Men 2022 UConn Baseball @ NCAA Tournament’s Palo Alto, CA. Super-Regional vs #2 Stanford

[dbmill]

Top 1st, Padilla double (outfielder almost caught it) puts runners on 2nd and 3rd with no outs. Simmons walks to load the bases with 1 out. Double play ends the inning. 3-0 UConn.

Said it before, but my key to the game for UConn is to get some quality innings out of the starter Ian Cooke.

 

[Bomber36]

Ouch.

 

[huskymedic]

Top 1st, with the bases loaded, Huber drives in 3 runs with a double with no outs. 3-0 UConn. Pitching change.

 

[uconnbaseball]

Crushing there. Cookie gotta go out and get momentum back.

 

[BugsyCT]

Dang it. Golden opportunity for a lot more there.

 

[Tenspro2002]

Needed more than that.

 

[lavuuk153]

UConn gets 3 runs but Stanford gets a boost by getting out of the jam. We need a shut down inning here.

 

[superjohn]

Ugh, really bad end to the inning. Morton swings at ball 4, Simmons gets the walk to load the bases, and Donlan hits into the the double play. Should have been a 5 or 6 run inning, had to get the one run across for a 4 run inning.

 

[businesslawyer]

Potential great start turned into a really good one. O.K. we gave Ian a bit of room to relax and already blew through their first pitcher. One pitch at a time. And no free 90s -- make them beat us.

 

[ATLDYKA]

Fair enough, and maybe it's a few guys that help with that high walk total. However, we do have a few guys that swing at a lot of pitches out of the zone (i.e. Morton/Donlan) who I would like to see a little more patient.

There's my case in point on both Morton and Donlan. Morton pops up on a 3-1 pitch that would have been ball 4. Donlan grounds into DP on pitch well out of strike zone. Need to be more disciplined. Should have been a lot bigger inning.

 

[superjohn]

Dana is horrible in the field.

 

[lavuuk153]

More adventures in RF…

 

[Bomber36]

What is with Dana out there?

 

[dbmill]

Bottom 1st, a Dana error on a leadoff single puts a Stanford runner at 2B. A 1 out sac fly makes the score 3-1. A walk followed by an rbi double makes the score 3-2 with 2 outs.

 

[HuskyHawk]

Damn. Way to let them right back in it.

 

[AzHusky]

Do they pitch to this guy?

 

[ATLDYKA]

What is with Dana out there?

This one is on Pender's. Dana is mentally shot in the field right now. No reason to not have Morton out there instead.

 

[dbmill]

Bottom 1st, a fly out ends the inning leaving the runner at 2B. 3-2 UConn.

 

[Tenspro2002]

Really needed this to be like 5-1 right now.

 

[UConnRock]

This is going to be a 5+ hour game with the tight strike zone from this umpire

 

[FfldCntyFan]

We're going to need quite a few runs this game. Let's get another three or four now.

 

[Bomber36]

Bowser has a lot of bite. Almost poked that one out.

 

[BugsyCT]

Actually glad we got out of that 1st with the lead despite the mistakes.

 

[FfldCntyFan]

I think the best way to have some success pitching to them is to be around the zone (without grooving it) while changing speeds. Pitch to contact without allowing them to tee up.

I know, that's a lot easier said than done.

 

[metsfan2323]

This is going to be a 5+ hour game with the tight strike zone from this umpire

I actually think the home plate ump is calling a good game. By my count he has only blown one call (the first strike to Simmons). The idiot announcer is making it seem like everything close should be called a strike.

 

[dbmill]

Top 2nd, Stock with a 2 out double, but nothing comes of it. 3-2 UConn.

 

[huskymedic]

Top 2nd, Stock with a 2 out double, but nothing comes of it. 3-2 UConn.

 

[businesslawyer]

Need Cooke to give us one good inning here. Hopefully, he can keep folks from hitting to Dana.

 

[Jimdish255]

We're going to need a lot of runs today to keep pace.

 

[dbmill]

Bottom 2nd, Coe in to pitch for UConn. Figure Coe and Kirby will need to throw multiple innings today.