If the weather forecast is correct, it's dubious they play any baseball Friday or Saturday. 100% chance of rain the next two days, and .8 inches of rain. Sunday into Monday looks a little better, so maybe they can squeeze some action in then.
Matchups:
- (Wetzler 4-0, 3.58) vs. (West 4-1, 2.12)
- (Child 2-1, 1.86) vs. (Davis 2-0, 1.00)
- (Fry 1-1, 5.14) vs. (Voth 4-0, 4.18)
Here's to hoping Pat Casey has a better series.
Go Beavs.
Weather is not looking promising in Corvallis today. I’ve seen no official word, but the field has got to be soaked with no letting up expected today.
I hope to see Boyd used as more than a lefty, situational specialist. He’s too good for that.
This is a must sweep series.
A must win series. A sweep is icing.
Yes. Sweep would be great but winning the series is the goal. If they sweep I would ecstatic but if they don’t sweep it won’t bother me as long as they win 2 of 3
Has the game been canceled yet?
They wouldn’t cancel it but it hasn’t been postponed yet. I expect within the next half hour it will be postponed until tomorrow.
Just got off the phone with athletic department, and they will not make any official announcements until game time.
There’s no way they get this game in.
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Game postponed till 1 PM tomorrow. DH tomorrow. Hopefully they can get at least 1 game in tomorrow.
Cancelled. Doubleheader starts tomorrow at 1pm.
double header. well that’s a neat deal for the fans.
Not if you drove in from out-of-town and only have a Friday night ticket. Though I suppose there’s tickets availble for the other game. March has really sucked, here’s hoping April is much better.
Tonights tickets are good for game 2 tomorrow.
Neat, what a deal!
Did everyone see the shirt that’s on SALE!
http://www.osubeaversshop.com/gdosu12381116.html
Did someone here hack the online swag store?
That’s just ridiculous.
Don’t ever post, but felt I needed to after seeing that shirt. Classic OSU, I think I will buy 2. Please bring the old Benny back!
That looks like something we’d make as a joke. Wow
No. Fucking. Way.
I’m speechless.
Unbelievable…. someone must be high. JB
When you look at the webpage click on the rate button… my single one star entry drove it down from a 2 to a 1.75. Maybe they will get the message. I wonder how may they ordered?? JB
LMAO!!
Thats gotta be a joke, from someone watching this site….
….but give em credit….that’s damn funny!
Wetzler allows a run to start the game. Started with a walk. Not a good start.
Is that a punched through hole on the edge of the Pac-12 logo behind the plate?
Looks like someone stabbed it with a bat. Kinda distracting. Wonder how long until that gets fixed.
Yet another Beaver hitter take a pitch down the middle.
Hole? Not a hole on Pac-12 logo? Opinions?
I think it probably is a hole/tear. Could be there for the rest of the season.
I expect it will remain torn all season or longer. BDC has no attention to detail.
I really wish the Beavers approach at the plate was a little different. Making a pitch work is fine but if you get a fastball down the middle some aggressiveness would be nice. They get too passive at the plate.
Kavin Keyes continues to struggle. I wonder how much longer Casey will stick with him. He’s really showing no signs of breaking out of his slump and it’s almost April. Would think Casey’s patience with him is running thin.
This team takes so many called third strikes.
Nice hit and run there. Dylan Davis comes through with a big RBI single to tie. 1-1 now.
Kavin Keyes is an automatic out. Casey needs to bench him. I’d rather Ryan Gorton hit than Keyes.
Wetzler has done a great job since the 1st. Giving the offense a chance to take the lead.
Wetzler hitting his stride.
Beavers have so many hitters slumping right now.
Spoke too soon there but the ump didn’t help us out.
Tyler Smith gets on base at least twice a game. Really sets things up for Conforto and Davis
Isn’t that the third time Gordon has led off with an out. Smith keeps it going.
Beavs sure wasting a one hitter for Ben.
With so many guys slumping it is hard to score runs. Tyler Smith is really the only guy hitting well as of late. Outside of the RBI single Davis has been slumping for a while, Dunn is in a mini slump, Keyes has been slumping all season, Barnes in a little bit of a slump, Rodriguez is slumping. Beavers just aren’t getting a ton of guys on base.
How come Wetzler can’t get these leftys out?
Wetzler has give up two hits and a run through 7 innings. He’s done his job. Time for the offense to produce and get him a win.
Beavers finally get a lead-off man on base. And that was some nice hitting by Keyes. Didn’t try to do too much. Stayed on that fastball and hit it where it was pitched.
Jake Rodriguez is not producing.
Dylan Davis cannot get to any outside pitch. Pitchers can throw any pitch on the outside corner and he won’t do anything with it right now and he’s struggling with anything soft.
They bring Tony Bryant in with 1 out but not to start the inning? Where’s the logic there?
Must figure that the third time is the charm and if the Beavs hold here they will finally get one across in the bottom.
camera work on balls to the outfield is absolutely horrendous.
The offense stinks today.
Could be the ballgame here.
Wow, Boyd in for Bryant with the go-ahead run 90 feet away and nobody out.
squeeze and dawgs score the go-ahead with one out.
Beavers are not looking good right now. They’re making too many mistakes and the offense is doing nothing.
dawgs add a run on a play where Davis appeared to make a diving catch but the ball came out of his glove. They get the batter hung up between 1st and 2nd to get out of the inning. On to the B10 and Beavs need 2 to tie.
Runners on first and second and 1 out for Tyler Smith, Conforto on deck. Just the guys the Beavers want up in this situation.
tying run gets on base with two walks and one out. Smith to the plate
Huge wild pitch!
Anyone have a radio link for these games? I just pulled up the GameTracker.
http://www.radio84.com
Beavers had no business losing this game. This team is not playing winning baseball at all. If the Beavers don’t win game 2 they could go into a huge slide.
I was going to say that they didn’t have any business winning this game, other than Wetzler’s performance this game stunk.
This was a game that for the first 7 innings or so the Beavers outplayed the Huskies. They had chances to grab the lead but didn’t and let UW hang around and paid for it. I’m really concerned about this team.
Double shit, ducks blank forks 1-0.
Who cares what Oregon does? I don’t.
Game 2 today is HUGE. An absolute MUST WIN.
Weather radar doesn’t look good for a complete game 2
As bad as the offense was the bullpen (or the use of?) lost the game. Again.
The Beavers pitching staff allowed 1 run through 9 innings. That should be enough to get the win. Offense stunk. Also, two runs scored on what looked like plays the defense could have made. Rodriguez had a tough play but it looked like a play that could have been made. Hard to tell on Davis’ slide, not a great camera angle but he might have been able to make the play. Offense just isn’t getting it done right now and that’s the reason they lost. In the 5-8 innings the last 4 games the offense has scored a total of 2 runs. That will never get it done. The guys need to pick it up.
Agree with all that but if Bryant comes in and shuts them down you pick up a junk run in the 10th and win the game. Just don’t trust the bullpen this year except for Boyd.
Oh, staring at a called third strike. That’s odd.
Been a while since the Beavers had an extra base hit. First one since Conforto’s home run last Sunday, I believe.
Did you hear Jim Wilson say in game one that the best predictor of scoring a run in an inning is an extra base hit. Fully 50% of innings with an extra base hit there’s a run scored.
Beavers are so unlucky right now. Just missed a two run double, watch when the next pitch is a ground ball DP
What the hell was Gordon doing?
Ryan Dunn with the solo shot and it’s 2-0 Beavers.
Beavers starting to get aggressive at the plate and getting the barrel on the ball
Beavers just need a sac fly from Gorton here. Just needs to stay within himself here.
Ryan Gorton gets the job done. 3-0 Beavers. Really nice hitting there.
WOW! Dan Child with some incredible pitching to get out of a bases loaded no outs jam.
I have no idea why anyone pitches Dylan Davis inside. That’s where he wants guys to pitch him. I’m fine with it though! Keep pitching him there.
Offense starting to produce and some guys are starting to break out of their slumps with some big hits. Good to see.
Nice hitting by Dunn. Good to pick up a run when your pitcher gets into a jam in the previous half.
Clutch RBI single by Hayes. 5-0 now. Beavers doing all the things in this game that they haven’t been doing over the last 3 games
UO sweeps ASU wins series, WSU over Usc, Cal beats Texas, and Ucla over Utah 9-6. Az leading Stanford 1-0.
Only saw the first three innings of game one, sounds like the BP blew it again. People banging on the offense, but that UW pitcher had impressive stats coming in so maybe he was pretty good? He looked good what I saw early.
He was good but wasn’t as good as he usually is as far as sharpness goes. Offense put together a lot of weak at-bats, fared the same against the bullpen. Just didn’t feel like the offense had the right mindset at the plate all game. Bullpen took the L but I didn’t feel the ‘Pen pitched all that poorly.
Thunderstorms are due to come through.
No way they’re still playing this game before the Field Turf was installed.
5 straight starts for Child where he has given up 2 earned runs or less. 4 of 5 went at least 7 innings
This might be the game that really gets Danny Hayes going. Big two out RBI hits back-to-back for him.
Beavs finally getting some 2 out runs again.
Gorton comes through again with an RBI single. 7-0 Beavers now. Gorton starting to come around a little bit.
I was really big on him before the season started but he hasn’t really gotten much of a chance because of how well Smith and Rodriguez were playing while he was suspended. Hopefully he can get some consistent at-bats because it’s tough to be effective if you’re only getting to hit once or twice a week.
Rodriguez is in a bit of a slump right now, wouldn’t be surprised if Ryan got some more at-bats in the next few games
And he’s been pretty good behind the plate too.
That was another bomb by Conforto. He’s so good.
That was completely crushed!
The Right Fielder didn’t even move and the pitcher just walked off the mound not even bothering to look. LOL
The bats are back!
It would be great if Schultz can get some consistency and be a reliable setup man out of the bullpen. Beavers need that
This was a pretty flawless performance. Great pitching, really good defense, clutch, timely hits from the offense. Offense also kept tacking on runs. Everything that could go right went right in game 2 tonight.
Tomorrow is a big start for Jace Fry. They need him to pitch well. OSU can’t drop a home series to Washington. They need to get the win tomorrow. Gonna need him to step up tomorrow.
Mark Emmert: Momentum seems to be for 8 team Playoff
http://www.timesfreepress.com/news/2012/apr/01/emmert-sees-momentum-toward-fbs-playoff/
I am pretty excited about this. I think 8 teams is the perfect number and it will be a much smoother transition if a playoff is implemented with 8 teams from the start.
You know the more I think about it, I don’t think an 8 team playoff is good. I could possibly see a Plus one model. Speaking of wear and tear on the bodies, do you suppose that alll the shoulder issues that we are seeing from our defensive players could be a direct correlation to always having to go with the undersized recruit that they can’t hold up to the grind of a pac12 schedule, and not having enough depth to play additional players has hurt us to stay healthy?
I am not sure our program would be able to hold up in a season and through a playoff run. The extended playoff would only benefit the major programs who have the most depth and highest recruits. I was looking at the Defensive Back depth chart in the paper today, yikes! Behind Poyer we have Keynan Parker who is 5-11 178 and hasn’t played much at all in four years, Brian Watkins another Senior who has seen limited action is 5-9 185. The right corner is better with Rashaad Reynolds and Sean Martin (I think he got hurt last year, right?) then there is Ryan Handford whose never played. Safety has Watkins and Murphy, both who are 6-2 and 6-3 215, but have not excelled at the position. Backups are Wideout and Quarterback prospects Tyrequek zimmerman 5-11 206 and Peter Ashton 6-1 206 who have limited ST action. I can see why we went after more DB’s in this class. But my question is whether going smaller to get speed has been having an adverse effect on the health of the entire position?
We probably would have edged Virginia Tech and Michael Vick in an 8 team Playoff in the Fiesta Bowl Year. OSU would have microscopic odds to make a 4 team national playoff. With 8 teams we stand a real shot on a hot year where we are the 2nd Pac-12 team in. The team that makes that could then have a shot. That 2000 team had the pieces to win it all but we were a little lucky to get to a BCS Bowl as it was because of the tight loss against UW. The Pac-12 and Erickson fought for it knowing it was a special year and a special team for OSU. 8 teams is just enough to get a team like that in, which deserves it, and atleast keeps us interested in many more years as maybe being on the cusp of possibly making it.
We just need a coach who doesn’t make excuses and can handle putting on a Spring Game like the other 99% of the major conference schools.
Ever hear about a player named about a player named Darryl Green? How about the Rogers brothers? I guess they couldn’t play because they are too small. Yep, little guy middle linebackers like London Fletcher do break down after 15 year careers. The longer season favors the guys in shape, not the sloths. Different sport but Chris Wondolowski has led the MSL in scoring the last two years (as a slow wimpy guy) primarily because of superior conditioning. Zimmerman is a very good player and will be a great Beaver eventually. Ashton, they do not yet know what to do with him. But he is a multitalented. It is unfortunate that Coach Riley is so unimaginative that he can’t figure out how to put the kid in a position to contribute by matching his ability to do many things against opponents that are only good at one thing.
Looking ahead to next week. At ASU. But first we have Portland while Sun Devils rest. ASU split 2 midweek games with Cal State Fullerton. Why is it that the ducks always seen to get an easier schedule?
They don’t have an easier schedule, Oregon State does. UO plays @UCLA, @Arizona, @Stanford, they have to play a series @OSU. Oregon State caught a lot of breaks scheduling wise. Nearly all the tough series outside of ASU are at Goss
1:55pm projected start of the game
Rain Delay.
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good lookin out
hopefully this is frye’s coming out party. i also heard parker say earlier that gorton would start and not rodriguez. not sure i’m cool with that, but we shall see.
Why wouldn’t you be cool with that? Gorton has been a little better behind the plate as far as blocking pitches and Gorton just had a really good game offensively and swung the bat really well. Jake has been slumping. No reason Gorton shouldn’t get at least get the start today.
i missd game 2 yesterday, so i’ll stand corrected, although rodriguez has been a lot toughter to run on has he not?
Rodriguez has been really good at throwing out runners but I don’t think Gorton has had many chances, so don’t really know who’s better there.
did they call it? i thought it was supposed to start up at 1:55
Twitter is most up to date on the matter.
https://twitter.com/#!/beaver_baseball
weather radar improving, they’ll get it in today.
Wow, AZ sweeps Stanford. #1 Florida loses series to Mississippi and #3 Arkansas deadlocked with LSU in B11.
and Cal took 2 out of 3 from Texas.
The Beavers easily could have the series against Arizona, possibly even sweep them. That would have looked incredibly good now. Oh well. Time for the Beavers to get this series win today. Beavers will be looking good at the end of the year if they just win every series from this point on. Hopefully they do that.
this nickelback is killing me
Hayes boots it at first to start the game. Not a good way to start.
This has not been a good inning for the Beavers defensively, two errors have led to two runs.
Gametracker disabled? Box score update?
It’s working again.
I like the Huskies’ catcher is framing pitches two inches off the dirt.
Michael Conforto is a BEAST. Two run shot to right and it’s tied at 2
Do not throw a high fastball around the letters to Conforto. That dude will crush it damn near every time.
Bad umpiring. Fry getting squeezed.
Fry getting zero help from his defense. These are some really bad errors.
gorton wth a passed ball and a throwing error. i’m thinkin i still like rodriguez better.
Rodriguez has his fair share of passed balls himself.
I thought I heard that JR was banged up a bit and with Gorton’s offense yesterday and he looked good receiving it makes sense he got the start.
Damn I just checked the box score and we already have THREE errors?! It’s the second inning!
Only one play was tough and that one Hayes should have caught. That’s the only reason the Huskies have scored. Team lacking focus on defense
Get Hayes out of the game.
Keyes doing a decent job as of late at not chasing pitches out of the zone.
I hate when guys take third strikes. If it’s close SWING!
I suppose you’ll never get out of a slump if you don’t play and Casey is playing the percentages but can you afford to have both Hayes and Keyes batting in the same game.
This umpire is brutal
Wow three strike outs, two of them looking. I feel like I’m watching our football team today with the lack of execution.
Fry has some good stuff today, would be pitching a shutout if his defense was playing well.
I will never understand sacrificing with 1 out
With apologies to GB90, the ducks complete their sweep of ASU and Arkansas is swept by LSU
And CSUN whips Cal St Fullerton, just sayin’.
Offense doing it’s disappearing act again today.
Are we line dancing or trying to win a damn baseball series?
That was a close play. Got runners on first and second and 1 out now for Barnes. Smith and Conforto to follow. Could be a big inning.
Bases loaded for Tyler Smith and 1 out. Big spot, definitely the right hitter up there too.
Tyler Smith comes through again and it’s 4-3 Beavers. Two on and 1 out for Conforto now
Not envious of Climber. Who wants to take the mound with bases loaded (and a lead to protect).
Tyler frickin Smith.
Time for another Conforto homer to really take total control of this.
Beavers had a chance to put some distance between them and the Huskies and can’t do it. Really needed to extend the lead there. Getting the lead is great but having just a 1 run lead is never comfortable.
So far this weekend the Beavers’ starters have pitched 21 innings and have given up 1 earned run. That is pretty damn impressive.
that’s why it would even shittier than it otherwise would be to lose the series
Hopefully Fry can get through 7 and then the Beavers can turned it over to Boyd and Bryant to close this one out
Really great performance by Fry. Easily his best start as a Beaver. The weekend rotation is looking great. Just need consistency from the bullpen and this team will be looking good.
That’s small ball at its very best. Got a runner on second, bunted him over, got him in on a sac fly.
Score and inning?
5-3 Beavers top of the 8th
5-3 Beavs, top 8
T8– Boyd on for Fry
Boyd is so good at throwing the timing of the hitter off. He’s the absolute best at it.
Ump missed the call
Get ’em Pat, MP’s got yer back.
Nice job by Boyd to bounce back and retire the Huskies in the 8th and keep the score 5-3 Beavers
Boyd is going to make a great pro/lefty specialist.
Damn, it is raining hard
I have no idea why Yeskie and Casey always do this. Why not bring in Bryant to start the 9th? Why bring him in once someone gets on base? I don’t get it.
I was just thinking the same thing. Maybe they were hoping to just stick with Boyd for the whole ninth but weren’t impressed with how he looked?
Shouldn’t even be here. Should be 5-0 and you throw strikes and the game is over.
Oh great…
Take him off any watch lists.
Man, Tony Bryant has not been the same guy as last season. Much more hittable this season. Him blowing this one would really hurt. He needs to figure it out and close this one out.
Opponents batting average…
2012: .167
2011: .224
Actually no, it’s .228 this year. ERA last season: 1.52 ERA this season: 4.11
That was a BIG strikeout.
Great pitch from Bryant. One more.
Bryant bounces back from the bases loaded 1 out jam to get the save. Was a series the Beavers needed to win and they did.
If Hayes is still at first base the game’s tied.
gigantic win
For the ASU series all game will be available to watch. Game 1 will be on ROOT Sports but it will be delayed. Games 2 and 3 of the series will be available to be viewed here http://www.foxsportsarizona.com/pages/sundevils_stream
Many thanks, GB for the link.
What are the chances for a Beavs sweep?
Not too good, I would say. ASU’s offense is so-so on the road but good at home. They have great starting pitching. Very slight edge in starting pitching to ASU. I think this series is gonna come down to the bullpens. I think ASU’s bullpen is better than OSU’s right now. If OSU’s ‘Pen steps up they can win the series but if not ASU will obviously take the series. I can’t see either team sweeping. All 3 games should be tight, I expect 3 one run games. Hopefully the Beavers can come out on top.