A perfect day for a drubbing.Byline: Bob Rodman The Register-Guard Seventy-seven minutes after Alicia Cook threw her first pitch at Stanford on Friday, the Ducks' five-game losing streak disappeared. Cook delivered the first perfect game in school history, Joanna Gail hit her second career grand slam grand slam n. 1. The winning of all the tricks during the play of one hand in bridge and other whist-derived card games. 2. Sports The winning of all the major or specified events, especially on a professional circuit. and Oregon blasted the sixth-ranked Cardinal in a 9-0 victory at Howe Field that was reduced to five innings INNINGS, estates. Lands gained from the sea by draining. Cunn. L. Dict. h. t.; Law of Sewers, 31. by a kind of mercy rule A mercy rule, also well known by the slightly less polite term slaughter rule (or, less commonly, knockout rule and skunk rule), brings a sports event to an early end when one team has a very large and presumably insurmountable lead over the other team. . The sophomore right-hander's no-hitter - the 13th in UO history and first in more than two years - included only one strikeout as she retired 15 consecutive Stanford batters. Not one Cardinal hit a ball out of the infield, a performance that included two infield flyouts and 12 groundouts. "I threw a lot of drop balls, curveballs and stuff," said Cook, far more impressive than the 3-6 record and 3.20 earned-run average she lugged into the game. "I tried to keep it in on their hands or away from them." The Pac-10 Conference win was just the second of the year for the Ducks (2-8), but it was the second in a row over Stanford - a team Oregon (20-18 overall) outscored 18-2 in the last two games. Stanford, which lost the season series to the Ducks 2-1, dropped to 6-7 in the Pac-10, 33-11 overall. It was a win Oregon dearly needed. The Ducks, who play host to California beginning at noon today, had lost eight of their past 10 games. Oregon played error-free softball softball, variant of baseball played with a larger ball on a smaller field. Invented (1888) in Chicago as an indoor game, it was at various times called indoor baseball, mush ball, playground ball, kitten ball, and, because it was also played by women, ladies' and in the third inning broke through offensively, melding Suzie Barnes' one-out, RBI RBI abbr. Baseball runs batted in Noun 1. rbi - a run that is the result of the batter's performance; "he had more than 100 rbi last season" run batted in triple down the right-field line, Sari-Jane Jenkins' one-run single to left-center, Breanne Sabol's RBI double off the wall in left-center and Beth Boskovich's run-scoring double off the wall in right-center into a 4-0 lead. With still only one out in the third, Oregon chased Stanford starting pitcher Noun 1. starting pitcher - (baseball) a pitcher who starts in a baseball game baseball, baseball game - a ball game played with a bat and ball between two teams of nine players; teams take turns at bat trying to score runs; "he played baseball in high school"; Missy Penna pen·na n. pl. pen·nae A contour feather of a bird, as distinguished from a down feather or a plume. [Latin, feather; see pet- in Indo-European roots. , who took the loss while yielding four runs on five hits. Willie Newman, the plate umpire, then chased Stanford coach John Rittman for arguing a foul strike (Baseball) a strike by the batsman when any part of his person is outside of the lines of his position. See also: Foul that he believed was caught by Cardinal catcher Erin Howe and would have been the second out of the inning. The Ducks didn't flinch flinch intr.v. flinched, flinch·ing, flinch·es 1. To start or wince involuntarily, as from surprise or pain. 2. To recoil, as from something unpleasant or difficult; shrink. n. . Cook was supplied more cushion in the last of the fifth inning when Oregon erupted for five runs - four on Gail's grand slam over the left-field fence. Gail, who was batting .209 and had driven in just 11 runs before Friday, ripped Stanford relief pitcher relief pitcher n. Baseball A pitcher who replaces another during a game. Noun 1. relief pitcher - a pitcher who does not start the game fireman, reliever Laura Severson's third offering out of Howe Field, scoring Kristi Leiter, Lovena Chaput and Kayleen Hudson ahead of her. Paired with the first run of the inning that scored on Chaput's double, the Ducks had a 9-0 lead, forcing the application of the eight-run rule - if a team is ahead by eight runs and the visitor has batted in its half the fifth inning, the game ends. "Cook dominated," UO coach Kathy Arendsen said. "She didn't make any mistakes, and if she did, they didn't find them." Barnes led the 12-hit Oregon attack - which included four doubles, a triple and a home run - with three hits. Jenkins, Sabol, Boskovich and Chaput each had two hits. "We came out hitting today, we played good defense and Alicia pitched really well," Barnes said. "We put it all together." OSU (Open Source UNIX) Refers to the Unix variants that are maintained as open source, which were primarily BSD Unix and Linux until Sun made its Solaris operating system open source in 2005. grabs seventh consecutive victory CORVALLIS - Cambria Miranda hit a home run for the sixth straight game and Ta'Tyana McElroy struck out five in four innings of relief in eighth-ranked Oregon State's 4-2 Pac-10 softball win over No. 7 California on Friday at the OSU Softball Complex. Miranda led off the Beavers' half of the first inning with her 14th home run of the season. California (38-9, 6-6 Pac-10) came back with two runs in the third off OSU starter Brianne McGowan. Oregon State (36-7, 8-4) tied it when Miranda set a single-season school record with her 46th run on DeAnn Young's infield single. The Beavers regained the lead for good when Natalie Johnson scored on a wild pitch in the fifth. McElroy (14-3) allowed only one hit over the final four innings. The win was OSU's seventh straight and sets up today's 1 p.m. contest against No. 6 Stanford. CAPTION(S): Alicia Cook didn't allow a ball out of the infield while throwing the first perfect game in school history. 1st Perfect game in UO softball history. Sophomore Alicia Cook, 3-6, with a 3.20 earned run average earned run average n. Baseball Abbr. ERA A measure of a pitcher's performance obtained by dividing the total of earned runs allowed by the total of innings pitched and multiplying by nine. Noun 1. , said, "I tried to keep it in on their hands or away from them." Cook faced the minimum of 15 batters without allowing a Stanford baserunner. 2nd Grand slam in Joanna Gail's career. She is batting .209 and had driven in just 11 runs before Friday |
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