Men #25 UConn vs. St John Red Storm @ Eliot Ballpark (Fri. 4/8/22 @6:05p, Sat. 4/9/22 @4:05 & Sun. 4/10/22 @1:05) Streamed on FloSports/Audio on Mixlr.

[Tmill15]

5 RBIs for Donlan today!

 

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Bottom 5th, Morton with a 1 out rbi double, 9-1 UConn.

 

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Top 6th, Peterson retires the side in order, that's 11 in a row for him. Peterson with 6 strikeouts on the night, he is at 81 pitches.

 

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Bottom 6th, UConn goes down in order.

Top 7th, Hector Alejandro in to pitch for UConn.

 

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Top 7th, Alejandro gives up a 2 out solo homer, 9-2 UConn.

 

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Bottom 7th, Smith with a 1 out single that brings in 2 more runs as St.John's throws the ball away. Smith ends up at 3B. 11-2 UConn. Simmons with an rbi ground out makes it 12-2 UConn.

 

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Top 8th, a 1 out grand slam for St. John's, 12-6 is the score. Alejandro coming out, Sam Favieri coming in to pitch.

 

[uconnbaseball]

Grand slam makes the score less pretty, but all we need to do here is throw strikes and not make errors and we're fine.

 

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Top 8th, Favieri walks the first batter he faces, next batter singles. Brendan O'Donnell coming in to pitch.

UConn had the big lead, which allowed Alejandro and Favieri to come in. They had a bad time of it, so now we're starting to see someone we are used to seeing out of the pen on a somewhat regular basis. Chris Jones says the next 3 batters up for St. John's are lefty hitters, which is made to order for O'Donnell.

O'Donnell with 2 strikeouts to strand two runners on base. 12-6 UConn.

 

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Bottom 8th, UConn offense strands 2 runners in scoring position.

 

[uconnbaseball]

Wouldnt mind seeing Wang in a low pressure situation here…

 

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Top 9th, O'Donnell gets the first out. Brady Afthim coming in to pitch.

 

[uconnbaseball]

O’Donnell should be a doctor because the prescription for agita worked.

 

[Skiblets]

Bats were quiet second half of the game

 

[dbmill]

Bats were quiet second half of the game

UConn scored 3 runs in the 7th, that doesn't seem all that quiet in a game where they scored 12.

 

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Top 9th, a 2 out rbi double off of Afthim makes the score 12-7.

 

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Afthim gets a strikeout for the final out, UConn wins 12-7.

 

[Tmill15]

It wasn’t pretty by any means but UConn grabs the series opening win!!

 

[Viet Vet]

When we left the AAC for The Big East I loved the move, but said the one sport whose competition would be downgraded was baseball. Sadly, it's worse than I anticipated. Big East baseball is awful.

 

[huskymedic]

 

[huskymedic]

No. 25 HookC Takes Series Opener vs. St. John's, 12-7 - University of Connecticut Athletics

STORRS, Conn. – The No. 25 UConn baseball team (22-7, 1-0 BIG EAST) opened its series against St. Johns with a 12-7 on Friday night at Elliot Ballpark.

uconnhuskies.com

 

[gtcam]

When we left the AAC for The Big East I loved the move, but said the one sport whose competition would be downgraded was baseball. Sadly, it's worse than I anticipated. Big East baseball is awful.

AAC baseball was so tough and enjoyable to watch
I will miss that

 

[huskymedic]

 

[huskypantz]

When we left the AAC for The Big East I loved the move, but said the one sport whose competition would be downgraded was baseball. Sadly, it's worse than I anticipated. Big East baseball is awful.

I thought soccer would be similar but the BE seems to be holding their own there (and we need to step up).

 

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Coach Penders says Hector Alejandro was really good the first inning he was in, not so good the second. Sam Favieri gave up the leadoff walk, which probably sealed his fate for that game. On the other hand, Brendan O'Donnell did really well in his mound stint.