Gameday: Baseball At Portland (3/30/21)

GAME 23: Oregon State (17-5) vs. Portland (11-11)
March 30, 2021 • 6:00 p.m. PT • Portland, Ore. • Joe Etzel Field
RHP Reid Sebby (2-0, 3.12) vs. RHP Brett Gillis (1-2, 5.52)

The Game
Oregon State plays a non-conference game Tuesday night at Portland. First pitch at Joe Etzel Field is scheduled for 6 p.m. PT.

Radio
All games air on the Beaver Sports Network with pre-game 30 minutes before first pitch. Affiliates include KEJO 1240-AM (Corvallis), KKNX 840-AM (Eugene), KCFM 1250-AM & 104.1-FM (Florence), KLAD 960-AM & 93.3-FM (Klamath Falls), KTMT 880-AM & 96.1-FM (Medford, weekend games), Rip City Radio 620-AM (Portland), 102.3 FM (weekday games prior to 5:30 p.m.), KSKR 1490-AM (Roseburg) and KBZY 1490-AM (Salem, weekend games).

Listen Online
Catch the game online by visiting osubeavers.com, and find the live broadcast on the Oregon State baseball schedule page. The games can be heard via the TuneIn application, which is available for smartphones and tablets (search Beaver Sports Network).

Television
The game will broadcast on NBC Sports Northwest.

Live Video
The game can also be found online by visiting OSUBeavers.com; click on the schedule link for a direct link to live video.

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.

Last Game
Joe Casey went 3-for-5 with a triple, home run and seven runs batted in to pace Oregon State to a 13-3 win and series sweep of Washington Monday night in Seattle. Troy Claunch also had three hits for the Beavers, who finished with 17 as a team. Will Frisch picked up his second win of the season after limiting the Huskies to four hits and a run in five innings. He struck out seven.

Against Portland
• Oregon State is meeting Portland for the 233rd time Tuesday. Tuesday's game is also the 104th meeting at Portland.
• The Beavers have won eight of the last 10 meetings and 30 of the last 32. Prior to a loss in 2016, Oregon State had won a school-record 25 consecutive games versus the Pilots. That streak had started in 2007.
• Tuesday's meeting is the first at Joe Etzel Field since 2017. The teams played at Ron Tonkin Field in Hillsboro in 2018 and 2019.

Forrester in Back-To-Back
• Garret Forrester hit his fourth home run of the season Monday, just two days after tallying his third.
• The freshman is the second Beaver to hit home runs in back-to-back games this season, following Joe Casey in Surprise, Ariz.
• Forrester has hit safely in three straight and eight of his last nine games. He is 14-for-34 (.412) with four home runs, a double and 13 RBI over that nine game stretch.

Casey's Big Day
• Joe Casey became the first Beaver with seven RBI in a game since Michael Conforto in 2013 versus Bryant.
• Casey leads Oregon State with 22 RBI this season, which ranks seventh in the Pac-12.

Singles
• Oregon State ranks first in the Pac-12 and fourth nationally with a 2.41 earned run average. The Beavers' ERA in road game is 1.14.
• OSU also ranks seventh nationally, and first in the Pac-12, allowing just 6.23 hits per nine innings. The Beavers limited Washington to just eight hits in 27 innings during the series.
• Joe Casey is on a five-game hit streak and has seven hits and eight RBI during it.
• OSU's offense is hitting .302 with 17 doubles, one triple and seven home runs in seven road games thus far.
• Andy Armstrong picked up two hits Monday to give him his Oregon State-leading 10th multi-hit game of the season.

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Players Mentioned

Andy Armstrong

Joe Casey

Troy Claunch

Garret Forrester

Will Frisch

Reid Sebby