One day after the Nebraska baseball team pulled off a rather massive upset of Oregon State, the Beavers showed they were a little angry about the whole deal. They showed how angry they were by bashing pitches over the wall, over and over and over.
Solo home runs, a grand slam and everything in between. One home run landed in the parking lot beyond right field and bounced away as a few kids watched it go, hoping beyond hope that it might reverse course and roll towards them.
Nebraska baseball crushed as Oregon State responds with historic power surge
The fifth-ranked Beavers turned in an historic display of power Saturday afternoon in a 16-5 piece of domination of the Huskers. The game was shortened to seven innings by run rule and that was probably for the best.
The Nebraska baseball team surrendered eight home runs, and there was always a chance it could have been more. The Beavers hit a home run in each inning and against four different NU pitchers. All of that sunk Will Bolt’s team and made sure NU didn’t clinch the series win.
“We knew they would have a response after (Friday) and there’s no question they did,” head coach Will Bolt said after the game. “In a major, major way.”
Oregon State’s eight homers are the most by a Husker opponent in a single contest since at least 1999. That’s as far back as these kinds of records go.
“We were abysmal on the mound,” Bolt added. “Nobody had their best stuff coming out of the bullpen.” Now the Nebraska baseball team will look to find a way to right the ship and win on Sunday. If they do, they’ll have a series win over a team they had no business getting a series win over. Lose and the questions about where the 11-15 Huskers go from here, return.