Get excited baseball fans, the Ducks open their 2015 season today in Hawaii. The season opener will showcase the return of star pitcher Cole Irvin who missed all of last season recovering from Tommy John surgery and will be on a pitch count to start the season. Tyson Alger of The Oregonian reported that Irvin would be limited to around 35 …
Caleb Couturie of FishDuck.com was at PK park yesterday afternoon to catch up with Shaun Chase and the rest of the Oregon Baseball team. Coming off his best season at Oregon, Shaun Chase, the Duck senior catcher, was named a pre-season All-American after leading the Pac-12 with 14 homers. Chase also saw jumps in batting average and RBI, batting .283 …
Jordan Ingram reporting for FishDuck.com on Oregon Baseball Media Day at PK Park Since former Oregon athletic director Pat Kilkenny announced the return of Oregon baseball and the hiring of head coach George Horton in 2007, the Ducks have been rising stars in the Pac-12 and around the nation. Last season, Oregon finished with a 44-20 record after a narrow, season ending loss to …
Since the addition of PK Park (named after legendary Athletic Director Pat Kilkenny) and the return of the Oregon baseball program in 2009, the Ducks have grown steadily into a nationally recognized baseball team. Today, the Ducks made the D1 Baseball preseason Top 25 list at No. 22, one of only three Pac-12 schools (No. 4 UCLA and No. 24 Arizona State) to make the national preseason list. Wonderful day at …
With the end of 2014, FishDuck.com would like to congratulate the teams and the women and men that have given the University of Oregon yet another successful year. Teams Baseball M – Coach George Horton NCAA Regionals Basketball M – Coach Dana Altman NCAA Tournament – Round of 32 Basketball W – Coach Paul Westhead/Coach Kelly Graves Cross Country – …
After seasons that were riveting in their own unique ways, both the baseball and softball teams saw their season come to an end on Sunday. The No.1-ranked softball team fell short of its championship goals, while baseball could not advance in the NCAA playoffs — owing in large part to losing two of its top pitchers early in the season and the …
There’s no place like … Nashville? When the Oregon Ducks baseball team learned they would not be hosting a regional and instead travelling to the Vanderbilt Regional in Nashville, perhaps there was a sigh of relief from Coach George Horton. PK Park’s ‘friendly confines’ have not been exactly kind to the Ducks the last three years of regional and super regional play. …
Oregon’s spring sports are moving at a tremendous pace as we head into the final month of regular season games on the diamond and a speedy stretch of 11 events for Outdoor track and field. It is still an early season for Oregon’s track and field teams, but the expectations are high after sweeping the 2013 Indoor Championships. These early …
(FishDuck Note: While we provide football analysis year-round, we also provide Basketball Analysis in season, and now BASEBALL ANALYSIS! While the season is nearly half gone — Oregon has not had a game on TV until this next weekend, hence we use footage from last year on this first one as a demonstration of the importance of our outfielders. We …
An aspect of a baseball game that we give very little thought to are the bats used. Bats are a very personal issue with ball players — and at the professional level it is almost a ‘reverent sacrilege’ to fool with another player’s bat. Furthermore, let the equipment manager put a regular player’s bat in a different position in the rack and …
Teams that win championships have a number of seasonal components, all of which will contribute to their success. Elements such as coaching talent, player ability, facilities and the support of administration and fans frame a fifth component “Championship Luck.” One seldom reads or hears of Championship Luck contributing to a pivotal game victory. Instead, we read of a freshman having …
My desk is a mess, we are up to our elbows in work that demands attention, the temp outside is 19 degrees, the east wind is screaming down the Gorge and snow is falling like a lake-effect blizzard in Cleveland – but we can’t get focused because we are really excited about a couple of Oregon Duck baseball recruits! Looking out the …