Leading 6-5 in the eighth inning against No. 13 Oregon, No. 1 UCLA went to conference saves leader Easton Hawk one out early after Angel Laya beat out an infield single into a weak part of the Bruins’ shift.

Maddox Molony’s single in-and-out of right fielder Payton Brennan’s sliding effort was just the 20th hit Hawk has allowed this season, and Laya’s sprint around the bases that ended in a slide around the tag at home was his seventh run allowed.

After recording the 27th out of so many Bruins wins this season, the 24th out against Oregon remained elusive for Hawk. Gabe Miranda fell behind 1-2 before working a six-pitch walk on three straight balls, and UCLA second baseman Phoenix Call couldn’t come up with a Naulivou Lauaki Jr. chopper, loading the bases. Jack Brooks promptly cleared them by taking a low-and-away slider to the opposite-field gap for a three-run double, giving Oregon a 9-6 lead that it wouldn’t relinquish.

Oregon baseball (36-13, 18-8 Big Ten) downed UCLA (45-5, 25-1 Big Ten) one night after it run-ruled the Ducks to tie 1911 Illinois for the all-time Big Ten win streak record. Lauaki’s three-run homer in the second inning and Brooks’ clutch hit in the eighth were enough to relegate the Bruins to a partial share of the record.

Clarke fell into an ill-advised 3-1 count against UCLA star shortstop Roch Cholowsky, and Cholowsky lived up to his reputation, crushing a high offspeed pitch over the wall in left-center field. Clarke, who never hesitates to show emotion on the mound, drew a celebration from Cholowksy that brought the umpires together and Oregon head coach Mark Wasikowski onto the field.

Once the game resumed, Clarke’s four-pitch walk brought out UCLA head coach John Savage, as the environment remained tense. Clarke pushed back with a strikeout for the second out, but the Bruins responded with a two-out rally. Back-to-back doubles on offspeed pitches in the zone scored runs, before seven-hitter Cashel Dugger singled on a 1-1 fastball to put the Bruins ahead 4-0.

Laya provided the spark Oregon desperately needed with one out in the second inning, grounding a double down the first-base line. UCLA starter Michael Barnett walked Molony on four pitches before Miranda’s fly ball into right field fell in front of a diving effort, bringing Laya home.

Lauaki brought Oregon all the way back into the game by hitting every bit of a middle-middle offspeed pitch to straight away center field for his game-tying seventh home run of the season.

Clarke maintained his typical attitude as he cleared the second inning in just 11 pitches with a lineout and two pop-outs, talking to Cholowsky after the first and three-hitter Maulivai Levu after the second.

UCLA center fielder Will Gasparino reclaimed the lead in the bottom of the third inning with a solo homer. After Clarke finished an inning-ending strikeout, UCLA first base coach Griffin Barnes stopped as they crossed paths in front of the Oregon dugout, bringing players out of both dugouts. In the aftermath, Barnes and Oregon third base coach Brett Thomas, who left the dugout to exchange words with him, were ejected.

After Clarke worked a scoreless fourth inning to recover from the long first, typical Sunday starter Cal Scolari relieved him for the second straight weekend with one out in the fifth. Scolari allowed a double to the first batter he faced, but stranded runners on second and third with a strikeout and a flyout.

Brooks’ strong discipline and base running re-tied the game at 5-5 in the seventh inning, with Oregon’s nine-hitter working a six-pitch walk, stealing second, advancing on a balk and scoring on Ryan Cooney’s groundout.

Cholowsky immediately put UCLA back in the lead on the first pitch of the home seventh inning, taking a low slider from Scolari out to center field. Scolari struck out the next two batters, but Tanner Bradley relieved him after a seven-pitch walk. Oregon third baseman Drew Smith made an excellent play to avoid a jam, jumping to grab a chopper hit by Gasparino and beating him to first base by a step.

After Molony and Brooks’ heroics gave Oregon its first lead of the series, Bradley returned to pitch the bottom of the eighth and created a mess by walking the first two batters he faced. With Oregon closer Devin Bell looming, Call was likely Bradley’s last batter, however, a perfect double play turned by Smith and Cooney changed that plan. Bradley drew a lineout to strand a runner on third in a scoreless inning.

Oregon failed to add on in the top of the ninth, but Bradley emerged once again from the Ducks’ dugout with Cholowsky due up. Bradley prevented any heroics by drawing a groundout and striking out Levu before securing his fifth win of the season out of the bullpen on a groundout to Molony.

Roughly 15 hours after Brooks’ double made the series win a possibility for Oregon, the Ducks will try to take another game off the nation’s best team with a 12:02 p.m. first pitch tomorrow.