Mark Wasikowski calls for more consistency from Oregon

The college baseball regular season is coming to an end, with teams still jockeying for conference championships and a berth in the NCAA baseball championship tournament. One of those teams is the Pac-12’s Oregon Ducks.

Oregon has been on a roll lately. They are winners of four of their last five games. Up next for the Ducks to close out the 2024 season is a road series with the Washington Huskies, followed by their home season finale against Washington State before the start of the Pac-12 tournament. But before Oregon wraps up the regular season, their skipper Mark Wasikowski revealed what he wants to see out of his ball club down the stretch.

“You know, just consistency. It’s been the same thing the whole year,” said Wasikowski. “You’re trying to get guys that are in their first 100 to 200 at-bats hitting like they’re in their 400 or 500 at-bats. And that is kind of hard to make up experience when they don’t have it. So how do you do that? You work tirelessly trying to get those guys familiar with what you see on tape, to where they can address their deficiencies and hopefully, you know get more consistently competitive with the dish.”

In terms of putting points on the board, Oregon has found consistency as of late, averaging seven runs per contest in their last five games. On the season, Wasikowski’s ducks have three individuals: Jacob Walsh, Mason Neville, and Bryce Boettcher, who all have 10+ home runs this year. Walsh is the leader of the bunch, with seventeen home runs in his 176 at-bats for a team-high 49 RBIs.

Wasikowski gives impressions of Washington series

Ahead of their upcoming series, Wasikowski previewed Washington and shared his impressions of the Huskies this season.

“Playing their baseball, probably, of the year,” Mark Wasikowski said. “They play really good at home. They’ve been winning two out of three at home each weekend that they’ve been doing that now for a little while. At the beginning of the year [they weren’t] but now lately they have been.”

Washington is 18-23-1 overall this season after a slow start. That has been a disappointment after going 35-20 last season and making it to the NCAA Regionals. One of the problems was roster turnover for the Huskies. Another has been just struggling to find consistency. Still, Washington has won nine out of thirteen games in Seattle.

For Mark Wasikowski, in particular, he has concerns about Washington’s offense. This comes after the Huskies scored a total of 39 runs in three games during their last Pac-12 series. That came against Arizona State, but Washington still only won one game after giving up 41 runs themselves.