PREVIEW + Updates: Oregon State Baseball Takes On College Baseball Series

With the Oregon State baseball team (6-2) set to continue the College Baseball Series benefiting Shriners Children's against Auburn (9-1) on Saturday evening, BeaversEdge previews the matchup!

MORE: Beavers Take Down Baylor | 2026 Recruiting Primer: DL || Beavers offer three-star LB Beau Jandreau | 2024 Review+2025 Preview: WR | Scouting Report: DB Blake Thompson | Beavers Hire Pat McCann As WR Coach | Cavanaugh Officially Named OL Coach | 2024 Review + 2025 Preview: QBs | 2026 Recruiting Primer: WR | 2026 Recruiting Primer: TE

WHO, WHAT, WHEN, WHERE

Oregon State Baseball at College Baseball Series benefiting Shriners Children's

Arlington, Texas - Globe Life Field

Saturday - 4 p.m. vs Auburn (9-1)

RHP Dax Whitney (1-1, 4.32) vs. LHP Cade Fisher (0-0, 2.70)

Join The IN-GAME THREAD WITH RYAN HARLAN HERE

Sunday - 9 a.m. vs Ohio State (1-5)

LHP Ethan Kleinschmit (1-1, 1.64) vs. RHP Jake Michalak (0-1, 11.12)

TV: Flo Baseball

Radio: KEJO 1240/Varsity Sports Network (LIVE STREAM)

Oregon State Quick Hits

Oregon State and Auburn are meeting for the fourth time. The teams squared off at the 2022 Corvallis Super Regional. The teams split the first two before Auburn advanced to Omaha with a 4-3 win in the third game.

- Oregon State is making its second appearance at Globe Life Field. The Beavers went 3-1 there last season, defeating Texas Tech (10-4), Michigan (11-1) and Oklahoma State (8-1). The lone loss was a 5-4 defeat to Arkansas.

- Trent Caraway is now the lone Beaver to hit safely in all eight games this season. Aiva Arquette drew a walk but saw his streak end with an 0-for-3 night.

- Arquette, Caraway and Tyce Peterson have all reached base safely in every game. Peterson doubled in the sixth Friday, eventually scoring what was the game-winning run.

- Easton Talt ran 89 feet after starting 309 feet from home plate to rob his home run Friday. Analytics noted that he ran 25 feet per second, which translates to just under 18 miles per hour.

- Jacob Krieg's enters Saturday with a team-high 12 runs batted in. He has 63 for his career. His four home runs on the year give him 14 for his career as well.

- Krieg's home run was the first by a Beaver against a left-hander this season.

- Gavin Turley drove in a pair of runs and is at 129 for his career. He is 15 shy of equaling Garret Forrester and Matt Bailie for 10th for a career by a Beaver.

- Matthew Morrell's save was the first by a Beaver this season. Oregon State's 4-3 win was its first by less than five runs.

- Dax Whitney, OSU's probable starter Saturday, has 14 strikeouts in his first 8 1/3 innings. That rates out to 15.12 Ks per nine innings.

- The Beavers have yet to allow a run in the first inning.

- Opponents have now gone four straight games without committing an error.

- Oregon State is 5-2 when scoring first and 122-39 during Mitch Canham's tenure.

Beavers In The Rankings

Oregon State Baseball Preseason Ranks

Organization	Rank	FULL T-25

D1Baseball	9th	LINK
NCBWA	8th	LINK
USA TODAY	10th	LINK
Baseball America	11th	LINK
Perfect Game	13	LINK

Auburn Recap Win Over Ohio State

ARLINGTON, Texas. – No. 25 Auburn turned in its second shutout in the last five games with a 13-0 run-rule win against Ohio State Friday afternoon at Globe Life Field.

The win marked Auburn’s third run-rule victory in the last five contests, and the Tigers have outscored opponents 59-13 during the span.

Samuel Dutton (2-1) turned in 6.0 scoreless innings with a career-high nine strikeouts while the offense scored its 13 runs on 13 hits, marking the fifth straight game with 13 or more hits.

“It was just a clean game,” head coach Butch Thompson said. “I’m not going to stop, and I don’t think the players are going to stop. Can we shove (the ball) in the zone, take the sting out of the swing and try to figure out different things? Samuel Dutton executed a masterful plan today. The offense, it just feels like they’re almost competing amongst themselves for who can have the most competitive at-bats.”

Making his third straight start to begin his Auburn career, Dutton struck out multiple batters in the first, third, fourth and fifth innings and retired the last 10 batters he faced.

“Getting this opportunity to play at Globe Life (Field), an MLB park, it doesn’t get much better than that,” Dutton said. “For us to play three games here and to experience something like this is huge.”

Offensively, Cooper McMurray collected multiple hits for the fifth straight game and drove in three or more runs for the third time this season. He was one of four players with multiple hits in the game.

The offense struck for eight runs on four hits and five walks to take command of the game in the second inning. Six of the eight runs were scored with two outs.

“It was a huge inning for us,” McMurray said of the team’s eight-run second. “Credit to my teammates for getting on base before me. I was just looking for a fastball. He threw one 0-0, and I was able to put a good swing on it.”

The Tigers (9-1) drew three straight walks to start the second inning and started the scoring on a RBI single to shallow center field from Chase Fralick, one of his game-high three hits in the game. With the bases still loaded and nobody out, Bristol Carter lifted one down the right field line, deep enough to score Bub Terrell from third. Ohio State starter Drew Erdmann nearly escaped the jam with minimal damage, but a bases-loaded walk to Ike Irish and three straight two-out extra base hits extended the lead to 8-0. McMurray cleared the bases with a double down the right field line before Deric Fabian doubled over the center fielder’s head and Terrell drove him in with a sharp single to left center.

Dutton struck out his third and fourth batters of the game in the third, and Auburn’s offense stayed at it with two more in the fourth. Irish drilled a ground ball back up the middle to score Belyeu after a leadoff double, and the junior backstop later scored on a double play ball to make it 10-0.

Fralick hit a leadoff double in the fifth and came around to score on an Ohio State (1-6) fielding error and wild pitch. The Tigers then capped off the scoring in the contest with two runs on back-to-back single from Chris Rembert and Fralick in the sixth.

Ryan Hetzler entered in relief of Dutton in the seventh and retired all three batters he faced, ending the game with a strikeout.

“We’re going to play another great team tomorrow, but that’s kind of the goal. That’s what the best do. They don’t just do it one time. They do it consistently,” Thompson said.

The Tigers will take on No. 8 Oregon State (5-2) in game two Saturday at 6 p.m. CT on FloCollege.