University of Washington
31-14, 15-10
Oregon
31-18, 14-12
UW Secures Series with Convincing 18-8 Win Over No. 24 Oregon
May 13, 2023 | Baseball
Kiefer Lord picked up his third win in a row, allowing five runs over five innings, striking out five. Grant Cunningham completed the final four frames, earning his third save of the year.
Within the blink of an eye, Washington was in firm control, batting around before a single out was recorded.
Four-straight singles from Cam Clayton, AJ Guerrero, Coby Morales and Will Simpson got a pair of runs home. Johnny Tincher was then hit by a pitch and Jeter Ybarra followed with a double to left field, scoring two more.
After Aiva Arquette was walked, a failed pickoff attempt allowed Tincher to come home. Michael Snyder then slugged a two-run double to right-center and Sam DeCarlo capped the run with a bang, hammering a two-run blast well past the wall in left-center. Before the Ducks could put an out on the board, it was 9-0 Dawgs.
A solo homer in the third got Oregon on the board, but UW responded with a Simpson RBI double in the fourth, extending the lead to 10-1.
While Oregon started to put pressure back on the Huskies with three runs in the fourth and another in the fifth. However, a seven run sixth inning gave Washington more than enough breathing room back.
Morales got things started with an RBI double to right and Ybarra followed with a single down the third base line with the bases loaded, bringing in a pair. Snyder found some grass with a flair to left, plating Tincher.
Sam DeCarlo followed with an RBI groundout and Cam Clayton provided the capper to the frame, shooting a single up the middle to bring in two more and make it 17-5.
The Dawgs and Ducks traded a run in the eighth, Washington's coming on Snyder's sacrifice fly, and Oregon pulled two more back in the ninth but by then it was academic as the Huskies locked up its third straight Pac-12 series.
QUICK HITS
• The Huskies' 18 runs were the most in a Pac-12 game since scoring 19 in a win at Oregon in 2019.
• With one game left to play, UW's 32 runs are already its most in a series against the Ducks since the program was resurrected in 2009.
• With the win, Washington has secured its first series over Oregon since 2019.
• It is the third straight Pac-12 series victory for the Huskies.
• The Huskies have won five straight games and 10 of their last 11 on the hump.
• All nine starters scored in the game, with seven different Huskies scoring multiple runs.
• Seven different Dawgs posted multiple hits in the affair.
• Jeter Ybarra set new career highs in hits (3), runs (3) and RBIs (4).
• AJ Guerrero posted his second four-hit game of the season, joining McKay Barney as the only two Huskies with multiple such performances.
• Sam DeCarlo's first inning home run was his first since hitting the walk off home run in UW's 4-3 win over Utah on March 11.
• The Huskies clobbered six doubles in the game, tied for the team's single game season high.
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Team Stats
Pitching:
W: Lord, Kiefer (6-3)
L: Pace, Jackson (2-3)
S: Cunningham, Grant (3)
Batting:
2B: Guerrero, AJ 1 ; Morales, Coby 1 ; Simpson, Will 1 ; Ybarra, Jeter 2 ; Snyder, Michael 1
HR: DeCarlo, Sam 1
RBI: Clayton, Cam 2 ; Morales, Coby 2 ; Simpson, Will 2 ; Ybarra, Jeter 4 ; Snyder, Michael 4 ; DeCarlo, Sam 3
SF: Snyder, Michael 1
Base Running:
RUNS: Clayton, Cam 1 ; Guerrero, AJ 3 ; Morales, Coby 2 ; Simpson, Will 2 ; Tincher, Johnny 2 ; Ybarra, Jeter 3 ; Arquette, Aiva 2 ; Snyder, Michael 2 ; DeCarlo, Sam 1
HBP: Tincher, Johnny 1
Batting:
2B: Nishida, Rikuu 1 ; Cowley, Drew 1 ; Walsh, Jacob 1
HR: Grant, Gavin 1
RBI: Nishida, Rikuu 2 ; Ceballos, Sabin 1 ; Smith, Drew 1 ; Grant, Gavin 3
SH: Smith, Tanner 1
Base Running:
RUNS: Cowley, Drew 1 ; Garate, Carter 1 ; Ganus, Tyler 1 ; Smith, Drew 1 ; Walsh, Jacob 1 ; Thompson, Bennett 1 ; Grant, Gavin 2
SB: Shade, Colby 1
HBP: Shade, Colby 1
