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Friday, May 5
Corvallis, OR
6:35 PM
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Final Weekend Road Trip Sends Baseball to No. 15 Oregon State
5/4/2023 2:00 PM | Baseball
Utes head to Corvallis before embarking on eight of final nine games at home
| 2023 Utah Baseball Game Notes | |
| Games 33-35 Date // Time (MT) |
Utah (18-24-1 overall, 7-16-1 Pac-12) at No. 15 Oregon State (31-13 overall, 14-10 Pac-12) Friday, May 5 // 6:35 p.m. Saturday, May 6 // 2:35 p.m. Sunday, May 7 // 2:05 p.m. |
| Location | Corvallis, Ore. (Goss Stadium) |
| Live Statistics | StatBroadcast Friday // Saturday // Sunday |
| Watch | Oregon State Live Stream |
| Game Notes | Utah // Oregon State // Pac-12 Conference |
| @UtahBaseball Social Media | Twitter // Instagram // Facebook // #GoUtes // #UteNotes |
The First Pitch: Things to Know
The final Pac-12 Conference road trip of this regular season has arrived for the Utah baseball team, and it sends the Utes out to Corvallis, Oregon for a three-game series with No. 15 Oregon State at Goss Stadium.
- It's a part reunion, part homecoming for Utah head coach Gary Henderson, who is a native of Eugene, Oregon, and was Oregon State's pitching coach and recruiting coordinator from 1999-2003 under former longtime head coach Pat Casey.
- Utah is looking to continue the momentum of a four-game winning streak including a three-game sweep last weekend over Washington State. The sweep over the Cougars was Utah's second straight series win over WSU and first sweep of a Pac-12 opponent since 2017.
- Among the highlights at the plate during the weekend series was a .467 / .467 / 1.000 slash line for Jayden Kiernan, who contributed two doubles, two home runs and drove in three runs. He provided a key insurance run in the Friday night opener, scored the deciding run in the middle game and broke a 10-10 tie with a fifth-inning homer in the series finale, giving the Utes a lead they would not relinquish.
- The bullpen is also owed credit for last weekend, capped off with appearances in all three games by both Micah Ashman and Zac McCleve. Ashman closed out the first two games and now has eight saves; it is tied for the Pac-12 lead with Oregon State's Ryan Brown.
- McCleve secured the series sweep with two strikeouts on Sunday, both on three pitches. It was a great way to mark McCleve's program-record 100th career appearance at Utah and earned his 12th save as a Ute—the latter is tied for third in recorded program history.
- Utah is looking for its first series win over Oregon State since taking two from the No. 1-ranked and eventual College World Series champion Beavers during the 2018 season. The Utes' last series victory against a ranked opponent came in 2022, taking the middle and rubber contests from then-No. 20 Arizona.
- Utah claimed a thrilling 2-1 win in last year's series opener in Salt Lake City. Both Matthew Sox and OSU's Cooper Hjerpe were phenomenal in their respective starts, with Sox taking the Utes through seven innings and Hjerpe carrying a perfect game into the seventh. Kai Roberts led off the seventh with a single to break up the perfect game, sparking a two-run inning that proved the difference.
- A five-game homestand awaits the Utes upon their return to Salt Lake City, beginning with a Tuesday, May 9 tilt against in-state rival BYU. It'll be the rubber match of the three-game season series and kick off the final regular season stretch for Utah with eight of the club's final nine contests being played at Smith's Ballpark.
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