Men UConn & 2023 Big East Baseball Tourney @ Prasco Park, Mason Ohio (5/24>5/27). Gms on BEDN/FloSports. Audio on Mixlr/ESPN 97.9/1300 & Varsity App

[Bomber36]

Yeah baby! I’m up here screaming in the White mountains of New Hampshire. Just visiting and I managed to tire my wife out shopping this morning. She let me hang out and watch the boys!

 

[CtBaseball]

Jones was animated with that double play call. Damn!

No one better than Jonesy. No one.

 

[huskymedic]

Top 8th, Xavier loads the bases with 1 out. Fogell comes out of the game, Willis takes the mound.

Willis gets a double play ball to end the inning with no runs coming in. 6-3 UConn.

 

[dbmill]

No one better than Jonesy. No one.

I often have a good idea of what is going on just by the tone of his voice when he is calling a play. I like that.

 

[dbmill]

Bottom 8th, UConn offense goes down in order, 6-3 UConn.

 

[AzHusky]

Anyone know how much time between games, if a second game is needed?

 

[businesslawyer]

Great, great job by Ellison. And Fogell, while giving up the runs int he 5th, eats 3 full innings after throwing a lot of pitches two nights ago. We will be in as good shape for a winner take all final, if Willis can get us there, as one could hope.

 

[uconnbaseball]

Uh oh…Padilla having a brutal game today.

 

[CtBaseball]

Anyone know how much time between games, if a second game is needed?

Oof jinx question if I ever saw one

 

[CtBaseball]

Uh oh…Padilla having a brutal game today.

It’s been the past couple of weeks

 

[Bomber36]

Aww jeez.

 

[dbmill]

Top 9th, a single on a bunt and an error on Padilla put runners on the corners with no out. Sac fly for the first out. 6-4 UConn. Willis gets a strikeout for the 2nd out, and another strikeout to end the game. Willis gets the save, and UConn wins 6-4. UConn forces another game.

 

[JeannoCT]

Yippee!!

 

[uconnbaseball]

Great rebound after the Padilla error! We win 6-4 and will play again at 5:30.

 

[Bomber36]

Wow. Thank you boys! Well done!

 

[AzHusky]

I realized after I asked it and tried to edit it to change it.

 

[Hookknows]

Let’s Go C Hooks!

 

[huskymedic]

Boys did what they needed to do yesterday and today. Anything else is a bonus .

 

[CL82]

1 down, 1 to go!

 

[CtBaseball]

I realized after I asked it and tried to edit it to change it.

Respect

 

[huskymedic]

 

[Scoe]

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I realized after I asked it and tried to edit it to change it.

It’s all good your off the hook lol.

 

[CtBaseball]

Boys did what they needed to do yesterday and today. Anything else is a bonus .

Yes, with our depleted pitching now anything else will honestly be icing… I know that may not be a popular opinion but we will need some guys to really step up on the bump from their regular season performance.

 

[businesslawyer]

Great job by the staff today. Hitters did enough, though they had X’s staff on the ropes a lot early and couldn’t come up with the big innings. But we not only held X to 4 runs, 3 earned, but did it using less of our staff than one reasonably could have hoped.

I expect that Penders and McDonald are counting back in their heads right now as follows, with everyone but S. Quigley, Sears, Ellison and Fogell available:

Willis can still give us the 9th.
Afthim may have to give us the 8th and the 7th.
Risk Coe will be wild after the pitches he threw 72 hours ago, but have to trust him with the 5th and 6th.

That means they need the same 4 innings from Sully that they got from Ellison, and Sully doesn’t need to be that good. We need to win this with our bats, and assume we’ll score 7 or 8 tonight. So if Sully (or whoever helps get us through the 4th) can give me 4 innings and only give up 2 runs, huge win. If we get to the 5th having given up 3, I’ll be more than fine with that. Get me to the 5th without being down by more than 1, and I’ll trust Afthim, Coe and Willis, and the bats, to bring me home.

 

[LIUCHusky]

Yes, with our depleted pitching now anything else will honestly be icing… I know that may not be a popular opinion but we will need some guys to really step up on the bump from their regular season performance.

What kind of shape is the Xavier pitching staff in?