beloved Ducks. These next two weeks will decide a ton for the entire season.... Grayson Grinsell has his ERA down to 3.37! 2 Mr. FishDuck Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charles Fischer Administrator No. 3 Share Posted Wednesday at 06:15 PM We also have some superb batting averages, as for the projected starters... Maddox Molony .352 Jacob Walsh .331 Mason Neville .328 Ryan Cooney .324 Dominic Hellman .318 Carter Garate .306 Jeffrey Heard .286 Anson Aroz .268 Chase Meggers .222 Meggers was one of our best hitters last year, and is coming back from injury--and he'll be back over .300 eventually. Ditto for Heard, and Anson Aroz has an incredible OPS of 995, which combines hitting percentage, slugging percentage, and getting on base percentage from walks and hit-by-pitches. Burke-Lee Mabeus is another catcher who fills in for Meggers, and is hitting .308. And the heck of it is...this team has a ton of upside left! The Pride of Springfield, Maddox Molony! 1 Mr. FishDuck Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
30Duck Moderator No. 4 Share Posted Wednesday at 11:26 PM Bruins week, in baseball and softball. These are the games that define seasons, the ball didn't bounce right a couple times against osu2 and Michigan. These games are at PK and The Jane! Should be "Shout" time all game long! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charles Fischer Administrator No. 5 Share Posted Wednesday at 11:30 PM And GOOD weather forecasted! Mr. FishDuck Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
