This weekend will present an interesting test for the Beavers' pitching staff. Arizona (ranked #5) has legit mashers in Robert Refsnyder, Alex Mejia, and Seth Mejias-Brean. The Beavers have some mashers of their own, though. Tyler Smith has been impressive. I compared him last week to Michael Young of the Rangers. He's somehow become that type of hitter. Conforto and Davis have been excellent, as advertised.
Wetzler, Child, and Fry will get the nods and face Heyer (4-1, 1.23), Wade (3-0, 2.97), and Farris (2-1, 3.94).
This series will come down to which team gets more quality starts, which makes me lean Arizona taking 2 of 3.
Game time is 5:35PT.
Anybody on campus today? Curious what the field conditions are like. They’ve had so much precipitation lately in Corvallis and I tend to think that will have an effect on Arizona’s fielding.
Is there snow on the field? Will there be a game today?
http://webcam.oregonstate.edu/baseball/
From this pic it looks like the field will be ready.
Lookin forward to a competitive series. GO BEAVS ! One at a time !
why does the field look airbrushed or pixelated when I view it? Are they masking the field for the webcam?
still looks like a lot of white stuff on the outfield from what I can tell
I guess snow removal strategies are top-secret. As more snow is removed there’s less pixelation.
It’s always pixelated as a matter of policy… at least during the season or fall camp.
And on game days it’s delayed an hour.
Damn, that’s too bad. I was hoping to circumvent purchasing the Pac 12 network from Comcast by watching the baseball games via webcam with a 1 minute refresh rate. It’s almost as good as an HD live telecast!
at 11:30am the outfield was completely white, but 2 hours later 95% of the snow was gone…they will be playing ball tonight!
Wish I could go to these games this weekend. Like you said Angry, should be a great test between two of the best teams in the Pac-12.
Hager just tweeted that all the snow has been removed. Play ball!
#15 GA Tech pitchers have given up 4 dingers through 7 and trail Boston College 15-7.
Nice upset. BC wins 15-7. I always love seeing ranked east coast teams lose.
I like Beavs chances this weekend. Need some good pitching. Smellycats have played 22 games so far this year and they have given up 6 or more runs in exactly half(11) of those games.
@Beaver_Baseball Today’s lineup: Gordon-CF, Smith-2B, Conforto-LF, Davis-RF, Dunn-SS, Keyes-3B, Barnes-1B, Hayes-DH, Rodriguez-C, Wetzler-LHP
I hope Wetzler shows up for this game. A win tonight is huge for the Beavs momentum/confidence.
Finally, live stream
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Thanks, kman.
Thanks
Wetzler was really going at the previous batter and then started nibbling and walked him. Needs to stay aggressive.
Wetzler got behind some hitters and paid for it. 1-0 Zona.
Also, walked one after being ahead 0-2.
Wetzler limited the damage there. Hopefully the offense can get the run back
Max gets on base again. He’s doing a good job in the lead-off spot.
Tyler Smith with the RBI double!!!! Tie game!
Gordon appeared to be running out of gas as he approached the plate. Tie game.
Damn, that pitch by Hoyer was nice.
Heyer*
Hate how empty the stands look, if you buy season tickets and don’t go give them to somebody who will.
Really nice approach by Dylan Davis. Waited on that pitch nicely. Beavers picking up Wetzler. Lead 2-1
The Beavers’ offense is really on fire right now. Ryan Dunn RB double puts them up 3-1. Time to add some more and give Wetzler a nice lead.
great comeback! Shut down inning would be nice.
Yup, and did it w/o any HBP or BB.
Nice job by Wetzler to throw a shutdown inning. That’s big. Offense gets to go back out there and try and add on to the lead.
What happened to the snow you wussies were complaining about, LOL?
is this the first time rodriguez has hit ninth?
Michael Conforto with the clutch two out, RBI single. 4-1 Beavers.
RBI Conforto, had to figure after the K last inning he’d do something good.
This guy is a monster.
Beavs lineup has become overwhelming. Murder’s Row…
Yo Angry, are we going to get a football bitching thread soon? That OL situation has losing season
written all over it. All the positivity about baseball is unsettling!
Probably since spring ball starts April 3rd.
The OL situation isn’t as bad as it looks. It’ll be bad during the spring, but a freshman or two will probably wind up starting come fall.
Dunn’s smile after catching Rickard’s fly reminded me a little of Darwin. These guys are having fun.
Great job Ben!!
Great baserunning by Dunn. Gets himself into scoring position for Barnes.
Leads to an RBI single by Barnes.
Great hit and run there and Hayes gets a single, runners on first and third and 1 out for Jake Rodriguez. Could be a big inning here.
Man! Hate to see a chance for runs go by. Oh well. 5-1 Beavers. Offense is looking really good.
You guys watching NCAA’s? UNC is losing to OHIO!
Watchin’ Rodriguez/Dunn making a nice play on attempted steal.
You need to multi-task.
Thats what she said!
Is Kentucky baseball still undefeated, I stumbled on a story the other day that they started the season 21-0 and swept South Carolina. That sounds semi-legit to me. They don’t have much of a baseball tradition do they?
22-0 per D1baseball site.
They lost for the first time tonight, in Knoxville against Tennessee, 4-1. They do similar stuff to this every night. Great record until SEC play. By the 2nd and 3rd week they start to fall off and have a mediocre-bad conference record. I don’t expect that to change.
I’m afraid to get bullish on Wetzler, but he’s been good
He’s channeling the porn stache. He just needs to grow out the mullet and he can be our poor man’s Dennis Eckersley.
http://www.totalprosports.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/dennis-eckersely-resize.jpg
I feel the same about Wetzler, and Keyes defensively as well.
Wetzler is cruising.
What inning?
never mind
Defense gets Wetzler out of the bases loaded jam and beavs survive the inning giving up only 1 run. Think he might be done for the night.
My bad, no runs given up. Watching too many games at one time.
Next thing you will tell us they hit a three pointer.
Now I know what it feels like to READ Harry Caray.
Nice play by Keyes, still hard for me to relax when he is in the field.
“Beaver Nation”
Yo Parker , your mike is on!
It’s so so so damn annoying. I wonder if he knows how big of an unprofessional jackass he sounds like between innings
good defense today.
Nice to get into the AZ bullpen, especially since Beavs had to go to their own pen this inning.
that wasn’t so nice
Hey, GB90, what’d ya think of Keyes swings, especially the first foul down RF line?
Thought Keyes turned the corner last weekend but he has looked bad at the plate tonight
Seems to me he is runnin’ scared, didn’t look balanced on the foul I mentioned. Looks like a real mental/confidence issue; he’ll break out of it……but when.
It is all mental. Right now he’s late on the fastball, early on the breaking balls and changeups. Really slumping. He’ll get hot soon, hope it happens tomorrow and Sunday.
Might be time to get Boyd in there
Got to get Boyd in there now. Brocker struggling.
Tony Bryant’s changeup is beautiful.
Tony Bryant a 3 pitch K, now 2 down.
Score and inning please?
5-3 Beavs, bottom 8th
Beavers offense hasn’t looked good since the 3rd. Arizona has pitched well but the Beavers haven’t had many good approaches at the plate.
Unlike some, I can’t get down on Parker. Loved his remark when the napkin was picked up from the field, “nothing else should be done with napkins”.
I like his game calling. I just get mega bugged by extreme volume changes. And since I pay for the online video, I don’t appreciate the crap between innings that airs on the computer while the radio world is getting commercials. I don’t want commercials, but I also don’t wanna hear Parker harping on his underlings.
Tony two misses high, not a good sign.
Beavers bullpen not getting it done tonight and the offense has disappeared. Offense needs to get it going.
Smith, Conforto, and Davis; probably the best guys to have coming up.
a little unlucky, but that’s why you can’t walk people.
WOW! A dropped popup in the infield. Wow, just wow.
That will haunt him for a while
Smith was handcuffed, got to take advantage of the error.
let Conforto swing.
Pervert
that’s what
Casey is gonna let Conforto swing away. I like this decision
Send the runner here
Works as well as a sacrifice. Big spot for Dylan Davis
That was a nice change up on a 3-2 count. It looked so tantalizing.
Ryan Dunn is swinging it well. I like him being up there in this position. Ryan Dunn three run shot coming
Damn, you almost called it. Looked like it hit the bottom of the fence. Was that another change up or a hanger?
Didn’t see the replay but it appeared to be a changeup that hung up in the zone and Dunn waited on it perfectly. Ball may have got out on a warm afternoon game.
Hanging curveball
AZ will regret intentional walk.
Beavers win 6-5!!!
Sweet!
That was awesome.
Bummer Bryant gets the win. Wetzler did pitch great.
He got the vulture win. Starters hate that without a doubt!
Not really a vulture win when he gave up the lead.
No, that’s the definition of a vulture win when it comes to baseball. Cost the starter the win, get yourself the win.
There’s my sixth run! Nice. Man Child – Dan Child’s turn next! Nice win.
This kind of game builds character, will serve these guys well all season. Hard to now picture less than 2 of 3 for the Beavs this series, they’ve got the mo now.
Go for the sweep! Games like this really give the guys confidence and with it being at home this could turn into a sweep if Child continues to pitch well and Fry gives them a good start on Sunday. Great to see the team really getting it going.
Offtopic:
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