UConn @ #9/#11 Texas Tech (Friday 3/12/21 @ 3p ET, Saturday 3/13 @ 3p, Sunday 3/14 @ 3p, Monday 3/15@ 11a). All on ESPN+/WHUS

[dbmill]

Bottom 5th, Polonia with a quick 1-2-3 inning. 2-1 UConn. Very nice to see Polonia doing well.

 

[dbmill]

Top 6th, first two UConn batters reach on walks. Andy Hague pinch hitting for Chris Brown. Pitching change. I think Ben Maycock is the only non injured position player on the UConn bench now.

 

[dbmill]

Bushling with a sac fly to make it 3-1 with two out and a runner at 1B.

 

[uconnbaseball]

I think we needed more than one there.

Hope wurster can give us multiple innings

 

[dbmill]

Bottom 6th, a leadoff single followed by a double makes it 3-2 with no outs. Marrero warming in the pen. Kyler Fedko with a great catch in center field for the first out moves the runner to 3B. Polonia gets out of the inning with no more runs scoring. I expect Marrero will be on the mound to start the 7th.

 

[huskymedic]

Kyler Fedko with a great catch in center field for the first out moves the runner to 3B.

 

[dbmill]

Top 7th, Kyler Fedko walks with one out, and Ferrer with a double to drive him in with 1 out. 4-2 UConn.

 

[dbmill]

I was expecting that after Chris Jones mentioned that he had just seen the video of the play.

 

[dbmill]

Bottom 7th, Andrew Marrero to the mound with a 4-2 UConn lead.

 

[uconnbaseball]

That catch was a huge momentum play. Bridge this to Wurster!

 

[huskymedic]

Ferrer with a double to drive him in with 1 out. 4-2 UConn.

 

[dbmill]

Bottom 7th, a one out 3 run homer gives Texas Tech a 5-4 lead. Wurster coming in.

 

[huskymedic]

Sigh...

 

[ATLDYKA]

Why not start Wurster in the 7th and try to get 3 innings out of him? He only threw about 10 pitches his first outing

 

[huskymedic]

Bottom 7th, a one out 3 run homer gives Texas Tech a 5-4 lead. Wurster coming in.

 

[dbmill]

Wurster gives up a two out triple, then there is a steal of home, I believe off a pickoff attempt. 6-4 Red Raiders.

 

[huskymedic]

He even came up short of home on the slide. Nothing coming their way.

 

[ATLDYKA]

And now they stole home on us and we can't just catch the ball and tag the runner out. Unreal

 

[ATLDYKA]

Wurster gives up a two out triple, then there is a steal of home, I believe off a pickoff attempt. 6-4 Red Raiders.

No pick off attempt. Straight steal, would have been out easily, but catcher just flat out dropped the pitch.

 

[dbmill]

Just hoping playing all these close games against top quality competition (even though they have been losing most of them) will pay off in a bunch of wins in the coming weeks when the competition gets a bit more normal. Obviously that is something we will have to see about.

 

[dbmill]

No pick off attempt. Straight steal, would have been out easily, but catcher just flat out dropped the pitch.

Thanks. Wasn't quite sure what happened there.

 

[dbmill]

Top 8th, UConn only comes up with a 2 out walk. 6-4 Red Raiders.

 

[dbmill]

Bottom 8th, Wurster gets them out in order.

 

[huskymedic]

No pick off attempt. Straight steal, would have been out easily, but catcher just flat out dropped the pitch.

 

[uconnbaseball]

Torturous series. Just awful. This team was not completely out of our league or anything.