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Ducks Grind Through Missed Chances, Walk Off Huskies in 11th
04/27/15 | Baseball
by Rob Moseley
Editor, GoDucks.com
EUGENE, Ore. — Senior J.B. Bryant worked a walk with the bases loaded in the bottom of the 11th inning Sunday, giving the Oregon baseball team a 3-2 victory over Washington as the Ducks took two of three in the series.
How It Happened: The teams traded runs in the third, with Washington taking a 1-0 lead on the only run it pushed across in five innings of work for first-time UO starter Josh Graham. The Ducks (25-19, 7-11 Pac-12) responded when Mark Karaviotis hit a one-out triple and came home on a single by Jakob Goldfarb.
Goldfarb was stranded at third to end the bottom of the third, the first of three straight innings the Ducks left a man at third and four straight in which they left a runner in scoring position. That futility ended in the seventh; the Huskies (23-18, 8-13) led 2-1 when Mitchell Tolman doubled with one out, went to third on a wild pitch and scored on a Phil Craig-St. Louis groundout.
The Ducks loaded the bases in the bottom of the ninth for Scott Heineman, but his one-out fly ball to left resulted in a double play when pinch-runner Austin Grebeck was nailed at the plate. The Ducks again loaded the bases with one out in the 11th, and though Heineman struck out, Bryant worked Oregon's second walk-off walk of the season.
Bullpen Shines Again: For the second night in a row, Oregon's relief pitching was superb. After Kohl Hostert loaded the bases without recording an out in the sixth, Trent Paddon entered and ended the inning on three pitches — the first was a double play on which UW scored the go-ahead run for a 2-1 lead, and the third was an inning-ending ground ball.
Paddon pitched another scoreless inning, the first of three straight UO relievers to throw two shutout frames. Stephen Nogosek followed suit, getting a double-play ball with two on and one out to end the top of the ninth. Garrett Cleavinger (3-1) then struck out six over the final two innings to earn the win.
Washington's Troy Rallings was the loser. He allowed just two hits and one run over 4 1/3 innings, but he walked five overall and three in the bottom of the 11th. "I reflect back to last year — we lost a tough two out of three to them up there and some of that was based on us not throwing strikes late in the game," UO coach George Horton said. "… For us to win it on a walk, with a senior guy (Bryant), it made us feel real good. That was a grinder, and to get two out of three for us is significant, obviously."
Ducks Miss Opportunities: After Goldfarb was left at third to end the third, Brandon Cuddy led off the fourth with a triple and the Ducks were unable to bring him home. Tolman singled and found his way to third in the fifth but was left there, and Daniel Patzlaff was stranded at second to end the sixth.
Oregon also couldn't take advantage of Tim Susnara's two-out double in the eighth, nor the bases-loaded situation in the ninth. And Cuddy singled to lead off the 10th before Bryant, in as a pinch runner, moved to third on two infield outs but couldn't score. "We did some real spectacular things to set the table, and then they threw some late-game defenses at us, and they executed some really good pitches," Horton said. "You get frustrated with that, but their pitchers did a nice job of executing some pitches when it looked very dire for them."
Up Next: The Ducks remain at home for their next Pac-12 series, beginning Friday against Stanford in PK Park at 6 p.m.
Editor, GoDucks.com
EUGENE, Ore. — Senior J.B. Bryant worked a walk with the bases loaded in the bottom of the 11th inning Sunday, giving the Oregon baseball team a 3-2 victory over Washington as the Ducks took two of three in the series.
How It Happened: The teams traded runs in the third, with Washington taking a 1-0 lead on the only run it pushed across in five innings of work for first-time UO starter Josh Graham. The Ducks (25-19, 7-11 Pac-12) responded when Mark Karaviotis hit a one-out triple and came home on a single by Jakob Goldfarb.
Goldfarb was stranded at third to end the bottom of the third, the first of three straight innings the Ducks left a man at third and four straight in which they left a runner in scoring position. That futility ended in the seventh; the Huskies (23-18, 8-13) led 2-1 when Mitchell Tolman doubled with one out, went to third on a wild pitch and scored on a Phil Craig-St. Louis groundout.
The Ducks loaded the bases in the bottom of the ninth for Scott Heineman, but his one-out fly ball to left resulted in a double play when pinch-runner Austin Grebeck was nailed at the plate. The Ducks again loaded the bases with one out in the 11th, and though Heineman struck out, Bryant worked Oregon's second walk-off walk of the season.
Bullpen Shines Again: For the second night in a row, Oregon's relief pitching was superb. After Kohl Hostert loaded the bases without recording an out in the sixth, Trent Paddon entered and ended the inning on three pitches — the first was a double play on which UW scored the go-ahead run for a 2-1 lead, and the third was an inning-ending ground ball.
Paddon pitched another scoreless inning, the first of three straight UO relievers to throw two shutout frames. Stephen Nogosek followed suit, getting a double-play ball with two on and one out to end the top of the ninth. Garrett Cleavinger (3-1) then struck out six over the final two innings to earn the win.
Washington's Troy Rallings was the loser. He allowed just two hits and one run over 4 1/3 innings, but he walked five overall and three in the bottom of the 11th. "I reflect back to last year — we lost a tough two out of three to them up there and some of that was based on us not throwing strikes late in the game," UO coach George Horton said. "… For us to win it on a walk, with a senior guy (Bryant), it made us feel real good. That was a grinder, and to get two out of three for us is significant, obviously."
Ducks Miss Opportunities: After Goldfarb was left at third to end the third, Brandon Cuddy led off the fourth with a triple and the Ducks were unable to bring him home. Tolman singled and found his way to third in the fifth but was left there, and Daniel Patzlaff was stranded at second to end the sixth.
Oregon also couldn't take advantage of Tim Susnara's two-out double in the eighth, nor the bases-loaded situation in the ninth. And Cuddy singled to lead off the 10th before Bryant, in as a pinch runner, moved to third on two infield outs but couldn't score. "We did some real spectacular things to set the table, and then they threw some late-game defenses at us, and they executed some really good pitches," Horton said. "You get frustrated with that, but their pitchers did a nice job of executing some pitches when it looked very dire for them."
Up Next: The Ducks remain at home for their next Pac-12 series, beginning Friday against Stanford in PK Park at 6 p.m.
