Beavs Keep Rolling With 12-6 Win Over ASU
The defending champion Beavers, who had seven hits in a 3-2 win over Cal State-Fullerton on Saturday, scored in every inning until the seventh and finished with 18 hits. went 3-for-4 with a three-run homer and four RBIs. , and also had three hits apiece, and homered.
OSU will next play on Wednesday at 4 p.m. PDT against the winner of Tuesday evening’s game between ASU and Califoria-Irvine. UC-Irvine (46-16-1) or ASU (49-14) would have to beat the Beavers Wednesday and then again Thursday to keep them out of the best-of-three championship round that starts Saturday against the winner of the other bracket.
Wednesday’s game will be televised on ESPN2, and all of the Beavers’ CWS games can be heard on KEJO-AM (1240) in the Corvallis area, KUIK-AM (1360) in the Portland area, KKNX-AM (840) in the Eugene area, KBZY-AM (1490) in the Salem area, KICE-AM (940) in the Bend area, KMED-AM (1440) in the Medford area, KRNR-AM (1490) in the Roseburg area, KNPT-AM (1310) in the Newport area, KAGO-AM (1150) in the Klamath Falls area and KODL-AM (1440) in The Dalles area, and KTIX-AM (1240) in the Pendleton area.
In the first two innings of Monday night’s game,
“I think our approach was the same,” OSU shortstop said. “We just got it done. It takes something to spark it. Mike Stutes got that done tonight. We’re not the same club we were the last time they faced us.”
Stutes (11-4), making his third career CWS start and winning for the second time, allowed only two singles until he left with the bases loaded in the seventh.
“We needed to get a quality start against a fine offensive team,” OSU head coach said. “To get on the board early helped. The last time we faced these guys we didn’t have success.”
relieved and gave up an RBI single to Raoul Torrez and a two-run single to Eric Sogard. Petey Paramore delivered a long sacrifice fly against to trim the Beavers' lead to 12-5 in the ninth.
Stutes was solid for a second straight start in the NCAA tournament. He allowed two runs on three hits in eight innings of the Beavers' super regional clincher against
Making his latest outing more impressive was the lineup he was facing.
In losing three straight at home to the Sun Devils a month ago, Oregon State batters hit a combined .105 (9-of-86).
ASU coach Pat Murphy was looking for an encore from the two pitchers who played key roles in that series.
Brian Flores (11-2), who pitched a complete-game one-hitter against the Beavers last month, started Monday and faced only seven batters, allowing two runs on four hits.
Josh Satow, who allowed two hits and no runs in eight innings against OSU last month, entered in the second inning and left after the fourth having allowed six runs on eight hits.
The start of the game was pushed back nearly 90 minutes because the preceding game between UC-Irvine and Cal State-Fullerton took 13 innings and over five hours to decide. As a result, the Beavers were at Rosenblatt Stadium for nearly four hours before their game began.
“Anton (Maxwell) and I played ping-pong,” Barney said. “Then I went in the stands. We try to enjoy playing here; we try to have a good time.”
Mike Stutes’ 4 strikeouts on Monday night moved him into second place on OSU’s all-time list of single-season leaders with 124. On Monday, Stutes passed Ken Forsch, who had 121 strikeouts in 1968; Forsch went on to pitch for the Houston Astros and California Angels from 1970-86.
Mike Stutes' 11th win of the season moved him into the OSU all-time top-10 list for single-season victories; he's now tied with seven other players for fifth place.
OSU shortstop broke his own school record for at-bats in a season; Barney now has 264, topping his mark of 261 set last season.
’s 4 runs batted in matched his career high, which had been accomplished several times; the last was on Feb. 9 at
became the second Beaver to homer in back-to-back College World Series games. In 2006, had homered against
’s triple was OSU’s first since May 13, when tripled against
’s 3 runs batted in are a career high, and his 3 hits matched his career-high.
’s 3 hits match his OSU career high, accomplished several times.
OSU’s 18 hits matched the Beavers’ season-high, which had come against
for pictures from in and around Rosenblatt on Monday.
Player AB R H BI Player AB R H BI
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C.J. Retherford 3b......... 2 0 0 0 cf........... 6 3 3 0
Raoul Torrez 3b........... 2 1 1 1 2b............... 4 1 3 3
Brett Wallace 1b........... 5 1 1 0 ss........... 3 2 1 0
Eric Sogard 2b............. 5 0 2 2 lf............ 4 2 3 4
Kiel Roling dh............. 3 0 0 0 lf........... 1 0 0 0
Petey Paramore c........... 3 1 1 1 dh............. 4 0 3 1
Matt Spencer lf/cf......... 2 0 0 1 c............. 5 0 0 0
Ike Davis rf............... 2 0 1 1 rf............ 5 0 1 0
Rocky Laguna ph/rf........ 2 1 0 0 1b........ 5 2 2 1
Jared Bogany cf............ 0 0 0 0 3b.......... 5 2 2 1
Tim Smith ph/lf........... 2 0 0 0 Mike Stutes p.............. 0 0 0 0
Ryan Sontag lf............ 2 1 1 0 p.......... 0 0 0 0
Andrew Romine ss........... 2 0 0 0 p............ 0 0 0 0
Joe Persichina ss......... 1 1 0 0 p............ 0 0 0 0
Brian Flores p............. 0 0 0 0
Josh Satow p.............. 0 0 0 0
Dustin Brader p........... 0 0 0 0
Scott Mueller p........... 0 0 0 0
Totals..................... 33 6 7 6 Totals..................... 42 12 18 10
Score by Innings R H E
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Arizona State....... 010 000 401 - 6 7 2
Oregon State........ 241 113 00X - 12 18 1
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E - Torrez; Sogard; Lechelt. DP -
2B -
Retherford; Spencer 2. SH - Wong. SF - Paramore. SB - Hopkins; Lissman.
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Brian Flores L,11-2....... 1.0 4 2 2 0 1
Josh Satow ................ 3.0 8 6 6 2 4
Dustin Brader ............. 1.2 5 4 2 1 0
Scott Mueller ............. 2.1 1 0 0 0 3
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Mike Stutes W,11-4........ 6.0 3 4 4 5 4
............ 0.1 2 1 1 0 1
.............. 0.0 0 0 0 1 0
.............. 2.2 2 1 0 0 6
WP - Brader; Mueller. HBP - by Stutes (Spencer); by Stutes (Retherford); by Paterson
(Spencer).
Umpires - HP: Scott Graham 1B: Jeff Henrichs 2B: Dan Mascorro 3B: Mark Ditsworth
Start: 7:38 pm Time: 3:34 Attendance: 21692
Stutes faced 3 batters in the 7th.
Grbavac faced 1 batter in the 7th.
