2013 Trip To Omaha
2013 Postseason Statistics And Game-By-Game
The Oregon State baseball team returned to Omaha in 2013 after a five-year hiatus from the College World Series. The Beavers made the trip on the strength of an incredibly strong pitching staff and a balanced offense.
Much like past seasons, the Beavers relied heavily on a Northwest flavor with its roster. Twenty players on the team’s 35-man roster hailed from either Washington or Oregon, including all three of the team’s weekend starters, Matt Boyd, Ben Wetzler and Andrew Moore.
The Beavers broke the school record for victories with 52, won the Pac-12 Conference with a 24-6 record and advanced to the World Series after hosting both the Corvallis Regional and Corvallis Super Regional.
• Oregon State played its first ever games at TD Ameritrade Park Omaha, going 2-2. The two victories gave the Beavers 13 all-time wins in Omaha, with each belonging to head coach Pat Casey.
• Oregon State batted .290 during the postseason and finished with a 3.00 earned run average. Kavin Keyes paced OSU with a .357 batting average and Michael Conforto set the OSU single postseason record with six doubles. Ben Wetzler was stellar for the Beavers on the mound, posting a 3-0 record and 2.74 ERA. He, Matt Boyd and Andrew Moore combined to pitch in 76 of the team’s 90 postseason innings (84.4 percent) and tallied a 6-2 record.
• Matt Boyd recorded the Beavers’ first-ever complete-game effort at the College World Series in his last collegiate appearance when he shut out Indiana in a 1-0 win over June 19. It was just the 18th all-time 1-0 game at the College World Series, and the first since 1985.Â
• Oregon State’s 52 victories surpassed the 2006 club’s school-record 50-win season. The Beavers’ 2013 winning percentage of .800 was the best mark in modern OSU history and led the Pac-12 Conference. The 52 wins is also the most by a Pac-12 school since Arizona State won 52 in 2010.
• The Beavers stretched their program record postseason appearances to five and in eight of the last nine seasons. Oregon State has made four NCAA College World Series appearances during that stretch.
• Oregon State won its third league title under head coach Pat Casey and did so with a 24-6 record. The 24 wins is the most by a league team since the then-Pac-10 unified prior to the 1999 season. The 24 wins is the most since USC won the Pac-10 South in 1996.
• Michael Conforto was named the Pac-12’s Player of the Year and Andrew Moore earned Freshman of the Year honors. Both were also named All-Americans, as was Matt Boyd, giving the Beavers three in a year for just the second time in school history (the first coming in 2006).
• Moore was named a first-team All-American, becoming the first true freshman in OSU history to pick up the honor. Conforto, meanwhile, became just the fifth player in school history to record back-to-back All-American seasons.
• The Beavers lost consecutive games just once, in a doubleheader against Washington on April 20. Oregon State opened the year with 15 consecutive wins, and later had a 12-game win streak that began the day after the doubleheader loss. Oregon State headed into the postseason with 16 wins in its last 18 games.
• OSU finished with the nation’s second-lowest ERA at 2.28, which also led the Pac-12 and set a new school record for best ERA. The Beavers also led the Pac-12 with a .217 batting average against and were second in fewest hits allowed at 454 and fifth in fewest walks allowed at 173, just 15 behind the Pac-12’s leader.
• Oregon State found itself in the top 10 every weekend according to Baseball America. The Beavers were outside the top 10 just twice according to the other four major polls.
The Oregon State baseball team returned to Omaha in 2013 after a five-year hiatus from the College World Series. The Beavers made the trip on the strength of an incredibly strong pitching staff and a balanced offense.
Much like past seasons, the Beavers relied heavily on a Northwest flavor with its roster. Twenty players on the team’s 35-man roster hailed from either Washington or Oregon, including all three of the team’s weekend starters, Matt Boyd, Ben Wetzler and Andrew Moore.
The Beavers broke the school record for victories with 52, won the Pac-12 Conference with a 24-6 record and advanced to the World Series after hosting both the Corvallis Regional and Corvallis Super Regional.
• Oregon State played its first ever games at TD Ameritrade Park Omaha, going 2-2. The two victories gave the Beavers 13 all-time wins in Omaha, with each belonging to head coach Pat Casey.
• Oregon State batted .290 during the postseason and finished with a 3.00 earned run average. Kavin Keyes paced OSU with a .357 batting average and Michael Conforto set the OSU single postseason record with six doubles. Ben Wetzler was stellar for the Beavers on the mound, posting a 3-0 record and 2.74 ERA. He, Matt Boyd and Andrew Moore combined to pitch in 76 of the team’s 90 postseason innings (84.4 percent) and tallied a 6-2 record.
• Matt Boyd recorded the Beavers’ first-ever complete-game effort at the College World Series in his last collegiate appearance when he shut out Indiana in a 1-0 win over June 19. It was just the 18th all-time 1-0 game at the College World Series, and the first since 1985.Â
• Oregon State’s 52 victories surpassed the 2006 club’s school-record 50-win season. The Beavers’ 2013 winning percentage of .800 was the best mark in modern OSU history and led the Pac-12 Conference. The 52 wins is also the most by a Pac-12 school since Arizona State won 52 in 2010.
• The Beavers stretched their program record postseason appearances to five and in eight of the last nine seasons. Oregon State has made four NCAA College World Series appearances during that stretch.
• Oregon State won its third league title under head coach Pat Casey and did so with a 24-6 record. The 24 wins is the most by a league team since the then-Pac-10 unified prior to the 1999 season. The 24 wins is the most since USC won the Pac-10 South in 1996.
• Michael Conforto was named the Pac-12’s Player of the Year and Andrew Moore earned Freshman of the Year honors. Both were also named All-Americans, as was Matt Boyd, giving the Beavers three in a year for just the second time in school history (the first coming in 2006).
• Moore was named a first-team All-American, becoming the first true freshman in OSU history to pick up the honor. Conforto, meanwhile, became just the fifth player in school history to record back-to-back All-American seasons.
• The Beavers lost consecutive games just once, in a doubleheader against Washington on April 20. Oregon State opened the year with 15 consecutive wins, and later had a 12-game win streak that began the day after the doubleheader loss. Oregon State headed into the postseason with 16 wins in its last 18 games.
• OSU finished with the nation’s second-lowest ERA at 2.28, which also led the Pac-12 and set a new school record for best ERA. The Beavers also led the Pac-12 with a .217 batting average against and were second in fewest hits allowed at 454 and fifth in fewest walks allowed at 173, just 15 behind the Pac-12’s leader.
• Oregon State found itself in the top 10 every weekend according to Baseball America. The Beavers were outside the top 10 just twice according to the other four major polls.
