#18 UConn v. Houston (*Dbl Header* on Fri. 5/11 @3p & 7p @Dunkin Donut Park & Sun. 5/13 @11a @J.O.C) | Page 4 | The Boneyard

#18 UConn v. Houston (*Dbl Header* on Fri. 5/11 @3p & 7p @Dunkin Donut Park & Sun. 5/13 @11a @J.O.C)

Top 8th, we have another Avery Santos sighting, now in to pitch.
 
Top 8th inning sac fly brings in a run to make it 8-1 Houston.
 
I'm guessing we will have a Joe Rivera sighting in the top of the 9th. What I really want to see is a Tim Cate sighting on Sunday.

Nope, Santos stays in for the 9th.
 
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That was almost as painful as the near 6 1/2 hour drive home from Philly today (thankful for WHUS app).

Old fashioned kicking.
 
Houston getting off to good start in top of 1st inning in game 2 let the air out of everything after the way the 1st game went down, When score was 6-1, it felt like it was 16-1.... Was bound to run out of late inning heroics & did in the 1st game. Gotta get game on Sunday to at least stabilize things going into next weekend......
 
Joe Davis kicked UConn's tonight - in both games
Should have walked him intentionally a few times
UConn hitters helped by chasing some bad pitches
Just a bad night overall
Too bad
 
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Unfortunately

That first UConn Houston game was one of the best sporting events this year for UConn fans. Tight. Well played and pitched. Two damn good teams. Saw it with a crowd I could have counted. Unfortunately ... 3400 saw the second runaway.
 
AAC Standings after yesterday's struggle:

AAC standings.jpg


UConn RPI is @ #18 (from 16)
Houston RPI up to #51 (from 60)
 
Current RPI for all AAC teams, per the Warren Nolan website, which has 8 teams in the RPI top 90:

51 - Houston
16 - East Carolina
27 - South Florida
89 - Cincinnati
18 - Connecticut
26 - Central Florida
78 - Tulane
25 - Wichita State
184 - Memphis

American Athletic Conference Standings 2018 College Baseball - WarrenNolan.com

Chris Jones was speculating last night that with Houston winning this series that they are in pretty good shape for an at large bid, also thought it was possible that 5 or 6 teams could make it to the NCAA tourney. 6 might be a bit much, but at this point 5 would not be a big surprise to me. It is just a tough conference.
 
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D1Baseball's take on Houston:

>>Kendall Rogers’ Five


1. Houston clinches share of American regular season title
The Cougars are one of several teams where you’re spending half the day trying to figure out how their RPI is so low. After all, they entered Friday leading the American, which is one of the nation’s better RPI conferences. Well, despite having an iffy RPI on Friday, the Cougars made yet another statement by clinching a share of the conference title with a doubleheader sweep of red-hot Connecticut, 6-5 and 10-1.<<

D1 Digest: Friday, May 11 | D1Baseball.com
 
Pudge said:
Unfortunately
That first UConn Houston game was one of the best sporting events this year for UConn fans. Tight. Well played and pitched. Two damn good teams. Saw it with a crowd I could have counted. Unfortunately ... 3400 saw the second runaway.
Expand ...
The second game was my 1st UConn baseball game. I'm gonna put a line through it.
 
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Houston playing to clinch an outright AAC title today with still a weekend of play left. Houston might be a tough out today.
 
Chris Jones says Chase Gardner is back to full health after almost missing last week's start. Hopefully he'll pitch that way as well.
 
Top 1st, Chase Gardner leaves the bases loaded with no one scoring. 26 pitches for Gardner that inning. UConn coming to bat.
 
Huge top of the first. Don't care too much about the pitch count with the quality arms that we have available in the back end of the bullpen.
 
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