CORVALLIS, Ore.  – Washington State dropped a 16-inning 4-3 contest to No. 2 Oregon State Saturday afternoon. The 16-inning contest was the second-longest (innings) played in school history, trailing only a 1917 contest against UW that went 17 innings.
 
The Cougars tool a 2-0 lead into the seventh where OSU scored three times only to see WSU even things up at 3-3 with a run in the eighth inning. The two teams played scoreless baseball for the next seven innings until Oregon State lined a ball off the glove of the leaping Cougar third baseman and down the left field line to allow a base runner from second to score the game winner.
 
WSU received an amazing effort in relief from freshman lefthander Tyson Guerrero who came in from right field to get the final out of the ninth and worked 6.2 scoreless innings, allowed just three hits and struck out six while throwing 104 pitches. Guerrero also recorded two hits including an RBI-double and made a diving catch after heading back out to right field in the 16^th inning.
 
Cougar starter A.J. Block was dominant most of his outing, matching a career high by working into the seventh inning, striking out five, scattered five hits after carrying a no-hitter into the fifth and allowed just three runs, all in the seventh.
 
In the third, the Cougars put runners on the corners with nobody out after Bradley Polinksy was hit by a pitch and Danny Sinatro reached on an infield single. One batter later, Dillon Plew gave the Cougars a 1-0 lead with a sacrifice fly to centerfield, scoring Polinsky from third.
 
In the fifth, WSU put runners on second and third after a two-out single through the left side by Andres Alvarez and a bloop double down the right field line by Plew. With runners on second and third and nobody out, Collin Montez pulled a ball sharply through the right side but the Beaver second basemen made a diving stop in shallow right field and fired to first just in time to beat Montez for the third out.
 
In the bottom of the fifth, Block allowed his first hit of the day, a one-out single back up the middle but he was stranded to end the inning. Block had allowed a walk in the fourth inning but ended the inning by picking a runner off at first.
 
In the sixth, Smith drew a leadoff walk, was bunted to second and scored on a Tyson Guerrero RBI-double into the right centerfield gap for a 2-0 Cougar advantage.
 
In the seventh, OSU led off the inning with a double to right-centerfield, a single through the left side and a stolen base to put runners on second and third with nobody out. The next batter hit a comebacker that went off the glove of Block and rolled behind the mound, allowing a run to score on the infield hit. The following batter hit a one-hopper to Kodie Kolden at third who fired home to get the Beaver baserunner but the runner stayed in a rundown long enough for the other two runners to finish the play on second and third. The following hitter singled home the tying run and the next hitter gave OSU a 3-2 lead with a sacrifice fly to centerfield.
 
In the eighth, Collin Montez tripled by a diving OSU rightfielder into the right-centerfield gap to start the inning can came home on the next play as Smith hit a sacrifice fly to right field, tying the game at three. In the bottom of the inning, Davis Baillie worked around a leadoff walk and saw his defense make a great play to end the inning as Montez made a diving catch in leftcenterfield to end the eighth and keep things tied at three.
 
In the ninth, OSU used a one-out single and wild pitch to put a runner on second but reliever Brody Barnum got a popout to Alvarez at shortstop and freshman lefthander Tyson Guerrero came inform right field and got the third out, a fly out to Sinatro in centerfield to send the game to extra innings.
 
In the 12^th, OSU had a runner on second and blooped a single into centerfield that Sinatro charged and threw a strike to catcher Koby Blunt to get the runner trying to score the game-winner. Guerrero got the next batter to pop out to first base to end the inning.
 
In the 13^th, OSU led off the inning with a single through the left side and later moved up to second on a wild pitch. The next batter fouled out to the catcher for the first out and struck out the next hitter.
 
 
INSIDE THE BOX SCORE
Danny Sinatro reached on an infield single in the 3^rd to extend his hitting streak to 5 games
Collin Montez tripled to leadoff the 8^th, extending his on-base streak to 8 games
 
NEXT UP
The series wraps up Sunday at 1:05 p.m.