June 19th in Oregon State Baseball History
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June 19, 2006 Oregon State 5 - Georgia 3
Jonah Nickerson started off his final College World Series in style, throwing to only five over the minimum. In seven innings, and throwing 114 pitches, he only allowed an HBP in the second, a homer in the third, a double and single for a second run in the fifth, and a Darwin Barney error in the sixth. Georgia only left three on the basepaths and each time it was a man on first. The Bulldogs also scored a very efficient two runs. But the basepaths were mostly clear thanks, in part, to two Kunda-to-Barney-to-Rowe double plays in the fifth and sixth.
In the first, John Wallace hit a one-out single through the right side, but Cole Gillespie flew out to left and Shea McFeely struck out looking in the first. Tyler Graham led off the second with a base hit to left. Mike Lissman followed that up with a base hit to center. Bill Rowe bunted both over and reached on a throwing error by the Georgia starter. Chris Kunda scored Graham on a sac fly to center. Oregon State would have to settle for one run, because Mitchy Slick flew out to short, and Darwin Barney grounded out to second.
Cole Gillespie hit a one-out double down the rightfield line. McFeely flew out to center to move Gillespie to third. Graham then scored Gillespie on a bunt single down the third base line. 2-0 Oregon State. Unfortunately, Graham was picked off at first and thrown out at second by the first baseman. Nickerson gave up the homer in the third to make it 2-1 Beavs in the fourth.
Lissman started things off by getting plunked. Lissman then stole second. Rowe flew out to the pitcher. Kunda doubled down the leftfield line, though to make it 3-1. Mitchy Slick struck out swinging, but Barney scored Kunda by singling through the left side to make it 4-1. Barney was thrown out at second trying to steal, though, so it stayed 4-1 into the bottom of the fourth. Georgia got one back in the fifth to make it 4-2, but it stayed 4-2 into the eighth.
McFeely started the eight with a double to left center. Graham bunted McFeely over to third. Lissman then singled up the middle to drive in McFeely to make it 5-2. Row struck out looking and Kunda grounded out to second to end the top of the eighth.
Kevin Gunderson relieved Nickerson. Gunderson induced the first batter to ground out to short. Gunderson walked the leadoff hitter on four pitches and then allowed that runner to get to third on two separate wild pitches with only a strikeout in between. The three-hole hitter singled through the left side to make it 5-3. However, the cleanup hitter flew out to center to end the rally.
Georgia belatedly put in Josh Fields, who would be a First Team All-American, Stopper of the Year, and 20th overall pick in the draft. A fun fact is that Josh Fields was part of the three-team, seven-player deal that sent fellow 2006 North Carolina catcher/awful first baseman, Tim Federowicz, from the Red Sox to the Dodgers. In the same trade Fields was traded from the Mariners to the Red Sox. The Astros used the first pick of the 2012 Rule 5 Draft on Fields. Fields was subsequently traded to the Dodgers for Yordan Alvarez and helped the Dodgers make it to the 2017 World Series only to get lit up like a Christmas tree and pick up the loss in Game Two against the cheating Astros.
Fields struck out Mitchy Slick, but Barey was able to dump a single into right. However, Wallace hit into 3-6 double play to end the top of the ninth.
Gunderson induced the first hitter to groundout to short. The next two hitters singled, though, which brought Freshman All-American Gordon Beckham to the plate. Beckham would go on to be an All-American, leading Division 1 in home runs in 2008. That same year, Beckham was selected eighth overall. Beckham was called up second-fastest among the players drafted in the 2008 Draft. Beckham had a good 7-8 years in the majors before he was slowed by multiple hamstring injuries. Beckham still played until 2021 before retiring.
With two on and one out, Gunderson got Beckham to hit a ground ball to Barney, who threw to Kunda, who threw to Rowe to complete a game-winning double-play. The Beavs won their first-ever game in Omaha, having lost each of their first five opportunities.
June 19, 2013 Oregon State 1 - Indiana 0
Indiana threw the Big Ten pitcher of the year and Fifth Round pick, 6'10" Aaron Slegers.
Tyler Smith started out with a base hit to center. Andy Peterson sacrificed Smith over to second. Michael Conforto grounded out to first. Dylan Davis was intentionally walked, and Danny Hayes flew out to short to end the frame.
Matt Boyd started and walked the first batter that he faced on six pitches. Boyd then mowed down two-time All-Star, Kyle Schwarber on four pitches. Boyd then got Sam Travis (Second Round) to flyout to right. Boyd then picked off the runner on first to end the first. Boyd then struck out the next five hitters before walking the nine-hole hitter on six pitches. However, once again, Boyd picked off the runner at first. Through three innings, Boyd struck out six with two pickoffs, and a fly ball to right.
In the fourth, Kavin Keyes notched Oregon State's fifth hit, a single to center. Ryan Barnes followed that base hit up with a double down the leftfield line to put two runners in scoring position. Jake Rodriguez drove in Keyes on a short flyball to right. Jeff Hendrix grounded out to second, and Smith flew out to center to end the threat. Slegers would go all nine innings and would only allow two more infield singles: one to Hendrix in the seventh and the second to Barnes on a bunt down the third baseline in the ninth. Neither would see second.
Boyd threw a perfect fourth. Through four innings, Boyd had surrendered no hits with six strikeouts, two pickoffs, a ground ball to second, and flyballs to first and right. Indiana finally got something going in the fifth with a one-out bloop single to right and a bunt single down the third baseline. However, Boyd induced flyouts to right and third to end the threat. Boyd walked the first batter in the sixth but induced the next batter to flyout to right. Boyd then got Schwarber to ground into an inning-ending Peterson-to-Smith-to-Hayes double-play. Boyd then pitched a perfect seventh. Boyd struck out the leadoff hitter in the eighth. However, Boyd started to tire and gave up a legitimate base hit to center. Boyd recovered, though, to induce a flyball to center and a strikeout to end in the eighth. Boyd struckout the leadoff hitter in the ninth and then got Schwarber to fly out to right. Travis hit his first pitch into right. Boyd ended the game by inducing Indiana's cleanup hitter to hit a groundball to third.
Matt Boyd, in pitching a 1-0 shutout victory became the first pitcher to do so in a nine-inning game at the College since at least 1977. Conforto never touched the ball. No balls were hit to short. Graham only touched two balls, one to complete a pickoff and the second to turn the double-play in the sixth. No balls were hit to Graham. Only three balls were hit to third the bunt, a flyball to third and the groundball to end the game. Two balls were hit to center, the base hit in the eighth and the flyball that followed the base hit. Boyd threw to four batters more than the minimum, the four singles. Boyd walked three but picked off two and got the third on a double-play. Boyd only allowed one runner to see second. 11 strikeouts, two pickoffs, and one double-play.
Boyd and Kevin Abel are the only two Oregon State pitchers to pitch a complete game shutout at Omaha. Boyd is one of four Oregon State pitchers to throw a complete game shutout in a postseason game. The other two are Bryce Hulstrom against Arkansas in 1986 and Scott Schultz against Irvine in 2014.
June 19, 2017 Oregon State 13 - LSU 1
Jonah Nickerson started off his final College World Series in style, throwing to only five over the minimum. In seven innings, and throwing 114 pitches, he only allowed an HBP in the second, a homer in the third, a double and single for a second run in the fifth, and a Darwin Barney error in the sixth. Georgia only left three on the basepaths and each time it was a man on first. The Bulldogs also scored a very efficient two runs. But the basepaths were mostly clear thanks, in part, to two Kunda-to-Barney-to-Rowe double plays in the fifth and sixth.
In the first, John Wallace hit a one-out single through the right side, but Cole Gillespie flew out to left and Shea McFeely struck out looking in the first. Tyler Graham led off the second with a base hit to left. Mike Lissman followed that up with a base hit to center. Bill Rowe bunted both over and reached on a throwing error by the Georgia starter. Chris Kunda scored Graham on a sac fly to center. Oregon State would have to settle for one run, because Mitchy Slick flew out to short, and Darwin Barney grounded out to second.
Cole Gillespie hit a one-out double down the rightfield line. McFeely flew out to center to move Gillespie to third. Graham then scored Gillespie on a bunt single down the third base line. 2-0 Oregon State. Unfortunately, Graham was picked off at first and thrown out at second by the first baseman. Nickerson gave up the homer in the third to make it 2-1 Beavs in the fourth.
Lissman started things off by getting plunked. Lissman then stole second. Rowe flew out to the pitcher. Kunda doubled down the leftfield line, though to make it 3-1. Mitchy Slick struck out swinging, but Barney scored Kunda by singling through the left side to make it 4-1. Barney was thrown out at second trying to steal, though, so it stayed 4-1 into the bottom of the fourth. Georgia got one back in the fifth to make it 4-2, but it stayed 4-2 into the eighth.
McFeely started the eight with a double to left center. Graham bunted McFeely over to third. Lissman then singled up the middle to drive in McFeely to make it 5-2. Row struck out looking and Kunda grounded out to second to end the top of the eighth.
Kevin Gunderson relieved Nickerson. Gunderson induced the first batter to ground out to short. Gunderson walked the leadoff hitter on four pitches and then allowed that runner to get to third on two separate wild pitches with only a strikeout in between. The three-hole hitter singled through the left side to make it 5-3. However, the cleanup hitter flew out to center to end the rally.
Georgia belatedly put in Josh Fields, who would be a First Team All-American, Stopper of the Year, and 20th overall pick in the draft. A fun fact is that Josh Fields was part of the three-team, seven-player deal that sent fellow 2006 North Carolina catcher/awful first baseman, Tim Federowicz, from the Red Sox to the Dodgers. In the same trade Fields was traded from the Mariners to the Red Sox. The Astros used the first pick of the 2012 Rule 5 Draft on Fields. Fields was subsequently traded to the Dodgers for Yordan Alvarez and helped the Dodgers make it to the 2017 World Series only to get lit up like a Christmas tree and pick up the loss in Game Two against the cheating Astros.
Fields struck out Mitchy Slick, but Barey was able to dump a single into right. However, Wallace hit into 3-6 double play to end the top of the ninth.
Gunderson induced the first hitter to groundout to short. The next two hitters singled, though, which brought Freshman All-American Gordon Beckham to the plate. Beckham would go on to be an All-American, leading Division 1 in home runs in 2008. That same year, Beckham was selected eighth overall. Beckham was called up second-fastest among the players drafted in the 2008 Draft. Beckham had a good 7-8 years in the majors before he was slowed by multiple hamstring injuries. Beckham still played until 2021 before retiring.
With two on and one out, Gunderson got Beckham to hit a ground ball to Barney, who threw to Kunda, who threw to Rowe to complete a game-winning double-play. The Beavs won their first-ever game in Omaha, having lost each of their first five opportunities.
June 19, 2013 Oregon State 1 - Indiana 0
Indiana threw the Big Ten pitcher of the year and Fifth Round pick, 6'10" Aaron Slegers.
Tyler Smith started out with a base hit to center. Andy Peterson sacrificed Smith over to second. Michael Conforto grounded out to first. Dylan Davis was intentionally walked, and Danny Hayes flew out to short to end the frame.
Matt Boyd started and walked the first batter that he faced on six pitches. Boyd then mowed down two-time All-Star, Kyle Schwarber on four pitches. Boyd then got Sam Travis (Second Round) to flyout to right. Boyd then picked off the runner on first to end the first. Boyd then struck out the next five hitters before walking the nine-hole hitter on six pitches. However, once again, Boyd picked off the runner at first. Through three innings, Boyd struck out six with two pickoffs, and a fly ball to right.
In the fourth, Kavin Keyes notched Oregon State's fifth hit, a single to center. Ryan Barnes followed that base hit up with a double down the leftfield line to put two runners in scoring position. Jake Rodriguez drove in Keyes on a short flyball to right. Jeff Hendrix grounded out to second, and Smith flew out to center to end the threat. Slegers would go all nine innings and would only allow two more infield singles: one to Hendrix in the seventh and the second to Barnes on a bunt down the third baseline in the ninth. Neither would see second.
Boyd threw a perfect fourth. Through four innings, Boyd had surrendered no hits with six strikeouts, two pickoffs, a ground ball to second, and flyballs to first and right. Indiana finally got something going in the fifth with a one-out bloop single to right and a bunt single down the third baseline. However, Boyd induced flyouts to right and third to end the threat. Boyd walked the first batter in the sixth but induced the next batter to flyout to right. Boyd then got Schwarber to ground into an inning-ending Peterson-to-Smith-to-Hayes double-play. Boyd then pitched a perfect seventh. Boyd struck out the leadoff hitter in the eighth. However, Boyd started to tire and gave up a legitimate base hit to center. Boyd recovered, though, to induce a flyball to center and a strikeout to end in the eighth. Boyd struckout the leadoff hitter in the ninth and then got Schwarber to fly out to right. Travis hit his first pitch into right. Boyd ended the game by inducing Indiana's cleanup hitter to hit a groundball to third.
Matt Boyd, in pitching a 1-0 shutout victory became the first pitcher to do so in a nine-inning game at the College since at least 1977. Conforto never touched the ball. No balls were hit to short. Graham only touched two balls, one to complete a pickoff and the second to turn the double-play in the sixth. No balls were hit to Graham. Only three balls were hit to third the bunt, a flyball to third and the groundball to end the game. Two balls were hit to center, the base hit in the eighth and the flyball that followed the base hit. Boyd threw to four batters more than the minimum, the four singles. Boyd walked three but picked off two and got the third on a double-play. Boyd only allowed one runner to see second. 11 strikeouts, two pickoffs, and one double-play.
Boyd and Kevin Abel are the only two Oregon State pitchers to pitch a complete game shutout at Omaha. Boyd is one of four Oregon State pitchers to throw a complete game shutout in a postseason game. The other two are Bryce Hulstrom against Arkansas in 1986 and Scott Schultz against Irvine in 2014.
June 19, 2017 Oregon State 13 - LSU 1