Oregon's Will Sanford (2.54 ERA) will take on Ty Horn (4.70 ERA) of the Cornhuskers today. Yes, the time was moved up two hours because of weather, so unfortunately....I have an appointment this afternoon that I cannot miss.

I will probably begin posting in the fourth or fifth inning, and will try to catch you all up gradually.

Let's go Ducks!

1-0 Nebraska after one inning. Will Sanford gave up two hits, but stranded two and limited the damage.

1-0 Nebraska after two innings, as Oregon stranded two runners in scoring position, and Will Sanford held them down.

1-0 Cornhuskers after three innings as Sanford gave up base runners, but held off the scoring.

2-1 Ducks after four innings, as Drew Smith nails a line-drive to medium CF depth, and Burke-Lee Mabeus zips a pitch down the middle to get on base and move Smith to third. Then RS freshman Naulivou Lauaki hit deep the LF/CF gap and to the wall to score both!

4-2 Ducks after five innings. Will Sanford gave up a solo homer, but tied a career high with his TENTH strikeout of the day!

True freshman Braden Jaksa nailed a grounder through the infield to get on base, and then stole second. The new clean-up hitter, Drew Smith, blasted a pitch over the LF Wall and hit his own image on the scoreboard for a two-run homer!

In the sixth inning...we only got through the Nebraska side as Will Sanford disposed of them, but damn....the dark skies began to just UNLOAD rain.

We have quite a lightning/rain delay as the big drops obscured visibility--even up close. Flashes of lightning and thunder to do not promise a rapid return to the game...

Just saw this...On April 7th, the New Hampshire Fisher Cats (double AA affiliate of the Toronto Blue Jays) defeated the Portland Sea Dogs (Boston Red Sox) by a score of 12-7. The Fisher Cats scored 10 runs in the second inning with only one hit. Two Portland pitchers combined for 10 earned runs on eight walks, four wild pitches, two hit batters, one sacrifice fly and a single. And all those runs came after there were two outs in the inning. Baseball sure is a strange game at times.

16 minutes ago, sports fan said:

Just saw this...On April 7th, the New Hampshire Fisher Cats (double AA affiliate of the Toronto Blue Jays) defeated the Portland Sea Dogs (Boston Red Sox) by a score of 12-7. The Fisher Cats scored 10 runs in the second inning with only one hit. Two Portland pitchers combined for 10 earned runs on eight walks, four wild pitches, two hit batters, one sacrifice fly and a single. And all those runs came after there were two outs in the inning. Baseball sure is a strange game at times.

Sounds like many Red Sox games I watched over seven decades while waiting for Godot, a/k/a winning a World Series.

The low light came in a game where SS Pumpsie Green made four errors on 1 play!

Pumpsie fielded a ground ball and overthrew the 1st baseman, failed to catch a perfect throw from the catcher backing up 1st base, collected the ball, and overthrew the third baseman. The ball bounced off the visitor's dugout back to the third baseman in time to put the player trying to get to third in a rundown. Yep, Pumpsie, now covering third, caught the ball thrown by the second baseman and dropped it while trying to tag the base runner out.

After this series of muffs, exasperated announcer Curt Gowdy noted that his scorecard looked like hieroglyphics.

GO DUCKS!

7-2 Ducks after six innings. Will Sanford kept them scoreless, and finished with a career KO mark of 12, and with 110 pitches.

Jax Gimenez nailed a pitch to the RF corner for a double, and then Brayden Jaksa torqued the ball over the CF wall and hit the scoreboard. A two-run bomb!

Then Ryan Cooney hits a solo HR to bring...Back-to-back JACKS!

7-2 Ducks after seven innings. Tanner Bradley is in relief, and he put down the Nebraska batters 1-2-3.

It is spring in Oregon, as the sun is shining....while it is raining again. Game is still going though...

7-6 Ducks after eight innings. A familiar late-game meltdown by our pitchers that saw Blake Crawford give up a 2-run homer, and Leo Ulemen gave up hits and a run to go with two wild pitches in the inning. I was eating dinner and could not recall the rest, or maybe I just spaced it out.

Devin Bell came in to get the third out. He was poised at Portland for another save, but gave up the hits that lost the game; how will he do in the upcoming ninth inning?

Ducks win 7-6 as Devin Bell gave up base runners, but got it done. Whew!