Beavers Visit Portland Tuesday Night
March 21, 2016 | Baseball
Game 18
Oregon State (15-2) vs. Portland (11-8)
TBA vs. TBA
March 22, 2016 • Portland, Ore. • Joe Etzel Field • 6:00 p.m. PT
The Game
Oregon State travels up I-5 for a midweek game with Portland at Joe Etzel Field on Tuesday. First pitch is scheduled for 6 p.m. PT.
Radio
The game will air live on the Beaver Sports Network and Beaver Nation Online (osubeavers.com). For more information on catching the Beavers on the radio, check osubeavers.com. All games air on the Beaver Sports Network with pre-game 30 minutes before first pitch. Affiliates include KICE 940-AM (Bend, Ore. - Friday & weekend games), KEJO 1240-AM (Corvallis), KKNX 840-AM (Eugene), KLZS 1450-AM (Eugene), KCFM 1250-AM (Florence - Pac-12 games), KCFM 104.1-FM (Florence - Pac-12 games), KLAD 960-AM (Klamath Falls), KTMT 580-AM (Medford - Saturday & Sunday games), Rip City Radio 620-AM (Portland), KSKR 1490-AM (Roseburg) and KBZY 1490-AM (Salem - Saturday & Sunday games). Note, broadcasts are subject to change. Check your local listings for updates.
Television
The game will be televised by Comcast SportsNet Northwest on a tape delayed basis. It will start at 8 p.m.
Live Video
There will be no live video stream of Tuesday's game.
Online
Live stats for the game can be accessed by clicking on the live stats link located on the baseball schedule page on osubeavers.com.
Social Media
Stay informed with all of Oregon State's official accounts. See below for everything related to Oregon State Baseball.
• Twitter - @Beaver_Baseball
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• Instagram - @BeaverBaseball
• YouTube - @OSUBeaversAthletics
• Snapchat - @BeaverBaseball
Last Game
Travis Eckert scattered a run and two hits in eight innings and Christian Donahue went 3-for-5 with a double and a triple as Oregon State swept Arizona State with a 7-3 victory Sunday afternoon at Goss Stadium. Eckert walked three and struck out six in his fifth start of the year. He improved to 2-1. Donahue scored once and a drove in a run thanks to a fifth-inning triple. Logan Ice also drove in two in the win.
National Ranks Look In
• Oregon State comes into Tuesday's game with Portland ranked first in the nation for triples with 14. Program record is 31 set in 2006.
• Beavers ranked seventh, and first in the Pac-12 Conference, with a .330 team batting average.
• OSU is also seventh in on-base average at .421 and 16th with a .487 slugging percentage.
• Max Engelbrekt is tied for the nation's lead with eight saves.
• Logan Ice is tied for seventh nationally with four triples. Bryce Fehmel is tied for eighth with four victories.
Against Portland
• Tuesday's game is the lone trip to Joe Etzel Field for Oregon State in 2016.
• Beavers have won 11 straight at Portland. OSU is 75-26 (.743) all-time as the road club against the Pilots.
Walks Up, Strikeouts Down
• The Oregon State offense has recorded 28 walks over its last five games, an average of 5.6 per contest.
• By contrast, the Beavers have struck out 19 times over that same stretch, an average of 3.8 per game.
• OSU's strikeout-to-walk ratio on the season is 93:79, or 1.17:1. That leads the Pac-12 Conference, with USC at a close 1.20:1.
On The Flip Side
• Oregon State's pitching staff has struck out 36 batters over the team's last five games, an average of 7.2. The staff, meanwhile, has walked 10, an average of two per game.
• The staff walked 35 over its first six games and has issued 23 in the last 11.
Defense
• Oregon State committed just one error in the series against Arizona State, and has tallied four in its last seven.
• The Beavers lead the Pac-12 with only four unearned runs on the year. Only two other league teams are in single digits: Stanford (five) and Arizona (seven).
• Fielding percentage is at .976.
