Men 2022 UConn Baseball @ NCAA Tournament’s College Park Regional (6/3> 6/6). Winner Take All - Monday 6/6 @7p v. Maryland on ESPNU. Audio Mixlr/97-9 ESPN

[uconnbaseball]

Bottom 9th, don't get scared now. Shut them down.

 

[dbmill]

8-7 UConn going to the bottom of the 9th. Willis to go for the save.

 

[WrenchFan69]

Need a heroic performance here. Hope the kid's up for it

 

[lavuuk153]

Got the first guy.

 

[lavuuk153]

Got the second.

 

[dbmill]

Bottom 9th, Willis with a 1-2-3 inning. UConn gets the 8-7 win, and the Huskies advance into the winners bracket.

 

[huskymedic]

 

[lavuuk153]

Got the third!!!

 

[JeannoCT]

Yes!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Kemba Time]

Winners bracket!! This team has so much heart to give up a lead like that and just go right back out there with an answer.

 

[Tmill15]

LETS GOOOOOO

 

[huskymedic]

 

[lavuuk153]

Games like this make me wonder why I do this to myself

 

[Steve UConn72]

Had 'em all the way!

 

[huskypantz]

Cardiac kids today

 

[Bomber36]

 

[HuskyGooner124]

A bit nervy but lets goooo!!

 

[HuskyHawk]

Wow. They made that a lot more interesting than I wanted it to be. Great win.

 

[FfldCntyFan]

I doubt this is the case but I would love it if LIU has one stud starting pitcher and not much else.

 

[Kemba Time]

I doubt this is the case but I would love it if LIU has one stud starting pitcher and not much else.

That’s actually almost exactly what they have.

 

[uconnbaseball]

The downside is, we nearly choked the game away, with bullpen guys we thought we could rely on (besides Willis).

On the plus side, not only did we beat Wake Forest, we looked like the clearly superior team throughout most of the day. We hit the ball harder, struck out a lot less...we look like a team that can make a deep run if we can get out of our own way. LIU can help us with that tonight.

 

[CL82]

One down.

 

[FfldCntyFan]

That’s actually almost exactly what they have.

In a perfect world he'll pitch a gem as they upset Maryland, they wont put up a lot of resistance tomorrow and Sunday (perhaps also Monday) we'll just need one win against the fourth starter (or if neccessary, the fifth) on either Wake or MD.

 

[HCCForever]

Games like this make me wonder why I do this to myself

No kidding, too much angina today. I almost resorted to reading about it before watching it on the stream to minimize the stress. But I watched.

 

[huskymedic]

 

[JeannoCT]

Games like this make me wonder why I do this to myself

EXACTLY!

 

[JeannoCT]

I had to go out, so I listened to Crispino - ugh. I was probably the only person who was fist-pumping and clapping while I was driving. Sooooo glad they pulled it out. It would have been a devastating loss.

 

[navery12]

I knew the game was getting tied as soon as their CF made that leaping catch, could feel the momentum swing there.

Glad to see Huber make up for the absolutely brutal decision by Penders with Dana's AB though. Being on the winner's side is the 1st step to winning this regional

 

[huskymedic]

 

[businesslawyer]

Great effort by the team, overcoming a Devo meltdown (which was shocking coming off the week he had last week but it's pitching). And great effort to overcome two absurd decisions by Penders: bunting Dana with no outs and 2 on in the 9th, and leaving Kirby in to face the lefty after he'd already given up three hits that inning (and would have given up 4 but for an outstanding play by Bushling at 3rd). Frankly, Penders is lucky Dana didn't hit him over the head with the bat and then hit away.

We'll face another stud tomorrow as MD is holding their ace back. But Gallagher has had a year almost as good as AP's, and the one thing about the region -- WFU and UMD might both be better than us on the computers, and certainly have played harder schedules, but we're the only team there that is used to playing NCAA tourney games.