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Oregon baseball falls 4-2 in midweek matchup with Oregon State

Jarrid Denneyby: Jarrid Denney04/27/22jarrid_denney
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Tuesday marked the first of five matchups in the span of two weeks between No. 25 Oregon and No. 2 Oregon State.

Both teams have ambitions of hosting a regional and making a deep run into the postseason, and both are very much in the mix to finish atop the Pac-12 standings.

In Tuesday’s showdown between the two teams, the Beavers struck first.

Oregon State topped the Ducks, 4-2, at PK Park to improve to 32-8 on the season. Oregon meanwhile drops to 26-14 and has now lost three of its last four games.

The Ducks have forged a reputation as a team that is capable of scoring early and often this season, but their offense was stymied by a deep Oregon State pitching staff that threw six different pitchers at the Ducks.

Anthony Hall went 2-for-4 for the Ducks, and Christian Ciuffetelli tossed three innings and did not yield an earned run while getting the starting nod for Oregon.

But Oregon State struck early when Wade Meckler led off the game with a single, advanced to second on a passed ball, and later scored on a groundout. The Beavers struck for two more runs in the fourth when Justin Boyd launched a two-run homer off reliever Stone Churby.

Oregon answered back in the sixth when Hall and Shade ripped back-to-back RBI singles. But Meckler added an insurance run for the Beavers one inning later with an RBI single up the middle.

From there, relievers Mitchell Verburg and Ryan Brown shut the door on an Oregon comeback, allowing just two runners to reach base over the final three innings.

Oregon will look to bounce back this weekend when they host Cal (20-20, 10-11) for a three-game series in Eugene, with the opener set to begin at 6 p.m. Friday.

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