It should be a good day for baseball--cloudy and not to hot, but not cold either. Indiana is applying a little strategy to their pitchers lined up for the three day series. They are starting pitchers with good ERAs on Saturday and Sunday, as those ERAs are very close to the Oregon starting pitchers.

I think they looked at Will Sanford film (3-0) and his ERA at an incredible 0.92 and decided to put their worst against him and save their better pitchers for days with a better chance of winning. Our Beloved Ducks will face Reagan Rivera, (0-2) who has an ERA of 13.50 and thus why I think they decided to play him today instead of Sunday.

I did not notice this during the game, but you gotta love it!

1-0 Indiana after one inning. Will Sanford got two outs, then gave up a double and scored him with two wild pitches. Not a good start...

Dominic Hellman was left stranded on second...

1-0 Indiana after two innings. Will Sanford does not have his usual control today, but he got through the inning and kept them scoreless.

The Hoosier pitcher has a terrible ERA, but that came over a couple of games, while another couple games he kept the opposing team scoreless for his innings. So I guess we see the good side of him today...

1-0 Hoosiers after three innings. Will Sanford has got it going with retiring the side 1-2-3, but so does the Indiana pitcher.

Let's go Ducks!

2-0 Hoosiers after four innings. Will Sanford gave up two hits, and two wild pitches that resulted in another run.

Ducks stymied on offense...

2-1 Hoosiers after five innings. Will Sanford retired the side...even faster this time!

Drew Smith walked and Nav. Lauiki got plinked. Then Ryan Cooney hit Smith in. Ducks stranded two in scoring position.

2-2 after six innings. Oregon's Will Sanford pitched wonderfully, but he finished with 96 pitches, so his day is done--after he completed the scoreless inning.

Maddox Molony mashed a moonball over the LF wall to tie it up!

3-2 Ducks after seven innings. Will Sanford returned to create two outs and left with 112 pitches. Then Tanner Bradley comes in and easily gets the third out. Sanford going that long could enable Oregon to go the eighth inning, and Devin Bell in the ninth? That would allow both pitchers to return for another game, so that extra inning by Sanford is big.

Burke-Lee Mabeus hits a big double off the CF wall, and Josh Schleichardt does a sac-grounder to move Mabeus to third. With one out Ryan Cooney hits a sacrifice fly to score Mabeus. Ducks are ahead for the first time this game!

3-2 Ducks after eight innings. Tanner Bradley got it done again with his sideways movement on his pitches.

Three more outs needed...do you return the proven Bradley, or save him for another game and bring in Bell? (Who has three saves)

Ducks win 3-2 as Devin Bell has his fourth save. He gave up a hit which got moved to second on a groundout, but Bell created two more groundouts to finish the game.

Oregon had 13 strikeouts today between Sanford (10) and Bradley (3) and the relief pitcher for Indiana had a 0.00 ERA with extensive innings pitched thus far this year, and the Ducks got three runs off him. Tough, scratching-from-behind win, as the Hoosiers had some great pitching Our Beloved Ducks struggled with, but ultimately prevailed.

Fantastic pitching by Oregon today...whew!