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

[huskymedic]

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.

 

[uconnbaseball]

Xavier gets 1 back with another solo shot, 5-2 Xavier.

 

[uconnbaseball]

Morton and Smith lead off with back to back doubles. 5-3 Xavier in the 3rd inning.

ALBINO RHINO TIES THE GAME UP WITH A BOMB! 5-5! We are now into the Xavier pen. That's all for the UConn offense despite some very hard contact (including a double by Broadhurst). Xavier has been excellent defensively this series much like we have. High level baseball.

 

[Hookknows]

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

Morton and Smith lead off with back to back doubles. 5-3 Xavier in the 3rd inning.

ALBINO RHINO TIES THE GAME UP WITH A BOMB! 5-5!

Way to start it Korey Morton! Smitty, Huber… need you all in!!

 

[huskymedic]

Home Run Derby…

 

[uconnbaseball]

Sully issues a leadoff walk in the bottom of the 3rd. Penders takes him out in favor of Coe.

Coe picks off the leadoff runner. Nice.

Solo shot for Xavier and they lead again 6-5. 6 home runs combined for both teams and we're not out of the 3rd inning.

Coe retires the next two hitters easily. 6-5 Xavier going to the 4th.

 

[huskymedic]

ALBINO RHINO TIES THE GAME UP WITH A BOMB! 5-5! We are now into the Xavier pen. That's all for the UConn offense despite some very hard contact (including a double by Broadhurst). Xavier has been excellent defensively this series much like we have. High level baseball.

 

[huskymedic]

That escalated quickly…

 

[huskymedic]

 

[uconnbaseball]

Nice rally. Xavier gets one back in the bottom of the inning though. Have to hold them here.

 

[huskymedic]

 

[Hookknows]

15-8 … Xavier picks up some more. 21 hits season high for Xavier.

 

[scotty0330]

Can you imagine if LSU played in this park? They would go for 30

 

[Bomber36]

As ugly as it can get.

 

[Steve UConn72]

Can you imagine if LSU played in this park? They would go for 30

According to the Google machine, JO Christian field (UConn's home field from 1968 until a couple years ago) had outfield dimensions of 340 - 370 - 405 - 370 - 340. I'm not sure it those were the distances when it was built or after it was "expanded" in 1993, but those are decent numbers in this day of aluminum/composite bats. This field (and Georgetown's, among others) is a joke. True, a joke for both sides, but these are beer league softball scores. In my rapidly aging brain, I seem to recall that JO's left and right field were 330 back around 1970.

 

[Bomber36]

According to the Google machine, JO Christian field (UConn's home field from 1968 until a couple years ago) had outfield dimensions of 340 - 370 - 405 - 370 - 340. I'm not sure it those were the distances when it was built or after it was "expanded" in 1993, but those are decent numbers in this day of aluminum/composite bats. This field (and Georgetown's, among others) is a joke. True, a joke for both sides, but these are beer league softball scores. In my rapidly aging brain, I seem to recall that JO's left and right field were 330 back around 1970.

There should be minimums…there is no need to play in High school ballparks. It makes the game look silly. Our pitching didn’t help today.

 

[Hookknows]

 

[huskymedic]

 

[ATLDYKA]

Bottom line is both teams play on the same field. Their defense was great today and ours not so much.

 

[Hookknows]

Bottom line is both teams play on the same field. Their defense was great today and ours not so much.

Yes I believe 3 errors with extra bases in their. (Rbi’s)

 

[Steve UConn72]

There should be minimums…there is no need to play in High school ballparks. It makes the game look silly. Our pitching didn’t help today.

Agreed, especially for schools (or other venues) that want to host regionals. Pick a number - 330 down the line(s), say - and include the height of the fence if need be. So a 315 foul line and an 8' (= 323 feet for those of you without your pocket calculators) fence wouldn't qualify, unless they put a temporary extension on the fence for the regional. I didn't see any of today's game except a few highlights here, but I did see the replay of David Smith's opposite field homer. It looked like he lunged at a pitch that was a little outside and still poked it over the fence in straightaway left (330-ish)?

 

[huskymedic]

 

[huskymedic]

 

[Bomber36]

Sigh…UConn goes up 2-0 But Xavier answers with 4 of their own and still no outs in the bottom of the 2nd.UConn gets out of the inning with no further damage…4-2 X.

 

[Bomber36]

Both teams taking advantage of the bandbox. Hubers 3 run homer makes it 5-4 UConn.