After suffering its first home loss of the season last night, head coach George Horton expected his team to respond in game two. They didn’t. For the second game in a row, Oregon managed to collect just three hits in its 8-2 loss against the Dons.
San Francisco starter Sam Granoff kept Oregon to two runs in his 6.1 innings of work, collecting six strikeouts in the process. But when the Ducks got those two runs, via a two-run home run from Shaun Chase, it was too little too late.
In the third inning, San Francisco scored its first run of the game thanks to Derek Atkinson, scoring Connor Hofmann, a former Duck, from second.
From there, the Dons piled on three more runs in both the fifth and sixth innings. In the fifth, two two-out singles and a wild pitch added to Oregon’s deficit.
Then in the sixth, again with two outs, the Dons had runners at first and second. Atkinson tallied another RBI on the game with a single to right field. The following hitter, Brendan Hendriks, hit a double to right center field scoring Atkinson from first and Nico Giarratano from second.
Heading into the bottom of the seventh, the score stood 7-0 San Francisco.
Chase’s two-run blast over the left-field wall was the lone bright spot of Oregon’s offensive performance. But it was quickly followed up with a San Francisco run in the top of the 8th, watering down any hot embers that Oregon may have been relying on.
Oregon stater Trent Paddon picked up the loss (1-2) while Granoff earned his first win of the season (1-1).
Key Statistics:
Trent Paddon: 3.0 IP, 5 H, 1 ER, 1 BB, 2 K
Sam Granoff: 6.1 IP, 3 H, 2 ER, 1 BB, 6 K
Jacob Corn: 2.2 IP, 5 H, 6 ER, 3 BB, 2 K
Oregon: 5 wild pitches with Shaun Chase behind the plate.
Derek Atkinson: 2-4, 2 RBI, 2 R
Oregon enters Pac-12 play against California on Friday in Berkeley, California at 7 p.m.
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