College Baseball Notebook: Oregon State’s Travis Bazzana Homers Leading Off 4 Straight Games – News18

Travis Bazzana has been the final word leadoff man recently.

The Oregon State star will enter this week’s street sequence towards Southern California having opened the final 4 video games with residence runs.

The Australian second baseman has 14 homers, rating third within the nation and greater than his 2023 complete of 11. Eight of his homers have come within the final 5 video games.

“I’m seeing it well, I’ve got a good feel for it right now,” Bazzana informed reporters Friday. “If they’re going to pitch to me then I’ll swing. If they don’t, I’ll take the walks and run on them.”

The NCAA doesn’t monitor consecutive video games with a leadoff homer. Brady Anderson, in 1996, is the one main leaguer to have opened 4 video games with residence runs.

Bazzana’s total offensive recreation is among the many causes he’s rated the No. 3 total prospect for the 2024 Major League Baseball draft, in accordance with MLB.com. His .581 on-base share, 43 hits, 23 walks and 36 RBIs lead the Pac-12. He additionally has six steals after setting a college report with 36 final season.

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Bazzana homered to proper to begin a win over Portland on Tuesday and continued his streak in a 3-recreation sweep of Washington. The leadoff homers towards the Huskies went out to proper Friday, to left on the primary pitch Saturday and to proper on Sunday.

Tyler Malone, in 2018, was the final Oregon State participant to go deep in 5 straight video games.

Arkansas (19-3) received two of three at Auburn and stays No. 1 within the D1Baseball.com and Baseball America polls. The Razorbacks had received 15 straight earlier than shedding 8-6 Saturday.

Oregon State (21-2) is No. 2 by D1Baseball and No. 3 by Baseball America after outscoring Washington 31-3 in its sweep.

Clemson is flip-flopped with Oregon State after taking three in dramatic trend towards beforehand unbeaten Florida State. The Tigers received the primary recreation 15-5, overcame a seven-run ninth-inning deficit to win the second 9-8 and a 9-run six-inning deficit to win the third 14-12.

Arkansas lefty Hagen Smith continues to be dominant. He struck out 12 in six innings in Friday’s 1-0 win over Auburn and is now 4-0 with a 1.24 ERA and 62 strikeouts in 29 innings, and he has held opposing hitters to a .116 batting common. In his final 5 begins, he has an 0.32 ERA with 60 strikeouts.

Braden Davis and Reid Hensley pitched Oklahoma’s first mixed no-hitter since 2005 in a 13-0 residence win over West Virginia on Friday. The two mixed for 15 strikeouts with Davis hanging out a profession-excessive 12 over seven innings and Hensley fanning three.

West Virginia bounced again to comb a Saturday doubleheader and win the sequence.

South Carolina bounced again from a sequence loss to Mississippi with its first sweep of Vanderbilt since 2009. The Gamecocks received 10-2 Sunday after freshman Tyler Pitzer struck out 9 with out permitting an earned run over 6 1/3 innings in his first begin. The Gamecocks took a Saturday doubleheader 8-3 and 8-4.

Vanderbilt had entered the sequence on a 14-recreation win streak and a prime-three rating. South Carolina was rewarded with a No. 10 rating by D1Baseball.

Louisiana Tech’s Cole McConnell homered 4 occasions in a doubleheader sweep of Jackson State on Saturday, thrice within the second recreation. McConnell was suspended for all however the first 4 video games final season for violating staff guidelines. He leads the staff with a .376 batting common, 10 homers and 39 RBIs. … Rhode Island’s Michael Anderson drove in a nationwide season-excessive 12 runs towards Stonehill final Wednesday. He hit a grand slam and three-run homer to go along with a triple and two doubles. … Appalachian State received a sequence towards a prime-15 opponent for the primary time since 2012 by taking two of three from Coastal Carolina.

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