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Post by qbeaver on May 9, 2022 10:59:38 GMT -8
Was in Corvallis this last weekend. Will be on the JoeBeaver show at 12:05. Worth a listen. Archived later for those not in the area...
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Post by beavs6 on May 9, 2022 11:02:13 GMT -8
Thanks for the heads-up!
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Post by qbeaver on May 9, 2022 12:54:37 GMT -8
Bill Rowe was on later in the hour. Smart guy. Said osu would be really tough in a series if Hjerpe and Pfennigs pitched back to back from a difference stand point. A lefty throwing from his arm slot then facing a righty from a completely different arm slot. Rowe was told by osu out of high school he was down the list of priorities as a prospect,just like Melton was told he wasn't going to be D-1 by Horton. Both used that as fuel for fire to get better and both did. Terrific motivation to get better...
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Post by wilkyisdashiznit on May 9, 2022 13:11:40 GMT -8
Bill Rowe was on later in the hour. Smart guy. Said osu would be really tough in a series if Hjerpe and Pfennigs pitched back to back from a difference stand point. A lefty throwing from his arm slot then facing a righty from a completely different arm slot. Rowe was told by osu out of high school he was down the list of priorities as a prospect, just like Melton was told he wasn't going to be D-1 by Horton. Both used that as fuel for fire to get better and both did. Terrific motivation to get better... Bill Rowe is from Ashland and originally signed with UC Santa Barbara. Rowe hit .235 at Santa Barbara. Rowe transferred to Oregon State to play his senior year back in Oregon, because Casey needed a big lefty bat at first. At the time, Mitch Canham was a converted first baseman, 2005 was his first year catching. Canham could have been moved back to first. Or Rowe could have lost out to Cole Gillespie or Shea McFeely. But Rowe beat 'em out to start at first the opening weekend. Shea McFeely started the year at first against lefties, Lonnie Lechelt at third, but that was quickly abandoned, Lechelt still being a year away from being ready for primetime. Other than that, Rowe only started on the bench six times in February, March and April to give Canham a chance to rest at first base. After the Arizona series, the first full weekend in April, Rowe started every game At Omaha in 2006: Rowe bunted Tyler Graham over. Chris Kunda brought in Graham to put Oregon State 1-0 against Georgia. Rowe put Oregon State up 1-0 in the rematch with Miami on a sac fly to bring in Darwin Barney and then brought in Wallace to put Oregon State up 4-0 in the third. In the fifth, Rowe singled to start things off. Canham brought in Rowe two batters later with a double down the left field line. 7-0 Oregon State. Rowe scored the final run in an 8-1 revenge win. In the first game against Rice, Rowe singled through the left side to score Wallace, 1-0 Oregon State. Rowe then scored after Chris Kunda beat the throw from second to avoid a double-play, 3-0 Oregon State. Rowe drove in Gillespie in the seventh on a sac fly to make the final 5-0 Oregon State. In the second game against Rice, Nickerson on two days' rest, Rowe led off the second with a double down the rightfield line. Rowe moved to third on a wild pitch, and Canham scored Rowe on a sac fly. 1-0 Oregon State, all the runs that Nickerson and Gundy would need. In the second North Carolina game, Rowe hit the big home run, driving a curveball over the wall inside the rightfield foul pole to turn a 5-4 deficit into a 7-5 fourth-inning lead. Rowe then drove in Barney in the sixth to put Oregon State up 8-5. Rowe then came around on a Kunda sac fly to put Oregon State up 10-5 in an 11-7 win. In the Championship Game, after North Carolina had retired 13 straight, Rowe earned a two-out walk. Graham singled Rowe over to second on a duck down the leftfield line. Four pitches later, Rowe scored the game winner after Gipson hit a ground ball to Bryan Steed, who threw wide of Federowicz, who was playing first for only the fourth time on the season. Rowe almost won the game on a game-ending 3-6-1 double play, but the first base ump called Shelton safe. Cole Gillespie led Oregon State in pretty much all offensive categories during the season, but Rowe was tops on the team at Omaha in most offensive categories earning first team All-College World Series honors. Oregon State scored 34 runs in the wins at Omaha and Rowe either scored or drove in 14 of them and had a hand in four other runs, 53% of the runs scored. Rowe had a hand in the first run against Georgia, five of the runs in the second Miami game (runs 1, 4, 5, 7 and 8), four of the runs in the first Rice game (runs 1, 2, 3 and 5), the first run in the second Rice game, six runs in the second North Carolina game (runs 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10) and the all-important third run in the Championship Game. What is perhaps more important is that Rowe had zero errors in 95 chances. In a Championship Series that came down to fielding, Rowe did not make a mistake, while Federowicz did. Not a bad one year in Corvallis. |
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Post by qbeaver on May 9, 2022 13:15:14 GMT -8
He did and transferred to osu. Believe he was from Ashland
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Post by mbabeav on May 9, 2022 16:33:44 GMT -8
Bill Rowe was on later in the hour. Smart guy. Said osu would be really tough in a series if Hjerpe and Pfennigs pitched back to back from a difference stand point. A lefty throwing from his arm slot then facing a righty from a completely different arm slot. Rowe was told by osu out of high school he was down the list of priorities as a prospect, just like Melton was told he wasn't going to be D-1 by Horton. Both used that as fuel for fire to get better and both did. Terrific motivation to get better... Bill Rowe is from Ashland and originally signed with UC Santa Barbara. Rowe hit .235 at Santa Barbara. Rowe transferred to Oregon State to play his senior year back in Oregon, because Casey needed a big lefty bat at first. At the time, Mitch Canham was a converted first baseman, 2005 was his first year catching. Canham could have been moved back to first. Or Rowe could have lost out to Cole Gillespie or Shea McFeely. But Rowe beat 'em out to start at first the opening weekend. Shea McFeely started the year at first against lefties, Lonnie Lechelt at third, but that was quickly abandoned, Lechelt still being a year away from being ready for primetime. Other than that, Rowe only started on the bench six times in February, March and April to give Canham a chance to rest at first base. After the Arizona series, the first full weekend in April, Rowe started every game At Omaha in 2006: Rowe bunted Tyler Graham over. Chris Kunda brought in Graham to put Oregon State 1-0 against Georgia. Rowe put Oregon State up 1-0 in the rematch with Miami on a sac fly to bring in Darwin Barney and then brought in Wallace to put Oregon State up 4-0 in the third. In the fifth, Rowe singled to start things off. Canham brought in Rowe two batters later with a double down the left field line. 7-0 Oregon State. Rowe scored the final run in an 8-1 revenge win. In the first game against Rice, Rowe singled through the left side to score Wallace, 1-0 Oregon State. Rowe then scored after Chris Kunda beat the throw from second to avoid a double-play, 3-0 Oregon State. Rowe drove in Gillespie in the seventh on a sac fly to make the final 5-0 Oregon State. In the second game against Rice, Nickerson on two days' rest, Rowe led off the second with a double down the rightfield line. Rowe moved to third on a wild pitch, and Canham scored Rowe on a sac fly. 1-0 Oregon State, all the runs that Nickerson and Gundy would need. In the second North Carolina game, Rowe hit the big home run, driving a curveball over the wall inside the rightfield foul pole to turn a 5-4 deficit into a 7-5 fourth-inning lead. Rowe then drove in Barney in the sixth to put Oregon State up 8-5. Rowe then came around on a Kunda sac fly to put Oregon State up 10-5 in an 11-7 win. In the Championship Game, after North Carolina had retired 13 straight, Rowe earned a two-out walk. Graham singled Rowe over to second on a duck down the leftfield line. Four pitches later, Rowe scored the game winner after Gipson hit a ground ball to Bryan Steed, who threw wide of Federowicz, who was playing first for only the fourth time on the season. Rowe almost won the game on a game-ending 3-6-1 double play, but the first base ump called Shelton safe. Cole Gillespie led Oregon State in pretty much all offensive categories during the season, but Rowe was tops on the team at Omaha in most offensive categories earning first team All-College World Series honors. Oregon State scored 34 runs in the wins at Omaha and Rowe either scored or drove in 14 of them and had a hand in four other runs, 53% of the runs scored. Rowe had a hand in the first run against Georgia, five of the runs in the second Miami game (runs 1, 4, 5, 7 and 8), four of the runs in the first Rice game (runs 1, 2, 3 and 5), the first run in the second Rice game, six runs in the second North Carolina game (runs 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10) and the all-important third run in the Championship Game. What is perhaps more important is that Rowe had zero errors in 95 chances. In a Championship Series that came down to fielding, Rowe did not make a mistake, while Federowicz did. Not a bad one year in Corvallis. Fed should have got the error on that throw to 1st, not the 2nd baseman. Any competent 1st baseman easily makes that play, but he had his feet straddling the bag and couldn't reach the ball. Just like the outfielder should have caught the popup in 2018 - make those mistakes against the Beavs and you pay for it. |
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Post by wilkyisdashiznit on May 9, 2022 16:48:14 GMT -8
Bill Rowe is from Ashland and originally signed with UC Santa Barbara. Rowe hit .235 at Santa Barbara. Rowe transferred to Oregon State to play his senior year back in Oregon, because Casey needed a big lefty bat at first. At the time, Mitch Canham was a converted first baseman, 2005 was his first year catching. Canham could have been moved back to first. Or Rowe could have lost out to Cole Gillespie or Shea McFeely. But Rowe beat 'em out to start at first the opening weekend. Shea McFeely started the year at first against lefties, Lonnie Lechelt at third, but that was quickly abandoned, Lechelt still being a year away from being ready for primetime. Other than that, Rowe only started on the bench six times in February, March and April to give Canham a chance to rest at first base. After the Arizona series, the first full weekend in April, Rowe started every game At Omaha in 2006: Rowe bunted Tyler Graham over. Chris Kunda brought in Graham to put Oregon State 1-0 against Georgia. Rowe put Oregon State up 1-0 in the rematch with Miami on a sac fly to bring in Darwin Barney and then brought in Wallace to put Oregon State up 4-0 in the third. In the fifth, Rowe singled to start things off. Canham brought in Rowe two batters later with a double down the left field line. 7-0 Oregon State. Rowe scored the final run in an 8-1 revenge win. In the first game against Rice, Rowe singled through the left side to score Wallace, 1-0 Oregon State. Rowe then scored after Chris Kunda beat the throw from second to avoid a double-play, 3-0 Oregon State. Rowe drove in Gillespie in the seventh on a sac fly to make the final 5-0 Oregon State. In the second game against Rice, Nickerson on two days' rest, Rowe led off the second with a double down the rightfield line. Rowe moved to third on a wild pitch, and Canham scored Rowe on a sac fly. 1-0 Oregon State, all the runs that Nickerson and Gundy would need. In the second North Carolina game, Rowe hit the big home run, driving a curveball over the wall inside the rightfield foul pole to turn a 5-4 deficit into a 7-5 fourth-inning lead. Rowe then drove in Barney in the sixth to put Oregon State up 8-5. Rowe then came around on a Kunda sac fly to put Oregon State up 10-5 in an 11-7 win. In the Championship Game, after North Carolina had retired 13 straight, Rowe earned a two-out walk. Graham singled Rowe over to second on a duck down the leftfield line. Four pitches later, Rowe scored the game winner after Gipson hit a ground ball to Bryan Steed, who threw wide of Federowicz, who was playing first for only the fourth time on the season. Rowe almost won the game on a game-ending 3-6-1 double play, but the first base ump called Shelton safe. Cole Gillespie led Oregon State in pretty much all offensive categories during the season, but Rowe was tops on the team at Omaha in most offensive categories earning first team All-College World Series honors. Oregon State scored 34 runs in the wins at Omaha and Rowe either scored or drove in 14 of them and had a hand in four other runs, 53% of the runs scored. Rowe had a hand in the first run against Georgia, five of the runs in the second Miami game (runs 1, 4, 5, 7 and 8), four of the runs in the first Rice game (runs 1, 2, 3 and 5), the first run in the second Rice game, six runs in the second North Carolina game (runs 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10) and the all-important third run in the Championship Game. What is perhaps more important is that Rowe had zero errors in 95 chances. In a Championship Series that came down to fielding, Rowe did not make a mistake, while Federowicz did. Not a bad one year in Corvallis. Fed should have got the error on that throw to 1st, not the 2nd baseman. Any competent 1st baseman easily makes that play, but he had his feet straddling the bag and couldn't reach the ball. Just like the outfielder should have caught the popup in 2018 - make those mistakes against the Beavs and you pay for it. I agree. Bad throw in 2006, but it is only a bad throw, because Federowicz does not 100% know what he is doing. 2018. All three guys should have caught that ball. Carson Shaddy should have caught that ball but slipped in the dirt-to-grass transition and overran it. Eric Cole should have called Shaddy off, because it would have been a much easier play for him, but he never got it back after he saw Shaddy run through Gates. I just re-watched Grenier's at bat in the top of the ninth. I didn't notice before, but there is a couple of Oregon State fans right behind home plate that just up and left after Grenier hit the pop up. And they never come back. Not sure, if they realized that the Beavers came back to win. Also, if you look up Carson Shaddy's name the first words that come up after it in Google are "dropped ball." That does not work for Cole or Gates. |
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Post by clydebeav on May 9, 2022 18:00:40 GMT -8
Fed should have got the error on that throw to 1st, not the 2nd baseman. Any competent 1st baseman easily makes that play, but he had his feet straddling the bag and couldn't reach the ball. Just like the outfielder should have caught the popup in 2018 - make those mistakes against the Beavs and you pay for it. I agree. Bad throw in 2006, but it is only a bad throw, because Federowicz does not 100% know what he is doing. 2018. All three guys should have caught that ball. Carson Shaddy should have caught that ball but slipped in the dirt-to-grass transition and overran it. Eric Cole should have called Shaddy off, because it would have been a much easier play for him, but he never got it back after he saw Shaddy run through Gates. I just re-watched Grenier's at bat in the top of the ninth. I didn't notice before, but there is a couple of Oregon State fans right behind home plate that just up and left after Grenier hit the pop up. And they never come back. Not sure, if they realized that the Beavers came back to win. Also, if you look up Carson Shaddy's name the first words that come up after it in Google are "dropped ball." That does not work for Cole or Gates. Shaddy deserves to live with that. There was no reason for him to run all that way when it was clearly the 1st baseman’s play to make. I can only assume that he was being selfish and he wanted to be able to say he recorded the final out. I hope those 2 fans watched the end from somewhere else in the ballpark. Maybe just embarrassed to walk back to their seats after bailing so quickly. To be fair, I slapped the couch and said some profanity on the pop up. The season was over... then suddenly, it wasn’t. Great feeling to come back from that and win. So many emotions. |
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Post by jefframp on May 9, 2022 20:39:13 GMT -8
I agree. Bad throw in 2006, but it is only a bad throw, because Federowicz does not 100% know what he is doing. 2018. All three guys should have caught that ball. Carson Shaddy should have caught that ball but slipped in the dirt-to-grass transition and overran it. Eric Cole should have called Shaddy off, because it would have been a much easier play for him, but he never got it back after he saw Shaddy run through Gates. I just re-watched Grenier's at bat in the top of the ninth. I didn't notice before, but there is a couple of Oregon State fans right behind home plate that just up and left after Grenier hit the pop up. And they never come back. Not sure, if they realized that the Beavers came back to win. Also, if you look up Carson Shaddy's name the first words that come up after it in Google are "dropped ball." That does not work for Cole or Gates. Shaddy deserves to live with that. There was no reason for him to run all that way when it was clearly the 1st baseman’s play to make. I can only assume that he was being selfish and he wanted to be able to say he recorded the final out. I hope those 2 fans watched the end from somewhere else in the ballpark. Maybe just embarrassed to walk back to their seats after bailing so quickly. To be fair, I slapped the couch and said some profanity on the pop up. The season was over... then suddenly, it wasn’t. Great feeling to come back from that and win. So many emotions. That play happened right in front of us although we were on the second level of the stadium. I just knew that ball was going to be caught and I just could not watch so I started gathering stuff up from under my seat so we could get ready to leave the stadium. EugeneDave was sitting on my left and I think he watched the whole thing but not me. Arrrggghhh, what an idiot I was. Dave and I got on TV for awhile though! LOL |
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Post by wilkyisdashiznit on May 9, 2022 22:10:10 GMT -8
Shaddy deserves to live with that. There was no reason for him to run all that way when it was clearly the 1st baseman’s play to make. I can only assume that he was being selfish and he wanted to be able to say he recorded the final out. I hope those 2 fans watched the end from somewhere else in the ballpark. Maybe just embarrassed to walk back to their seats after bailing so quickly. To be fair, I slapped the couch and said some profanity on the pop up. The season was over... then suddenly, it wasn’t. Great feeling to come back from that and win. So many emotions. That play happened right in front of us although we were on the second level of the stadium. I just knew that ball was going to be caught and I just could not watch so I started gathering stuff up from under my seat so we could get ready to leave the stadium. EugeneDave was sitting on my left and I think he watched the whole thing but not me. Arrrggghhh, what an idiot I was. Dave and I got on TV for awhile though! LOL Oh yeah, when were you on TV in game two? |
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Post by jefframp on May 10, 2022 8:33:06 GMT -8
It was near the end of the game when they panned the upper deck where many of the Beaver fans were standing and cheering. Dave was on the aisle to the right and I was on his right. My wife was about 4 rows in back of us (long story). We were there in the picture with about 100 other Beavers.
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Post by eugenedave on May 10, 2022 12:22:22 GMT -8
Shaddy deserves to live with that. There was no reason for him to run all that way when it was clearly the 1st baseman’s play to make. I can only assume that he was being selfish and he wanted to be able to say he recorded the final out. I hope those 2 fans watched the end from somewhere else in the ballpark. Maybe just embarrassed to walk back to their seats after bailing so quickly. To be fair, I slapped the couch and said some profanity on the pop up. The season was over... then suddenly, it wasn’t. Great feeling to come back from that and win. So many emotions. That play happened right in front of us although we were on the second level of the stadium. I just knew that ball was going to be caught and I just could not watch so I started gathering stuff up from under my seat so we could get ready to leave the stadium. EugeneDave was sitting on my left and I think he watched the whole thing but not me. Arrrggghhh, what an idiot I was. Dave and I got on TV for awhile though! LOL I certainly did watch the whole thing. As it started to fall, I thought "Well, I guess we can go to the zoo tomorrow, instead of the ballpark." When it bounced off the turf, I said "Thank you, Jesus!". Some Beaver fan chastised me, saying "You're not supposed to pray for baseball". I told him "If you don't think that was divine intervention, you're crazy!". Larnach's HR was sweet revenge, after thousand's of Arkansas fans had earlier chanted "Larnach Sucks" from the outfield bleachers. I thought duck fans were bad, but that takes the cake. If I ever hear a Razorback chat again, it will be too soon. F those guys, and the horse they rode in on. Larnach rightly glared at them, when he took his position in right field, the next inning. . His HR was an absolute bullet. It went right past us, and bounced off the bullpen wall, It would have rolled into the outfield, f it wasn't for the bullpen fence. That's when we got on TV. Yelling our heads off, arms upraised. . |
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Post by wilkyisdashiznit on May 10, 2022 13:29:00 GMT -8
It was near the end of the game when they panned the upper deck where many of the Beaver fans were standing and cheering. Dave was on the aisle to the right and I was on his right. My wife was about 4 rows in back of us (long story). We were there in the picture with about 100 other Beavers. Right after Mully struck out Cole? |
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