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Oregon and Cal Poly face off Saturday at 12:06 p.m. looking to advance to Sunday

 

Yes, and no.  It cost the game, but Oregon should have pitched better, hit better, and not made one play decide the game.

 

I better really soak up and enjoy this weekend, because it is probably the last of Oregon baseball for this year. I just do not think we have enough pitchers to win four games straight, especially when we’re playing Arizona in the last two games, with the worst of our pitchers by that time.

 

Oh well, I still love my Ducks, and got to see a lot of winning baseball this year…

 

The wind turned Walsh's deep ball in the 9th into a sac fly instead of a walk-off home run, such is baseball. 

So much for the "legitimacy" of college baseball...

 

It doesn't matter if we would have won or not based on that call. What matters is that the officiating crew violated the spirit of the game, the spirit of sportsmanship, if not the rules themselves.

 

Can anyone explain what the runner was supposed to do? The catcher didn't have the ball AND was blocking the plate. Not only was he blocking the plate but as the runner approached the plate the catcher dropped his shin/lower leg to block any attempt at a slide.

 

This call was an absolute outrage. The game should be replayed. The crew should be terminated with cause.

 

 

On 5/31/2025 at 9:27 AM, anyotherduck said:

 

This call was an absolute outrage. The game should be replayed. The crew should be terminated with cause.

The crew called it safe. 

 

“They said it came from Pittsburgh and it was out of their hands,” Wasikowski said. “I’m really proud of the way that Aroz went into home plate. I was taught to play hard. I was taught to get after it by my dad and by my coaches growing up. Unfortunately, playing hard was not rewarded tonight by whatever rule was supposedly violated by a player that was playing hard.”

The game crew, the remote  crew, maybe the double-secret-remote crew? As long as they got away with it (and they got away with it) who cares, right?

On 5/31/2025 at 9:12 AM, Charles Fischer said:

Yes, and no.  It cost the game

Here is my 2¢ . . . I'm always of the opinion that unless the call is the last call of the game, it did not "cost" the game (MLB still needs to reverse Jim Joyce's incorrect call that cost Armando Galarraga a perfect game).  There were a couple of innings to go.  If the play stood as safe, then the batting order, pitch selection etc. would have all changed and maybe we don't score a run in the ninth.  It could also have gone extras and still lost.  So, I'll go with it affected the game.