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Pitching Expectations:

Esquer is apparently stating that he wants to keep his main guys "on rotation", so Friday for Matthews and Saturday for Dixon. Don't see how he would change that for a less-meaningful game today (given Stanford is already in the semifinals). 

That raises the question of who is our third starter, or maybe it's fourth not sure how to count Scott right now. 
Pancer started last Thursday against WSU. He pitched last night - though only 11 pitches to retire the 2 batters he faced. He's my #2 guess to start. 
Dugan has the most starts of guys not named Matthews or Dixon who did not pitch last night. Thus he is my #1 guess  for the start but to only go 2-3 innings. 

Oregon has their own pitching issues. 
Their ace Stoffal, who blanked us, has been out for several weeks. There had been rumors he might have returned last week but didn't. If he does return against us, would think he'd be on a careful pitch count. 
Another guy they had been expecting to return by now is Ayon - but he hasn't pitched at all this year. 
The other guy who stymied Stanford was their Saturday starter Mercado (complete game, 1 run). After that game he had his struggles. He pitched to four batters yesterday. 
There two starters from last week who pitched pretty well versus Utah are Grabmann and Spoljaric. I am guessing we see Grabmann, a frosh righty with 9 starts and a 3.84 ERA. 

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Oregon would seem to have more at stake this game than Stanford. They're probably in the tournament, but could use another win to be safer. And they won't advance with a 1-1 record. 
ASU is in real danger of falling out of the tournament. They led the conference until 3 weeks ago but have gone 3-11 lately.
Arizona probably should be in the tournament, but when you finish 8th in your own conference you better be in the ACC or SEC.

Sounds like Oregon has pitching depth that we can only dream about. Then again, they don't have our hitting.

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Pitching Expectations:

Esquer is apparently stating that he wants to keep his main guys "on rotation", so Friday for Matthews and Saturday for Dixon. Don't see how he would change that for a less-meaningful game today (given Stanford is already in the semifinals). 

That raises the question of who is our third starter, or maybe it's fourth not sure how to count Scott right now. 
Pancer started last Thursday against WSU. He pitched last night - though only 11 pitches to retire the 2 batters he faced. He's my #2 guess to start. 
Dugan has the most starts of guys not named Matthews or Dixon who did not pitch last night. Thus he is my #1 guess  for the start but to only go 2-3 innings. 

Oregon has their own pitching issues. 
Their ace Stoffal, who blanked us, has been out for several weeks. There had been rumors he might have returned last week but didn't. If he does return against us, would think he'd be on a careful pitch count. 
Another guy they had been expecting to return by now is Ayon - but he hasn't pitched at all this year. 
The other guy who stymied Stanford was their Saturday starter Mercado (complete game, 1 run). After that game he had his struggles. He pitched to four batters yesterday. 
There two starters from last week who pitched pretty well versus Utah are Grabmann and Spoljaric. I am guessing we see Grabmann, a frosh righty with 9 starts and a 3.84 ERA. 

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Oregon would seem to have more at stake this game than Stanford. They're probably in the tournament, but could use another win to be safer. And they won't advance with a 1-1 record. 
ASU is in real danger of falling out of the tournament. They led the conference until 3 weeks ago but have gone 3-11 lately.
Arizona probably should be in the tournament, but when you finish 8th in your own conference you better be in the ACC or SEC.

Sounds like Oregon has pitching depth that we can only dream about. Then again, they don't have our hitting.