Greg Fuchs
14
Winner Oregon ORE 10-7, 2-3 Pac-12
8
Washington State WSU 14-4, 3-2 Pac-12
Winner
Oregon ORE
10-7, 2-3 Pac-12
14
Final
8
Washington State WSU
14-4, 3-2 Pac-12
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Oregon ORE 0 0 2 5 0 2 0 5 0 14 17 0
Washington State WSU 0 4 1 2 0 0 0 0 1 8 14 2

W: Grinsell, Grayson (1-0) L: Orr, Ryan (1-1)

Game Recap: Baseball | | Washington State Athletic Communications

WSU Falls to Oregon, Series Rubber Game Set for Sunday

PULLMAN, Wash. (March 18, 2023) – Washington State dropped a 14-8 decision to Oregon at Bailey-Brayton Field Saturday afternoon. With the series tied at one game a piece, the Cougars will go for the series win Sunday at 1:05 p.m.
 
WSU dropped to 14-4 overall and 3-2 in Pac-12 Conference play after Oregon broke a 7-7 tied with two runs in the sixth and pulled away with five runs in the eighth. The Cougars left 10 runners on bases while the Ducks (10-7, 2-3 Pac-12) took advantage of nine walks and two WSU errors.
 
Jonah Advincula and Brandham Ponce paced WSU with three-hit games while Sam Brown and Greg Fuchs each tallied two hits.
 
KEY MOMENTS OF THE GAME
In the second, Will Cresswell doubled on the first pitch he saw and scored on Fuchs' one-out RBI-double down the right field line. Ponce followed with an RBI-single back up the middle to score Fuchs and Ponce scored on Advincula's bloop double into left centerfield. Cam Magee capped the scoring with an RBI-groundout to second base to score Kyle Russell for a 4-0 advantage.
 
Oregon pushed two runs across in the third on two hits, a walk and sacrifice fly but Ponce delivered his second RBI-single of the afternoon in the third inning for a 5-2 advantage. The Ducks again answered with five runs in the fourth on four hits and one Cougar error to take a 7-5 lead but WSU evened things up with Brown's RBI-single into centerfield and Fuchs tied the game with a sacrifice fly into centerfield.
 
Oregon took advantage of three walks and a hit-by-pitch in the sixth, taking a 9-7 lead with a bases-loaded walk and run-scoring sacrifice fly to centerfield. WSU nearly make it a one-run game in the seventh as Russell walked and Advincula pulled a double down the right-field line but Oregon delivered a perfect relay from the right field corner and threw Russell out at the plate to end the inning.
 
The Ducks pulled away with a five-run eighth inning.
 
INSIDE THE BOX SCORE
Sam Brown doubled off the centerfield wall in the 3rd, has reached base in all 18 games
Jacob McKeon single in the 4th to extend his on-base streak to 17 games
 
NEXT UP
The series wraps up Sunday at 1:05 p.m.
 
 
 
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