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Diamond Dawgs Hit Eugene for Final Road Pac-12 Series
May 11, 2023 | Baseball
SEATTLE – Hitting the road for the final time during Pac-12 play, Washington looks to keep its winning ways going over the weekend, taking on No. 24 Oregon at PK Park.
All three games will air on Pac-12 Networks. All three games will air on Pac-12 Washington, while Friday and Sunday's games will also be broadcasted on Pac-12 Oregon.
. Links to live stats are available on the GoHuskies.com schedule page and HuskyStats.com.
DAWG BITES
• Washington looks to take its third conference series in a row, battling No. 24 Oregon at PK Park in Eugene.
• The Huskies will look to break a string of seven straight losses to the Ducks.
• Washington enters the series with a 4-4 record against ranked opponents this season, including 3-3 on the road.
• All three games will air on Pac-12 Networks. All three games will air on Pac-12 Washington, while Friday and Sunday's games will also be broadcasted on Pac-12 Oregon.
• The Huskies have won eight of their last nine games, including three in a row.
• With a series victory over Washington State, the Huskies sit fifth in the Pac-12 standings with a 13-10 league record and are just one win shy of second place Arizona State.
• The Huskies surrendered just six total runs to Washington State and has limited opponents to a pair of runs in four straight games.
• Making his first start of the season in Tuesday's win over Seattle U, Case Matter has made 12 consecutive appearances without allowing a run.
• Washington is the only team in the Pac-12 without a three-game losing streak in 2023.
SERIES HISTORY VS. OREGON
Washington trails the all-time series with longtime Pac-12 rival Oregon 155-137-1. The Huskies have dropped seven straight matchups with the Ducks, including three games in Seattle a season ago, all of which were decided by two runs or less. Washington is looking to break a losing streak of seven or more games to a league foe for the third time this season, snaping steaks against Oregon State and Arizona earlier in the season.
KEEP 'EM COMING SKIP!
Tuesday's win over Seattle U was the 29th of the season for the Huskies, giving skipper Jason Kelly the second most wins by a first year head coach in program history. Kelly is 10 victories shy of the 39 wins posted by Ken Knutsen in his first campaign in 1993.
HOW BOUT THEM APPLES?
Taking two-of-three games out on The Palouse, Washington claimed its fifth series over Washington State in the last six meetings with its Apple Cup rivals. Pitching led the way for the Huskies, holding the Cougars to just two runs in all three games. The six total runs allowed were the fewest in a Pac-12 series for UW since surrendering three in a sweep of Arizona in 2018.
LATE SEASON BOOST
After spending the bulk of the season unavailable through injury, true freshman Aiva Arquette has given the much needed boost to the Husky lineup down the stretch. The Hawai'i native has appeared in the last 12 games for UW, including nine consecutive starts. With just 36 career at bats, Arquette already has four home runs and 10 RBIs in his limited action.
CASE CLOSED
When righty flamethrower Case Matter is summoned from the Husky bullpen, a Washington victory is nearly a matter of fact. The UW closer has made 12 straight appearances without allowing a run, totaling 15.1 innings. During the stretch, Matter has struck out 22 batters, while issuing just four hits.
SQUARING IT UP
The Huskies have seen a player post four hits in a game four times this season and twice the man in question has been McKay Barney after the speedster went 4-for-4 in Sunday's series clinching win over Washington State. The Arizona native has collected four hits in a game three times in his career.
LIKE CLOCKWORK
Coby Morales has reached base in 23 consecutive games, matching Braiden Ward's mark from 2018. If Morales reaches in Friday's game, it will be the longest streak at UW since MJ Hubbs reached in 39 straight in 2017.
STRIKE EARLY
The Huskies have gotten off to strong starts to games, scoring 39 runs in the first inning and 42 in the second. Washington has outscored its opponents 81-36 in the first two innings of games.
KEEPING IT CLEAN
Washington continues to boast one of the Pac-12's top defenses. The Huskies rank second in the conference and 32nd in the nation with a .978 fielding percentage.
STARTING STRONG
The Dawgs have gotten off to fast starts to innings, having the leadoff hitter to a frame reach 44.1 percent of the time. 79 of the 154 leadoff baserunners have come around to score.
ON THE CLOCK
29 of Washington's games this season have been completed in under three hours, including six games completed in under two and a half hours.
THE ULTIMATE SACRIFICE
Laying down a perfect bunt in the 13th inning Friday night at Stanford, McKay Barney became the first Husky to record a sacrifice bunt this season. The Huskies were the second-to-last team in the nation to lay down a sacrifice bunt, with Texas A&M laying down its first the following day.
TAKING OVER TINSEL TOWN
Over the last two seasons, Washington is 11-1 against the Pac-12's two Los Angeles based schools during the regular season, sweeping back-to-back series over USC and taking 5-of-6 games against top-10 ranked UCLA squads.
LORD ALMIGHTY
Washington right-hander Kiefer Lord is one of two players to earn multiple weekly Pac-12 honors this season, joining Oregon's Jace Stoffal.
Lord twirled eight shutout innings in UW's 9-0 victory at No. 9 Stanford to earn the Week 10 award, matching his season-high with 10 strikeouts. The eight innings were tied for the most in an outing in his career and two more than any other game this season. Lord retired the final 16 Cardinal batters he faced. The NorCal native was also named a Player of the Week by Collegiate Baseball.
Throwing six perfect innings with 10 strikeouts against Northern Colorado, Kiefer Lord was named the Week 3 Perfect Game National Pitcher of the Week and Pac-12 Pitcher of the Week. The righty hurler became the first Husky to earn a national pitching award since Joe DeMers in 2018 and the first Husky pitcher to earn a Pac-12 weekly award since Josh Burgmann in 2019.
STOCK UP
The Huskies are on the rise in D1Baseball's positional rankings, with several Washington players making big strides:
UW in D1Baseball's Updated Position Rankings
Kiefer Lord - Starting Pitcher - No. 100 to No. 27 (+73)
Stu Flesland III - Starting Pitcher - No. 166 to No. 41 (+125)
Josh Emanuels - Relief Pitcher - Unranked to No. 44
Will Simpson - First Baseman - Unranked to No. 22
Cam Clayton - Shortstop - Unranked to No. 18
THAT'S OFFENSIVE
The Dawgs put up astonishing numbers during their four-game series with Northern Colorado. Most notably was the school-record 32 runs scored in the series opener. Those 32 runs are the sixth most scored by one team in an NCAA Division I game this season. The Huskies outscored the Bears 57-12 for the series, batting .388 as a team with 15 doubles, six home runs, 51 RBIs, 26 walks, 16 HBPs and a .513 team on-base percentage.
THE JUCO JUMP
Washington has 10 junior college products on its roster. Four players come from the Washington Community and Technical Colleges system, with four California Community College system products and two players from Arizona's Maricopa County Community College District.
HOMEGROWN DAWGS
Nearly half of the Husky roster, 19 of 39 players overall, are homegrown talents from the state of Washington. Of those 19 local products, 16 hail from the greater Seattle Metropolitan area. Below is a breakdown of the counties UW's Washington natives call home.
UW Washington Natives by County
King County - 14
Clark County - 2
Pierce County - 1
Snohomish County - 1
Spokane County - 1
RUN IT BACK
Washington returns nearly the entirety of its offense from the 2022 season with seven of eight positional starters returning that started more than 40 games, the Dawgs are poised once again to put up big numbers on the scoreboard.
Percentage Return from 2022
• Games Started - 88.5%
• Runs - 87.7%
• Hits - 91.4%
• Doubles - 92.3%
• Triples - 87.5%
• Home Runs - 93.8%
• RBIs - 90.9%
• Walks - 82.5%
15 GAMES TO AIR ON PAC-12 FAMILY OF NETWORKS
15 Washington baseball games have been selected to air across the Pac-12 family of networks this season. Six home games from Husky Ballpark will air on your television set, while nine road games are set to be broadcasted. Of the 15 TV games for the Dawgs, 10 will air on Pac-12 Washington.
2018 OMADAWGS
2023 marks the five-year anniversary of Washington's 2018 team that became the first squad in program-history to reach the College World Series. The Huskies ran through the Conway Regional, sweeping three games against UConn and host Coastal Carolina. UW then took a decisive Super Regional Game 3 at Cal State Fullerton, erasing a one-run deficit in the ninth to force extras and walking off the Titans on Kaiser Weiss' sacrifice fly to score Levi Jordan and send the Dawgs to Omaha.
For more information on the UW baseball team, follow @UW_Baseball on Twitter and Instagram.
All three games will air on Pac-12 Networks. All three games will air on Pac-12 Washington, while Friday and Sunday's games will also be broadcasted on Pac-12 Oregon.
. Links to live stats are available on the GoHuskies.com schedule page and HuskyStats.com.
DAWG BITES
• Washington looks to take its third conference series in a row, battling No. 24 Oregon at PK Park in Eugene.
• The Huskies will look to break a string of seven straight losses to the Ducks.
• Washington enters the series with a 4-4 record against ranked opponents this season, including 3-3 on the road.
• All three games will air on Pac-12 Networks. All three games will air on Pac-12 Washington, while Friday and Sunday's games will also be broadcasted on Pac-12 Oregon.
• The Huskies have won eight of their last nine games, including three in a row.
• With a series victory over Washington State, the Huskies sit fifth in the Pac-12 standings with a 13-10 league record and are just one win shy of second place Arizona State.
• The Huskies surrendered just six total runs to Washington State and has limited opponents to a pair of runs in four straight games.
• Making his first start of the season in Tuesday's win over Seattle U, Case Matter has made 12 consecutive appearances without allowing a run.
• Washington is the only team in the Pac-12 without a three-game losing streak in 2023.
SERIES HISTORY VS. OREGON
Washington trails the all-time series with longtime Pac-12 rival Oregon 155-137-1. The Huskies have dropped seven straight matchups with the Ducks, including three games in Seattle a season ago, all of which were decided by two runs or less. Washington is looking to break a losing streak of seven or more games to a league foe for the third time this season, snaping steaks against Oregon State and Arizona earlier in the season.
KEEP 'EM COMING SKIP!
Tuesday's win over Seattle U was the 29th of the season for the Huskies, giving skipper Jason Kelly the second most wins by a first year head coach in program history. Kelly is 10 victories shy of the 39 wins posted by Ken Knutsen in his first campaign in 1993.
HOW BOUT THEM APPLES?
Taking two-of-three games out on The Palouse, Washington claimed its fifth series over Washington State in the last six meetings with its Apple Cup rivals. Pitching led the way for the Huskies, holding the Cougars to just two runs in all three games. The six total runs allowed were the fewest in a Pac-12 series for UW since surrendering three in a sweep of Arizona in 2018.
LATE SEASON BOOST
After spending the bulk of the season unavailable through injury, true freshman Aiva Arquette has given the much needed boost to the Husky lineup down the stretch. The Hawai'i native has appeared in the last 12 games for UW, including nine consecutive starts. With just 36 career at bats, Arquette already has four home runs and 10 RBIs in his limited action.
CASE CLOSED
When righty flamethrower Case Matter is summoned from the Husky bullpen, a Washington victory is nearly a matter of fact. The UW closer has made 12 straight appearances without allowing a run, totaling 15.1 innings. During the stretch, Matter has struck out 22 batters, while issuing just four hits.
SQUARING IT UP
The Huskies have seen a player post four hits in a game four times this season and twice the man in question has been McKay Barney after the speedster went 4-for-4 in Sunday's series clinching win over Washington State. The Arizona native has collected four hits in a game three times in his career.
LIKE CLOCKWORK
Coby Morales has reached base in 23 consecutive games, matching Braiden Ward's mark from 2018. If Morales reaches in Friday's game, it will be the longest streak at UW since MJ Hubbs reached in 39 straight in 2017.
STRIKE EARLY
The Huskies have gotten off to strong starts to games, scoring 39 runs in the first inning and 42 in the second. Washington has outscored its opponents 81-36 in the first two innings of games.
KEEPING IT CLEAN
Washington continues to boast one of the Pac-12's top defenses. The Huskies rank second in the conference and 32nd in the nation with a .978 fielding percentage.
STARTING STRONG
The Dawgs have gotten off to fast starts to innings, having the leadoff hitter to a frame reach 44.1 percent of the time. 79 of the 154 leadoff baserunners have come around to score.
ON THE CLOCK
29 of Washington's games this season have been completed in under three hours, including six games completed in under two and a half hours.
THE ULTIMATE SACRIFICE
Laying down a perfect bunt in the 13th inning Friday night at Stanford, McKay Barney became the first Husky to record a sacrifice bunt this season. The Huskies were the second-to-last team in the nation to lay down a sacrifice bunt, with Texas A&M laying down its first the following day.
TAKING OVER TINSEL TOWN
Over the last two seasons, Washington is 11-1 against the Pac-12's two Los Angeles based schools during the regular season, sweeping back-to-back series over USC and taking 5-of-6 games against top-10 ranked UCLA squads.
LORD ALMIGHTY
Washington right-hander Kiefer Lord is one of two players to earn multiple weekly Pac-12 honors this season, joining Oregon's Jace Stoffal.
Lord twirled eight shutout innings in UW's 9-0 victory at No. 9 Stanford to earn the Week 10 award, matching his season-high with 10 strikeouts. The eight innings were tied for the most in an outing in his career and two more than any other game this season. Lord retired the final 16 Cardinal batters he faced. The NorCal native was also named a Player of the Week by Collegiate Baseball.
Throwing six perfect innings with 10 strikeouts against Northern Colorado, Kiefer Lord was named the Week 3 Perfect Game National Pitcher of the Week and Pac-12 Pitcher of the Week. The righty hurler became the first Husky to earn a national pitching award since Joe DeMers in 2018 and the first Husky pitcher to earn a Pac-12 weekly award since Josh Burgmann in 2019.
STOCK UP
The Huskies are on the rise in D1Baseball's positional rankings, with several Washington players making big strides:
UW in D1Baseball's Updated Position Rankings
Kiefer Lord - Starting Pitcher - No. 100 to No. 27 (+73)
Stu Flesland III - Starting Pitcher - No. 166 to No. 41 (+125)
Josh Emanuels - Relief Pitcher - Unranked to No. 44
Will Simpson - First Baseman - Unranked to No. 22
Cam Clayton - Shortstop - Unranked to No. 18
THAT'S OFFENSIVE
The Dawgs put up astonishing numbers during their four-game series with Northern Colorado. Most notably was the school-record 32 runs scored in the series opener. Those 32 runs are the sixth most scored by one team in an NCAA Division I game this season. The Huskies outscored the Bears 57-12 for the series, batting .388 as a team with 15 doubles, six home runs, 51 RBIs, 26 walks, 16 HBPs and a .513 team on-base percentage.
THE JUCO JUMP
Washington has 10 junior college products on its roster. Four players come from the Washington Community and Technical Colleges system, with four California Community College system products and two players from Arizona's Maricopa County Community College District.
HOMEGROWN DAWGS
Nearly half of the Husky roster, 19 of 39 players overall, are homegrown talents from the state of Washington. Of those 19 local products, 16 hail from the greater Seattle Metropolitan area. Below is a breakdown of the counties UW's Washington natives call home.
UW Washington Natives by County
King County - 14
Clark County - 2
Pierce County - 1
Snohomish County - 1
Spokane County - 1
RUN IT BACK
Washington returns nearly the entirety of its offense from the 2022 season with seven of eight positional starters returning that started more than 40 games, the Dawgs are poised once again to put up big numbers on the scoreboard.
Percentage Return from 2022
• Games Started - 88.5%
• Runs - 87.7%
• Hits - 91.4%
• Doubles - 92.3%
• Triples - 87.5%
• Home Runs - 93.8%
• RBIs - 90.9%
• Walks - 82.5%
15 GAMES TO AIR ON PAC-12 FAMILY OF NETWORKS
15 Washington baseball games have been selected to air across the Pac-12 family of networks this season. Six home games from Husky Ballpark will air on your television set, while nine road games are set to be broadcasted. Of the 15 TV games for the Dawgs, 10 will air on Pac-12 Washington.
2018 OMADAWGS
2023 marks the five-year anniversary of Washington's 2018 team that became the first squad in program-history to reach the College World Series. The Huskies ran through the Conway Regional, sweeping three games against UConn and host Coastal Carolina. UW then took a decisive Super Regional Game 3 at Cal State Fullerton, erasing a one-run deficit in the ninth to force extras and walking off the Titans on Kaiser Weiss' sacrifice fly to score Levi Jordan and send the Dawgs to Omaha.
For more information on the UW baseball team, follow @UW_Baseball on Twitter and Instagram.
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