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The top-ranked Bruins got on Oregon starter Will Sanford early and didn’t stop adding on until claiming an 11-1 mercy rule-shortened victory.
WESTWOOD — The beauty of baseball is that, more than most sports, the game allows a team to shake off a dismal result.
Have a bad game? There’s usually an opportunity the next day to get back on track.
Mark Wasikowski, however, did not want Oregon to move on too quickly from this one.
In the first game of a series testing the No. 13 Ducks against No. 1 UCLA, Oregon got smoked 11-1 in a seven-inning mercy-rule loss Friday night at Jackie Robinson Stadium.
The Bruins scored two runs in the first, four in the third, forced Oregon into its bullpen by the fourth and kept adding on from there.
The only saving grace for the Ducks? UCLA’s three-run sixth inning pushed the lead to 10 runs and saved Oregon another two innings of bullpen work.
Afterward, Wasikowski gathered his team in right field and delivered a long, stern message.
“What I told them is, ‘Think about this one,’” Wasikowski said. “This one should hurt. It shouldn’t just be a put-your-cleats-in-the-bag-and-get-on-to-the-next-one kind of thing. You should process this one. You should rehearse it in your brain so by the time you go to bed tonight, then you can get it out of your system and you can show up tomorrow and have some competitiveness.”
Playing a Bruins team that came into the weekend undefeated in Big Ten play, the Ducks (35-13, 17-8 Big Ten) put up very little fight.
Will Sanford allowed five earned runs and walked three in three innings. Oregon didn’t register a hit until the fourth. And when Jonah Barkoff came on in relief, the Ducks’ defense did little to help him in a two-run bottom of the fourth that saw three UCLA batters reach on balls that didn’t leave the infield.
“We walked or hit seven guys,” Wasikowski said. “That’s one an inning. Against a good club that’s not going to work — and then our defense in the infield was really poor.”
Oregon’s lone run came in the fourth inning on a Drew Smith sacrifice fly after Brayden Jaksa and Burke-Lee Mabeus led off the inning with consecutive hits. But that was the only time the Ducks threatened UCLA starter Wylan Moss, who registered the complete-game win to improve to 5-0 on the year.
Moss got the start after UCLA ace Logan Reddeman was shelved this week because of arm fatigue.
But that’s the thing about playing the best team in the country: the Bruins are deep everywhere. Things won’t get any easier Saturday night when the Ducks return to Jackie Robinson Stadium for Game 2.
“I’m sure there’s a lot of pissed-off people out there and there should be,” Wasikowski said. “We didn’t play well enough on Friday night to beat a really good team.”
