Here are the best pictures from Oregon State’s national championship win over the Hogs on Thursday night in Omaha.
Photos from Hogs’ 5-0 loss to Oregon State on Thursday
Roundup from social media after Hogs’ title game loss
Reaction on social media to Arkansas’ 5-0 shutout loss in the College World Series final against Oregon State on Thursday night:
John Nabors ???????? on Twitter
John Nabors ???????? on Twitter
https://t.co/eL7mDgki2i
Kyle Deckelbaum on Twitter
Casey Martin stops to make a young fan’s night
Kyle Deckelbaum on Twitter
Wonderful scene as Hogs load the buses for the final time https://t.co/QizCLQJdAH
Darren McFadden on Twitter
GO HOGS FOREVER!!! Much respect !!!
Matt Zimmerman on Twitter
Congratulations to our Razorbacks. You brought us a whole lot of joy in 2018. Go Hogs Go FOREVER https://t.co/f7zFsTi7kp
Eric Sullivan on Twitter
Hogs locker room after loss #brotherhood @1037TheBuzz https://t.co/8Cm5JbY3LO
Hunter Yurachek on Twitter
Thank you to the thousands of Razorback fans who supported @RazorbackBSB throughout the 2018 season at Baum Stadium and here in Omaha. By far the best and most passionate fan base in the country. #WPS
Hunter Yurachek on Twitter
I could not be more proud of the @RazorbackBSB program and how each of these young men and Coach Van Horn and his staff represented the State of Arkansas during the 2018 season. What a ride they took us on as we ended an incredible season as the CWS National Runner-Up.
Barstool OmaHogs on Twitter
You’re with us or you’re against us. The line is clear. It’s always been. Those that are with us, We’ve proven it. We’ve proven we can get there. DVH is our guy. Mike is our guy. Chad is our guy. Hold your friends close and your enemies closer. We’re close.
Bo Mattingly on Twitter
Arkansas AD Hunter Yurachek hugs Carson Shaddy who walks out of dugout for last time as a Razorback.
Bo Mattingly on Twitter
Pretty tough 2nd place for DVH. So close. https://t.co/04214QvQ35
Tommy Craft on Twitter
It will take a moment to appreciate the greatness of this season, but a year like this will do plenty to grow the program. Even more players will want to come play, more donors will donate and more fans than ever are now Razorback Baseball Fans. Hell of a year guys!
Coach Justin Stepp on Twitter
Incredibly proud of how hard @RazorbackBSB played this whole season. We couldn’t be prouder of you all! People know about Arkansas and @ArkRazorbacks bc of you guys. #WPS
J.J. Meadors on Twitter
So Proud of @RazorbackBSB ! You guys represented the state well! #OmaHogs
Felix Jones 2 on Twitter
Great season @RazorbackBSB , could not be more proud of all you guys were able to accomplish. Once a Hog always a Hog! #WPS
Razorback Football on Twitter
What a ride. Congrats on an incredible season @RazorbackBSB! #WPS
SEC Network on Twitter
An amazing season comes to an end in Omaha. Nothing but respect for @RazorbackBSB.
McTelvin Agim on Twitter
WPS????????
Hogtoons on Twitter
omahogs Still a great season. Still a fan. Go Hogs!@SportsTalkwBo @AaronNolanNews @PigTrailNation
Barstool OmaHogs on Twitter
There are no words. There aren’t. We’ll talk about it for years. Decades. But we’re Hogs. We’re resilient. You can’t break us. You can try. You won’t succeed. Others have failed. We wake up tomorrow. We fight again. It’s the life we chose. WPS forever and forever WPS. ????
Arkansas Razorbacks on Twitter
Proud of you, @RazorbackBSB. An incredible season.
Southeastern Conference on Twitter
What a run. What a team. So proud of these #OmaHogs. https://t.co/dH7VIrJuHt
Ben Creighton on Twitter
I know it really sucks coming just 1 win short, especially in such heartbreaking fashion. But I will tip my cap to this Diamond Hogs team. It was an up and down year but, hands down, an exciting one with this run to Omaha. Hell of a year.
Pig Trail Nation on Twitter
Arkansas’ season has come to an end. https://t.co/ftdOyCOle2
John Nabors ???????? on Twitter
Stoernover. Reggie Fish. Foul ball.
Andrew Scaglione on Twitter
OmaHogs fall 5-0 to Oregon State. Beavers win their 3rd CWS. Let’s not pin the season on one misplayed foul ball. It’s part of the narrative, but not the whole story. Hogs went up against a superior foe and had 3 poor offensive games. That’s baseball.
Barrett Sallee on Twitter
What an unbelievable performance from Kevin Abel. That was unreal. #CWS
Gabe Richardson on Twitter
Damn ????????♂️
KARK 4 News on Twitter
HEARTBROKEN – but so PROUD of our team. Congrats on a fantastic season boys! #WPS ???? ⚾️
Watch party set again for Baum Stadium tonight
Baum Stadium will again host a free watch party Thursday night for Game 3 of the College World Series finals as the Razorbacks take on Oregon State at 5:30 p.m. on ESPN2.
Fans will enter through Gate B (on the third base side) at Baum Stadium beginning at 4:30 p.m.
Seating throughout the stadium will be first-come, first-serve and parking will be free. The Hog Pen will be closed for the event.
Light concessions will be available via cash only, but fans will be allowed to bring in food and beverages but no coolers or alcohol will be allowed inside the stadium.
Van Horn, players looking back on Hogs’ loss to Beavers
Arkansas coach Dave Van Horn with players Luke Bonfield, Grant Koch and Carson Shaddy look back on the 5-3 loss to Oregon State that sets up game three for title.
Oregon State coach, players talk about win over Hogs
Oregon State coach Pat Casey along with players Cadyn Grenier, Trevor Larnach and Adley Rutschman recap Wednesday night’s 5-3 win over Arkansas.
Pictures from Arkansas’ 5-3 loss to Oregon State
The best in pictures from Arkansas’ loss to Oregon State on Wednesday night in the second game of the College World Series finals in Omaha.
Oregon State rallies late to down Hogs, force third game
OMAHA, Neb. — Senior Luke Bonfield and Carson Shaddy each had two hits and an RBI Wednesday night for Arkansas, but Oregon State rallied in the ninth inning for a 5-3 win to force a decisive game three in the 2018 College World Series.
Thursday’s series finale is scheduled for a 5:30 p.m. first pitch and will be televised on ESPN2.
Back and Forth
Oregon State scored runs in the fourth and fifth innings to take a 2-1 lead but the Razorbacks answered with a pair of runs in the bottom of the fifth to reclaim their advantage.
After being held without a hit since the second, Arkansas put together three-straight hits including an RBI single by Bonfield that brought freshman Casey Martin around from second to even the game.
Freshman Heston Kjerstad scored the go-ahead run on Shaddy’s RBI single to cap the rally.
The Razorbacks held on to the 3-2 lead until Oregon State put together its three-run ninth.
After giving up a walk to the lead off in the top of the ninth, sophomore Matt Cronin retired the next two hitters but the Beavers had the tying run on third base.
Oregon State went on to tie the game with a base hit through the left side and took the final lead with a two-run shot to right.
The Hitting
Shaddy turned in his 18th multi-hit performance of the season while Bonfield tallied his 13th multi-hit outing. Shaddy’s single in the fifth inning was Arkansas’ first two-strike hit during the College World Series.
The Pitching
Oregon State had just taken a 2-1 lead and the bases loaded with one out when freshman Kole Ramage entered to face the three and four spots in the Beavers’ lineup.
The righty pitched Arkansas out of the jam with a strikeout and ground ball to Jared Gates at first base. With runners on the corners and no outs in the sixth, Ramage got out of the jam unscathed with the help of a double play that he started by gloving a popped up bunt.
Junior Kacey Murphy got the start and was solid through 4.1 innings before being lifted with runners on first and second in the top of the fifth.
The Rogers native allowed two runs on six hits and struck out four Oregon State hitters without issuing a walk.
Game Note
Wednesday’s game was played in front of 25,580 which pushed the overall attendance over 300,000 for the 13th-consecutive year in Omaha.
College World Series Finals | CWS Bracket
Series tied 1-1
Tuesday, June 26
Game 1: No. 5 Arkansas 4, No. 3 Oregon State 1
Wednesday, June 27
Game 2: No. 3 Oregon State 5, No. 5 Arkansas 3
Thursday, June 28
Game 3: No. 5 Arkansas vs No. 3 Oregon State – 5:30 p.m. [ESPN2]
Immediate reaction on social media after Hogs’ loss
It didn’t take long for folks to start weighing in on social media after Oregon State’s comeback in the ninth inning crushed Arkansas fans.
Kirk Herbstreit on Twitter
How good is College Baseball? https://t.co/V09QXAjis4
https://twitter.com/ColemanESPN/status/1012183935319773184
Rawleigh III 22 on Twitter
Relax. Them boys gone be ready game 3! ????????????
Hjalte Froholdt on Twitter
Where’s the positivity and support that has carried us all year? Time to rally and go take this natty home! #omahogs #WPS
Cheyenne OGrady on Twitter
Man…. great game Hogs. I’m not a baseball fan by any means, but you guys are definitely giving me second thoughts! Let’s bring it home next game boys ! ✊????
Omahawgs going 4 the Natty on Twitter
DVH tried to stretch his work horse. Cronin is now not available for game 3. Another note: Cronin never pitches back to back days. But all that being said…We were one strike away from it. Now the bats have to find some life. Beavers offense is too good.
Blake Eddins on Twitter
Leaders on the team have to raise hell in the locker room and at the hotel get everybody ready to come out fired up & swinging tomorrow. That was brutal. But it’s not over.
Travis Haney on Twitter
People at home are (rightly) obesssing about the non-play that continued the game. ESPN makes minimal (no?) mention of it on postgame wrap. All about Beavs resilience. How is the disconnect that wide between viewers and game coverage?
Dusty Hannahs on Twitter
We’ll catch y’all tomorrow baby #wps #AllTheMarbles
Tommy Craft on Twitter
Sickening
Khalil Garland on Twitter
my nerves for Game 3 tomorrow. idk if i’m gone be able to handle it
NCAA Baseball on Twitter
AN INSTANT CLASSIC. Down to its final out… @BeaverBaseball forces Game Three in the #CWS Finals with an incredible rally, topping Arkansas 5-3! #CWS
John Nabors ???????? on Twitter
Final out of the CWS live from JJs on Dickson. https://t.co/HUJgdC0jtc
John Nabors ???????? on Twitter
There are no words. None.
Barrett Sallee on Twitter
Current Arkansas status. #CWS https://t.co/rBFMhXtqPg
A season with strange start could end with biggest prize
In retrospect, we probably should have known Arkansas’ baseball season was going to be special back in the opener against Bucknell on February 16.
Shortstop Jax Biggers, the first batter of the season, got on base with a bunt single.
Yes, a bunt single kicked off the season. Nobody can remember that happening before.
Now, in Omaha, the Razorbacks could end the season with something they’ve never had — a national championship.
Considering the start, well, this really shouldn’t be surprising. Even the weather issues in Omaha the last couple of weeks can’t be that surprising. As Dave Van Horn has mentioned on a couple of occasions, this team has had weather issues all year.
This team has played in 60-degree weather one day, then in the 30’s the next day. Some games were colder than that.
As good as the Hogs were in Baum Stadium this year, they struggled just as much on the road. They were even swept in a road series against Mississippi State.
To be honest, this team has played better when folks were ready to throw up their hands during the season … and, yes, there were a few of those situations. Even after their three losses at home, the team always bounced back.
Van Horn knows it and he’s hoping to use that for tonight’s game.
“I just want them to come out tomorrow with the attitude that tomorrow is do or die,” he said after Tuesday night’s 4-1 win over Oregon State in the first game of the finals. “I think we play a little better that way.”
Winning that game one was strange all by itself. The Hogs had a big fifth inning that resembled several this year.
The opponent’s pitching gave Arkansas free passes via walks or hitting batters. At the plate, the Razorbacks were working the count deep. Then the other team screws something up in the field and the track meet is on.
We’ve seen that play out time and again this year.
“We put together one good inning, and they walked a couple people and got a couple of hits, hit a batter or two, and we felt like we left a couple runs out there, but it ended up holding up,” was how Van Horn summarized in his opening postgame remarks.
For a finals series that was supposed to feature a lot of hitting, the first game was the direct opposite. There wasn’t a single home run in the entire game.
That means tonight could be interesting for Hog fans. This team’s bats haven’t remained silent two games in a row very often.
If it does turn into one of those hitting festivals, Razorback fans could be celebrating late into the night with their first national championship in a major sport since 1994.
A championship season that started with a bunt.
