{"id":312144,"date":"2026-05-12T16:28:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T16:28:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/312144\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T16:28:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T16:28:18","slug":"oregon-state-bounce-back-in-national-baseball-rankings-after-long-beach-sweep-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/312144\/","title":{"rendered":"Oregon State Bounce Back in National Baseball Rankings After Long Beach Sweep"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While the Beavers saw a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/college\/oregon-state\/baseball\/oregon-state-baseball-dips-in-national-rankings-with-eight-games-left\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">slight dip<\/a> in the major college baseball polls last week, they managed to rebound with four consecutive wins: one against Portland in Hillsboro and three at Long Beach State. <\/p>\n<p>While Oregon State&#8217;s RPI ranking is right on the edge of where they would like to be, they find themselves inside the top eight in the other polls in the May 11 reveals.<\/p>\n<p>D1Baseball.com: Current Rank &#8211; No. 7, Previous Rank &#8211; No. 10<br \/>Baseball America: Current Rank &#8211; No. 7, Previous Rank &#8211; No. 7<br \/>National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association: Current Rank &#8211; No. 6, Previous Rank &#8211; No. 7<br \/>RPI: Current Rank &#8211; No. 16, Previous Rank &#8211; No. 14<br \/>USA Today Coaches Poll: Current Rank &#8211; No. 7, Previous Rank &#8211; No. 8<\/p>\n<p>Beginning this postseason, the NCAA tournament selection committee will rank the top 32 teams, not just the 16 regional hosts. Seeds 17-32 will be slotted into regionals based on that ranking: teams 29-32 will be paired with the top four national seeds, 25-28 with seeds 5-8, 21-24 with seeds 9-12 and 17-20 with seeds 13-16. Oregon State are seeking to host their 14th regional as they seek a return trip to the College World Series in Omaha.<\/p>\n<p>The Beavers are 40-11 on the season after their sweep of Long Beach State. OSU have now won 40 games in five consecutive seasons. This week, they&#8217;ll look to bolster their NCAA Tournament resume with another game against the the Portland Pilots on Tuesday May 12 at Goss Stadium. First pitch of that contest is scheduled for 5:35 p.m. PT on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cwtv.com\/channels\/?channel=pac-12-insider\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Portland&#8217;s CW<\/a>. The Beavers and Pilots split their first two games this season.<\/p>\n<p>Mitch Canham&#8217;s pitching staff enters Tuesday&#8217;s game allowing 3.7 runs per game, tied with UCLA with the fewest nationally.<\/p>\n<p>Oregon State&#8217;s regular season concludes this weekend in Corvallis with a three-game series against the Air Force Academy., starting Friday evening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While the Beavers saw a slight dip in the major college baseball polls last week, they managed to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":312145,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-312144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=312144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312144\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/312145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}