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

[BugsyCT]

Can’t waste opportunities. Keep clearing the bases.

 

[BugsyCT]

Stay patient at the plate for each bat.

 

[lavuuk153]

Walk to Simmons loads the bases with 1 out for Donlan.

 

[AzHusky]

ump has an interesting strike zone

 

[businesslawyer]

7 batters: 2 doubles, one out, 4 free 90s. A chance to really open it up now, but at least get me the 4th Matt D.

 

[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