| Oregon Ducks baseball | |
|---|---|
 2025 Oregon Ducks baseball team | |
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| Founded | 1877, 148 years ago |
| University | University of Oregon |
| Head coach | Mark Wasikowski (6th season) |
| Conference | Big Ten |
| Location | Eugene, Oregon |
| Home stadium | PK Park (Capacity: 5,000) |
| Nickname | Ducks |
| Colors | Green and yellow[1] |
| College World Series appearances | |
| 1954 | |
| NCAA regional champions | |
| 2012, 2023, 2024 | |
| NCAA tournament appearances | |
| 1954, 1964, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 | |
| Conference tournament champions | |
| 2023 | |
| Conference regular season champions | |
| 1918, 1928, 1934, 1935, 1937, 1939, 1941, 1942, 1943, 1946, 1953, 1954, 1955, 1957, 2025 | |
TheOregon Ducks baseball team represents theUniversity of Oregon inNCAA Division Icollege baseball in theBig Ten Conference. The home games are played on campus atPK Park.[2]
Oregon played its firstbaseball game in 1877 and established the program in 1885.[3]
The UO team made oneCollege World Series appearance, in1954, and was eliminated from the tournament after losing toArizona andMassachusetts. A decade later in 1964, in the re-organizedAthletic Association of Western Universities, Oregon was once again North Division champions,[4][5][6] but lost atdefending national championUSC in the district finals (today's super-regionals).[7]
After the 1981 season, baseball and three other varsity sports were dropped by the university (men's gymnastics, women's golf, and women's soccer) due to a budget crisis,[3][8][9] and baseball became a club sport in March 1983.[10]
In July 2007, the university announced that it would again field a varsity baseball team, beginning with the 2009 season. One reason was the success of the rivalOregon State Beavers,[11][12][13] who had repeated asCollege World Series champions a month earlier.
In the Ducks' first game inPK Park, they defeated thedefending national champions, theFresno State Bulldogs, 1–0 on a walk-off single by senior Andrew Schmidt. A sellout crowd of 2,777 was on hand for the game.[14] After his eleventh season in 2019, head coachGeorge Horton and the Ducks mutually agreed to part ways on May 28.[15] Two weeks later on June 11, it was announced thatMark Wasikowski was the successor; he was previously an assistant at Oregon from 2012 through 2016, then was the head coach atPurdue in theBig Ten Conference.[16] In his first full season as head coach of the Ducks, they hosted a regional as the 13th seed and finished second behindLSU.
The Ducks previously played baseball at Howe Field (44°02′28″N123°04′26″W / 44.041°N 123.074°W /44.041; -123.074),[9] south ofMcArthur Court, named in 1936 for Dr. Herbert Crombie Howe (1872–1940), the former chairman of the English department. Howe started teaching at UO in 1901 and was its original faculty representative to thePacific Coast Conference in 1915, partially responsible for the league's founding.[17] When the university dropped baseball after the 1981 season, the succeeding club team continued at Howe; in 1987, the field was converted to use by the softball team and later remodeled and renamedJane Sanders Stadium.[18][19][20] Softball was formerly played at Amazon Park, a city-owned park in Eugene.[21]
Baseball became aclub sport in 1983 and Oregon was the only Pac-10 school without a varsity baseball program through 2008. Following the reinstatement of baseball, announced in 2007,[11] the university builtPK Park, directly northeast ofAutzen Stadium, formerly paved parking spaces. It opened for the Ducks in 2009 and since 2010, the park is also home for theminor leagueEugene Emeralds of theHigh-ANorthwest League,[2] whose season runs from April through early-September.
Oregon notes their first year of baseball as 1877, with 1906 as the first recorded season.[22]
| Year | Coach | Record | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1906 | J. B. Knapp | ||
| 1907 | Hugo Bezdek | ||
| 1908 | H. B. Leonard | ||
| 1909 | Tom Kelly | 6–3–1 | |
| 1910 | Tom Kelly | 6–4–1 | |
| 1911 | Tom Kelly | 9–6 | |
| 1912 | Homer Jamison | 8–0 | |
| 1913 | Homer Jamison | ||
| 1914 | Hugo Bezdek | 11–3 | |
| 1915 | Hugo Bezdek | 6–3 | |
| 1916 | Hugo Bezdek | 5–4 | |
| 1917 | Hugo Bezdek | ||
| 1918 | Dean Walker | 10–2 | |
| 1919 | Shy Huntington | 1–6 | |
| 1920 | Shy Huntington | 11–9 | |
| 1921 | George Bohler | 6–13 | |
| 1922 | George Bohler | 2–15 | |
| 1923 | George Bohler | 3–15 | |
| 1924 | Bill Reinhart | 6–12–1 | |
| 1925 | Bill Reinhart | 5–7 | |
| 1926 | Bill Reinhart | 4–4 | |
| 1927 | Bill Reinhart | 3–9 | |
| 1928 | Bill Reinhart | 11–4 | |
| 1929 | Bill Reinhart | 8–9 | |
| 1930 | Bill Reinhart | 15–7 | |
| 1931 | Bill Reinhart | 8–10 | |
| 1932 | Bill Reinhart | 5–10 | |
| 1933 | Bill Reinhart | 7–6 | |
| 1934 | Bill Reinhart | 16–6 | |
| 1935 | Bill Reinhart | 14–8 | |
| 1936 | Howard Hobson | 13–11 | |
| 1937 | Howard Hobson | 13–3 | |
| 1938 | Howard Hobson | 17–9 | |
| 1939 | Howard Hobson | 20–7 | |
| 1940 | Howard Hobson | 17–11 | |
| 1941 | Howard Hobson | 15–6 | |
| 1942 | Howard Hobson | 20–5 | |
| 1943 | Howard Hobson | 15–7 | |
| 1944 | Howard Hobson | ||
| 1945 | Howard Hobson | ||
| 1946 | Howard Hobson | 18–9–1 | |
| 1947 | Howard Hobson | 19–7 | |
| 1948 | Don Kirsch | 12–6 | |
| 1949 | Don Kirsch | 18–7 | |
| 1950 | Don Kirsch | 12–11 | |
| 1951 | Don Kirsch | 14–14 | |
| 1952 | Don Kirsch | 19–12 | |
| 1953 | Don Kirsch | 15–4 | |
| 1954 | Don Kirsch | 18–8 | 11–5 inPCC North Div., 1st place,[23]District 8 champion (now super regional),[24]College World Series, 7th (tie) |
| 1955 | Don Kirsch | 18–8 | |
| 1956 | Don Kirsch | 18–8 | |
| 1957 | Don Kirsch | 24–9–1 | |
| 1958 | Don Kirsch | 19–8 | |
| 1959 | Don Kirsch | 19–11 | |
| 1960 | Don Kirsch | 12–7 | |
| 1961 | Don Kirsch | 19–9 | |
| 1962 | Don Kirsch | 29–9–1 | |
| 1963 | Don Kirsch | 25–7 | |
| 1964 | Don Kirsch | 31–11 | 11–5 inAAWU North Div., 1st place,[4] runner-up inDistrict 8 (now super regional)[7] |
| 1965 | Don Kirsch | 27–8–1 | |
| 1966 | Don Kirsch | 21–18 | |
| 1967 | Don Kirsch | 16–14 | |
| 1968 | Don Kirsch | 25–15–1 | |
| 1969 | Don Kirsch | 22–19 | |
| 1970 | Don Kirsch | ||
| 1971 | Mel Krause | 19–18 | |
| 1972 | Mel Krause | 24–13 | |
| 1973 | Mel Krause | 23–13 | |
| 1974 | Mel Krause | 26–19 | |
| 1975 | Mel Krause | 20–19 | |
| 1976 | Mel Krause | 20–18 | |
| 1977 | Mel Krause | 14–27 | |
| 1978 | Mel Krause | 23–24 | |
| 1979 | Mel Krause | 29–27–1 | |
| 1980 | Mel Krause | 19–21 | |
| 1981 | Mel Krause | 16–21 | does not include 2 wins vs. Lane CC – dropped program[3][8] |
| No varsity team from 1982–2008 (27 seasons), club sport only | |||
| 2009 | George Horton | 14–42 | 4–23 in Pac-10, 10th place |
| 2010 | George Horton | 40–24 | 13–14 in Pac-10, 5th place (tie), second atRegional |
| 2011 | George Horton | 33–26 | 11–16 in Pac-10, 8th place |
| 2012 | George Horton | 46–19 | 19–11 in Pac-12, 3rd place, hostedRegional and Super Regional |
| 2013 | George Horton | 48–16 | 22–8 in Pac-12, 2nd place, hostedRegional |
| 2014 | George Horton | 44–20 | 18–12 in Pac-12, 4th place, second atRegional |
| 2015 | George Horton | 38–25 | 16–14 in Pac-12, 6th place, third atRegional |
| 2016 | George Horton | 29–26 | 14–16 in Pac-12, 8th place (tie) |
| 2017 | George Horton | 30–25 | 12–18 in Pac-12, 8th place |
| 2018 | George Horton | 26–29 | 12–18 in Pac-12, 8th place (tie) |
| 2019 | George Horton | 27–29 | 10–19 in Pac-12, 9th place |
| 2020 | Mark Wasikowski | 8–7 | 0–0 in Pac-12, *Season cancelled due toCOVID-19 |
| 2021 | Mark Wasikowski | 39–16 | 20–10 in Pac-12, 2nd Place, hostedRegional |
| 2022 | Mark Wasikowski | 36–25 | 18–12 in Pac-12, 4th place, third atRegional |
| 2023 | Mark Wasikowski | 41–22 | 16–14 in Pac-12, 6th Place, hostedSuper Regional |
| 2024 | Mark Wasikowski | 40–20 | 19–11 in Pac-12, 3rd Place,Super Regional |
| Year | Record | Pct | Seed | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 0-2 | .00 | 4th | |
| 2023 | 4-0 | 1.00 | 6th | Tournament Champions |
| 2024 | 0-2 | .00 | 4th |
| Year | Record | Pct | Nat'l seed | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1954 | 3–2 | .600 | District 8 champion,College World Series (7th) | |
| 1964 | 0–2 | .000 | District 8 runner-up (super regional) | |
| 2010 | 2–2 | .500 | finished second inRegional | |
| 2012 | 4–2 | .667 | 5 | Regional and Super Regional host |
| 2013 | 3–2 | .600 | 8 | Regional host |
| 2014 | 2–2 | .500 | finished second inRegional | |
| 2015 | 1–2 | .333 | finished third inRegional | |
| 2021 | 2–2 | .500 | 13 | Regional host |
| 2022 | 1–2 | .333 | finished third inRegional | |
| 2023 | 4–2 | .667 | Super Regional host | |
| 2024 | 3–2 | .600 | Super Regional | |
| 2025 | 0–2 | .000 | 12 | finished fourth inRegional |
| TOTALS | 25–22 | .532 | ||
