Ben Wetzler and his 7.84 ERA take the mound at 10am today. Beavs starters have a combined 7.15 ERA and only 14 strikeouts in 34 innings. The story this year has been (lack of) pitching and defense. The offense has actually been quite good (at least by OSU standards), and that's what's kept them in games.
We'll probably have to suffer through one more weekend of Wetzler, Baylis, Childs, and Wilkerson before Pat Casey accepts reality and puts Boyd (and Schultz, though he has been bad so far) in the rotation. Cole Brocker can fill Boyd's role. Jace Fry is about a week away. I expect him to join the rotation on 3/9 in Corvallis.
St. Mary's starts Martin Agosta (1-0, 0.60). The team is 5-3 overall and not very good. Beavs should win if they get a decent start.
anyone have a link for the game?
Live radio on KPOJ AM out of Portland..
I don’t live in Portland and their online stream is a political show. I cannot believe that the only way to get the games on RADIO is to pay for it if you don’t live in the Portland area. The Athletic Department really has a great handle of their target audience.
Seriously, they expect people (a) to pay for radio or (b) pay to listen to Mike Parker!?
Parker is not calling the game. He must have opted or been ordered to stay in Corvallis for the basketball games. JB
Same as last year, Jay Reece (sp?) from Bend broadcasts most of the spring games while Parker stays with Basketball.
This Reece guy is kind of interesting but not able to do a great job of play-by-play. I don’t imagine he gets much full time support on the broadcast and believe his performance demonstrates how hard it is to keep up a running commentary and description of the action. Many here dislike Parker but he does keep up with the action and has an interesting vocabulary.
Who did Parker piss off to have to watch the Basketball instead Baseball.
Sorry I didn’t realize they would run two different programs. I guess their online audience wouldn’t care about a local ball game. JB
No problem, just frustrating. Your local supporters have free access to radio, so you make your non-locals pay. Just poor marketing, baseball is not a sport that many will pay for radio access to.
Go to radio84.com to get the KKNX feed out of Eugene. They stream all games that don’t conflict with basketball.
St. Mary’s up 2-0
(Wetzler stinks)
Two run double by Keyes, tied at 2. Runners on second and third and no outs. Beavers need to get at least two more runs in
Sac fly by Dunn and RBI single by Gordon and it’s 4-2 Beavers
Jake Rodriguez behind the plate is always an adventure and it costs the Beavers a run. Defense in this inning hasn’t been good.
A passed ball with a runner on 3rd. What is this? Little League?
Casey doesn’t appear to be happy with Jake, pulled him for Ryan Gorton.
Casey is pushing his luck with Wetzler…
Ok, there we go.
Pulled him for Brocker, smart move. Got as much as he could out of Wetzler.
Now it’s tied. Beavers never make things easy on themselves. Brocker may just try to vulture a win for himself.
Time to do some damage against the St. Mary’s pen.
St. Mary’s goes deep and it’s 5-4. Brocker has not been good in relief.
Can we get some relief from this pitching?
Not terribly impressed with Jay Reece as an announcer, either. He cannot keep track of the pitch count, and frequently forgets to focus on the game.
Conforto leads off 8th with a single. Man, he can really hit.
Conforto on third with two outs. Need a clutch hit from Gorton
They don’t get it and now they’re down to their final 3 outs. This would be a bad loss. Can’t lose games to teams like these.
How many LOB does that make since the season started? It’s a ridiculous amount.
I’d like to see Tyler Smith hit for Gordon in the 9th. Tyler is the better hitter and has a better eye at the plate.
Thank goodness Barnes is holding his side of the field or this game would be a lot worse.
Time for Dunn to snap out of his slump. Need to get the lead off runner on here.
Lead-off by single by Dunn in the 9th
They should sac with Gordon and let Smith hit for Matthews. Whoops got out of order there.
Gordon walks. Runners on first and second and no outs for Tommasini. He’ll likely sacrifice bunt here
I didn’t like the bunt there. Pitcher was struggling to throw strikes. Have to at least make him throw a strike.
Tyler Smith pinch hitting for Ryan Dettman.
I think Tyler Smith gives the Beavers the lead here
Hope you are right.
Tyler Smith doesn’t even make contact. Bad at-bat. Now all the pressure is on Barnes to get a clutch hit.
Bad, bad loss.
Bad seven days.
It would be appropriate if Barnes gets the game leading hit. He’s been saving the Beavers bacon all afternoon.
Different game, same story. Poor pitching and leaving way too many runners on.
I absolutely hate it when coaches give a struggling pitcher an easy out. Allows him to get more comfortable. He was having all kinds of trouble keeping the ball in the strike zone and Casey gave them a free out on the sac bunt. You HAVE TO make him throw a strike. Got to make him work, Beavers don’t give him a free out and the Beavers may be still batting.
Oh well, at least there’s still basketball today… (hey, I nearly got through that sentence with a straight face!) :)
Pitching wasn’t good but giving up 5 runs isn’t too bad, the offense just didn’t anything after the 5th inning. Feels like they lost focus and hard to re-gain it. Frustrating loss that can’t happen. This team has some issues.
Not going to win many games if you only score in one inning. And not running the broadcast online for free hurts some of us locals too.
Epic failure.
Wetlzer stinks. Can’t go sub-6 innings and give up 4 runs to St. Marys and call yourself a #1. Maybe once in a career, but he does this every start. The guy isn’t even back end of the rotation material. Casey dropped the ball.
Overreaction or after two years of this can we admit the guy stinks?
I say give him another start, and if he can’t get it done again, then it’s safe to say he stinks.
Great. Now we suck at baseball. This is not NEAT1
Maybe a little overreaction at this point in the season but it’s not looking good. He’s only a sophomore so it hasn’t been two years yet, he was charged with 3 earned runs and one of those Brocker should’ve kept off the board. He did lower his ERA today, it’s now 6.75 and last year he had the highest ERA of the starters at 4.66. PC does seem to put a lot of stock in him though, even last year when he was struggling. I am gravely concerned though that once we get to conference play that he will get rocked.
I trust Casey no matter what. I’d rather have him than any other manager.
Beavers and Winthrop tied at 3 going to the bottom of the 7th. Winthrop got 3 in the top of the 7th thanks to a fielder’s choice RBI and a two run single that hit Dan Child. Bad luck there for the Beavers. Inning was extended though thanks to poor defense, again.
Beavers have runners on first and third and 1 out for Hayes in the 7th
I just made a thread for this game.