Beavers See Lead Slip Away
April 8, 2004
CORVALLIS, Ore. - Oregon State had a three-run lead slip away in the final two innings as the Beavers lost to Stanford 11-8 in Pacific-10 baseball Thursday evening at Goss Stadium at Coleman Field. OSU (18-10 overall, 3-4 Pac-10) played most of the game without outfielder Jacoby Ellsbury, a .407 hitter who was hurt attempting a catch in the top of the first inning.
OSU and Stanford (24-4, 3-1) continue their series Friday at 5 p.m. and conclude it Saturday at 12 noon; both games can be heard on KEJO-AM (1240) and www.osubeavers.com. The start time for Saturday's game has been moved up one hour from previously-announced schedules to accommodate the travel plans of the Cardinal.
After Thursday's game, Ellsbury was sore and sporting bruises on the right side of his face and had nine stitches in his forehead after crashing into the right-centerfield fence grabbing a ball hit by Jonny Ash with one out in the first inning. It was ruled no catch and Ash rounded the bases for an inside-the-park home run.
"At first I thought I hit Aaron (Mathews, the centerfield); I didn't know what I hit," said Ellsbury, who returned to the ballpark in the ninth inning. "They told me I hit the pole (behind the fence) ... I didn't even realize Aaron grabbed the ball from me; I had the ball in my mitt.
"I'd love to have played the rest of the game. If I can play (Friday), I'll play."
A crowd of 1,488 saw the Beavers take a 7-4 lead into the eighth inning only to have Stanford score three times in the eighth and four times in the ninth. Only one of the ninth-inning runs was earned due to an OSU error that started the inning.
"You've got to make plays and you've got to execute in situations and you need to make pitches," OSU head coach Pat Casey said. "We got a good enough start out of Andy Baldwin to have a chance to win, and we didn't do it behind him. Pitching and defense are going to win games, and they're also going to lose games. We made some great pitches and we made some poor pitches; we made some plays and when we needed to make a big play we didn't make it.
"They're way too good of a club to give them more than three outs in an inning."
Baldwin had his best outing in three weeks, as he went 5 1/3 innings and allowed four runs on seven hits and one walk while striking out five. Nathan Pendley then chipped in 1 2/3 solid innings of relief before giving up a leadoff homer to John Mayberry Jr. to start the eighth inning; it was Mayberry's second homer of the game. Jake McCormick then went to the mound and allowed a single to Donny Lucy and a two-run, game-tying homer to Brian Hall that brought home the first earned runs against the freshman reliever in 16 1/3 innings this season.
The ninth started with OSU shortstop Tony Calderon fielding a grounder by Ash but having his throw pull first baseman Andy Jenkins off the bag. A double by Danny Putnam and an intentional walk to Mayberry loaded the bases, then Lucy blooped a pitch from Jared Sanders into short rightfield to give the Cardinal the lead at 9-7.
The Beavers had taken the lead with five runs in the bottom of the second inning, matching the biggest inning Stanford had allowed all season. Paul Richie's second homer of the year, a three-run drive to left-centerfield, put OSU up 3-1 and then Campos, who took Ellsbury's place in leftfield, shot a two-run double just inside first base to make it 5-1.
Stanford got within 5-4 on Mayberry's three-run homer off Baldwin in the top of the third inning, but the Beavers tacked on two-out, run-scoring singles by Jenkins in the fifth inning and Tyler Graham in the sixth.
Campos and Richie were both 2-for-4 with a home run, a double and three runs batted in for OSU. Jenkins and Graham were both 2-for-4.
NO. 2 STANFORD 11, OREGON STATE 8 Stanford 103 000 034 - 11 15 1 Oregon State 050 011 001 - 8 11 2Romanczuk, Stimpson (6), Jecmen (7), O'Hagan (8) and Lucy. Baldwin, Pendley (6), McCormick (8), Gunderson (8), Sanders (9), Joslyn (9) and Richie. W-O'Hagan (4-0). L-Gunderson (5-1). 2B-Lowrie (SU), Putnam (SU), Campos (OSU), McFeely (OSU), Richie (OSU). HR-Ash (SU), Mayberry 2 (SU), Hall (SU), Campos (OSU), Richie (OSU).
HITS: Stanford 15 (Fuld 1x6, Ash 1x5, Lowrie 2x5, Putnam 1x4, Mayberry 2x4, Lucy 2x5, Hall 2x5, Carter 1x2, Rapoport 1x1, Minaker 2x5), Oregon State 11 (Campos 2x4, McFeely 1x5, Jenkins 2x4, Mathews 1x4, Richie 2x4, Kunda 1x3, Graham 2x4). RUNS BATTED IN: Stanford 11 (Ash 1, Mayberry 4, Lucy 2, Hall 2, Rapoport 1, Minaker 1), Oregon State 8 (Campos 3, Jenkins 1, Richie 3, Graham 1).
Stanford 11 (24-4,3-1 PAC-10) Oregon State 8 (18-10,3-4 PAC-10)
Player AB R H BI Player AB R H BI --------------------------------------- --------------------------------------- Sam Fuld cf................ 6 0 1 0 Jacoby Ellsbury rf......... 0 0 0 0 Jonny Ash 3b............... 5 2 1 1 Chris Campos rf........... 4 1 2 3 Jed Lowrie 2b.............. 5 1 2 0 Mike Lissman dh............ 3 0 0 0 Danny Putnam lf............ 4 2 1 0 Mike Hass ph.............. 1 0 0 0 John Mayberry Jr. 1b....... 4 3 2 4 Shea McFeely 3b............ 5 1 1 0 Donny Lucy c............... 5 2 2 2 Tony Calderon ss........... 3 0 0 0 Brian Hall rf.............. 5 1 2 2 Scott Nelson ph........... 1 0 0 0 Chris Carter dh............ 2 0 1 0 Andy Jenkins 1b............ 4 1 2 1 Ryan Seawell ph/dh........ 2 0 0 0 Aaron Mathews cf........... 4 1 1 0 Jim Rapoport ph........... 1 0 1 1 Paul Richie c.............. 4 2 2 3 Chris Minaker ss........... 5 0 2 1 Chris Kunda 2b............. 3 1 1 0 Mark Romanczuk p........... 0 0 0 0 Tyler Graham lf............ 4 1 2 1 Jeff Stimpson p........... 0 0 0 0 Andy Baldwin p............. 0 0 0 0 Mark Jecmen p............. 0 0 0 0 Nathan Pendley p.......... 0 0 0 0 David O'Hagan p........... 0 0 0 0 Jake McCormick p.......... 0 0 0 0 Kevin Gunderson p......... 0 0 0 0 Jared Sanders p........... 0 0 0 0 Kevin Joslyn p............ 0 0 0 0 Totals..................... 44 11 15 11 Totals..................... 36 8 11 8
Score by Innings R H E ------------------------------------------- Stanford............ 103 000 034 - 11 15 1 Oregon State........ 050 011 001 - 8 11 2 -------------------------------------------
E - Ash; Calderon; Kunda. LOB - Stanford 8; Oregon St. 5. 2B - Lowrie; Putnam; Campos; McFeely; Richie. HR - Ash; Mayberry 2; Hall; Campos; Richie. SH - Campos. SB - Graham. CS - Lissman.
Stanford IP H R ER BB SO ------------------------------------------------ Mark Romanczuk ............ 5.1 10 7 6 2 4 Jeff Stimpson ............. 1.1 0 0 0 1 0 Mark Jecmen ............... 0.1 0 0 0 0 1 David O'Hagan W,4-0....... 2.0 1 1 1 0 3
Oregon State IP H R ER BB SO ------------------------------------------------ Andy Baldwin .............. 5.1 7 4 4 1 5 Nathan Pendley ............ 1.2 2 1 1 0 3 Jake McCormick ............ 0.2 2 2 2 0 1 Kevin Gunderson L,5-1..... 0.2 1 3 1 1 1 Jared Sanders ............. 0.1 3 1 0 0 0 Kevin Joslyn .............. 0.1 0 0 0 0 1
Umpires - HP: Ron Ridd 1B: John De Luca 3B: Terry Mann Start: 5:04 pm Time: 3:25 Attendance: 1488
Pendley faced 1 batter in the 8th.
