Oregon started its five games in six days road trip with a win on Tuesday. The Ducks beat UC Riverside 10-7 in 13 innings. Junior Mitchell Tolman went 4-for-6 with a two-run home run and three RBIs in the win.
Trent Paddon got the start for the Ducks. The sophomore went 3.1 IP, allowing four earned runs on six hits. The bullpen held strong, throwing a combined 9.2 IP while allowing three earned runs and striking out 12 batters.
In the third, Oregon scored on a single hit – a theme they repeated in four of the five innings they scored. The single hit in the third was the farthest hit of the game. After Matt Eureste walked, Tolman homered to right field to put the Ducks up 2-0.
Oregon scored five more runs between the fifth, sixth and seventh innings. When they came up in the top of the ninth in a tie game, they couldn’t rally a run pushing the game into extras.
The first 18 outs in extra innings went in vain with no team scoring.
In the 13th, with the bases loaded after a Tolman leadoff double, a Brandon Cuddy walk and an error in the inning, Phil Craig-St. Louis reached on a fielders choice that scored both Tolman and Cuddy. Then with one out, Mark Karaviotis grounded a ball to the pitcher that was enough to get Kyle Kasser in from third.
Brac Warren closed out the bottom half of the inning in order for his first career win.
Oregon plays UC Riverside again on Wednesday at 3 p.m.
Key Statistics:
Mitchell Tolman: 4-6, 3 RBI, 3 R, 2 2B, 1 HR
Phil Craig-St. Louis: 2-5, 2 RBI, 1 R, 1 3B, 2 BB
Oregon bullpen: 9.2 IP, 3 ER, 5 H, 12 K
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