Stanford up big vs ASU

Speaking of Lim, he may have done us a favor in our series.  Lim was rolling as I recall, then had a rough inning but stayed on the mound, recovered, and then returned to solid form in the ensuing innings until he was pulled for pitch count I believe.  

Being Lim is also a frosh, I think Segura seeing that recovery by a fellow freshman was a very valuable step in his growth process.  I'd have to look back to confirm, but I seem to recall in his next appearances he seemed to deal with the one bad inning better than he had up to that point.   

Not playing to win each game can always come back to haunt a team. IF OSU plans on being a Top 8 seed they need to go 4-0. Plus 1-1 with Stanford being the loss does not assure them a Semi spot. If by a long shot, the #6 or #9 seed goes 2-0, and Zona goes 1-1 it would bump OSU out of the Semi.

You play to win every game not to set up what "may" be future games. You do whatever it takes to win vs Stanford... then you are in the Semis. But the ASU game is not meaningless if OSU wants to have a chance to host.

And, even with all that OSU isn't really in control of their hosting destiny when it is determined by a committee interpreting other conferences tourney results.

This is also an option I could see. Tough to say what coaches are leaning towards, realistically pitchers should be able to on 6 days rest (it's only 5 in the big leagues) so May could very well be the guy tomorrow. Either way if we want to go 4-0 and sweep the tourney then Hunter needs to throw at some point which is why I would guess he would be the first guy to go, especially with Stanford burning through all of their normal starters out of the pen today.

It would be the seeding, correct. And if we lose to Stanford and beat ASU then we need to hope that Arizona wins or loses both their games to advance as a wild card team.

I believe it's pool winners and highest ranked non-pool winners advance.  At 2 rank we are pretty likely to advance.  Unless UA tanks in their pool

2023:

Pool winners:

A:    #6 Oregon beat #9 Cal 3-2 and beat #1 Stanford 8-6 in 10 innings.
B:    #8 Arizona beat #5 Arizona State 12-3 and beat #2 Oregon State 13-12.
C:    #3 Washington lost to #7 UCLA 17-4 in a throwaway game and then came back to beat #4 USC 8-3.

1-1 teams:

1    Stanford
4    USC
5    Arizona State
7    UCLA

Stanford as the highest-ranked 1-1 team advanced to the semifinal.

Had Stanford beat Oregon, USC would have advanced to the Pac-12 Semifinal.

Had USC beat Washington and then Stanford beat Oregon, Arizona State would have advanced to the Pac-12 Semifinal.

Oregon State would have advanced automatically with a win over Arizona, and would have advanced with a win over Arizona State with a Stanford win over Oregon.