Beaver Rally Falls Short
February 19, 2002 | Baseball
Feb. 19, 2002
PORTLAND, Ore. - Oregon State's ninth-inning rally fell short as the Beavers lost to Portland 5-4 in non-conference baseball Tuesday afternoon at Pilot Stadium. The Beavers (3-5 overall, 0-0 Pacific-10) pushed across one run in the final inning and had the bases loaded when the game concluded.
OSU now heads for the Riverside Baseball Invitational. The Beavers open tournament play against Michigan on Friday at 11 a.m., then meet host California-Riverside on Saturday at 4 p.m. and take on San Francisco on Sunday at 12 noon. Saturday's game can be heard on KRKT-AM (990) and Sunday's game can be heard on KLOO-AM (1340).
On Tuesday, the Beavers rally came a half-inning after Portland (2-3, 0-0 West Coast) had taken the lead with its own three-run rally in the bottom of the eighth inning. It was OSU's first loss in Portland since 1995, when both schools were members of the Pacific-10 Northern Division, the Beavers had won nine straight at Pilot Stadium.
After Portland took a 5-3 lead in the bottom of the eighth, Tom Creighton led off the OSU ninth with a single and Brian Barden hit into a fielder's choice, Chris Biles then walked to put runners at first and second, and Portland sent Brule Speck to the mound to replace Zach Yarbrough.
Seth Pietsch greeted Speck with a sharp single to left that loaded the bases, then Andy Jarvis' sacrifice fly to deep rightfield brought home Barden and sent Biles to third. After Aaron Fausett walked, Will Hudson popped out to shortstop to end the game.
The Beavers left 13 runners on base in the game, including eight in scoring position. OSU fell behind 2-0 after three innings, but run-scoring singles by Jason McBride in the fourth inning and Hudson in the sixth knotted the game at 2-2.
Oregon State took a 3-2 lead in the top of the eighth, as pinch-hitter Wick Udy lined a no-ball, two-strike pitch into rightfield to drive in Pietsch. The Beavers threatened to add more as they still had the bases loaded with one out for the top of the order, but Kerisi Reynolds grounded into an inning-ending double play.
Portland scored all three of its eighth-inning runs with two out against Beaver closer Jared Sanders. Matt Hollod drove in the tying run with a single to left, then Brock Griffin doubled to right-center to drive in the go-ahead runs.
Pietsch and McBride were both 2-for-4 for the Beavers. Jake Postlewait turned in a strong relief effort for OSU, going three innings and allowing one run on two hits and no walks, striking out two.
PORTLAND 5, OREGON STATE 4
Oregon State 000 101 011 - 4 9 1 Portland 011 000 03x - 5 10 0Copeland, Ekstrom (4), Postlewait (5), Sanders (8), Stykel (8) and Richie, Udy (8). Corra, Yarbrough (6), Speck (9) and Griffin. WP-Yarbrough (1-0). LP-Sanders (0-1). SV-Speck (1). 2B-Biles (OSU), Hull (UP), Casto (UP), Hollod (UP), Griffin (UP).
HITS: Oregon State 9 (Creighton 1x4, Barden 1x5, Biles 1x2, Pietsch 2x4, McBride 2x4, Hudson 1x4, Udy 1x1), Portland 10 (Hull 2x5, Casto 1x3, Allen 2x3, Hanson 1x3, Hollod 2x3, Stewart 1x3, Griffin 1x4). RUNS BATTED IN: Oregon State 4 (Jarvis 1, McBride 1, Hudson 1, Udy 1), Portland 5 (Casto 1, Hollod 2, Griffin 2).
Oregon State 4 (3-5) Portland 5 (2-3) Player AB R H BI Player AB R H BI Kerisi Reynolds 2b....... 5 0 0 0 Eric Hull 2b............. 5 1 2 0 Tom Creighton cf......... 4 0 1 0 Jared Mora 3b............ 4 0 0 0 Brian Barden 3b.......... 5 1 1 0 Kory Casto rf............ 3 0 1 1 Chris Biles rf........... 2 2 1 0 Matt Allen lf............ 3 1 2 0 Seth Pietsch lf.......... 4 1 2 0 Travis Hanson ss......... 3 1 1 0 Andy Jarvis 1b........... 2 0 0 1 Trevor Hahn cf........... 3 0 0 0 Jason McBride dh......... 4 0 2 1 Matt Hollod 1b........... 3 0 2 2 Aaron Fausett pr/dh..... 0 0 0 0 Schad Woods pr.......... 0 1 0 0 Will Hudson ss........... 4 0 1 1 Bryan Dearinger 1b...... 0 0 0 0 Paul Richie c............ 2 0 0 0 Brad Stewart dh.......... 3 0 1 0 Wick Udy ph/c........... 1 0 1 1 Cory Lunde ph........... 0 0 0 0 Stephen Copeland p....... 0 0 0 0 Nick Thede pr........... 0 1 0 0 Mike Ekstrom p.......... 0 0 0 0 Brock Griffin c.......... 4 0 1 2 Jake Postlewait p....... 0 0 0 0 Kyle Corra p............. 0 0 0 0 Jared Sanders p......... 0 0 0 0 Zach Yarbrough p........ 0 0 0 0 Don Stykel p............ 0 0 0 0 Brule Speck p........... 0 0 0 0 Totals................... 33 4 9 4 Totals................... 31 5 10 5Score by Innings R H E Oregon State........ 000 101 011 - 4 9 1 Portland............ 011 000 03X - 5 10 0
E - Sanders. DP - Oregon St. 1, Portland 1. LOB - Oregon St. 13, Portland 8. 2B - Biles, Hull, Casto, Hollod, Griffin. HBP - Biles, Lunde. SH - Jarvis, Hahn. SF - Jarvis, Hollod. SB - Biles, Fausett.
Oregon State IP H R ER BB SO Stephen Copeland .......... 3.2 5 2 2 2 2 Mike Ekstrom .............. 0.2 1 0 0 1 0 Jake Postlewait ........... 3.0 2 1 1 0 2 Jared Sanders L,0-1....... 0.1 2 2 2 0 0 Don Stykel ................ 0.1 0 0 0 0 0
Portland IP H R ER BB SO Kyle Corra ................ 5.2 3 2 2 5 1 Zach Yarbrough W,1-0...... 2.2 5 2 2 2 0 Brule Speck S,1........... 0.2 1 0 0 1 0 WP - Copeland. HB - Sanders, Corra. BK - Corra.
Umpires - HP: Anthony Prader 1B: Mik Hendrickson 3B: Randy Knuths Start: 2:05 pm Time: 3:24 Attendance: 157
