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Kay struggling here in the 3rd. Hit batter, picks him off, now back to back walks with 2 outs. Could have been out of the inning. A fouled popup lands between home and 3rd in front of dugout with everybody watching McDowell. Yahn needs to get over and get that.
 
Huskies come up with 5 in the 3rd. Melley has an RBI double but the rest was due to the pitcher being wild and a big error in the field that didn't go down as an error. 5-2 after 3.
 
Anthony Kay is somewhere in the neighborhood of 100 pitches, so I would think he has one, maybe two innings left in him.
 
Yahn with a nice play to keep the lead at 5-4. Kay really struggling with control today.
 
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Come on Testani, last time up with the bases loaded and 1 out you strike out and swinging for the fences on the third strike. This time first and second no outs and you can't get the sac down and end of striking out again. The little things that kill.
 
Top of the 6th, 9-4 lead for UConn. Devin Over is in to relieve Anthony Kay.
 
Over allows a lead off single in the 6th, then quickly gets the inning over with the aid of a double play.
 
I know we are up 9-4 but bases loaded and no outs and we can't score. Started by another Testani strike out then DP by Sundberg.
 
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Come on Over you have a 5 run lead and your going to come out and start walking everybody. This team makes nothing come easy.
 
Now Darras in and getting hit already. 9-6 and still threatening. Not sure what else Nepiarsky needs to prove before he gets his chance in meaningful innings. Darras is all over the place.
 
ATLDYKA said:
Come on Over you have a 5 run lead and your going to come out and start walking everybody. This team makes nothing come easy.
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They were speculating on WHUS that Over had to come out of the game because of a blister on his pitching hand.
 
ATLDYKA said:
Come on Over you have a 5 run lead and your going to come out and start walking everybody. This team makes nothing come easy.
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I don't get it...I understand frustration with mistakes because we all feel it, but it's as if you expect every reliever to come in and pitch perfectly, every fielder to play 100% errorless defense, and every hitter who comes up with runners in scoring position to start a 6-run rally. That's great in theory, but flat-out unrealistic in practice; college baseball features players who aren't fully developed and who make mistakes. This is UCONN baseball, not UCONN women's basketball -- this program is simply not at a place where playing perfect, mistake-free ball is an option.
 
Stairmaster said:
I don't get it...I understand frustration with mistakes because we all feel it, but it's as if you expect every reliever to come in and pitch perfectly, every fielder to play 100% errorless defense, and every hitter who comes up with runners in scoring position to start a 6-run rally. That's great in theory, but flat-out unrealistic in practice; college baseball features players who aren't fully developed and who make mistakes. This is UCONN baseball, not UCONN women's basketball -- this program is simply not at a place where playing perfect, mistake-free ball is an option.
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No I don't expect that, just fundamentally sound baseball. When you have a veteran team like we do I just don't expect to see the mental lapses as much as we seem to see week after week. This is what differentiates a team that goes to the regionals and a team that doesn't. When you have a 5 run lead you throw strikes. I get it that Over and Darras are going to walk guys, they have been all year and their wild. This is why I just ask for a guy like Nepiarsky who consistently comes in a throws strikes to get more meaningful time in clutch situations.
 
I mean it continues here in the 9th. Darras hits the lead off batter, throws a wild pitch, then a double to cut lead to 10-7. Then Routolo comes in and what does he do, walks the first guy he sees.
 
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So Stairmaster, let me ask you this. Since I don't see you out here on the baseball board all that much. Do you actually watch the games and see what I am referencing or are you one of those who just come over here to post and stir up things.
 
I follow all games on gamecast whenever available, and when not I make do with the team's Twitter account sending out updates and reading all box scores. I lurk here because huskymedic and dbmill provide good news links and information. Obviously you are fully entitled to your opinion, but it's frustrating coming here and seeing all of this harping on players. You would think that we were the Bad News Bears or something.

Some statistical perspective (all of these coming from the NCAA database):
  • This season, we currently rank 84th out of 295 DI teams in fielding percentage. The past three seasons, we have ranked: 196th (2014), 150th (2013), and 240th (2012).
  • We also rank 71st in walks allowed/9 innings. In 2014 we ranked 251st, in 2013 95th, and in 2012 82nd.
Looking at individual players with poor fielding percentages, I will grant that Hill's 90.6% is disappointing considering that after his summer in the CCBL, many were expecting a solid season from him. Yahn however I am not as concerned about - he's a freshman who will improve, and his bat is absolutely necessary in our lineup.

Bottom line, although I only cited two metrics, those numbers are higher than what we had last time we made regionals. So no, I'm not "one of those who just come over here to post and stir up things". I'm a fan of the baseball program with numerical reasoning as to why I find some of this criticism particularly undue.
 
I do realize these are college kids and they make mistakes, don't get me wrong. I don't feel like I necessarily criticize fielding errors as much as I do mental errors. I feel like they should learn from previous mistakes and year after year the same mental lapses seem to still occur even with this veteran team. The walks I criticize tend to be our closers in the bullpen. I keep hearing that Pender's trusts Darras, Ruotolo and Holmes but hasn't come to trust a guy like Nepiarsky yet. Well what more does I guy have to do to not only to earn more trust but how about lose some trust. You would think the way Penders over uses Darras and Ruotolo that they are the only guys he feels are capable of getting guys out. If I am critical of anything above all it would be that of Penders coaching philosophy.
Sorry if I am a little too passionate about our baseball team, just want to see them succeed and they can be frustrating to watch at times.
 
Fugky win but a win none the less.

http://www.uconnhuskies.com/sports/m-basebl/recaps/050915aaa.html

Game Notes
  • Vinny Siena recorded his 24th multi-hit game and 16th multi-RBI game, both tops on the team
  • Siena became the first Husky with 50 or more RBIs in a year since LJ Mazzilli in 2013
  • The Huskies have six home runs in their last two games, most in a two-game stretch this season and also the most in any conference series
  • Joe DeRoche-Duffin became the first Husky this season to homer in back-to-back games and leads the squad with nine
Up next, UConn and Cincinnati conclude their weekend series tomorrow on Senior Day in Storrs. The Huskies will honor their six-member senior class prior to the contest.
 
To start today:
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Today's action: ECU beat UH 4-1, Tulane took out USF 5-3, Memphis beat UCF 6-5 and we win 10-8. Going into tomorrow (not considering tie-breakers):

UH 12-8
ECU 12-8
USF 11-9
Memphis 11-9
UConn 10-10
Tulane 10-10
UCF 8-12
Cincy 6-14
 
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dbmill said:
They were speculating on WHUS that Over had to come out of the game because of a blister on his pitching hand.
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Post game conversation was a bit more concerning in that he complained about losing feeling in ring finger and "pinky" leading to speculation he might have ulna inflammation. Penders mentioned it has happened two or three time previously. May need to be shut down for a bit.
 
ATLDYKA said:
I do realize these are college kids and they make mistakes, don't get me wrong. I don't feel like I necessarily criticize fielding errors as much as I do mental errors. I feel like they should learn from previous mistakes and year after year the same mental lapses seem to still occur even with this veteran team. The walks I criticize tend to be our closers in the bullpen. I keep hearing that Pender's trusts Darras, Ruotolo and Holmes but hasn't come to trust a guy like Nepiarsky yet. Well what more does I guy have to do to not only to earn more trust but how about lose some trust. You would think the way Penders over uses Darras and Ruotolo that they are the only guys he feels are capable of getting guys out. If I am critical of anything above all it would be that of Penders coaching philosophy.
Sorry if I am a little too passionate about our baseball team, just want to see them succeed and they can be frustrating to watch at times.
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As far as the "trust" thing goes (and I do admit I probably overuse that word), I do think Nepiarsky is getting there with Coach Penders. Of course, Nepiarsky probably would of helped his cause quite a bit if he had returned to school in playing shape at the beginning of the season, something that Penders brought up in one of his post game interviews. As for Holmes, he seems to be in a similar situation with Nepiarsky, not quite all the way there with Penders, although he has had a few late inning pitching stints when the main relievers were not available.
 
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huskymedic said:
Post game conversation was a bit more concerning in that he complained about losing feeling in ring finger and "pinky" leading to speculation he might have ulna inflammation. Penders mentioned it has happened two or three time previously. May need to be shut down for a bit.
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And with the bullpen as thin as it is, that does not sound good. Over already has had an injury time out this season, and it seemed he was just starting to get over that episode and showing some good pitching stints.
 
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