When Iowa Baseball (32-17-1, 21-6 Big Ten) ended its three non-conference series with the 11th Oregon State (37-12-1), in Des Moines, Iowa, the Hawkeyes and the Beavers finished their last game after the 10th inning with a score of 6-6.

Hawkeye will deploy fifth-grade left-hander Benjamin Detaeye as a third starter due to a sudden injury to the Redshirt. Although Detaeye was used as a starter at the Olympics on Wednesday, Sunday’s game was his first career in the weekend series.

DeTaeye was a great show against the Hawkeyes, hitting seven career-high hitters while allowing two runs (one not obtained) from zero hits and four walks in the five career-highest innings.

"Today, Ben Detaeye was amazing," said head coach Rick Heller. "Optimistic is that I hope to get three innings (innings). His pitching is great, we scored very early to get him to work with him."

Three other pitchers saw the Iowa mound, including Righty Brant Hogue, who beat five. While the pitchers made a total of 12 punches, the 13 free bases allowed was a worrying issue, just like the first two games of the series.

“It was a weird weekend,” Heller said. “We weren’t that team, we were walking guys and gave up on such a free base. It was just atypical, it took three of us baseball games and it also took our chances to win this victory today.”

Regarding the offense, the Hawkeyes' first lead in the series was to get two runs in the first inning, defeating Gable Mitchell's RBI singles and Caleb Wulf RBI. Iowa extended its lead to 3-0 in the second inning as Wilms turned left on a single RBI single.

Oregon State scored five runs in the sixth frame through the walk of the base and the Grand Slam on the right center wall, giving the Beaver a 5-3 advantage.

Iowa will respond immediately, reducing the lead to 5-4 at the bottom of sixth place, when Mitchell scored from third with a tough game for Kellen Strohmeyer.

When Ben Wilmes poked the first baseline to score from third place, the Hawkeyes tied the game in eighth with a score of eighth.

After two uncensored points, Oregon State took a 6-5 lead in the 10th inning with two shooting percentages. Fortunately, Jaixen Frost was able to tie the game to the left field at the bottom of the frame. Although Strohmeyer followed up with the singles, the Iowa offense couldn't bring him to score.

After the tenth ended, both teams agreed to call the game an essential travel curfew for Oregon State as the Beaver flew out of Des Moines in a commercial flight later in the evening.

Oregon, Iowa, Oregon, was 9-4, with both teams struggling with 10 runners on the base and hitting 12 times.

"We wield bats better today than yesterday. Today we still eliminate them again," Heller said.

While both shows take into account the travel conditions of the beaver, both of them moved through Sunday’s game earlier in the day, the extended extra situation event will bring a problematic time crunch for Oregon State.

"We don't have time," Heller said. "It's frustrating that we don't have the chance to play football. In baseball games, there shouldn't be a tie, but sometimes travel happens. ”

The tie was Iowa’s first game since May 1, 2002, when the Hawkeyes finished with a 1-1 win over Iowa. Ironically, current Iowa head coach Rick Heller participated in the game when he was leading the Panthers program.

Over 15,000 fans participated in the three games at the Chief Park this weekend, and the Hawkeyes thanked the turnout and support throughout the series.

"We thank the fans and thank everyone who came out and supported us," Heller said. "Most of the time, they were watching really good baseball. We were all very grateful for how many Hawk fans came out and watched us in Des Moines."

Regarding what Iowa is doing after the top ten, Iowa has only one game in the conference after three games in Illinois in Bruins (37-14, 20-7). Not far from Oregon (38-13, 19-8) is the Brown Bears, who is only two games behind.

Given the razor error mismatch, Iowa’s three-game series against Oregon will end the Big Ten regular season from May 15 to 17, which will be the program’s most influential series at Duane Banks Field in the past 35 years.

Thursday’s opener will be on TV on FS1, while the final two games will be played on Big Ten Networks. As always, the three games will be played on the Hawkeye radio network and will play sounds John Leo and color analyst John Evans.

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