Probable starters for the weekend have not been released, but my hunch is the matchups will look like this:
| Date | Opponent | Pitchers | Time (PT) |
| 04/01 | Arizona | Sam Gaviglio (5-0, 0.39) vs Kurt Heyer (4-0, 1.33) | 6:00 p.m. |
| 04/02 | Arizona | Josh Osich (3-0, 2.74) vs Kyle Simon (5-1, 2.25) | 1:00 p.m. |
| 04/03 | Arizona | Ben Wetzler (3-1, 4.08) vs Tyler Hale (3-1, 2.70) | 12:00 p.m. |
Oregon State and Arizona have one common opponent (LBSU), and both squads took two of three. Arizona won in more convincing fashion outscoring the Dirtbags 18-3 (versus the Beavs more modest 15-7). Those numbers may seem meaningless since "a win is a win", but actually I think they provide good insight.
Arizona's wins have been slightly more routine, and they have beaten Rice and Arizona State. Right now, especially at home, you have to give them the edge in this series. That's a given. But my fear is that the Beavs will be swept. I'll tell you why: too much lies on Sam Gaviglio winning game 1.
If that doesn't happen, they will have to rely on Osich or Wetzler (or Nygren, *gasp*) to salvage a game. Do you have confidence in that happening? Maybe versus Hartford…I just don't see it happening versus good teams. Osich and Wetzler/Nygren are throwers who dig themselves into trouble. If the Beavs score in the 1st, they'll give back two in the 2nd. These guys just have that feel to them. Of the group, Wetzler has the most promise, but he's too green to win a meaningful game on the road.
So, my prediction is this: if Sam wins game 1, the Beavs take 1 of 2. If Sam loses game 1, the Beavs will get swept.
As far as whether Gaviglio will win the opening contest…God…tough call. I see a really tight game. The difference might be the amount of pressure on Sam to win that game…he could crack. The Wildcats have better mashers, too, in Joey Rickard (.481, 1, 18) and Cole Frenzel (.411, 1, 27) and have 41 steals as a team. Andrew Susac has been a mess behind the dish with 5 passed balls. In a close game, the combination of Arizona speed with a bad Oregon State battery could matter. Oh, and I forgot to mention: one of our best mashers, Jake Rodriguez, will likely miss the series with a fractured wrist.
Brace yourselves for the worst.
Oh, and I haven’t seen anything written about Poyer, but I assume he is off the baseball team since he practiced with the football team on Wednesday…?
I think I read somewhere a while back that he would be practicing with the football team on Mondays and Wednesdays, but not Fridays… and not the Spring Game.
Cliff blogs that Poyer decided to go 100% football. gazettetimes.com/sports/beavers-sports/article_04a6219a-5bb6-11e0-9628-001cc4c03286.html
Good quote “I felt I (had to be grinding with these guys) and earn my starting spot”
Sounds good.
link here http://ohlulz.com/ncaaf/flash.php?lulz=rtmp://cp98724.live.edgefcs.net:1935/live&id=baseball-game@31484
The stream for today?
Yes that’s the stream for the entire series vs Arizona.
Thanks, I thought only the home games were going to be streamed… You just made my weekend! :-)
The starting pitchers have been updated. Wetzler/Nygren is still up in the air for Sunday.
Michael Phillip and Josh Andrews relegated to the 2s….Aaron Magnuson and some other walk-on promoted to take their spots. Couch Cav said something about the nasty streak not being there, and he’s unlikely to change his mind. 5 walkons.
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http://cliffkirkpatrick.mvourtown.com/2011/04/01/new-oline-shuffle/
Glad we got a stream. Why the fuck don’t the universities collaborate and give us the full season… they all use the same CBS system. I’m certainly not going to buy the package for each of our away teams as well. Also, the audio feeds on osubeavers.com have a horrible hissing sound in the background…
Looks like our suspicions about Gavillio were correct. He looked great VS inferior opponents. He is average in the PAC.
Defense hasn’t helped. Three errors through six innings is unacceptable.
Walks > K’s, not a good sign
Yeah, I was just about to say something about that. You beat me too it. The defense has been atrocious!
Susac is a major liability.
Pretty good announcer, good comment on Dunn’s smart move to try to pick the runner at third.
To make matters worse, Oregon is beating Arizona State 2-0.
15-0? Wow. Whelp I’m not going to invest any more time or money on this ball club. I still have an ulcer from football season.
Did I hear that right…15-0? WTF?!
16-0 now.
on our 5th pitcher in 6 innings.
mercy rule anyone? What a joke OSU has become.
motherfucking beavers.
Do we have ping-pong team to follow?
The Softball team is decent this year. Winning their Pac opener 2-0 right now. Softball players are fucking hot fwiw. Not as hot as soccer girls though.
Anyone got a stream? :)
17-0
18-0
6th pitcher
Is this Pat Casey’s fucking april fools day?
idk but knowing Casey, the guys are going to get fucking destroyed in the locker room after this. They deserve it. Terrible pitching, terrible defense and horrible batting.
I hope he didn’t say a single word.
I agree. That would be even better.
12 run 6th inning. Ends on a K by someone. Goodnight everyone.
Gorton batting .139? 4 for 31? ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME?
I am 26 years old and 20 pounds overweight and I could have a better batting average.
Alright I’m done raging now. Goodnight.
Top of the ninth, rally hats anyone?
lol
Josh Osich pitches scared.
Oh, and Beavs down 2-0 with Arizona looking for more. The sweep prediction is looking good right now.
3-0 Arizona.
Dunn fails to get a bunt down with runners at 1st and 2nd…Miller hits a routine fly ball to right…
Ryan Barnes picks his teammates up by hitting a 3-run .
The game is 3-3.
Oh God, who is the cow screaming “Two out rally” on this feed? Sounds like Mama Machado.
Beavers go up 6-3 on a Ryan Dunn three run home run. That ball barely got over but it did. What a difference a day makes.
Ryan Dunn hits a 3-run HR.
Beavs lead 6-3.
Let’s see if Osich gives it back up.
Doubt it. Osich will take care of business.
Big inning by Osich. Team needed him to throw a shutout inning and give them more confidence. Offense needs to add a couple runs, have Osich pitch into the 8th and have Boyd shut the door.
Big error by Dunn at SS…leadoff man at 2nd with nobody out.
Didn’t hurt due to a really bad baserunning decision by Zona. Beavers need to be more sound defensively. Way too many mistakes.
I will give Dunn the benefit of the doubt there. That play was really tough.
The Beavers always have to make things interesting.
Never easy.
Big two run single by Andrew Susac. Gives the Beavers more breathing room for the bottom half of the ninth. Hopefully they can add a couple more.
Brian Stamps almost hits a home run and hits a two run double to give the Beavers a 10-4 lead. That’s what I like to see.
10-4 Beavs. Looks like the rubber game tomorrow will decide the series.
Gotta love that desert air, hoping for a cold front now though!
Beavs win. A (surprising) 10-4 victory.
Rubber game tomorrow at high noon.
Good “W”! Need to fight for the series tomorrow..Go Beavs!!
Good comeback against a good team. Now, time to focus on Butler/VCU. Damn, I wish BDC could have gotten Shaka Smart a couple of years ago.
Sounds like we played some good D. It was also nice of our bats to show up today.
Can I get a Dodger and Beaver win on the same day? Is that too much to ask?
Got it! Is there a chance the Beavers and Dodgers could both be good in the same year? Too early too tell, but a great weekend for both!
The Dodgers still have a team?
Yes sir, we are 2-1 right now against the defending champs. We likely won’t have much of a team left when the McCourts are done with them though. The future of this legal battle appears grim, likely leading to the sale of the team (after all of the stars have been pieced out to other teams through trades for cash).
The Mariners are 2-0, first place!!!! First place probably won’t last passed today but still they were in first place for two days! lol
If they win tonight, they will already have more wins then last season!
Who is your team Afghan, you love to rag on teams that are down on their luck…
Michael Miller with a lead-off double and moves to third on a Ryan Barnes groundout to first. Hayes with an RBI groundout to first to score Miller. The ball from Miller hit the warning track. I thought he might actually hit a home run. Didn’t think he could actually even get it to the warning track.
Susac with a single and Norris walks now. Would be nice to give Wetzler a 2 or 3 run lead before he throws a pitch.
Berberet smokes a ball and UA’s left fielder makes a diving catch. It’s been that way for Parker the last couple weeks. Still a good inning. They scored a run and executed the fundamentals flawlessly. When they play fundamentally sound, they’re pretty good.
Wetzler continues to struggle. His struggles have nothing to do with talent, he just always falls behind in the count and has to throw a fastball over the plate for a strike and gets hammered. He needs to learn to get ahead in the count so guys can’t look dead red for a fastball.
Nice. Oregon State has runners on first and second with no outs. Need to get a couple runs here.
Arizona’s pitcher was having a tough time throwing strikes to Dunn and on a 3-1 count Pat Casey has him bunt and gives away an out? Makes zero sense.
Clutch base hit by Barnes and we are up 3-1
Barnes bails out Michael Miller and Pat Casey with a two run single. 3-1 Beavers.
Big double by Hayes and we are up 4-1 Barnes scores from first.
Danny Hayes with an RBI double. 4-1 Beavers.
Bah you got me on that one ;-)
Susac blasts a two bagger, 5-1 OSU
Susac crushes a ball into the gap, scores Hayes. 5-1 Beavers. Offense showing a great deal of depth now.
Shallow base hit scores Susac. This is a huge inning.
Norris with a bleeding single into shallow left field and scores Susac.
6-1 Beavers going to the bottom of the second inning. Wetzler better not blow this lead!
Good job by Wetzler to preserve the 6-1 lead. He got ahead of the last two batters in the inning and they grounded out weakly. That is what happens when he gets ahead of guys. If he can consistently get ahead of hitters, he’s going to become a beast on the mound.
Wild pitch gives Beavers 7-1 lead after 2 1/2 innings.
Beavers are swinging the bats really well now. Even on a lot of their outs the ball is smoked.
Looks like Friday was enough of an embarrassment to light a fire under their asses… hope this continues.
Couple quick outs help the pitch count for Ben.
I wasnlt watching, was it a balk?
10 pitches that time for Wetzler, nice to keep out of the sun as much as possible. Good team play on the fly to center where infielders were called off.
Streaming a series makes for an enjoyable weekend. Especially when you win them! These early series are so imprtant for setting the tone of the rest of your PAC-10 season. Glad they fought back! Keep it up BEAVERS!
Really impressed with the Beavers the last two days. Playing like the squad I thought they were heading into conference.
Beavers load the bases with no outs and don’t score. That was a situation where they get too patient. Got to swing the bats and don’t leave it up to the umpire.
I kinda think they should have bunted in a for sure run. Doesn’t matter if we win with 12 runs or 8. You have to jjust keep maximizing the % chance that you will winn. Now with them homering it is even more true. They may have been able to bunt in 2 runs last inning with the bases loaded and no outs. I just don’t get why managers really play small ball or they let the bast fly. It seems to be like you can choose to start playing small ball any time it makes sense to assure a victory and series win. Not nervous yet, but each run makes you that much more confident and would just have about guaranteed a win.
That’s what happens when Wetzler gets behind in the count. He grooves a fastball and it gets crushed because he gets behind in the count. When he works ahead he doesn’t have much trouble, as 2nd through 5th showed. He needs to be consistent.
Boyd is in. Game over.
You think he is going to blow it? Or was that not sarcasm?
I meant he’s going to shut down Arizona.
I think Boyd was the right move, not at all sure it was smart to pull Kavin though.
Chemistry bad between Susac and Ump, time to relieve Andrew.
Nice call third strike, maybe Ump feels guilty?
I like this Arizona announcer…good voice. Nothing like drifting into a snooze on a Sunday afternoon whilst listening to a ball game.
I found it funny how he kept calling Ben Wetzler “wentzel’ and “wetzel”
Yea, called Parker “Peter” in first game.
Lol. I noticed that, but he restrains his homerism decently, and his voice soothed me to sleep. He’s pretty good for a college guy…think of the FSN telecasters…
One down, man on third, got to get one out of this.
Well we got one. Then got hosed on accidental catch by their first basemen.
Nice, ASU sweeps Oregon.
I like a Ducks loss as much as a Beaver win. Does that say something about me?
I stopped caring about the Ducks baseball program. They just aren’t good at all.
Didn’t they start the season ranked like 14th? I know they are bad, but how does that happen? They were not good last year either.
I disagree, the Ducks have good pitching, and they’re feisty–hung tough the first two games with ASU. I don’t think they’re great, but they’re not bad. They’ll be middle of the pac.
Oregon is bad Angry. 5 straight losses and they haven’t been all that close. No offense at all. They will be something like 8-19 in conference play. To even be middle of the pack in the Pac-10 you have to be good, they aren’t. Oregon won’t sniff the postseason.
i’m just checking in now, haven’t found the broadcast – score & inning update?
Bottom 9, 8-3 Beavs
thank you
He should have added, Arizona has the bases loaded with nobody out in the 9th. Boyd out, Bryant in…
Bottom 9. 8-3 Beavs 0 outs Runners on 1st and 2nd.
You can bring in a new pitcher in the middle of an at bat? I thought you could only replace before the at bat starts.
No, you can make that switch. You can also switch batters in the middle of an AB…if you switch with two strikes on the batter and the new guy strikes out, it’s credited to the old batter, but if he gets a hit he gets credit. You can also switch from batty left/right (if you’re a switch hitter) before two strikes.
1 out, runners 1st and 3rd, 8-4 Beavs.
I like Bryant’s change up…really devastating pitch.
Beavs win.
A bunt with 2 outs? Maybe if your Lamike fast, but he got thrown out not even halfway down the base path.
***EDIT*** if you’re as fast as Lamike ***EDIT***
Great series win Beavs! We need to be in the College World Series this year. One more step taken. Good job!
I am shocked by Saturday and Sunday’s results. Beavs really showed me something, as I felt pretty strongly they’d get swept if Sam lost game 1. Never saw them winning 2 of 3 in any scenario…impressive stuff.
That embarrassing performance on Friday night seemed to wake the team up and get them focused. Last two days they held Arizona to 4 runs which is half of what they have scored on average. Team showing some mental toughness. Next week’s series should be a good one with ASU. I think they can win 2 of 3 but it will be tough one. At least the Saturday game is on tv.
I would like to see the Beavs dispatch the Pilots and then get ready to battle ASU. Ducks got swept very effeciently by the Sun Devils. Can the Beavers at least get one game?
They really need to win that series at home against ASU. Taking 2 of 3 would be a great weekend and set them up for a great PAC 10 season. I feel Gaviglio will get back on track this weekend.
These 2 in Arizona were a great start as well. This was a good Pac 10 team and to come to them and take two, especially after Sam’s debacle on Friday says something about the team’s mental make-up. Nice job Beavs.
Beavs moved up 4 spots to #19 in Baseball America….
http://www.baseballamerica.com/today/college/top-25/2011/2611510.html
Gaviglio loses – badly – in Game 1 and the Beavs win the series. I admit that I’m surprised by that result, but I think OSU has a better team than anyone, fans included, are giving them credit for. The biggest concern might be that there isn’t a lot of postseason experience, should that become a factor. Already at 20 wins by first weekend in April. I’m cautiously optimistic…but would like to see a little more consistency from the offense. What happened to the defense Friday night? Was it April Fool’s Day?
Gaviglio was due for a game in which he got touched up a bit. Combine that with his style of getting the defense involved with fielding grounders and a rock hard infield, and we can probably guess that the team just wasn’t prepared for the conditions in game one.
They adjusted nicely for the weekend games. They still had a couple mistakes, but they followed those with sound plays which marginalized the mistakes. Osich and Wetzler played more aggressively when they took the mound as well. They ran into problems when they fell behind, but that wasn’t as much as their good pitch placement and solid throwing. And our bats came alive as well. Even our outs were exciting hits that a lesser team than Zona would have watched through the gaps.
I don’t know yet if it was a coming of age weekend for Osich and Wetzler since it seems they each alternate quality and poor starts. But it was really nice to have them both step up against a good team. Hopefully they’ve gained enough confidence to carry them through the remainder of the season.
Any chance we can get a stream for the Portland game?
Susac broke a bone in his left hand…
It’s tough but he should be back with a week or two. Just needs a couple weeks to rest it and then he’ll have to play through the pain he’s having. Beavers won’t miss him too much though. Parker Berberet is a better defensive catcher and is the team’s leader in RBI’s and has gotten his stroke back on track. A few weeks back the losses of Jake Rodriguez and Andrew Susac would be big, but with the improvements of Ryan Dunn and Kavin Keyes and Parker getting back on track, the losses aren’t that big.
By the Washington State series in two weeks Susac and Rodriguez should be back.
I still fully expect the Beavers to win the series with ASU and to really get it rolling.