UConn @ ECU - Friday 3/31@6:30p ET, Saturday 4/1@4p ET & Sunday 4/2 @ Noon ET

[huskymedic]

Nothing comes easy...

 

[huskymedic]

Phew... big fugly win.

 

[Baseballguy]

Phew. They never make it easy

 

[huskymedic]

 

[4in16]

19 Ks tonight by the staff.

 

[Stainmaster]

Taking the series opener is big. No more of this tomfoolery on the basepaths though.

 

[Baseballguy]

Taking the series opener is big. No more of this tomfoolery on the basepaths though.

I'd be fine with them not taking a lead on the basepaths for the rest of the series

 

[huskymedic]

 

[huskymedic]

 

[huskymedic]

 

[uconnbaseball]

Winkel and Cate were awesome tonight. I honestly believe Winkel will be a huge weapon by the end of the year.

 

[huskymedic]

[VIDEO]: @uconnbaseball takes down @ECUBaseball 3-2 in the @American_BSB opener. Pirates struck out 19 times.
UConn tops ECU 3-2 in conference opener

 

[huskymedic]

 

[ThetaZoo]

Are you kidding me? Penders needs to get his baserunner's head out of their butts. That's on the coaching staff

Penders needs to get his head out of his butt. He's the one calling for steal attempts every time a runner gets on base.

 

[uconnbaseball]

tbf, this is a great base stealing team...I do not blame Penders for repeatedly getting picked off 1st and even 2nd by righties.

 

[Baseballguy]

tbf, this is a great base stealing team...I do not blame Penders for repeatedly getting picked off 1st and even 2nd by righties.

It's on the players, but it's up to the coaching staff to refocus the runners. You can't keep taking massive leads when you had a righty with 5 pickoffs coming into the game. Those kill momentum like errors and walks do.

 

[huskymedic]

 

[huskymedic]

UConn Baseball‏ @UConnBaseball 1m 1 minute ago
M1: Prato leads off the first with a single but a FC and a DP ends the inning for the Huskies. Montgomerie to the hill for #UConn

Chris Jones note: Feldstein not in line-up - late scratch). Toppa in left/Stafanski in right (or vice versa)

 

[Baseballguy]

No first inning struggles for Wills.

 

[huskymedic]

UConn Baseball‏ @UConnBaseball 12s 12 seconds ago
Top 2: Huskies threaten in the inning but leave a runner at 3rd. #UConn 0, ECU 0

 

[huskymedic]

 

[huskymedic]

UConn Baseball‏ @UConnBaseball 3m 3 minutes ago
Strike 'Em Out, Throw 'Em Out! Montgomerie works through the second with a pair of K's and caught stealing. #UConn 0, ECU 0

 

[Baseballguy]

This might be a "whoever scores first" type of game

 

[huskymedic]

UConn Baseball‏ @UConnBaseball 15m 15 minutes ago
End 4: ECU takes the lead on an RBI single from Eric Tyler. Montgomerie keeps it to just one by stranding the bases loaded.

UConn Baseball‏ @UConnBaseball 3m 3 minutes ago
End 5: Montgomerie breezes through the fifth. 1-0 ECU Let's get some runs! Yahn, Susi and Gnesda due up for #UConn

 

[huskymedic]

UConn Baseball‏ @UConnBaseball 5m 5 minutes ago
M6: Gnesda singles back up the middle with two outs. Huskies leave him stranded to end the 6th. #UConn 0, ECU 1

 

[Baseballguy]

Time for the offense to wake up. Wills has pitched his heart out, time to give him some support.

 

[huskymedic]

UConn Baseball‏ @UConnBaseball 1m 1 minute ago
End 6: Montgomerie notches a pair of strikeouts in the 6th to strand runners at the corners for the Pirates. #UConn 0, ECU 1

 

[SAMCRO]

Both pitchers have been lights out so far.
Wills 6 IP, 7H, 1 ER, 1 BB, 6 SO's going to the B7.
UConn has 4 hits (all singles), a walk... and 5 LOB.

 

[Baseballguy]

Hopefully that little scuffle will give us some life

 

[huskymedic]

UConn Baseball‏ @UConnBaseball 24s 24 seconds ago
End 7: Prato makes a diving stop and catches Riles off the bag at third, getting the final out of the frame at the dish. #UConn 0, ECU 1

 

[huskymedic]

Just once in my life I would love to be lucky and have the WHUS audio jive w/ the streaming video!

UConn Baseball‏ @UConnBaseball 46s 46 seconds ago
Prato follows with a four pitch walk. 1st and 2nd, no one out for the Huskies. Pitching change for ECU. Yahn coming to the plate