No. 9 OSU Opens Baseball Series By Beating Stanford 13-7

STANFORD, Calif. - Oregon State’s Jordan Lennerton had a three-run double in a five-run fifth inning as the ninth-ranked Beavers beat Stanford 13-7 in Pacific-10 baseball Friday night at Sunken Diamond. OSU (33-8 overall, 5-5 Pac-10) was outhit 14-8 by the Cardinal (17-22, 2-11) but Mitch Canham also had a three-run double and Darwin Barney had three hits for Oregon State.

Both games can be heard live on KEJO-AM (1240) in the Corvallis area, KKNX-AM (840) in the Eugene area and KICE-AM (940) in the Bend area; KUIK-AM (1360) in the Portland area will carry Saturday’s game live and Sunday’s game delayed at 3 p.m. Saturday's game will be televised live by FSN in the Pacific Northwest. Live audio is available on the internet via subscription through Beaver Nation Online at .

On Friday, the Beavers outlasted the Cardinal in a 4-hour, 4-minute contest that saw neither starting pitcher OSU’s Mike Stutes and Stanford’s Jeremy Bleich - make it out of the fifth inning. OSU took advantage of nine walks and three Stanford errors to win for the 10th time in its last 12 games.

Reliever Blake Keitzman was credited with the win for OSU; his first collegiate decision came as he pitched two innings and allowed one run on three hits and two walks while striking out one. Eddie Kunz earned his eight save, getting the final four outs.

Oregon State put up five runs in the top of the fifth inning after Stanford had tied the game with three runs in the bottom of the fourth. Bleich walked Chris Hopkins to start the inning and hit Mitch Canham with a pitch, then Darwin Barney singled back up the middle to score Hopkins for a 5-4 lead. Mike Lissman sacrificed the runners to second and third, and Jason Ogata was intentionally walked to load the bases.

Jordan Lennerton then drove a fly to right-centerfield that one-hopped the fence for a three-run double, putting OSU up 8-4. With two out, Lonnie Lechelt tapped a ball toward the mound; Stanford reliever Brandt Walker’s throw was dropped by first baseman Jason Castro and Lennerton headed for the plate, just evading the tag of catcher Brian Juhl to score and make it 9-4.

It was the second straight game in which Lennerton had delivered a three-run double. He had one in OSU’s eight-run seventh inning at Portland on Tuesday.

Stanford came back with a pair of runs in the bottom of the fifth against Stutes and Keitzman. Michael Taylor and Joey August delivered back-to-back one-out singles, then Stutes walked Sorgi to load the bases. Enter Keitzman, who induced a groundball from Juhl but it snuck through the right side for a two-run single to pull the Cardinal within 9-6. Keitzman picked up a strikeout and a flyout to end the inning without further damange.

The Cardinal cut the gap to 9-7 when pinch hitter Ryan Seawell drew a leadoff walk and scored on Cord Phelps’ single through the right side. OSU got the run back as Joey Wong drew a leadoff walk in the top of the eighth inning and Darwin Barney singled him home with two out to make it 10-7.

Oregon State tacked on three runs in the top of the ninth inning. After Stanford’s Tom Stilson walked the bases loaded, Canham drove a three-run double down the rightfield line off Blake Hancock to put OSU up 13-7.

Stanford had tied the game with a trio of two-out runs in the bottom of the fourth, as Castro shot a run-scoring single up the middle and Adam Gaylord ripped a two-run double down the leftfield line.

OSU scored three runs in the top of the first inning after Hopkins led off with a single to left. Canham drew a four-pitch walk, then Barney singled to right to load the bases. With one out, Bleich uncorked a wild pitch that scored Hopkins and advanced Canham and Barney; Ogata’s groundout scored Canham and moved Barney to third. Lennerton then hit a shot that was mishandled by Cardinal third baseman Cord Phelps and Barney scored on the error to make it 3-0.

Stanford got a run back in the bottom of the first. With two out, Taylor doubled down the leftfield line and scored on a single to center by August; Adam Sorgi followed with another single to put the tying runs on base but Stutes got Juhl to pop out to end the inning.

Oregon State pushed the lead back to 4-1 in the top of the third inning. Canham led off with an infield single, then with one out Lissman bounced a bad-hop single over Stanford second baseman Sorgi with Canham going to third. Ogata then grounded into a fielder’s choice to score Canham.

Barney moved onto OSU’s all-time top 10 list for career runs, scoring two on the night to put him at 133 for his career and bump him into 10th place. The victory gave Oregon State a six-game winning streak over Stanford; the Beavers had won all five meetings last season.

Oregon State 13 (33-8,5-5 Pac-10) Stanford 7 (17-22,2-11 Pac-10)

Player AB R H BI Player AB R H BI

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Chris Hopkins cf........... 3 3 1 0 Sean Ratliff cf............ 5 0 1 0

Mitch Canham c............. 4 3 2 3 Toby Gerhart lf............ 5 0 1 0

Darwin Barney ss........... 6 2 3 2 Michael Taylor rf.......... 5 2 2 0

Mike Lissman lf............ 3 0 1 0 Joey August dh............. 3 1 2 1

Koa Kahalehoe pr.......... 0 0 0 0 Ryan Seawell ph........... 1 1 1 0

Jason Ogata dh............. 3 1 0 2 Adam Sorgi 2b.............. 4 1 3 0

Jordan Lennerton 1b........ 5 1 1 3 Brian Juhl c............... 5 0 1 2

Braden Wells rf............ 3 0 0 0 Cord Phelps 3b............. 4 1 1 1

Scott Santschi ph......... 0 1 0 0 Jason Castro 1b............ 1 1 1 1

Lonnie Lechelt 3b.......... 5 0 0 0 Brent Milleville ph....... 3 0 0 0

Joey Wong 2b............... 3 2 0 0 Adam Gaylord ss............ 2 0 1 2

Mike Stutes p.............. 0 0 0 0 Brendan Domaracki ph...... 1 0 0 0

Blake Keitzman p.......... 0 0 0 0 Brian Moon 3b............. 0 0 0 0

Mark Grbavac p............ 0 0 0 0 Jeremy Bleich p............ 0 0 0 0

Eddie Kunz p.............. 0 0 0 0 Brandt Walker p........... 0 0 0 0

David Stringer p.......... 0 0 0 0

Tom Stilson p............. 0 0 0 0

Blake Hancock p........... 0 0 0 0

Totals..................... 35 13 8 10 Totals..................... 39 7 14 7

Score by Innings R H E

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Oregon State........ 301 050 013 - 13 8 0

Stanford............ 100 320 100 - 7 14 3

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E - Phelps; Castro 2. DP - Oregon St. 2. LOB - Oregon St. 8; Stanford 10. 2B -

Canham; Lennerton; Taylor; Gaylord. HBP - Canham; Santschi. SH - Hopkins; Lissman.

SB - Ogata. CS - Hopkins.

Oregon State IP H R ER BB SO

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Mike Stutes ............... 4.1 9 6 6 3 2

Blake Keitzman W,1-0...... 2.0 3 1 1 2 1

Mark Grbavac .............. 1.1 2 0 0 0 3

Eddie Kunz S,8............ 1.1 0 0 0 0 1

Stanford IP H R ER BB SO

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Jeremy Bleich L,1-8....... 4.1 6 9 7 3 4

Brandt Walker ............. 2.2 0 1 1 2 3

David Stringer ............ 1.0 1 0 0 1 0

Tom Stilson ............... 0.2 0 3 3 3 1

Blake Hancock ............. 0.1 1 0 0 0 1

WP - Bleich. HBP - by Bleich (Canham); by Walker (Santschi). PB - Juhl 2.

Umpires - HP: Dan Mascorro 1B: David Rogers 3B: Travis Katzenmeier

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