Peter Aiken/Getty Images After rain pushed everything back a day, the 2018 College World Series finals finally commenced on Tuesday night, with Arkansas scoring a 4-1 victory over Oregon State. The Razorbacks are now one win away from a national title, but the Beavers are no strangers to playing with the season on the line. They lost their first game in Omaha but still managed to move on to the finals. Ahead is a look at the updated finals schedule, TV information and a few key players to watch in Game 2. 2018 College World Series Schedule Game 1: Arkansas 4, Oregon State 1 Game 2: Wednesday, June 27, 7 p.m. ET (ESPN) Game 3 (if necessary): Thursday, June 28, 6:30 p.m. ET (ESPN2) Video Play Button Videos you might like Key Players RHP Bryce Fehmel, Oregon State Nati Harnik/Associated Press Fehmel doesn't have swing-and-miss stuff (63 K in 111 IP), and he actually went undrafted earlier this month, but the junior right-hander has been a reliable No. 2 option for the Beavers all season. Over 19 starts, he's 10-1 with a 3.16 ERA and 1.09 WHIP, and he's held opposing hitters to a .237 batting average. His last start came against Mississippi State on June 22 when he allowed four hits and two earned runs in 3.2 innings. Brandon Eisert followed him with 5.1 scoreless innings of relief—allowing just one hit and one walk while striking out three—and he could once again be a factor if Fehmel fails to go deep. LHP Kacey Murphy, Arkansas Michael Woods/Associated Press After bouncing between starting and relieving as a sophomore, Murphy joined Blaine Knight in the Razorbacks' weekend rotation. The 6'0", 190-pound left-hander is 8-5 with a 3.15 ERA, 1.04 WHIP and 81 strikeouts in 97 innings, also holding opposing hitters to a lower average (.222) than the aforementioned Knight (.230). Baseball America provided the following scouting report leading up to the draft: "There's little flashy about Murphy, but he has been effective with fringe-average stuff and above-average control. Scouts like his competitiveness and his ability to get ahead of hitters. He bumps up to 90-91 mph at his best, but Murphy lives in the upper 80s with his fastball. What has made the fastball effective is its movement and his ability to locate it to both sides of the plate. The same can be said for his fringe-average changeup and curveball. Neither is particularly sharp, but he locates them well." The Detroit Tigers took him in the 11th round. RF Trevor Larnach, Oregon State Ted Kirk/Associated Press The No. 20 overall pick in this year's draft, Larnach is hitting a robust .347/.464/.649 with 19 doubles, 18 home runs and 75 RBI on the season. He's racked up 12 hits in six games at this year's College World Series, including a 2-for-4 showing with two doubles on Tuesday night. That leaves him three hits shy of the record for a single College World Series, set by USC's Jason Lane back in 1998, according to Andrew Cyr of NCAA.com. If the Beavers are going to avoid elimination, Larnach will be as important as anyone hitting in the cleanup spot between second baseman Nick Madrigal and catcher Adley Rutschman. All stats courtesy of team sites.<doc-sep>Peter Aiken/Getty Images After coming from behind to win Game 2 of the 2018 College World Series on Wednesday night, the Oregon State Beavers will look to complete the comeback and win a championship in Game 3 against the Arkansas Razorbacks on Thursday. Arkansas held a 3-2 lead in the ninth inning of Game 2 and was on the verge of a title after winning Game 1, but the Beavers showed incredible resolve by scoring three runs in the ninth and ensuring there would be a decisive contest. Here is all the information you need to watch Game 3 of the College World Series and witness a new champion of college baseball get crowned. Where: TD Ameritrade Park Omaha in Omaha, Nebraska When: Thursday, June 28 at 6:30 p.m. ET Watch: ESPN2 Video Play Button Videos you might like Live Stream: WatchESPN Arkansas Player to Watch: Isaiah Campbell Both the Razorbacks and Beavers are stacked with top-flight hitters, but the most important player in Thursday's game may be Arkansas starting pitcher Isaiah Campbell. The redshirt sophomore has had an up-and-down season with a 5-6 record and 4.12 ERA, but he is coming off a strong start. On Friday, Campbell helped eliminate the defending champion Florida Gators from the College World Series by allowing just two hits and two earned runs in 5.1 innings, while striking out eight. Campbell will pitch Thursday on full rest, while Oregon State is likely to piece the game together with multiple pitchers. Oregon State coach Pat Casey said that he is unlikely to allow any pitcher to go more than five innings and added that the bullpen will play a big role, according to Matt Jones of WholeHogSports.com. If Campbell can turn in a performance similar to what he did against Florida, it will go a long way toward giving Arkansas its first College World Series championship in school history. It won't be an easy task, though, since Oregon State had five .300 hitters in its lineup in Game 2. While the Beavers struggled to hit for much of that game, they showed in the ninth inning that they have a quick-strike offense capable of coming to life at any time. Campbell will be counted on to neutralize it, and it is easy to envision him being the biggest key to whether or not the Razorbacks win it all. Oregon State Player to Watch: Trevor Larnach After his heroics in Game 2, Oregon State right fielder Trevor Larnach will look to come through on the big stage in Game 3 of the College World Series as well. Following an RBI single by Beavers shortstop Cadyn Grenier to tie the game in the ninth, Larnach drove in the go-ahead runs with a two-run home run in Game 2: The laser of Larnach's bat barely cleared the right field wall, and it was the difference in what had been a highly competitive contest. On a team full of great hitters, Larnach is arguably Oregon State's best. This season, Larnach is hitting .348 with a team-leading 19 home runs, as well as 77 RBI. He forms a remarkable middle of the order with catcher Adley Rutschman, and is a constant source of stress for opposing pitchers with an on-base percentage of .463. The Minnesota Twins selected Larnach with the No. 20 overall pick in the first round of the 2018 MLB draft, and a big showing in Game 3 would inspire even more confidence in that pick. Campbell has been shaky at times this season, and if Larnach can rattle him early, the Beavers will have a huge advantage in the deciding game of the 2018 College World Series. Game 3 Prediction Momentum is on Oregon State's side not only because of the fact it won Game 2, but due to the manner in which it happened. Arkansas was one out away from winning the title, and if not for the Beavers getting lucky with a foul ball falling in between three Razorbacks players in the ninth inning, the College World Series would already be over. Bouncing back from that disappointment will be difficult for Arkansas, even if it may have a slight advantage on the mound due to Campbell being fresh. The Beavers have a far superior lineup, and Arkansas hasn't been potent offensively over the past few games. As long as Oregon State gets enough out of its patchwork pitching staff, it has a big edge at the plate. With Larnach and Rutschman anchoring the middle of Oregon State's lineup, look for the Beavers to power their way to their third College World Series title and first since winning back-to-back championships in 2006 and 2007. Prediction: Oregon State 6, Arkansas 2<doc-sep>FAYETTEVILLE NORTH, Neb. –– Yeah, the dateline is wrong. This was still Omaha Tuesday night. But it was an easy mistake to make, what with the “Wooooo Pig Sooie!” chants that might have carried across the river to Iowa, and the stands full of Arkansans. This is what Oregon State was up against in Game 1 of the College World Series finals: Three hours before the first pitch, the line was more than two blocks long with fans waiting to race in for the general admission seats, 90 percent of them Razorbacks from locales such as Little Rock and Fort Smith and Pine Bluff. Some of them had driven across the plains into town this very day, for this very chance. "Omahogs” is the T-shirt of choice at the moment in eastern Nebraska. By game time, the occasional clumps of Oregon State fans in TD Ameritrade Park looked like small oranges floating in a big bowl of red punch. And the Arkansas players on the field heard it all, in every corner of the stadium. Second baseman Carson Shaddy: “We all looked around at each other and it was like, this is crazy.” MORE: Live updated from the 2018 CWS finals | Bracket | Highlights and video Third baseman Casey Martin: “They were electrified. You couldn’t hear anything. I’m yelling at Biggs (shortstop Jax Biggers), he’s yelling at me. We can’t hear each other. We couldn’t even hear the ball hit the catcher’s mitt, that’s how loud it was.” Left fielder Heston Kjerstad: “I felt like we were playing (home) in Baum Stadium, just a lot bigger.” For coach Dave Van Horn, it reminded him of the home crowd roars when he led Nebraska to Omaha in 2001: “I just kept reminding our players to stay calm and save their energy. Because back in 2001, by the time the game started, our team was tired, honest to goodness, just from what was all going on.” "It felt like we were playing in Baum Stadium." - @hestonkjerstad pic.twitter.com/wILIBgtVwf — Razorback Baseball (@RazorbackBSB) June 27, 2018 This army of Hog backers, louder than the thunderstorms that have rolled through here the past week, was ready to besiege the Beavers in a deafening clamor, if given half a chance. For nearly four innings, there wasn’t one, with Arkansas’ bats and its crowd muted by Luke Heimlich’s pitching. A Razorback team that had not trailed at the end of a single inning in this College World Series was behind 1-0. And then the bottom of the fourth inning changed everything. Changed the game. Maybe the finals. It's never good news when an umpire is included in such a paragraph. Oregon State had a run taken away by an iffy runner interference call. Adley Rutschman was ruled to have interfered on a turn at second base, even though on replays, it sure looked as if he had ducked early to get out of the way. Could have been 2-0. But wasn’t. “It appeared Rutsch was doing everything he could to get out of the way. The ball left the guy’s hands. They weren’t near one another,” Oregon State coach Pat Casey said later. “Everybody can look at the tape and decide for themselves what to think.” For Arkansas, the vanishing Oregon State run was like second wind. In the top of the fifth, the rally started, the clamor from the stands grew — and grew, and grew — and Heimlich suddenly could not find the plate. Or as Shaddy said, “All hell broke loose.” RELATED: This stat gives Arkansas the CWS advantage | 9 things to know about the series Pretty soon, it was 4-1. Pretty soon, that Oregon State offensive machine that rolled up 48 runs in this CWS had stalled against Blaine Knight and the bullpen. Pretty soon, the Razorbacks were doing things like first baseman Jared Gates laying out on the dirt track near the dugout to catch a foul pop. Or Grant Koch, 1-for-11 in the CWS, driving in the tying run. Pretty soon Nick Madrigal was hitting a two-out screamer with two Beavers on base – directly into the glove of Shaddy. Karma was wearing a Omahog shirt. And the crowd was there to push it along. Shaddy: “Every player and everybody in the stadium was on the same page today. We all have one heart. What they were doing was incredible. They never shut up the whole entire game. It’s hard to play against.” Koch: “You don’t really think about it a lot, but there’s definitely times when the momentum shifts and you can feel it and you know that there’s a lot of Razorback fans that want you to win. I think that’s what we’re playing for.” Knight: “I know that’s what I was feeding off of during the game, and I’m sure the other guys were, too.” Right fielder Eric Cole: “It’s a really big deal. I feel like we’re probably not in the position we are right now without a lot of our fans being there.” The game ended with same 4-1 score. Arkansas had only five hits — four fewer than Oregon State — and struck out 16 times, including being blown away 11 times in 4.2 innings by reliever Christian Chamberlain. But they still won, and went to bed in this best-of-three series telling themselves not to think too far ahead. But fact is fact; game 1 victors have gone on to take the championship 73 percent of the time. But Koch mentioned, “After the game, coach’s immediate message was we have a lot of work to do and there’s a lot of unfinished business and we’ve got to come out tomorrow with a sense of urgency for sure. “He didn’t even really have to say it.” RELATED: Hogs' freshmen duo have one goal this series | OSU riding Rutschman's hot bat And Knight called it, “just a little small taste of whatever, we’ve got to flush it by tomorrow morning.” And Van Horn warned, “Take it to them. Don’t wait for something to happen. Don’t lay around in bed tonight thinking, oh, one more game, because that game will never happen if you think like that.” On the other side, Trevor Larnach presented Oregon State’s intentions. “Just wipe it, and move on.” One good tiding for the Beavers. They’re 4-0 here in elimination games. Wednesday night, they face another one – and the Arkansas masses surely to come with it.<doc-sep>
Peter Aiken/Getty Images An excellent start from ace Blaine Knight and a four-run top of the fifth inning gave Arkansas a 4-1 victory over Oregon State on Tuesday night in Game 1 of the 2018 College World Series finals. Now the Beavers will look to even the score on Wednesday night to force a decisive Game 3 with the national championship on the line. Ahead is a look at the TV schedule for this year's finals, along with some analysis and a predicted winner for Game 2 of the best-of-three series. 2018 College World Series Schedule Game 1: Arkansas 4, Oregon State 1 Game 2: Wednesday, June 27, 7 p.m. ET (ESPN) Game 3 (if necessary): Thursday, June 28, 6:30 p.m. ET (ESPN2) Video Play Button Videos you might like Game 2 Analysis and Pick Nati Harnik/Associated Press Arkansas did not have an extra-base hit during the decisive fifth inning on Tuesday night, as they sent 10 batters to the plate and recorded two singles, two walks, two hit by pitches and a fielder's choice to seize control of the game. For an offense that has relied heavily on the long ball this season, that ability to go station to station to break the game open makes them that much scarier. Meanwhile, the Oregon State offense actually had the advantage in hits (9-5), but they just weren't able to deliver any of those base runners after scoring a single run in the bottom of the second inning. At any rate, both of these offenses are still capable of catching fire at any point, so don't be surprised if we see a few more fireworks at the plate in Game 2. As for the pitching matchup, Game 2 will feature two of the most underrated pitchers in the country. Left-hander Kacey Murphy will get the start for Arkansas. Nati Harnik/Associated Press The 6'0", 190-pound junior is 8-5 with a 3.15 ERA and 81 strikeouts in 97 innings on the year, and he was an 11th-round pick by the Detroit Tigers. His opponents' batting average (.222) is better than Knight's (.230). Barrett Loseke (2.0 IP, 2 H, 0 ER, 22 pitches) and closer Matt Cronin (1.0 IP, 0 H, 0 ER, 15 pitches) were efficient in relief of Knight in Game 1, so they should both available if needed on Wednesday. On the other side, Bryce Fehmel will get the start for Oregon State The junior right-hander went undrafted, meaning he'll return to campus for his senior season when he will likely take over as the Friday night starter. He doesn't light up the radar gun, and he's fanned just 63 batters in 111 innings, but his 10-1 record and 3.16 ERA has made him a consistent No. 2 option all season behind ace Luke Heimlich. Christian Chamberlain pitched 4.2 innings in relief of Heimlich on Tuesday, racking up 11 strikeouts to go along with five walks. He'll no doubt be unavailable after throwing 94 pitches, but everyone else in the Beavers' bullpen is rested. Oregon State lost their first Super Regionals game and battled back to reach the finals, so they're no stranger to stepping up with the season on the line. We'll say Fehmel outduels Murphy and the Beavers offense makes good on a few more of their opportunities this time around to even the series and force Game 3. Stats courtesy of team sites.