UH baseball team drops series to No. 6 Oregon State on the road
Saving the best for crunch time, the sixth-ranked Oregon State baseball team overtook Hawaii for a 3-1 victory at Goss Stadium in Corvallis, Ore. An announced crowd of 4,028 saw the Beavers sweep the three-game, interconference series to improve to 33-9, including 15-3 at Goss. The Rainbow Warriors went 2-5 during this 11-day road trip.
Despite the outcome, the ’Bows, idle from league play this week, moved into fifth place in the Big West. The ’Bows are 10-11 (. 476), surpassing 11-13 Cal State Northridge (.
458) for fifth. The top five teams qualify for the Big West Tournament. OSU’s Nyan Hayes hit a two-run homer in the seventh and AJ Singer added a miscommunication-aided RBI double in the eighth for the Beavers.
UH starting pitcher Brody Martin-Grudzielanek pitched a one hitter through six innings. But he exited after hitting Paul Vasquez with one out in the seventh. By then, Martin-Grudzielanek had thrown a season-high 94 pitches.
He allowed five fly balls the first two turns through the OSU lineup. The third time around, five of the six batters he faced hit the ball in the air. “The pitch count was too high,” UH coach Rich Hill said of the freshman right-hander.
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