
Short-Handed Ducks Lose Regular Season Finale At Utah
05/26/13 | Baseball
SALT LAKE CITY – Utah took the lead with four runs in the fifth inning and never gave it back handing a short-handed No. 8 Oregon team a 10-3 loss at Spring Mobile Ballpark on Sunday.
The Ducks (45-14, 22-8 Pac-12) played without normal starters Ryon Healy, Brett Thomas and Scott Heineman.
Oregon jumped out to an early 1-0 lead in the first when J.J. Altobelli scored on the 12th error of the three game series by Utah. Altobelli led off the game with a walk, moved to second on a sacrifice bunt by Aaron Payne and moved to third on a Mitchell Tolman ground out before scoring.
Utah (21-31, 6-24 Pac-12) tied the game with a run in the bottom of the fourth, but the Ducks answered with two runs in the top of the fifth to take a 3-1 lead. After Desmond Santos walked to lead off the inning and Altobelli doubled to put runners on second and third, Mitchell Tolman drove in a run with a sacrifice fly. Tyler Baumgartner added a RBI single scoring Altobelli for a two-run lead.
The Utes took their first lead of the series with four runs on four hits and a crucial throwing error by Oregon starter Jake Reed. Utah added a run in the sixth, three in the seventh and another in the eighth to push the lead to 10-3.
Reed (6-5) took the loss for the Ducks, while Tanner Banks (2-5) got the win.
Team Stats
Pitching:
W: Banks, Tanner (2-5)
L: Reed, Jake (6-5)
S: West, Luke (2)

Batting:
2B: Altobelli, J.J. 1
RBI: Tolman, Mitchell 1 ; Baumgartner, Tyler 1
SH: Payne, Aaron 1
SF: Tolman, Mitchell 1
Base Running:
RUNS: Altobelli, J.J. 2 ; Santos, Desmond 1
CS: Baumgartner, Tyler 1 ; Graham, Josh 1
PO: Graham, Josh 1

Batting:
2B: Anderson, Braden 1 ; Relf, Tyler 1
RBI: Anderson, Braden 2 ; Carroll, Dallas 2 ; Relf, Tyler 3 ; Scaggari, Cody 1
SH: Eppard, Connor 1 ; Nielsen, Trey 1 ; Relf, Tyler 1 ; Scaggari, Cody 1
Base Running:
RUNS: Anderson, Braden 1 ; Eppard, Connor 1 ; Carroll, Dallas 1 ; Nielsen, Trey 2 ; Bennett, TJ 2 ; Hunt, Cory 1 ; Scaggari, Cody 2
SB: Hunt, Cory 1 ; Scaggari, Cody 1
HBP: Anderson, Braden 1
PO: Eppard, Connor 1















