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Around the horn: Ducks prepare for Pac-12 play with win over Portland

Oregon hit three more home runs at home and that was more than enough to hand Portland an 18-2 loss Tuesday.

Midweek games during the college baseball season can be taken for granted at times. Teams sometimes give their regulars a rest to give players on the bench much-needed at-bats.

Oregon isn’t doing that.

The Ducks (8-5) sent out the regulars in a huge 18-2 win over the Portland Pilots Tuesday afternoon at PK Park. Perhaps that plan will change later this season, but Oregon wanted to keep its starters in rhythm with No. 2 Stanford next on the docket.

Tanner Smith, Jack Scanlon, Colby Shade, and Tyler Ganus all homered for the Ducks, who are continuing to build a case that their home ballpark is no longer a pitcher’s paradise. Oregon has hit 14 home runs in its first nine games at home so far.

Around the horn: Gauchos edge the Ducks 7-5 to earn a series split

UC-Santa Barbara defeated Oregon 7-5 to earn a series split this weekend at PK Park.

Oregon Ducks baseball coach Mark Wasikowski would have probably signed up for a four-game split with UC-Santa Barbara before the weekend. But after winning the first two games, a split doesn’t seem so great.

The Gauchos won the final two games, including today’s 7-5 decision from the Ducks, who fell to 7-5 on the season.

UCSB scored three in the first inning and seemed to have an answer for every Duck rally throughout the day. Oregon did eventually tie the game 4-4 in the fifth, but the Gauchos homered in the next frame.

It was also the second game in a row where the Oregon starting pitcher didn’t have a stellar afternoon. Tommy Brandenburg could just get through two innings, walking two and plunking two others. The bullpen did their best to hold the Gauchos down as much as possible, but they have to cover 15 innings over the last two contests and it finally caught up with them.

Around the horn: Oregon splits a doubleheader and sees winning streak end

Oregon split a doubleheader with UCSB and saw its seven-game winning streak go away with a 5-4 loss in the nightcap.

It’s so difficult to defeat a team seven straight times, but that’s what Oregon was going for as the Ducks attempted to sweep a doubleheader from UC-Santa Barbara.

Oregon went down to UCSB last season and won four straight and won the first two games of this current series with the Gauchos. Even with Josiah Cromwick’s second-inning grand slam, Oregon saw its current seven-game winning streak go away with the Gauchos’ 5-4 win in the nightcap.

The Ducks are now 7-4 on the season, but will attempt to win the series over the Gauchos tomorrow afternoon.

UCSB took the 5-4 lead in the sixth when Oregon centerfielder Colby Shade made a rare error and allowed two runs to score. From there, the Gauchos bullpen held an incredibly hot Duck offense down for 5 2/3 innings. Oregon had a small rally in the ninth with Shade walking to start off, but Cromwick struck out, and last night’s hero, Gavin Grant, grounded into a 6-4-3 double play to end the contest.

In Game 1, Oregon starter Isaac Ayon pitched a great game. He went the entire seven innings, allowing one earned run and five hits with seven strikeouts in the 4-3 Duck win. Drew Cowley drove in three, including a two-run homer.

Around the horn: Oregon sweeps away the Red Storm with 6-0 shutout

The Ducks complete the series sweep of St. John’s and have won five straight.

The Oregon pitching staff didn’t want to be forgotten in the past couple of days with all of the runs that were being scored.

Tommy Brandenberg dominated for five innings and he was supported by Josiah Cromwick’s three-run homer in the second as the Ducks completed the four-game sweep of St. John’s 6-0.

Josh Kasevich added a two-run single in the fifth and Jacob Walsh belted his second homer on the season in the seventh.

Oregon won its fifth straight game, but the schedule will get tougher this coming weekend with UC-Santa Barbara coming to PK Park for a four-game series that includes a doubleheader on Saturday.

Around the horn: Early inning offense carries Ducks past Red Storm

Oregon jumped on St. John’s early and often to cruise to a win, the Ducks’ third straight.

In the last two games, the Oregon Ducks baseball team has exploded in the eighth inning for double-digit runs.

They didn’t wait so long today.

Oregon scored five in the first and six more in the second and that was more than enough as the Ducks downed St. John’s 16-3 for their third straight win.

Brennan Milone and Colby Shade each homered in the initial frame and then Milone continued his big day with a two-run single in the second.

With that kind of run support, Oregon starting pitcher Andrew Mosiello could settle in and pitch his game. The sophomore went five innings, allowing just one run on three hits and three strikeouts. The only blemish on Mosiello’s day was that he walked five Red Storm batters.

Now at 3-3, the Ducks’ three-game losing streak to begin the season seems like a while ago. Oregon has scored an incredible 60 runs in the last three contests.

Around the horn: Ducks tie program record for runs scored in rout of St. John’s

The Ducks tied a school record for runs scored as they crushed St. John’s 23-5 in the 2022 home opener.

Everyone was wondering how the newly renovated PK Park would play as compared to previous seasons.

In the home opener, the Oregon Ducks showed the 13-year old stadium might be a hitter’s park now.

It’s only one game, but Oregon tied a program record of 23 runs in a massive 23-5 rout over St. John’s. It’s the Ducks second consecutive game of scoring 20 or more and are now 2-3 on the early season.

Brennan Milone and Drew Cowley each homered and Colby Shade went 2-for-5 with three runs driven in.

Meanwhile, on the mound, starter Adam Maier had a nice rebound game after a rough season opener. Maier went 5.1 innings, giving up four runs and six hits while striking out five.

These two teams will meet up again Saturday afternoon for Game 2 of the four-game series.

PK Park gets a facelift with new FieldTurf and shorter fences

The Oregon Ducks baseball team will get to test drive PK Park 2.0 on Friday with new turf, shorter fences and new graphics around the 13-year old stadium.

PK Park 2.0 is set to debut on Friday with new turf, shorter fences, and a soon-to-be new video board.

This is the first major renovation of the stadium since the Oregon Ducks brought the baseball program back in 2009.

“Through the tremendous commitment of athletic director Rob Mullens and associate athletic director Eric Roedl, and the incredible donations by Pat Kilkenny and numerous other huge supporters of our program, PK Park has never been a more ‘state of the art’ facility,” Oregon head coach Mark Wasikowski said.

The first noticeable difference will be the new turf that has a new PK Park logo behind home plate, the Oregon O in centerfield and outlines of flying ducks in left and right fields.

The center-field fence and the power alleys in left-center field and right-center field have been moved in 10 feet from the original design and lowered in height from eight feet to six-and-a-half feet from the left-field line to the right-center field gap. The fence in front of the Ducks’ bullpen in right field has been raised from four feet to six-and-a-half feet to match the rest of the outfield wall.

Moving the fences in should help Oregon’s offense and recruit more power hitters. Before, with the wind patterns, it took Herculean strength to hit a home run. It was more of a pitcher’s park, but now Oregon hopes it’s more of a fair park that’s equal for the pitchers and hitters.

Fans will get to enjoy a state-of-the-art 60-feet by 26.4-feet video board featuring the latest video technology from Daktronics, which is in the process of being installed behind the left-center field wall and will be finished and operational in late March.

The Ducks will get to officially test everything out Friday in the home opener against St. John’s in Game 1 of a four-game set. First pitch is scheduled for 4 p.m.

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Around the horn: Cromwick’s grand slam lifts Oregon past San Diego 21-11

Josiah Cromwick’s grand slam sparked a 12-run eighth inning to help Oregon capture its first win of the year 21-11.

Josiah Cromwick must be a fan of his grandma’s salami sandwiches on rye bread with mustard.

The Oregon Ducks catcher belted a grand slam in the eighth inning to give the Ducks a 14-10 lead and eventually Oregon went on to win 21-11 over San Diego to salvage one win in the four-game wraparound series.

Oregon had been struggling to score this entire weekend against Toreros pitching, but the offense broke out in a big way with 20 hits.

Jacob Walsh also added a two-run homer in the 12-run eighth inning. It was the first of what could be many round-trippers in the careers of both Cromwick and Walsh.

Getting this win in the series finale was very important as the Ducks didn’t want to come home 0-4 to start out the season. While the offense finally broke out, Oregon has to be concerned about the pitching and defense. San Diego scored in double figures in three of the four games and they committed eight errors.

The Ducks will try to figure a few things out before St. John’s comes all the way from New York to Eugene to begin another four-game series that runs from Friday to Monday (Feb. 25-28).

Around the horn: Ducks drop third straight in San Diego

Oregon baseball battled right up until the end, but an eighth-inning run gave San Diego a 5-4 win.

This wasn’t how Mark Wasikowski envisioned his baseball team starting the season. Oregon is on the verge of being swept out of San Diego as the Toreros took Game 3 by the score of 5-4.

It’s the Ducks’ third straight loss to open the season and if they want to come back home with one win in their pocket, they’ll have to rely on freshman Tommy Brandenberg to get the job done on the hill.

Unlike in the first two games, Oregon managed to score first in the initial inning, but San Diego answered with two in the third and two in the fourth to take a 4-1 lead.

But to the Ducks’ credit, the visitors scratched out runs in the fifth, sixth and eighth to knot the game at 4-4. The Toreros took the lead for good in the bottom half of the eighth on a Kolby Somers bases-loaded walk. The Ducks got a runner on in the ninth but couldn’t score.

Around the horn: Oregon is its own worst enemy in 10-4 loss to USD

Oregon dug itself a huge hole in the early innings and couldn’t rally late as San Diego took Game 2 of the series.

Before the game, Oregon knew runs would be at a premium as the Ducks were going to face one of the best left-handed pitchers in the country.

Over 20 scouts were in the stands to watch San Diego starter Brycen Mautz work and he didn’t disappoint. The southpaw went

But the Ducks really didn’t give themselves much of a chance as they were their own worst enemy a lot of the time with walks, errors and wild pitches. At one point, the Toreros had nine runs on just three hits.

Oregon starting pitcher Andrew Mosiello had a rough time finding his control as he lasted just 2.2 innings, allowing eight runs, six earned, four walks, and two hit batsmen.

One bright spot is that the Oregon offense found some rhythm and scored a few runs. The Ducks scored two in the fifth and two in the sixth. But it was too little, too late. They will need to use that offensive momentum for Game 3 of the series Sunday afternoon.