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TWITTER.COM/BEAVER_BASEBALL 2015 OREGON STATE SEASON IN REVIEW INSTAGRAM.COM/BEAVERBASEBALL FACEBOOK.COM/OREGONSTATEBASEBALL TABLE OF CONTENTS Table Of Contents Covering The Beavers Oregon State Baseball 2015 Super Regional Guide Page Topic The Oregon State Athletics Communications of- 2 Oregon State Information fi ce appreciates your interest in the 2015 Oregon State 2 Oregon State NCAA Regional Notes baseball team. Please contact Assistant Director for Ath- 3 Oregon State Roster letic Communications Hank Hager for any media needs concerning the Oregon State baseball team. He can be The Team reached by email at [email protected] or by Page Topic calling the Oregon State at (541) 737-7472. 4 Head Coach Pat Casey The following is a set of guidelines for covering the 7 Associate Head Coach Pat Bailey club. 8 Assistant Coach Andy Jenkins 9 Assistant Coach Nate Yeskie Postseason Guide 10 Support Staff Please note that this season in review guide is being 11 Player Bios furnished for members of the media to provide informa- 21 Career Statistics tion regarding the Oregon State baseball team and the postseason. No copies will be bound this year, and .pdfs 2015 In Review of the guide will be made available on osubeavers.com. Page Topic 24 Oregon State Overall Statistics Game Notes 25 Oregon State Game-By-Game Results A set of Oregon State game notes will be made avail- 26 Superlatives able to members of the media prior to each game. To be 27 Honors/Weekly Rankings included on the Oregon State baseball e-mail list in order 28 Postseason Statistics to receive the notes prior to the game, please contact 29 Oregon State Pac-12 Statistics Hank Hager. Notes will also be posted on the home of Or- 30 Oregon State Non-Conference Statistics egon State Athletics, osubeavers.com. 31 Home Statistics 32 Road Statistics Interviews 33 Neutral Statistics All coach and student-athlete interviews must be ar- 34 Oregon State February Statistics ranged through Hank Hager. On gamedays, head coach 35 Oregon State March Statistics Pat Casey, his assistants and members of the team will 36 Oregon State April Statistics be available shortly after the game’s conclusion per 37 Oregon State May Statistics the host site’s regulations. Please note that during the 38 Pac-12/National Rankings postseason, interviews at the fi eld prior to the game will 39 Hitting Breakdown not be permitted, with exception. Note that interview 40 Pitching Breakdown requests are not guaranteed due to player and team 41 Pitching Appearances schedules. Please request any non post-game inter- 43 Lineups By Order views at least 24 hours in advance. 44 Lineups By Position DO NOT contact any players without the consent 45 Team/Individual Superlatives of Hank Hager. Player numbers will not be furnished to 45 The Last Time members of the media or general public. 46 Oregon State Box Scores Internet Oregon State Postseason History The online home of Oregon State Athletics, osubea- Page Topic vers.com, is the place to go for all Oregon State baseball 61 2013 Trip To Omaha information, including a team roster and bios, schedule, 63 2007 Trip To Omaha live stats links, updated game notes and statistics. 65 2006 Trip To Omaha 67 2005 Trip To Omaha Athletic Communications Information 69 1952 Trip To Omaha Phone .............................................................(541) 737-3072 70 Postseason Review Fax .................................................................(541) 737-3020 71 All-Time OSU Postseason Results Web site ...........................................www.osubeavers.com 73 Postseason Honors Mailing Address .....................................209 Gill Coliseum 74 Oregon State Postseason Superlatives Corvallis, OR 97331 Hager Cell..................................................... (541) 230-0611 Hager Offi ce .................................................(541) 737-7472 E-Mail ................................ [email protected] OSU Season In Review Credits The 2015 Oregon State Baseball Season In Review was designed, written, and produced by Hank Hager of the Oregon State Athletic Communications Offi ce. Photo credits include Scobel Wiggins, Dave Nishitani and Rich Heins. 2006 & 2007 NATIONAL CHAMPIONS 5 College World Series Appearances: 1952, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2013 | 5 NCAA Super Regional Appearances: 2005, 2006, 2007, 2011 2013 1 16 NCAA Regional Appearances: 1952, 1962, 1963, 1983, 1985, 1986, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 TWITTER.COM/BEAVER_BASEBALL 2015 OREGON STATE SEASON IN REVIEW INSTAGRAM.COM/BEAVERBASEBALL OSU NOTES FACEBOOK.COM/OREGONSTATEBASEBALL Oregon State Facts The Season Location Corvallis, Oregon Oregon State fi nished the season with a 39-18-1 record, and posted a 19-10-1 mark in Pac-12 Enrollment 27,925 Conference play. OSU fi nished in sole possession of second place, 2 1/2 games behind league Founded 1868 champion UCLA. The Beavers, in the preseason, were predicted to fi nish fi fth by the confer- ence’s coaches. President Dr. Edward Ray Athletic Director Bob De Carolis To The Postseason Colors Orange and Black The Beavers were hopeful of a hosting opportunity at Goss Stadium. That was not meant to be. Nickname Beavers That, however, didn’t take away from the fact the Beavers advanced to their seventh consecu- Affi liation NCAA Division I tive postseason, extending it school-record stretch. Oregon State, in fact, was just one of 11 Conference Pac-12 schools nationally to advance for the last seven years, and the only from the Pac-12. The Dallas University website www.oregonstate.edu Baptist Regional appearance gave the Beavers 10 trips in the last 11 years. Athletics website www.osubeavers.com Since 2005 Baseball Since 2005, the year of OSU’s fi rst trip to Omaha, the Beavers have won 30 or more games 10 Head coach Pat Casey (21st year) times, including the 39 victories in 2015. Over that stretch, Oregon State has won 459 games, Record at OSU 754-421-5 (21 years) or 42 per season, which is second only to Arizona State’s 464. The Beavers also have 184 OSU winning percentage .642 league victories, which is nine shy of conference leader Arizona State’s 193. OSU can also claim 13 All-Americans since 2005, which represent half of the program’s all-time total. Career record 925-530-6 (27 years) Career winning percentage .634 Honors Associate HC Pat Bailey (8th year) Andrew Moore received a large chunk of the team’s individual honors in 2015, recording four Assistant Coaches Andy Jenkins (4th year) All-America Awards while also being named an Academic All-Region selection while studying Nate Yeskie (7th year) digital communications. He was joined on the All-America list by Jeff Hendrix, who was a fi rst- Director of operations Ron Northcutt time selection. KJ Harrison, Drew Rasmussen and Mitch Hickey were all named to at least one Northcutt offi ce phone (541) 737-0598 Freshman All-America Team. All told, 10 players received at least one award during the season. Athletic Trainer Josh Therrien Strength & Condition Coach Chris Anderson Closing The Gap Andrew Moore was named Pac-12 Pitcher of the Week three times and Drew Rasmussen once to give OSU 77 selections since the league began the award in 1986. The Beavers are creep- 2014 Season ing up on Stanford, which leads the conference with 80. KJ Harrison, meanwhile, earned the 2014 overall record 45-14 team’s lone Player of the Week honor in the second week of the season, becoming the Bea- Home record 24-6 vers’ fi rst freshman to do since Kavin Keyes in 2011. OSU now has 66 such honors, tying it with Road record 14-6 Washington State for third-most. Neutral record 7-2 2014 Pac-12 record 23-7 (1st place) MLB Draft Four Beavers were selected in the MLB Draft: Andrew Moore (second round, Seattle), Jeff Hen- 2015 Season drix (fourth round, New York Yankees), Travis Eckert (20th round, San Francisco) and Gabe Lettermen returning/lost 16/18 Clark (26th round, Toronto). Moore and Hendrix have signed and have already made their pro- Position players 9/10 fessional debuts. The Beavers have now had at least one MLB selection in every draft since Pitchers 7/8 1993, and have had four or more in 11 of the last 12 years. Starters returning/lost 5/4 All-conference returning/lost 1/4 Casey Climbing The Charts Head coach Pat Casey won 30 or more games for the 16th time in his 21 seasons at Oregon All-Americans returning/lost 0/3 State, and has 754 entering the 2016 season. He’ll need just 10 to surpass former USC head First varsity season 1907 coach Mike Gillespie for eighth in conference history. All-time record 2,238-1,432-16 (.610) Youth Is Served Goss Stadium At Coleman Field Oregon State went into the season knowing it would fi eld a young club, and that was truly the Ballpark Goss Stadium at Coleman Field case. Not once did the team’s starting lineup feature more than 40 percent upperclassmen. At Opened (capacity) 1907 (3,248) least six freshmen and sophomores started every single game. Only a handful of times did the Left fi eld 330 ft. (14-ft. fence) Beavers start a lineup with four upperclassmen. And when doing so, that typically happened Left-centerfi eld 365 ft. (8-ft. fence) with fi rst-year Beavers Travis Eckert (junior) and Dane Lund (senior). Eckert, Andrew Moore, Center fi eld 400 ft. (8-ft. fence) Clay Bauer, Zack Reser and Austin Woodward were the only upperclassmen to see action on the hill. Right-centerfi eld 365 ft. (8-ft. fence) Right fi eld 330 ft. (8-ft. fence) Another RBI Leader Press box phone (541) 737-7475 Never before have OSU players led a specifi c statistical category in the Pac-12 for four con- secutive seasons.