trevor-hansen-uci-bsb-2024-oregonstate-ncaaregional
Jacob Thompson
3
UC Irvine UCI 44-13
5
Winner Oregon State OSU 44-14
UC Irvine UCI
44-13
3
Final
5
Oregon State OSU
44-14
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
UC Irvine UCI 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 0 3 4 0
Oregon State OSU 0 0 2 0 2 0 1 0 X 5 8 1

W: Kmatz, Jacob (7-2) L: Hansen, Trevor (6-4) S: Holmes, Bridger (13)

Game Recap: Baseball | | Alex Roberts-Croteau

'Eaters Stifled by Regional Hosts, 5-3

CORVALLIS, Ore. --- UC Irvine baseball was beat out in a competitive NCAA Regional matchup Saturday night in Goss Stadium falling 5-3 to No. 15 national seed Oregon State.
  • The winner's bracket game was a battle between starters Trevor Hansen and Jacob Kmatz.
    • The pair were spotless through two innings retiring all 12 hitters they faced with eight strikeouts between them
    • The first 13 hitters of the game were set down until Chase Call reached on an error
    • Oregon State finally got some offense after a one-out single in the third inning
    • With two outs, top MLB Draft prospect Travis Bazzana stepped up and battled with Hansen to the eighth pitch of the at-bat before he lifted a long, high fly ball down the right field line that seemed to get windswept back over the foul pole for a home run and a 2-0 lead for the Beavers
  • Myles Smith tried to provide an instant response mashing what looked like a home run to lead off the fourth, but it was called a single hitting off the very top of the wall, and the 'Eaters would be held scoreless in the inning
  • UCI put together a pair of two-out doubles from Jo Oyama and Woody Hadeen to get back in the game and trail 2-1
  • The bottom of the inning the Beavers responded and loaded the bases after Hansen got two big outs with two men on bases including a strikeout looking of Bazzana
    • The Beaver cleanup hitter Dallas Macias came through with a single through the infield to plate two and give OSU a 4-1 advantage
  • OSU made it a 5-1 game in the seventh, but David Utagawa came up huge after entering the game with bases loaded nobody out and inducing a double play ball and striking out the final hitter to keep the game within reach
  • That was enough for the offense who finally got Kmatz out of the game and got to work in the eighth
    • Walks to Oyama and Myles Smith set the table and Caden Kendle delivered with a double down the line to draw within three
    • Anthony Martinez battled and hit a ball just deep enough to score another run on a sacrifice fly and make it 5-3, but the Beavers bullpen held the line
  • Hansen's marathon outing took him a season-high 112 pitches while tying a personal best with 12 strikeouts
  • The offense was held to just four hits and 10 total baserunners
    • Oyama had the best production on the night scoring two of UCI's runs with a double and two walks
    • Myles Smith reached twice while scoring a run and extending a hitting streak to 12 games
    • Will Bermudez had a loud 0-for-4 evening squaring up three pitches and hitting them to the wall with each of them caught
  • UCI now needs to win three straight in the double elimination format NCAA Regional. Their first chance will come Sunday, June 3 at 12:00 p.m. against Tulane coming out of the winner's bracket.
    • A win would send the 'Eaters to the regional final later Sunday night at 6:00 p.m. against Oregon State
Postgame Thoughts
Head Coach Ben Orloff - "That was a really well played college baseball game between two really good teams. The environment was awesome. Jacob Kmatz was really good. He looked like a frontline Pac-12 guy that started 45 games in his career. I thought he threw the ball really well and I'm proud of how we played and competed. I thought we played well. We got a really big start by freshman trevor Hansen that matched Kmatz almost pitch for pitch. Bazzana with the big home run and then a two-out hit by Macias, but I thought Hansen threw the ball really well. He doesn't look like a freshman. He's been throwing on Saturdays for a reason, but overall I thought a really well played college baseball game and one of the best atmospheres in college baseball."

"That thing was a game all the way until the end. In the ninth inning when Woody gets up and he's the tying run in a similar situation as yesterday where Myles Smith would have been the go-ahead run on deck, same chance an inning before with second and third for Martinez in the eighth, so yeah we had chances. When Oregon State pitches as well as they do, you've got to match them on the mound and Trevor was really good and then Utagawa came in to a huge spot there in the seventh and minimized that deal to give us a chance and keep more pressure on them. So I'm proud of the team and like you said we were in it all the way to the last pitch."

Trevor Hansen - "My approache is just go right at them. We have our scouting report. We know what we want to throw each guy, it's just go out there and complete. We try and get guys out in any way you can and just keep our team in the ballgame."

Woody Hadeen - "Kmatz was landing all his pitches and all of them for strikes. That's tough as a hitter; you can't really sit on one pitch and can't really have a game plan when he's landing everything like that."
 
 
 
 
 
   
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