Opening Weekend vs. UMass Lowell in Port St. Lucie

[uconnbaseball]

UConn still up 2-1 going to the bottom of the 2nd. Montgomerie has really struggled despite limiting damage; I think they have 4 hits right now.

 

[dbmill]

Montgomerie may be settling down. Easy 3rd inning, he now has five strikeouts.

 

[dbmill]

2-1 after one. Thing that sucks w/ Chris Jones doing PxP is Twitter updates seem to takes a back seat here early on.

I had noticed the slow down in twitter updates during games as well, and figured it was because Chris Jones now has the baseball SID job. I guess it is the price you have to pay to keep Jones on air broadcasting UConn games. Where it is going to hurt me is when I'm either at work or some function and a game is going on, that is when I would look for twitter updates to keep me informed.

 

[uconnbaseball]

Both pitchers sharp in the 3rd, we are still up 2-1 after 3.

 

[dbmill]

Randy Polonia due back to pitch around the time of the western spring break trip according to Chris Jones.

 

[uconnbaseball]

Is Ronnie Rossamando available?

 

[dbmill]

Is Ronnie Rossamando available?

Chris Jones gave an injury update, and he was not on it.

 

[huskymedic]

Frosh are coming up big... 4-1 w/ two RBI by Prado

 

[Husky25]

UMass-Lowell showing signs of imploding. Couple hit batters. Couple of steals. Man on for Susi. 3-0 count.

Edit: Susi walked. Pitching change for UM-L.

 

[dbmill]

And then Prato steals second and third. He's having a very nice debut weekend.

 

[uconnbaseball]

5-1 after a nice trick play on the bases. Looks like we might actually be competent on the basepaths this year...knock on wood.

Going to the 6th inning.

 

[dbmill]

Penders pulls out his pet trick play. Susi attempts a steal of second, gets hung up, and Prato comes in to score before Susi is tagged out. End of 5th inning, 5-1 UConn.

 

[huskymedic]

Get the bullpen rolling...

 

[uconnbaseball]

Another solo home run, 5-2, 2 outs and one on. Defense has looked a little shaky and Montgomerie is getting hit hard.

 

[uconnbaseball]

5-2, Montgomerie getting burned on first pitch fastballs. Lowell thrratening for more.

 

[Baseballguy]

5-1 after a nice trick play on the bases. Looks like we might actually be competent on the basepaths this year...knock on wood.

This could be a huge development. The ability to work the basepaths has little bearing on the level of competition. The ability to manufacture runs without nessecarily requiring stringing hits together will be big. This could play well against teams like ECU and Houston. For those who may not have followed baseball last year, there were quite a few games against good pitching staffs where runs were hard to come by even with the offense we had last year.

 

[dbmill]

Montgomerie somehow gets out of the 6th with only one run scoring on the homer, but he was in a lot of trouble in that inning. Montgomerie now has 9 strikeouts. Poulin and Rajkowski were warming up late in that inning. 5-2 UConn going to bottom of the 6th. Montgomerie may have pitched his last inning today.

 

[dbmill]

Bottom of the 6th, runners on 1st and 2nd, and UMass Lowell throws away a sac bunt attempt by Moriarty. One run scores. 6-2 UConn with inning still going.

 

[uconnbaseball]

Another wild pitch makes the score 7-2 UConn going into the 7th. We had tough BABIP luck with some very hard hit ground balls, but it did not matter in the end because of their mistakes.

Pleased with the offense so far. Bullpen needs to be less scary than yesterday

 

[huskymedic]

 

[dbmill]

Rajkowski gets two out, then hits and walks a batter. Poulin coming in to pitch.

 

[Husky25]

I deleted this earlier. It applies much better now:

Bullpen =

 

[uconnbaseball]

Bullpen imploding again. The only 2 outs this inning came on 2-0 counts, too, so this could be much worse.

 

[dbmill]

Poulin allows a couple of runners on with a run scoring before ending the inning with a strikeout. 7-3 UConn, with Huskies coming up to hit in bottom of the 7th.

 

[uconnbaseball]

7-3 going into the 8th.