Men #25 UConn @ Kent State Golden Flashes (Fri. 4/1/22 @3p, Sat. 4/2/22 @1p & Sun. 4/3/22 @ 1p). Games streamed on KSU BoxCast and UConn Audio on Mixlr.

[huskymedic]

Bottom 6th, O'Donnell leaves the game with a runner at 1B after a single and 1 out. Garrett Coe coming in to pitch. Coe walks a batter, but ends up with a scoreless inning for UConn pitching. 4-3 UConn.

 

[uconnbaseball]

Bats quiet again.

 

[dbmill]

Top 7th, Fedko with a leadoff walk, Morton pinch runs, but is thrown out trying to steal for the first time this season, and for that matter, in his UConn career.

Fedko is not hitting for a high average so far this season, but he gets more than his fair share of walks, so his on base percentage is in fine shape.

UConn offense with a scoreless inning. 4-3 UConn.

 

[dbmill]

Bottom 7th, Coe walks the leadoff batter, Chudoba coming in to pitch. First batter Chudoba faces gets a single to put runners on the corners with no outs. Donlan throws out a base stealer at 2B for the second out, but the runner from 3B comes in to score on the play. Game tied at 4.

 

[dbmill]

Top 8th, UConn goes down in order.

Jack Sullivan coming in to pitch for UConn.

 

[dbmill]

Bottom 8th, a single followed by a hit and run single puts runners on the corners with 1 out. Squeeze bunt for a single brings in a run to make it 5-4 Kent State. Sullivan gets the final 2 outs with no more runs coming in.

 

[dbmill]

Top 9th, UConn goes down in order, and take a 5-4 loss.

 

[Bomber36]

 

[ThetaZoo]

Top 9th, UConn goes down in order, and take a 5-4 loss.

With a 1 run lead in the 7th, and the first batter aboard on a walk you then think you need to send him? Another little league play by Penders.

 

[huskymedic]

Huskies started the weekend series w/ an RPI of 55 and it’s currently sitting @ 46.

Kent State went from 153 to 131.

 

[Skiblets]

Not a great week.

 

[huskymedic]

 

[dbmill]

Coach Penders says Kent State executed plays late in the game better than UConn did.

 

[Fantana]

Surprised he was not more disappointed in at bats. Sundays have not been days of offensive explosion yet you are almost always facing teams third best starter….they mash the better pitchers and struggle on sundays. Won the weekend…but these are not RPI jumpers. Need some 8-9 run games on these days to turn 2/3 to sweeps…

 

[Viet Vet]

Bullpen fails to execute.

 

[huskymedic]

 

[Pudge]

UCSD and Kent seemed similar to me - of course, both had me glancing at the real Live Stats batter to batter. Kent didn't seem to overwhelm us with great pitching far deep onto their staff. (UCSD did) Kent had a bunch of gritty batters 1 through 9 and we didn't get the outs we needed; then ... Kent got timely plays to get the needed run across. We really aren't tough in these third games of the trip late. And we have too many of our important hitters not showing up in later innings. We are starting to weed out the pitching bullpen as to who is absolutely reliable. I think our BE conference will not be a great test week after week. We need to get better.

 

[uconnbaseball]

UC San Diego just won a road series at LBSU. Kent won at Coastal Carolina earlier this year. All 6 of those games were on the road and we took both series.

I am fine with those results. Going 2-2 vs BC and URI (with 3 being home games) concerns me far more.

 

[dbmill]

UC San Diego just won a road series at LBSU. Kent won at Coastal Carolina earlier this year. All 6 of those games were on the road and we took both series.

I am fine with those results. Going 2-2 vs BC and URI (with 3 being home games) concerns me far more.

UConn has another game with BC later in about 2 weeks. Currently BC is in the top 100 RPI, and that game is at BC, so should UConn win that one, that should be a nice resume boost. Whatever the case, the BC game will not be an easy game.

UConn currently has 8 games left on its schedule against teams in the top 100 RPI, including Big East weekend series against Xavier and Creighton. Yale is currently sitting at 100 in the RPI.