Men #20 UConn @ Xavier University Musketeers (Friday 4/14/23 @3p & Saturday 4/15/23 Doubleheader @ Noon). Games on FloSports & Mixlr.

[dbmill]

Bottom 9th, a fly out for the 2nd out moves the runner to 3B. Willis gets a strikeout for the final out, Willis gets the save, and UConn the 7-6 win.

A little bonus, a quick game.

 

[Bomber36]

Good win.

 

[MarkyMark]

What a win. Bullpen held up in a batter-friendly park. Great win.

 

[navery12]

14 in the 8 home games before today. So 1.75 HRs per game at home and 1.6 HRs per game on the road. And I believe they hit 2 more today so right on pace

 

[Bomber36]

One thing that would be easy to do is add up runs scored at home versus runs scored on the road or at neutral sites.

I counted 37 HRs on the road for Xavier…they’ve played on the road a lot.(go here and then click game by game)

2023 Baseball Cumulative Statistics

The official 2023 Baseball cumulative statistics for the Xavier University Musketeers

goxavier.com

 

[Viet Vet]

What a win. Bullpen held up in a batter-friendly park. Great win.

First game win on a three-game road trip is huge. Get a good night’s sleep, boys, for tomorrow’s twin bill.

 

[hardcorehusky]

This win is UConn baseball personified. Great job. Let's get them tomorrow!

 

[businesslawyer]

Huge win. Huge for the Big East regular season championship and huge for this five game swing against good teams that will determine if we have any chance of hosting a regional.

 

[ATLDYKA]

Fogell is becoming a real weapon for us. Has the trust of the coaching staff.

 

[uconnbaseball]

Arguably the best win of the year. Getting one tomorrow puts us in great shape the rest of the way.

 

[huskymedic]

 

[huskymedic]

 

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[Hookknows]

Good win Huskies! All in! Team Win!

 

[blackuc]

Sean Miller is a cheating

 

[Sleepy]

Sean Miller is a cheating

Scumbag? Why, yes he is!

 

[Hookknows]

Coach Billy O’Conner from Xavier interview-

 

[MarkyMark]

Wouldn't mind seeing Tammaro get a chance to play at 2B today. Alazaus is a lefty so Tammaro will start but I'd start him in both games. Always seems to do something good when he plays. Daniels struggling a bit maybe off until Tuesday would help. Seems like he's trying to not get behind in counts thus being aggressive early. But you risk widening the zone too much. He's cut down on the strikeouts but perhaps at the expense of seeing more quality pitches. So it's a balancing act. He'll be fine but maybe change it up with Tammaro. Small sample size but makes contact, gets on base, and can run.

 

[huskymedic]

 

[dbmill]

Wouldn't mind seeing Tammaro get a chance to play at 2B today. Alazaus is a lefty so Tammaro will start but I'd start him in both games. Always seems to do something good when he plays. Daniels struggling a bit maybe off until Tuesday would help. Seems like he's trying to not get behind in counts thus being aggressive early. But you risk widening the zone too much. He's cut down on the strikeouts but perhaps at the expense of seeing more quality pitches. So it's a balancing act. He'll be fine but maybe change it up with Tammaro. Small sample size but makes contact, gets on base, and can run.

I'm sure Daniels and Tammaro will continue to split time at 2B, plus get a little time spelling either Padilla and Freeberger when the situation calls for it. We'll see what happens when T.C. Simmons is ready to come back, at this point who knows when that will be.

 

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[uconnbaseball]

Offense goes down 1-2-3 in the first.

Crowd sounds pretty energized for Xavier.

 

[uconnbaseball]

Leadoff solo shot for Xavier.

This could be a long game. Xavier with 3 straight hits to start the game, all hard contact.

4-0 Xavier now after a home run, still in the 1st. Xavier's batter just flipped his bat towards the UConn dugout. Not sure how dbmill handles these types of games as well as he does, but my patience is being tested.

 

[uconnbaseball]

Padilla hits a 2 run bomb (without a bat flip!) to cut the lead in half in the top of the 2nd. Oh my gosh, here we go again with Xavier.