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Rivalry Shutout Extends Win Streak To 11
04/07/23 | Baseball
Jace Stoffal was masterful Friday night as Oregon opened a three-game series against OSU with a 2-0 win at PK Park.
EUGENE, Ore. — Thanks to a gutsy effort from an in-state kid, the Oregon baseball program is riding a win streak not seen around here in six decades
The Ducks extended their winning streak to 11 games Friday night, riding seven shutout innings from Roseburg native Jace Stoffal to a 2-0 win over Oregon State before 3,224 fans at PK Park. Oregon has its longest win streak since the 1964 season, when that team put together a 12-game streak that the current team will look to match when the Beavers return to PK Park on Saturday at 3 p.m.
Stoffal (4-2) didn't allow a baserunner until the fourth inning Friday, and he took a no-hitter into the seventh. He stranded two runners in the fourth after allowing a pair of one-out walks, and he got out of a bases-loaded, one-out jam in the seventh — in both cases stalking off the mound, shouting toward the UO dugout like a locomotive bellowing into the night air.
"I feel like I pitch better the more adrenaline I got," said Stoffal, who struck out nine and walked three over seven one-hit innings. "If I can keep the emotions high but under control — I can't get too wild — keep them under control but keep that adrenaline up, I feel like that's when I'm at my best."
The UO hitters, so prolific over the first 10 games of this winning streak, provided all the offense Stoffal needed in the fifth. With Gavin Grant on second with two out, Colby Shade got the Ducks on the board with an RBI single. Drew Cowley singled to move Shade over to third, and Sabin Ceballos followed with a run-scoring double for all the cushion Stoffal needed.
"It was awesome, but not surprising at the same time," Shade said of Stoffal's outing, which was originally scheduled to take place Thursday before the series opener was moved back a day by rain. "You see the work he puts in every day. Even him being upset yesterday that he didn't get to go and kind of preparing again today, you knew he was gonna have a good outing today."
How It Happened: The early innings were a classic pitchers' duel between Stoffal and OSU's Trent Sellers. The Ducks loaded the bases with nobody out in the second, but Sellers struck out the next three hitters to escape the jam and set the tone for the game.
"It felt like it was a Friday night game with two guys really going at it head to head," UO coach Mark Wasikowski said. "Most Friday nights, that's what it looks like. I thought that was a classic Friday night game, that we came out on top of."
Shade doubled with one out in the third and stole third with two down, but he also was stranded. Stoffal finally allowed a baserunner with the back-to-back walks in the fourth, but he retired the next two in order to keep the game scoreless.
After Stoffal struck out the side in the fifth, the Ducks got him the lead. Shade drove in the first run and scored the second, with Ceballos driving home Shade after a pitching change by the Beavers.
"I think we just stuck to our plan," Shade said. "No matter what was going on, you always have bumps in the road. But we knew we were gonna get it done, and it ended up working out."
The second pitch of the seventh inning was a single for OSU's first hit off Stoffal, and an error put runners at the corners with nobody out. A one-out walk put the go-ahead run on base, put Stoffal coaxed a pop out and a fly out to escape the jam.
Matt Dallas relieved Stoffal in the eighth and allowed two runners while recording two outs. UO closer Josh Mollerus was called upon for the four-out save, and he needed just one pitch to escape the jam in the eighth before striking out the side in the ninth.
Notable: Stoffal posted his third straight quality start, and he didn't allow a run for the first time in 15 career starts at Oregon. … The Ducks won their first matchup of this season again OSU, after going 0-5 in the rivalry series last spring. … The shutout was Oregon's first against the Beavers since a pair in Corvallis on March 12-13, 2021.
Quotable
Junior pitcher Jace Stoffal on helping the Ducks win while only needing to score two runs
"It feels amazing. To have a win streak, you got to have both sides. They pick us up with the bats all the time; if we give up four or more, we know they're gonna put up nine, 10. Being able to pick them up for once is what a winning team is going to do. So we keep that going, we got a special thing going."
UO coach Mark Wasikowski on the effort from his starting pitcher Stoffal
"Southern Oregon kid — you know, they're tough kids. So the more we can get of those kind of guys, the better off the program is. For him to get rolled out there on Friday night, the pitching coach (Jake Angier) in the seventh inning — bases loaded, that's usually a lot of times where a coach will go to the bullpen or something like that — and he told him no, you're getting them. I mean, that kind of trust in your Friday night guy, that's something that's earned. And Jace has earned that from Coach Angier, which is awesome."
Up Next: The Ducks and Beavers meet again Saturday at 3 p.m., then Sunday at noon.
The Ducks extended their winning streak to 11 games Friday night, riding seven shutout innings from Roseburg native Jace Stoffal to a 2-0 win over Oregon State before 3,224 fans at PK Park. Oregon has its longest win streak since the 1964 season, when that team put together a 12-game streak that the current team will look to match when the Beavers return to PK Park on Saturday at 3 p.m.
Stoffal (4-2) didn't allow a baserunner until the fourth inning Friday, and he took a no-hitter into the seventh. He stranded two runners in the fourth after allowing a pair of one-out walks, and he got out of a bases-loaded, one-out jam in the seventh — in both cases stalking off the mound, shouting toward the UO dugout like a locomotive bellowing into the night air.
"I feel like I pitch better the more adrenaline I got," said Stoffal, who struck out nine and walked three over seven one-hit innings. "If I can keep the emotions high but under control — I can't get too wild — keep them under control but keep that adrenaline up, I feel like that's when I'm at my best."
The UO hitters, so prolific over the first 10 games of this winning streak, provided all the offense Stoffal needed in the fifth. With Gavin Grant on second with two out, Colby Shade got the Ducks on the board with an RBI single. Drew Cowley singled to move Shade over to third, and Sabin Ceballos followed with a run-scoring double for all the cushion Stoffal needed.
"It was awesome, but not surprising at the same time," Shade said of Stoffal's outing, which was originally scheduled to take place Thursday before the series opener was moved back a day by rain. "You see the work he puts in every day. Even him being upset yesterday that he didn't get to go and kind of preparing again today, you knew he was gonna have a good outing today."
How It Happened: The early innings were a classic pitchers' duel between Stoffal and OSU's Trent Sellers. The Ducks loaded the bases with nobody out in the second, but Sellers struck out the next three hitters to escape the jam and set the tone for the game.
"It felt like it was a Friday night game with two guys really going at it head to head," UO coach Mark Wasikowski said. "Most Friday nights, that's what it looks like. I thought that was a classic Friday night game, that we came out on top of."
Shade doubled with one out in the third and stole third with two down, but he also was stranded. Stoffal finally allowed a baserunner with the back-to-back walks in the fourth, but he retired the next two in order to keep the game scoreless.
After Stoffal struck out the side in the fifth, the Ducks got him the lead. Shade drove in the first run and scored the second, with Ceballos driving home Shade after a pitching change by the Beavers.
"I think we just stuck to our plan," Shade said. "No matter what was going on, you always have bumps in the road. But we knew we were gonna get it done, and it ended up working out."
The second pitch of the seventh inning was a single for OSU's first hit off Stoffal, and an error put runners at the corners with nobody out. A one-out walk put the go-ahead run on base, put Stoffal coaxed a pop out and a fly out to escape the jam.
Matt Dallas relieved Stoffal in the eighth and allowed two runners while recording two outs. UO closer Josh Mollerus was called upon for the four-out save, and he needed just one pitch to escape the jam in the eighth before striking out the side in the ninth.
Notable: Stoffal posted his third straight quality start, and he didn't allow a run for the first time in 15 career starts at Oregon. … The Ducks won their first matchup of this season again OSU, after going 0-5 in the rivalry series last spring. … The shutout was Oregon's first against the Beavers since a pair in Corvallis on March 12-13, 2021.
Quotable
Junior pitcher Jace Stoffal on helping the Ducks win while only needing to score two runs
"It feels amazing. To have a win streak, you got to have both sides. They pick us up with the bats all the time; if we give up four or more, we know they're gonna put up nine, 10. Being able to pick them up for once is what a winning team is going to do. So we keep that going, we got a special thing going."
UO coach Mark Wasikowski on the effort from his starting pitcher Stoffal
"Southern Oregon kid — you know, they're tough kids. So the more we can get of those kind of guys, the better off the program is. For him to get rolled out there on Friday night, the pitching coach (Jake Angier) in the seventh inning — bases loaded, that's usually a lot of times where a coach will go to the bullpen or something like that — and he told him no, you're getting them. I mean, that kind of trust in your Friday night guy, that's something that's earned. And Jace has earned that from Coach Angier, which is awesome."
Up Next: The Ducks and Beavers meet again Saturday at 3 p.m., then Sunday at noon.
Team Stats
Pitching:
W: Stoffal, Jace (4-2)
L: Sellers, Trent (4-3)
S: Mollerus, Josh (5)
Batting:
2B: Macias, Dallas 1
SH: McDowell, Micah 1
Batting:
2B: Shade, Colby 1 ; Ceballos, Sabin 1 ; Cromwick, Josiah 1 ; Grant, Gavin 1
RBI: Shade, Colby 1 ; Ceballos, Sabin 1
Base Running:
RUNS: Shade, Colby 1 ; Grant, Gavin 1
SB: Shade, Colby 1
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