OMAHA, Neb. – Arizona's College World Series game against Oklahoma State is slated to start at 6:25 p.m., Tucson time, after a lengthy weather delay.
The game was supposed to begin at 4:04, so the delay will be two hours and 21 minutes. Lightning in the area caused the delay. It has rained only intermittently.
Junior right-hander Bobby Dalbec will start for the Wildcats once the game gets underway.
Dalbec pitched 8 2/3 shutout innings in the UA’s 1-0 victory over Mississippi State in the Starkville Super Regional on June 10. Dalbec, taken by the Boston Red Sox in the fourth round of the 2016 MLB draft as a third baseman, has a 10-4 record with a 2.92 ERA.
Dalbec spent most of the regular season as a reliever, accumulating a team-high seven saves. But he started in the Lafayette Regional, against Sam Houston State, and again in the Super Regional, winning both games.
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Oklahoma State will start junior right-hander Tyler Buffett, who, like Dalbec, began the season as a reliever. Buffett is 8-3 with a 3.15 ERA and nine saves. The Houston Astros selected Buffett in the seventh round of the draft.
The loser will face UC Santa Barbara, which eliminated No. 3 seed Miami by a score of 5-3 in a game earlier Monday that also was delayed by rain. The winner will be off until Friday and will face the winner of Wednesday’s elimination game.
Here's Arizona's lineup:
- 2B Cody Ramer
- RF Zach Gibbons
- 1B Ryan Aguilar
- DH JJ Matijevic
- LF Alfonso Rivas III
- 3B Kyle Lewis
- C Cesar Salazar
- CF Jared Oliva
- SS Louis Boyd
