Ducks Beat Beavers for 4,100 Attending at PK Park, 4-2!

[30Duck]

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First pitch on Friday is at 5:05 p.m. with a Saturday first pitch at 4:05 and a Sunday 12:05 start

 

[Charles Fischer]

2-1 Beavis after three innings. Oregon's Grayson Grinsell started out great, but they got to him in the third inning. Meanwhile Mason Neville blasted a homer to nearly the top of the baseball practice facility.

 

 

[Charles Fischer]

3-2 Ducks after four innings, as Grayson Grinsell creates a sweet double-play, (6-4-3) and then strikes out the next Oregon State batter. Anson Aroz got a walk then a second walk for the good-guys, and a stolen base earlier by Aroz...and with a successful double-steal of second and third base, thus...the table was set. The Pride-of-Portland, Ryan Cooney, did not disappoint, as he hit a two-run scoring double to give Oregon the lead!

 

 

 

[Charles Fischer]

3-2 Ducks after five innings, as Oregon left the bases-loaded...stranded!  Oregon has picked up bunch of stolen bases today, so they saw something with the Beavis pitcher that tipped them off.  When Jacob Walsh is stealing a base...

 

[Charles Fischer]

3-2 Ducks after six innings, as Grayson Grinsell is pitching a gem. He has a high pitch count...but it looks like he is coming out for the seventh? Can he hold up?  Whew!  (Beavis stops us again as we strand two runners)

 

[Charles Fischer]

4-2 Ducks after seven innings as Grayson Grinsell snuffs out the Oregon State batters, and sets a personal pitch count record of 117 pitches. What an effort!   Then Jacob Walsh sends another over the wall to increase the lead....can Our Beloved Ducks do it?

 

 

 

[Charles Fischer]

4-2 Ducks after eight innings, as The Pride of Sherwood Oregon, Ian Umlandt came in and got two outs, and then walked two. Then Cole Stokes, (a recovering-confidence-pitcher) threw a 98 mph fast-ball in the corner of the plate to stop the Oregon State rally.

 

 

[Dave23]

Grayson Grinsell is crushing it as of late! Good job by the bull pin tonight to finish it out. We're going to need another good showing by the pitching staff tomorrow as well. 

 

Go Ducks!

[Charles Fischer]

4-2 Ducks win! Seth Mattox came in for the ninth inning to get over his pitch on Tuesday that lost to Portland. He threw some pitches tonight that started at shoulder-height, and then appeared to go outside, but then veered inside to brush the corner of the plate--whew!  He got some ground-outs to beat Beavis!

 

 

[Charles Fischer]

 

 

[JabbaNoBargain]

I’m not big on baseball, but was mesmerized by your updates! This calls for a stealth visit to a Beavis board!

[30Duck]

Great game, a bit of everything. Ducks fall behind early,,,no problem! Home runs, stolen bases. Grinsell didn't get a complete game this time, but 2 incredible starts in a row!

[Washington Waddler]

     Good to see Walsh getting his big bat going again. Go Ducks!

[Charles Fischer]

Ducks Open Rivalry Series With a Win

 

EUGENE, Ore. — Nights like Friday prove why, despite riding a roller coaster at times this season, the sky remains the limit for Oregon baseball.

 

Playing their in-state rival at a sold-out PK Park, the No. 13 Ducks got a strong start from Grayson Grinsell, clean defense, clutch hits from two of the most prolific home-run hitters in school history and shutout relief pitching to beat No. 3 Oregon State, 4-2. Portland native Ryan Cooney had the go-ahead RBI, a two-run double in the fourth inning as the Ducks improved to 10-1 in weekend series openers this season.

 

Oregon (28-12) bounced back from a deflating loss Tuesday to Portland by out-executing the Beavers on Friday.

 

“It’s just another game; it’s also an important win that we needed,” Cooney said. “But it's also another game at the same time. (We just need to) stick to our process, not change anything — not get too big with our swings, and pitching-wise just continue what we're doing.”

 

The UO bullpen has been a factor in the Ducks’ inconsistency in recent weeks. But Ian Umlandt, Cole Stokes and Seth Mattox combined for two shutout innings in relief of Grinsell on Friday, a much-needed boost of confidence. 

 

“I've said it before, the group I coach, obviously we've got a good record — like, a really good record,” UO coach Mark Wasikowski said. “But they still feel like they're way better than what we've shown on a consistent basis. You've got to put a complete product together on a consistent basis for us to be able to make that claim. And so until we can show that on a regular basis, people are going to question it — and they’ve got a right to. But the locker room feels like they got a lot more in it, I can tell you that much.”

 

How It Happened: Grinsell (7-1) continued to excel as Oregon’s Friday night guy, allowing only two runs in the third on his way to a seven-inning gem. He hasn’t allowed more than two earned runs in a start since Feb. 28, extending that streak Friday despite allowing the two runs that gave Oregon State an early lead.

 

Grayson Grinsell was locked into this game...

 

“You’ll see guys get really rattled when they struggle or whatever, give up a couple of runs,” Wasikowski said. “Grayson didn’t. He got tougher.”

 

His offense helped. Mason Neville extended his UO single-season record to 20 home runs with a solo shot in the bottom of the third, answering OSU’s early rally.

 

The Ducks took the lead in the fourth, with a boost from their coaching staff. After Anson Aroz worked a one-out walk, he stole second. Burke-Lee Mabeus then walked with two out, and a double steal put both runners in scoring position. Cooney brought both in with a double into the left-field corner.

 

“I think if you watch the tape back and you see those stolen bases, that's all on (the coaching staff),” Cooney said. “They prepared really well, with the shifts that those guys were putting out there and how to beat him. And I think that's why it put me in a good position in that situation, specifically.”

 

Grinsell faced the minimum over his final four innings, thanks in part to a double play in the top of the fourth, and a runner he picked off at second in the fifth. When he struck out back-to-back hitters to end the seventh, he bounded off the mound and let loose with a shout to celebrate the end of a 117-pitch effort.

 

Jacob Walsh savors it with the team....

 

At that point Oregon was clinging to a 3-2 lead. Two batters later, UO career home run leader Jacob Walsh made it 4-2 with a solo shot, homer No. 52 of his career.

 

“I tried to control my emotions throughout the outing, tried not to get too high and too low,” Grinsell said. “But coming out in the seventh, I knew that was probably my last inning, so I kind of let it loose. And yeah, I think it got the dugout a little bit fired up and carried the momentum with ‘Dub’s’ home run.”

 

Umlandt, who has made four midweek starts this season, got the first two outs of the eighth before allowing two baserunners. Stokes then struck out the last batter of the inning, and Mattox — who took the loss Tuesday against Portland — pitched around a two-out double in the ninth for his second save of the year.

 

“I think our back end is really coming around,” Mattox said. “Obviously with Stokes, and having Ian back there now not just as a midweek guy, I think it's coming together. We know who our go-to guys are in big situations.”

 

This Beaver can't outrun the throw from Ryan Cooney...

 

Friday, there were a bunch of go-to guys who came through in a bunch of go-to situations. The key, the Ducks know, will be doing it again Saturday.

 

Notable: Third baseman Carter Garate made his 100th consecutive start for the Ducks. … Oregon has won three straight in the rivalry series, and has a 43-42 record in games played in Eugene. … The Ducks improved to 3-1 against top-10 opponents this season.

 

Up Next: Game two of the series is Saturday (4:05 p.m., B1G+).