Travis Bazzana belted a grand slam and Oregon State also got homers from Garret Forrester and Brady Kasper as the Beavers swept a Pac-12 baseball doubleheader against Washington on Saturday at Husky Ballpark in Seattle.
Bazzana’s big blast came in the top of the second inning of the second game and powered the Beavers to a 5-1 victory and the series win.
Forrester hit a solo shot two innings later, and Jacob Kmatz struck out six across 6 1/3 innings to earn the win. Kmatz (2-4) allowed three hits and a walk, with the Huskies’ lone run coming on a solo shot by Johnny Tincher.
OSU reliever AJ Hutcheson got out of a bases-loaded jam in the seventh inning by striking out Cam Clayton. Ben Ferrer pitched two shutout innings for the Beavers to close it out.
The Beavers (18-9, 5-6 Pac-12) and Huskies (17-8, 4-4) played two on Saturday after the series opener on Friday night was postponed due to inclement weather.
In Saturday’s early game, Kasper hit a solo homer and Mikey Kane drove in two runs to fuel OSU’s 6-3 win.
Oregon State starter Trent Sellers (4-2) struck out nine while allowing three runs on six hits across five innings. Ian Lawson then struck out six more in three innings of relief before Ryan Brown pitched a scoreless ninth to earn his fifth save of the season.
Kane singled to right field in the first inning with the bases loaded to score Mason Guerra and Garret Forrester and give the Beavers a 2-0 lead.
After Clayton hit a solo homer for the Huskies in the bottom of the first, Oregon State added a run in the second and Kasper’s solo shot in the fourth to go up 4-1.
Washington cut the lead to 4-3 in the bottom of the fourth on RBI singles from Coby Morales and Jeter Ybarra.
The Beavers padded their lead with an RBI single from Kasper in the eighth and a run-scoring double from Bazzana in the ninth.
Bazzana and Forrester finished the day with four hits apiece, while Kane and Kasper had three each.
Next up: Oregon State has won four in a row and will look for the series sweep when the teams play their finale at 1:05 p.m. Sunday.
— Joel Odom
