8pm start.
That was a close call last night. I’m not as down on the offense as some guys here. Beavs should be okay.
UC Irvine threw their best guy (Morales) yesterday, so they are into their mid-tier, finesse pitching.
Go Beavs
8pm start.
That was a close call last night. I’m not as down on the offense as some guys here. Beavs should be okay.
UC Irvine threw their best guy (Morales) yesterday, so they are into their mid-tier, finesse pitching.
Go Beavs
Go Beavs!
What he said.
I second that second.
Man, with all three pitchers now looking very good, we just need to get the bats goin!! Comeon, guys! GO BEAVS!!
They will get there. I think Petey being out was more of an issue than Keyes. But Keyes getting back to form will help.
Petey just provides that “get’em on” and “move ’em over” spark. Conforto and Davis both hit better when the opposition is pitching out of the stretch. Clark seems to be hot all on his own. But the late part of the order does much better when Petey is in play. Morrison and Hamilton aren’t forced into being what we need from Petey, therefore, they can play their ball and let the top of the order bring them in.
This is reminding me of last year in the tournament. Last year at this time they also had a terrible time getting hits. Conforto is way to anxious at the plate.
He’s way ahead of junk. He sees it. He can probably hit some of it, which frustrates him. But nobody is going to try to challenge him with a FB. He might do well to show bunt a couple times just to challenge a P to throw him something fast. That would at least give him a good read and the upper hand when he goes in for the kill.
Or he could just stand there like Barry Bonds used to do… looking bored with every offering until he walks to first.
Anybody have any luck streaming the last game? Have an idea about watching it tonight?
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Looks like the ucks used up all their runs last night? Is it 8pm yet???
UVA’s P looks really solid. But Arky looks like crap.
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Once again we make an average pitcher look good. Fly balls and K’s do not work. Fry needs support!
Geez Davis whatvwas that?
Might be the first time Conforto has tried to bunt for a base hit in his life
No its his 3rd time
This looks like a loss. Beavers aren’t gonna score
Is a one run deficit insurmountable with our current hitting woes?
So much for the best time of year to be a Beaver. That lasted exactly 1 day.
The OS bench is lifeless and the Irvine fans are louder than Beaver Nation
This is looking ugly.
Fry has has no control since the 2nd inning. He can’t put guys away with 2 strikes and he’s hitting guys. This one is over. I doubt the Beavers can come back trough the losers bracket with their lack of pitching depth. They have only 4 good pitchers and one is a bullpen arm
Wow, awful decision by Fry
Understatement of the year .
Wow
Complete meltdown
They are playing really stupid baseball…Not what you expect from a Casey led team. Terrible.
This is true.
In fact, you will all be comforted by the fact that Obama called the shots tonight.
Thanks Obama.
If we still had bats, leaving Jace in would make sense. Four runs down and more to come; not so much.
Conforto is in his own head right now. He’s been horrible the last 2 nights. He’s not getting deep into counts and hasn’t hit a ball hard in a long time. Only player who has looked good at the plate tonight is Davis and he had a baserunning blunder.
Swing the bat
Casey is using the 2006 “work our way out of elimination” strategy. Very clever. It will fool everyone.
Oregon State’s bats have always struggled in the postseason since the new bats came in. The bats always fade at the end of the year. Not a big shock this is happening. Just sucks that it’s going to end their season yet again.
How is the bats fault? They are standing there and watching strike 3 go by…Bats don’t matter when you don’t swing them. This team is playing dumb baseball and pressing way too hard. Pressure got to them IMO…No way do they win 3 in a row….It was a fun run but put in a fork in them, they are done.
When I say bats I’m talking about the hitters
Wow. Take another bite of the shit sandwich.
Who would pitch in the morning vs tomorrow night?
Afternoon game has to be Thompson/Schultz. Schultz is their fourth best pitcher, gonna have to ride with him as a starter most likely cause the options are very limited. Big reason why it was so important to win tonight cause of their lack of starting pitching depth. They’ll go Wetzler should they make it to game tomorrow night
No way, Wetzler goes game 1 tomorrow. You are facing elimination, you don’t save Wetzler…Shultz will go tomorrow night.
Agree
They should have Eden start. He will cripple most of their team when he plunks them with his 95 mph heater.
Eden has some snap on his FB. I think we’ll be joking about his plunkers with giggles in the years to come.
Dire stuff.
I would prefer that Shultz goes in the first game and Wetzler a night. If we dont get to Ben, then what makes us think Shultz could beat UNLV and not Irvine? I dont know. I think throw Ben at the better team, and that seems to be uci.
Why let Jace add more Irvine runs? I don’t get it. How about the fucking bullpen?
This game is lost, you have to save the pitching to have any shot of winning 3 games in 2 days. Fry has to finish it.
Number 1 Seed shutout. Fucked up.
Praying for a pitching meltdown.
we have a ballgame fellas
Perhaps not.
TCU is in the 17th inning.
Terrible base running. Have to score on that passed ball.
I really agree. Use the speed. The open bases makes a walk to Davis more likely imo instead of the 2-0 pop out. And thats an extra at bat with bases loaded. Ughhh. So flat tonight
Exactly, just wrote that. Davis would have been walked.
Is the bat stuck on Clark’s shoulder?
Should stick it somewhere else.
WTF was that? Clark takes a strike 3.
Wow. What is Gabe Clark doing. Took that right out of Jared Casper’s book.
So many called third strikes. Beavers are incredibly passive at the plate right now
Do we look scared? Three caught lookings for Clark? Bases loaded wild pitch and Hendrix does not run? Affraid to fail.
Don’t think I’ve ever seen a Casey team play such dumb unaggressive baseball. Guy on 3rd stands there when he could easily score on a passed ball, Clark watches 3 pitches go by him with bases loaded.
This team deserves to lose. It really does.
They’ve been playing like that for weeks. Starting pitching just wasn’t there to bail them out tonight
If Hendrix scores on that passed ball, they need 3 in the 9th to tie, which is doable with a good inning. 4 is nearly impossible. They may have intentionally walked Davis, too, instead of him popping out. Huge play.
Plus rattling the pitcher.
What the fuck was that? The plate ump is crazy? Bad call on the Ice tag early, shitty zone, and now this?
“Jared Casper could see a plate appears in the 9th inning”
GREAT
Since Moore’s hair was brought up… does Casper remind anyone of Joe Dirt?
This ump is pinching everyone.
Oh god Tater Salad is coming in.
Andy would have made that play.
Some really shitty approaches at the plate tonight. To me, walks mean more when you have some real power in the line up. I guess trying to get walked works when you have one of the best pitching staffs in the nation, but when the pitching fails it’s ugly. Too late to change now, let’s hope the pitching is amazing in the next game.
I don’t get why they keep going to the pen, bring in someone unimportant and let him go till he gets out of it. Who cares if he gives up 30 runs? The game is over anyway. Save the pitching for tomorrow, they’re gonna need it.
Who knows, maybe someone deep in the pen actually has what this team needs, a set of balls. Give em all a try, they all suck at this point anyway.
Well, there’s that. Maybe the grandslam, slap in the face, will make the beavs actually get off their asses tomorrow.
Doubt it, they look lifeless. Irvine is destroying their mystique. Hope I am wrong but I wouldn’t be surprised if UNLV gets another shot on them tomorrow night. Beavs look dead on arrival this year. Potentially a brutal ending to a great season but that’s life. Some teams get hot, some go into a slump…This feels like the debt owed for the 2007 run right now.
Umm… okay?
You will note that Irvine suffered a worse season-ending slump than did we.
Apparently slumps are made to be broken.
If they can get by UNLV tomorrow, they will have their chance to save face because they will have to beat Irvine twice. They are making this very hard.
Looking like a big “if” right now
Come on. seriously. 6-4-3
One out left, 12 run rally, let’s go….
Any more of Irvine’s pitchers play for the corvallis knights?
.160 average at the plate…
The Ghost.
Come on. Really. We all knew this offense was going to sink this ship eventually. This team is done.
Embarrasing!!!!
I tried for an hour and ten minutes to try and get tickets to this regional, and now I’m very glad I didn’t get them. I can’t believe how bad this team looks. Have you ever seen a team so absolutely inept at the plate? Bases loaded and watch 3 straight go right down the middle? And this is the number 1 team in the nation?
mhm
Number one in past deeds only, that’s for sure
You mean you didn’t want to see the best hitter in the P-12 try a lame bunt for a base hit or one of the top pitchers in the nation hit four players in one game? How about an experienced veteran try to take second on a hit that was clearly just a single? You already mentioned the numerous strikes taken by players with a whole season under their belts. It sounds like you missed an “unforgettable” live experience.
I did not mind the Conforto bunt attempt, he just needs to get the bunt laid down. The thought process was right though. He needs to get teams out of that shift and bunt for singles is the best way to do it. I remember watching Griffey lay down the occasional bunt as a Mariner when teams were giving it to him…Its a smart play, gotta execute though which is did not do.
Casey says this time of year it is all mental, so WTH has happened to this team?
I too waited in line for tickets, and got them. Sat with the Anteater crowd. Yes, it was “unforgettable”.
From the absolute get-go it was apparent the Beavs had let the pressure get to them. The energy and simple joy of being on the field was apparent in everything the “eaters” did from pre-game onward. Since I was drowning in eaters I have an honest question: were the Beav faithful not so faithful right from the beginning of the game?
An eater fan asked me why the crowd was so quiet and when I told him of our apprehensiveness about our offense he replied, “But, thats when you need to pick them up”. As others have said, the pressure got to the Beavs last night and there is only more pressure now.
Turnarounds happen, but you gotta swing the bat and play smart.
GO BEAVS !!
EDIT: Fear another word for Pressure, see Jason Quick’s piece:
http://www.oregonlive.com/beavers/index.ssf/2014/05/with_season_in_jeopardy_beaver.html
AND, did ya know that when you are surrounded by fans yelling “Go Eaters” it sounds a lot like “Go Beavers”?
Compromise…….”Go Eat Beaver.”
I guess I didn’t realize that the teams the Beavs faced in the regular season must have been full of a lot of real wild pitchers. Some of the Beavs have unimpressive batting averages, but great on base percentages (100 points higher in some cases). Now that they are facing pitchers who are consistently throwing strikes they look clueless up at the plate.
Buddies, season ticket holder, wife burned out with getting home at 1:00 AM two nights in a row and last nights miserable game is sitting this one out…so PBH is doing the driving. Heading south at 11:00 with a lot less enthusiasm, have a bad feeling about this one. JB
Obviously, the Beavs are in serious trouble, for all the reasons noted in the comments above. The situation is epitomized by the epic struggles of Michael Conforto, but other OSU stars are underperforming, too — many Beavs seem to be playing with a lack of poise and confidence.
What to do? If I were Pat Casey, I would send a message by NOT starting Wetzler in the first game today. I would call on the team to pull together and do what it takes to beat UNLV without their senior ace on the mound. Yes, it’s a big risk, and this risky strategy might fail. But if it succeeds, it could turn everything around.
If we can beat UNLV without Wetzler, I think we would likely beat UC Irvine tonight in the second game behind Wetzler. That would give us momentum going into a Monday night finale against UC Irvine (where both teams would be employing an all-hands-on-deck strategy, but where OSU would have the advantage both in terms of momentum, and also because of the home crowd). And if we could emerge as the winner of this regional after all this, I think we would be a more formidable team going forward (with some of our stars — esp. Conforto and Fry — taking advantage of the opportunity to shine). I would then expect us to win the super regional, and to do well in Omaha.
Of course, that’s a lot of “ifs”. But I think it starts with the decision on whether to save Wetzler for the second game today. Yes, it’s a huge risk. But I’m hoping Pat Casey decides to go with that strategy. We’ll see soon enough….
“We have nothing to fear but Anteaters themselves.” Franklin Delano Schwartz 1941. Casey should have used this famous quote last night. JB
It all started before the first pitch. You should’ve seen how pumped up the eaters dugout was during the lineup announcement. Whereas the Beavs looked like it was just another game. Fry’s biggest mistake wasn’t the WP but the decision to go home instead of conceding the run and getting the out. If he goes to first I think he gets out of the inning with just the one run scored. But that’s the pressure you put on yourselves when the offense isn’t going. Fry wasn’t sure that his team could score more than 2 runs.
The decision to go home compounded itself with a carry over later when Fry did go to 1b even though he had a force at the plate. Your comment that Fry wasn’t sure his team could score more than two runs is spot on, as is the observation that it all started before the first pitch.
Also I don’t think Hendrix not coming home on the ball that got away was an egregious error. Down 4 and one out you certainly don’t want to become the second out on that play with your best chance of getting knocked in at the plate. Who woulda bet that Davis was going to pop out? Stay put, let Davis do his job.
BS, that was a terrible error, you go there and you suddenly have runners at 2nd and 3rd where a base hit scores 2 runs bringing you within 1 run….They might even walk Davis leaving 1 out and the tying run on 1st base…All you need is a double and its a tie game. Staying on 3rd on that passed ball was a huge error….Could have changed the entire inning. Defending it is defending passive baseball. Passive baseball loses games.
Davis was pretty aggressive trying to turn a long single into a double. That didn’t work out so well.
No, Davis was being stupid…Not aggressive. There is a fairly sizable difference between the 2 situations. Sorry but a guy standing on 3rd when a passed ball gets all the way to a back stop is not defendable.
90+% of the setup is staying in the winner’s bracket. Wetzler needed to get the call against Irvine. He is on fire and his ERA is 0.76. Then Fry has a low pressure chance to finish the clean sweep of the Regional. Instead of great odds we now face a mountain to climb because we went with less than our best.
I actually agree with this, I understood going with Moore on Friday but don’t get why Casey didn’t go with Wetzler and his experience last night. Fry has been great but he hadn’t been in this situation before and you don’t know what the pressure will do to a guy. It was a bad risk by Casey IMO, Wetzler should have pitched last night then hopefully gets the relaxed first postseason start in a game where a loss doesn’t mean quite as much.
We need Shultz to get a win and Wetzler to get a win in order to set up Mondays winner takes all. So, which teams is easier for Shultz, UNLV or Irvine? I’d put the more difficult match up on Wetzler. Anything short of two wins today simply doesn’t cut it in my book. Set yourself up to win both.
You worry about what is right in front of you, you can’t win them both at 2pm. If Wetzler gives you the best chance to beat UNLV (and I think he does) you pitch him. Worry about Irvine when you get there. You have to beat UNLV first, do whatever that takes to get that done.
Start a new thread for today’s game, please. This is bad ju-ju to keep talking on yesterday’s thread.
Couldn’t have started much worse than that. Pick off and Conforto leaving his bat on his shoulder….Awesome start….
Agree
We are screwed. Rollie Fingers is pitching for UNLV.
Beav’s dugout looks like they are at a funeral.
Good. Its a long day if youre gonna play two. Id like to see them get a good lead here and coast into tonights games. Id prefer it be the fans who wake up
A high school pitcher could throw a shutout against the Beavers at this point
A bad HS pitcher.
New thread up for this
Thanks.
1 for 20 with RISP.
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