St. Mary's @ Oregon (Ducks win series 2-1)

[UOducksTK1]

Game 1: L 3-4
Game 2: W 3-0
Game 3: W 3-2

[greenyellow]

Could be some really cool, wet weather for these games, but hopefully the rain holds off for the series.

[oregontrack]

Is it still supposed to snow Friday/Saturday? I'm totally there if they actually play.

oregontrack's knee-jerk analysis from the Hawaii series:

Anderson and Boer owned it. Boer got Pac-10 Pitcher of the Week for his outing. Kuedell gave up 1 ER in 5 IP, you have to take that kind of a performance from a 4th starter every single time. Jones struggled, but as greenyellow mentioned in another thread, he hasn't started a D-1 game in over a year. He had three shutdown innings, but two poor ones; he's a talented kid, the consistency will (hopefully) come.

We won two games, our bullpen blew two others; we had the lead at 4 different junctures in game two. The bullpen will work itself out.

RF Aaron Jones had 6 hits in 13 ABs over the weekend, that's quite a start for a freshman. Kuresa and Sabol both had big hits. I'd love to see Sabol lock down left field.

[woundedknees]

Oregon was essentially 1 inning away from a win in both losses. Considering the length of the trip, and the distractions available, that should be considered a pretty decent outcome (Not great, but Hawaii is picked to win their conference).

[OregonMAX]

Is it still supposed to snow Friday/Saturday? I'm totally there if they actually play.

oregontrack's knee-jerk analysis from the Hawaii series:

Anderson and Boer owned it. Boer got Pac-10 Pitcher of the Week for his outing. Kuedell gave up 1 ER in 5 IP, you have to take that kind of a performance from a 4th starter every single time. Jones struggled, but as greenyellow mentioned in another thread, he hasn't started a D-1 game in over a year. He had three shutdown innings, but two poor ones; he's a talented kid, the consistency will (hopefully) come.

We won two games, our bullpen blew two others; we had the lead at 4 different junctures in game two. The bullpen will work itself out.

RF Aaron Jones had 6 hits in 13 ABs over the weekend, that's quite a start for a freshman. Kuresa and Sabol both had big hits. I'd love to see Sabol lock down left field.

Actually 8 hits in 18 at bats for Jones (including 2 HR's)

[duckgrad99]

Any update on Serna?

[greenyellow]

I think that a split this early in the season, especially with them being on the road and breaking in some new players, is really one of the best outcomes that could be expected.

[UOducksTK1]

Any update on Serna?

[oregontrack]

Is it still supposed to snow Friday/Saturday? I'm totally there if they actually play.

oregontrack's knee-jerk analysis from the Hawaii series:

Anderson and Boer owned it. Boer got Pac-10 Pitcher of the Week for his outing. Kuedell gave up 1 ER in 5 IP, you have to take that kind of a performance from a 4th starter every single time. Jones struggled, but as greenyellow mentioned in another thread, he hasn't started a D-1 game in over a year. He had three shutdown innings, but two poor ones; he's a talented kid, the consistency will (hopefully) come.

We won two games, our bullpen blew two others; we had the lead at 4 different junctures in game two. The bullpen will work itself out.

RF Aaron Jones had 6 hits in 13 ABs over the weekend, that's quite a start for a freshman. Kuresa and Sabol both had big hits. I'd love to see Sabol lock down left field.

Actually 8 hits in 18 at bats for Jones (including 2 HR's)

Ah, GoDucks must not have updated the final game at the time of my post.

[cordy02c]

Serna is also out this weekend horton said they will reevalaute his situation next week

[greenyellow]

Looks like it's going to be a cold, snowy series, if they get it in at all.

[oregontrack]

Should be fine, tomorrow eve looks sunny. Cold, yeah. Saturday also looks sunny, rain back on Sunday.

[oregontrack]

Game day.

Naturally, I think we can win all three; that said, this is baseball, and lesser teams beat more talented clubs all the time. But really, three good efforts = by all rights, 3 wins.

Pitching match-ups:

Tyler Anderson (0-0, 1.50 ERA) vs. Mark Anderson (0-0, 0.00)
Madison Boer (1-0, 0.00) vs. Kyle Barraclough (0-1, 6.75)
Christian Jones (0-0, 13.50) vs. Martin Agosta (0-1, 1.80)

Mark Anderson pitched 3 innings in St. Mary's opener against San Jose State, and faced the minimum. He gave way to Barraclough, who gave up 5 runs (3 earned) in 4 innings of work. I have no idea why Anderson only pitched 3 innings.

Martin Agosta started their second game against SJSU, giving up 1 run and 5 hits in 5 IP. A solid outing.

St. Mary's went with a bullpen-approach to their third game of the season (a win vs. Sac State), where 6 pitchers combined limit Sac State to 1 run, no pitcher pitching more than 3 innings.

Putting the opposition in context, sounds like both Anderson and Agosta pitched very well, and their 'pen guys did very well save for Barraclough, who will get his first start of the year Saturday.

What's really been St. Mary's Achilles heel has been offense: they lost to SJSU 5-1 and 2-0, and beat Sac State 2-1. No bats for the Gaels, at least not early on; and with as cold as it appears to be this weekend + our pitching, hopefully that continues.

[greenyellow]

Their offensive struggles could easily just be early season problems most teams have but they aren't likely going to get their bats going against Oregon's pitching staff.

[duckgrad99]

Ducks up 2-0 bottom of 4th.