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

[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?

 

[businesslawyer]

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

No. This is UConn baseball in the Big East. Winning the conference is not a bonus, even if you’re digging out of a hole. Winning the conference is what we expect and what we do. It may take more than six runs to win out, but there is no reason we can’t score more than 6 runs against this staff.

 

[CtBaseball]

What kind of shape is the Xavier pitching staff in?

Good question. Slightly better than ours is my understanding. Have of course played one less game.

 

[hardcorehusky]

No. This is UConn baseball in the Big East. Winning the conference is not a bonus, even if you’re digging out of a hole. Winning the conference is what we expect and what we do. It may take more than six runs to win out, but there is no reason we can’t score more than 6 runs against this staff.

Some one is fired up!

 

[businesslawyer]

What kind of shape is the Xavier pitching staff in?

Better than ours. We’ve thrown 36 innings already to their 26. But if Sullivan can give us anything, we have enough pitching to be effective the back half of this game. No excuses. We just have to get it done.

 

[businesslawyer]

Some one is fired up!

LOL. But I’m serious — since coming back we’ve won all 3 regular season titles and both prior tournaments. And, frankly, we’re a better team than X. Yes, we dug ourselves a hole and yes, missing Cooke and especially Kirby makes this much harder. (If Kirby was healthy right now not having thrown yet this series (4 pitches doesn’t count), I guaranty you he’d be starting today and we’d be looking for 3 innings.). But do or do not. There is no try.

 

[NEforceUConn]

Xavier’s turn to mess up!!!! 5-3 UConn after an errant pickoff throw!

No kidding.

 

[huskymedic]

 

[gwhuskyfan]

I still can't believe you can't watch this tourney without paying 29.99/month

 

[huskymedic]

 

[Bomber36]

I still can't believe you can't watch this tourney without paying 29.99/month

Mind boggling. I just resubscribed for this tourney. 31 bucks with tax is just under 8 bucks a game. Thats how I have to look at it.