Game 76 - Oregon State at Oregon

April 10 at PK Park in Eugene, OR
ESPNU

The rivalry between the Ducks and Beavers is called The Civil War. If you didn't know that before sitting down to watch Friday's baseball game, ESPNU play-by-play man Roxy Bernstein let you know it. Often.

The words "civil war" were said 11 times during the broadcast in a variety of ways:

"Game one of this Civil War series" - said three times
"It's the Civil War" (2)
"No score in the Civil War" (1)
"The Civil War: game one" (1)
"It's the Civil War, so you know everybody's showing up for this one" (1)
"The Civil War, game one" (1)
"The Civil War series" (1)
"Their first indoctrination into the Civil War" (1)

Two hits = plenty

Oregon could only muster two hits in nine innings, but still came away with an emotional, 3-2 victory. Trailing 2-1 and down to their last strike in the bottom of the ninth, the Ducks' Austin Grebeck (son of 12-year MLB vetern Craig Grebeck) reached on a fielding error by OSU second baseman Caleb Hamilton. Hamilton made matters worse by throwing wide of first, which chased home pinch-runner J.B. Bryant to tie things up at 2-2.

Freshman Luke Heimlich issued his second walk of the inning (he also hit a batter) to load the bases and OSU went with another freshman, Mitch Hickey. Kyle Kasser actually pinch-hit for a pinch-hitter (Nick Catalano) after Hickey had entered the game, and drew a walk, forcing home Mark Karaviotis with the winning run.

Moore & Irvin 

Before the ninth, starting pitching was the story, led by Moore. The OSU right-hander, second in the Pac-12 in ERA, allowed those two hits and an unearned run in 7 1/3 innings, striking out seven with excellent command of both his fast ball and curve. Moore lowered his ERA from 1.63 to 1.46 on Friday.

Oregon southpaw Cole Irvin allowed 11 base-runners, but just two runs (one earned) and struck out five in seven solid innings of work. Each team scored a run in the fifth before Grebeck kept the game tied by gunning down Kyle Nobach at the plate with a perfect throw from center field in the seventh. K.J. Harrison, whose having a phenomenal freshman season (sixth in Pac-12 with .366 BA) put the Beavers back out front 2-1 with a two-out RBI-single in the eighth.

Webb Bobo All Stars

Oregon State catcher Logan Ice, welcome to the team.

Nicknames that aren't really nicknames

Oregon State

Nobach - "Nobie"
Hamilton - "Hammie"
Joe Gillette - "Jo Jo"
Trever Morrison - "Mo"

Oregon

Jakob Goldfarb - "Goldy"