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LOS ANGELES — With the rain-delayed maintenance at Caesar Uyesaka Stadium still in its final stages, UC Santa Barbara Baseball, in coordination with Loyola Marymount Baseball, has moved its Tuesday, March 5 game against Villanova to LMU's Page Stadium in Los Angeles. The Wildcats are already scheduled to play a three-game series against LMU at Page Stadium over the weekend, and will now wait there to face the Gauchos instead of making the short trip up the coast.

First pitch remains set for 4:05 p.m. on Tuesday. For fans making the trip down to Los Angeles, admission to the game will be free and open. An audio broadcast of the game and live stats will be available through ucsbgauchos.com.

UC Santa Barbara will play its first game at Caesar Uyesaka Stadium on Friday, March 8, opening a three-game series against UConn at 4:05 p.m.
 
College Baseball > UMass loses 3 out 4 to Bucknell last week… this week has a chance to win a series against UVA. UMass visit Elliott towards the end of April.

 
Next week’s challenge - Gauchos looking to sweep the Ducks tomorrow on the road.

 
Does anyone know what’s wrong with Jack Sullivan? He was unhittable as a frosh and started for a while last year.
 
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Rdkid said:
Does anyone know what’s wrong with Jack Sullivan? He was unhittable as a frosh and started for a while last year.
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Okay. Answered my own question. That was a bomb to Irish, but his stuff looks better than some of these other guys he’s seemingly buried behind.
 
Echos what Penders said about scheduling. He loves the early tough matchups to see where his team is and continue to give exposure to NE college baseball….
 
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It seems at this point in the season that CF is a pretty open spot for UConn baseball. I am somewhat surprised that TC Simmons has not seen any time playing in the field the first 3 weekends of the season considering the strength of his game is his defense. Even though he has made some good contributions on offense in the past (even if he hasn't always been a consistent contributor on offense), it was still a surprise to me that he opened the start of the season in the D.H. spot. I would have thought he would have alternated in CF in the early games with Drew Kron, but that was not the case. Still, considering Kron and Shpur have not been hitting well either, I would expect that sooner or later Simmons will see at some point a little time out in the field, until someone starts making some offensive contributions as well as providing some solid defense. As always, we'll see what happens, it is still early in the season.
 
huskymedic said:
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This article suggests that Gabe Van Emon, Jack Sullivan, and Tom Ellisen are probably the leading candidates to be midweek starters. However, it is very possible that Van Emon could replace Ian Cooke in the weekend starting rotation. I would think if that happens that Cooke could become a big guy out of the bullpen. I would think that in addition to Sullivan and Ellisen, that Braden Quinn is also a possible candidate to to be a midweek starter.
 
dbmill said:
This article suggests that Gabe Van Emon, Jack Sullivan, and Tom Ellisen are probably the leading candidates to be midweek starters. However, it is very possible that Van Emon could replace Ian Cooke in the weekend starting rotation. I would think if that happens that Cooke could become a big guy out of the bullpen. I would think that in addition to Sullivan and Ellisen, that Braden Quinn is also a possible candidate to to be a midweek starter.
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After this weekend UConn starts playing midweek games, so we will soon see who will be the starting pitchers in these midweek games.
 
Big East Baseball (expanded standings as of 3/11/24)

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d1baseball.com

The Ouch List: Week Four • D1Baseball

We are filled to capacity on the Pain Train as 11 teams get their tickets punched for the roughest ride.
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-> – CONNECTICUT

What Happened: Lost all three games at UC Santa Barbara

Why It Hurts: They’re pressing too hard.

During Sunday’s game at Caesar Uyesaka Stadium I talked briefly with a bud of mine that I’ve known for a number of years in UConn Director of Baseball Chris Jones. The first thing he said to me was, “It’s like every one on this team is just pressing so hard.” And I could see that. This looks like a team that just seems to be trying too hard, wanting to turn everything into a six-run home run and striking out five batters an inning. More on the Huskies below. <-

->WHAT I SAW IN SANTA BARBARA ON SUNDAY:

Continuing what I wrote above about the Huskies, I gotta say, I defy anyone out there to show me a tougher schedule than the Huskies have played. It has been insane, ranked as the sixth-toughest slate in the country so far. But yet, here we are with the Huskies sitting at 3-9. Still, this weekend was particularly painful for the Boys from Storrs, dropping blowout losses on Friday and Sunday by scores of 13-3 and 12-1. On Saturday, the Huskies were holding a 3-1 lead in the eighth inning but three relievers couldn’t hold that lead, giving up two runs in the eighth and the winning run in the ninth. And by the way, that winning run was scored on a bases-loaded walk. Ugh.

On Sunday, it wasn’t such a close game as the Gauchos plated four runs in the opening frame – three of them coming from a three-run dinger from Nick Oakley – and they never looked back. Jonah Sebring and Brendan Dufree added solo shot homers in the fifth inning and leadoff man Reiss Calvin added a three-run bomb in the seventh inning to make this one academic.

Not to be overlooked, right-hander Ryan Gallagher shone brightly for the Gauchos, throwing 7.0 innings of three-hit ball, allowing one run and one walk while striking out seven Husky batters. This was a really good sign for the Gauchos since Gallagher was a Freshman All American in 2022 but sat out 2023 recovering from one of those awful TJ injuries. In the fall I saw Gallagher get pelted by LMU’s batting order and I wondered if he was fully back and ready for D1-level baseball once again. Today I got my answer. Gallagher was very sharp, working his low-to-mid 90s speedball and his changeup was jacking-up the Husky bats throughout all seven innings.

The Huskies will right the ship, I’m confident of that. This is kind of typical of Snow Belt teams who really test themselves early in the season and head coach Jim Penders has been through this kind of stuff a million times. They will travel down to SoCal this week playing mid-week games at UCLA and UC Irvine and then a three-gamer at Cal Baptist next weekend. <-
 
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@Omahabound (Re: your comments in closed thread) I posted the proposed lineup on February 17 (because I didn't like the opening weekend lineup) and now I compare it to last night's lineup. We're pretty much there now. Dalena is on the bench and Malcom in, but if Malcom was playing then I would have had him in Dalena's spot. It's taken almost a month but Penders has seen the light and the lineup is in a good place. Very close to optimal right now. Spots 7-9 can fiddle with and ride the hot hand. 1-6 should be firm. Now starting to produce some runs and win games. Let's see this weekend.

MM Feb 17
Daniels (Agreed)
Tammaro (Agreed)
Studley (Agreed)
Broadhurst (Agreed)
Dalena (Bench/Malcom)
Morton (5th)
3B (Agreed)
CF (9th)
Garbo (Bench)
 
MarkyMark said:
@Omahabound (Re: your comments in closed thread) I posted the proposed lineup on February 17 (because I didn't like the opening weekend lineup) and now I compare it to last night's lineup. We're pretty much there now. Dalena is on the bench and Malcom in, but if Malcom was playing then I would have had him in Dalena's spot. It's taken almost a month but Penders has seen the light and the lineup is in a good place. Very close to optimal right now. Spots 7-9 can fiddle with and ride the hot hand. 1-6 should be firm. Now starting to produce some runs and win games. Let's see this weekend.

MM Feb 17
Daniels (Agreed)
Tammaro (Agreed)
Studley (Agreed)
Broadhurst (Agreed)
Dalena (Bench/Malcom)
Morton (5th)
3B (Agreed)
CF (9th)
Garbo (Bench)
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Yea, it’s been a work in progress but it seems like the lineup/pitching staff are getting sorted out. I agree the bottom third of the order will continue to be a (hot hand) approach unless any one player takes it and I don’t see how Malcolm can come out of the lineup. Series win this weekend and it’ll have been a real successful trip.

Looking ahead to 25’ the pitching staff seems to be in a good place should all those eligible, return. Quinn Van Emon Ellison Cooke Aftim Schild to name a few. The lineup could be a problem.
 
Are seasonal stats updated on UConn’s site sporadically? Thru 3/6 is all that is listed
 
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Omahabound said:
Are seasonal stats updated on UConn’s site sporadically? Thru 3/6 is all that is listed
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huskymedic said:
Just guessing DBO Chris Jones is overloaded…
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I've noticed this before, it seems that the date you mentioned doesn't always get updated when the stats are updated. The current date on the UConn baseball website may say 3/6, but if you look at the actual stats, it shows that 14 games have been played, so the actual stats are up to date.
 
dbmill said:
I've noticed this before, it seems that the date you mentioned doesn't always get updated when the stats are updated. The current date on the UConn baseball website may say 3/6, but if you look at the actual stats, it shows that 14 games have been played, so the actual stats are up to date.
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That wasn’t the case a few days ago
 
Omahabound said:
That wasn’t the case a few days ago
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I have noticed in the past that it sometimes takes a day or 2 after a game for the stats to be updated. Other wise, they are usually up to date.
 
Daniels leading the team in rbi’s, is he most effective leading off still? 3rd in HR. It’s early, but there’s not a lot of overall consistent production to ignore this. Does anybody else think he should be moved down in the order. Whatever has worked the past 2 games why mess with, I understand, but I don’t think daniels numbers are an aberration
 
Someone mentioned on the Cal Baptist thread that it seems the Huskies are being thrown out trying to steal more often than last year. I thought so, too. I checked the latest stats (it says "through March 6, but I believe they are actually up to date, since Coe is listed as 3-3 with a 4.55 ERA, the same numbers as the box score showed after last night's game). The Huskies are 21 for 27 in SBA's this year (78% success rate). Last year the numbers were marginally better - 122/147 (83%). If one of this year's "caught stealing" had been successful, the rates would have been pretty similar - 81.4% this year, versus 82.9% last year. Pickoffs might be another matter - 6 already this year (16 games) versus 12 all of last season (61 games). That extrapolates to about two dozen over 61 games. That could be a big problem. There's aggressive and then there is reckless. Not sure how one might figure the number of outs created by being thrown out on the bases trying to advance on an out. That seems high, too, but that might just be a result of "Pendersball."
 
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