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[dbmill]

Top 8th, Cooke gives up a leadoff solo homer, 8-6 UConn.

Cooke comes out of the game. Afthim takes the mound.

Afthim strikes out the next 3 batters to end the inning. 8-6 UConn.

 

[huskymedic]

Afthim strikes out the next 3 batters to end the inning. 8-6 UConn.

 

[ATLDYKA]

Offense needs to give us something here . Besides 2 swings not much more tonight

 

[dbmill]

Bottom 8th, after 1 out walks by Padilla and Rispoli, the UConn offense has a scoreless inning. 8-6 UConn.

 

[storrsroars]

Nail biting time.

 

[huskymedic]

Nail biting time.

I bought extra this year…

 

[Marbles90]

Daniels’ pop up that got lost in the lights/darkness in the 4th and MacArthur’s seeing eye squibber in the 3rd are the last two hits. Nothing since then. Bats have disappeared.

 

[dbmill]

Top 9th, Afthim hits the leadoff batter followed by a single. The runners both move into scoring position on a ground out for the 2nd out. A single drives in 2 runs to tie the game at 8.

A ground out ends the inning with the game tied at 8.

 

[ATLDYKA]

Unbelievable, this one is on the offense

 

[huskyblooz]

MotherF....

 

[Bomber36]

Unbelievable, this one is on the offense

Well, we have given up 8 runs and tons of hits, so….

 

[dbmill]

Bottom 9th, Biller gets a 1 out single, and he steals 2B. Biller moves to 3B on a ground out for the 2nd out. MacArthur gets hit by a pitch. Root pinch hits for Lane. A scoreless inning for the UConn offense. Game tied at 8 as we go to extra innings.

 

[dbmill]

Top 10th, as you would expect, Garbowski takes over at catcher.

 

[NEforceUConn]

Fingers crossed

 

[ATLDYKA]

Who has the bigger choke tonight, Huskies or Knicks?

 

[dbmill]

Top 10, Afthim gives up a leadoff double. A 2 out single drives in a run, 9-8 Xavier.

A 2 out 2 run homer makes it 11-8 Xavier.

After the homer, Afthim gives up a single before getting the final out. 11-8 Xavier.

 

[CtBaseball]

Top 10, Afthim gives up a leadoff double. A 2 out single drives in a run, 9-8 Xavier.

Womp. Rough game.

 

[storrsroars]

ugh 11-8

 

[Bomber36]

Definitely not the fault of the offense.

 

[ATLDYKA]

Awful, pitching staff depleted but I guess it doesn't matter when your best can't close the deal

 

[Marbles90]

Unbelievable, this one is on the offense

Ummmm…pitching gave up 11 runs.

 

[huskyblooz]

and on top of it, our pitching is spent

 

[ATLDYKA]

Ummmm…pitching gave up 11 runs.

We had 8 in the 4th inning. Should have been able to add on. Again our offense struggled with a quality off speed pitcher

 

[Bomber36]

We had 8 in the 4th inning. Should have been able to add on. Again our offense struggled with a quality off speed pitcher

We had a 6 run lead and a 4 run lead. Should be able to protect that. You’re getting on an offense that was biblical for a good part of the season.

 

[dbmill]

UConn used pretty much their top pitchers in this game, and they gave up 11 runs so far. Normally the 8 runs that UConn scored is enough to win a game. Obviously, not this time.

 

[ATLDYKA]

Don't get me wrong, our pitching sucked too. When you hit the leadoff batter to start the 9th you know it will come back to haunt you

 

[buddy]

Like the Rutgers game all over again.

 

[dbmill]

Bottom 10th, the UConn offense goes down in order, Xavier wins 11-8 moving UConn into the losing bracket in this Tournament. Ouch!!

 

[Bomber36]

I’m really shocked right now. Time to win out.

 

[Scoe]

Maybe it’s time for a new pitching coach?