UConn @ St John for 3 (Fri. 3/16@3p, Sat. 3/17@1p & Sun. 3/18@1p)

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Wow
Bullpen STRONG - at least this weekend
This is a great series win
Let's not lie down for the rest of the Northeast and New England teams

 

[huskymedic]

 

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According to Coach Penders, Chase Gardner could have gone longer in the game, but he had a full bullpen, and he likes what he has been seeing from Rossomando and Wallace.

 

[huskypantz]

Wow
Bullpen STRONG - at least this weekend
This is a great series win
Let's not lie down for the rest of the Northeast and New England teams

Yup, hoping that we don't have the mid-week letdowns we saw last year. A couple more wins would have solidified us for a spot in the NCAA's. Hopefully the resume will speak for itself this year.

 

[huskymedic]

Huskies Gut Out 3-1 Rubber Game at St. John's

Notes

• After 116 meetings between UConn and St. John’s the series is now deadlocked 58-58. Huskies win first series in Queens since 2006 season when Huskies swept a two-game series.

• UConn bullpen fired 7.1 shutout innings allowing three hits and striking out 13 in the Huskies two victories in the series.

• The Huskies secured a 4-3 record during their 11-day spring break trip. UConn has posted at least a .500 spring break trip seven of its last nine trips.

• Isaac Feldstein produced his team-leading sixth multi-RBI effort with his two-run triple in the sixth.

• Huskies are 3-2 in "Rubber Games" this season.

 

[huskymedic]

 

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After last season and his poor performance in the Cape Cod League over the summer, I was a bit worried that Rossomando might be taking the Andrew Zapata path to pitching irrelevancy. Beginning to look like Ronnie has turned away from that journey. Instead, he might be turning into a big cog of this bullpen.

One more thought on Ronnie Rossomando before moving on to the next game on the schedule. It may only because he was coming back from arm surgery in the fall, but it is amazing how quickly Rossomando has moved from being a virtual forgotten man in the bullpen to a potentially big cog in the bullpen. He has only pitched in 4 games so far this season, but the first time wasn't until the last game in a losing cause against North Florida in the third weekend of the season. At the time it only seemed to be a cursory last out appearance just to get his feet wet in a game UConn was losing. His second appearance was in the blowout against The Citadel. But with his last two appearances against Coastal Carolina and St. John's, it looks like Rossomando is about to become a major player in the UConn bullpen.

Sometimes the shift from being an inconsistent pitcher to someone who is depended upon is a gradual thing. Wills Montgomerie was an example of that a couple of years ago. Other times it seems that a light suddenly comes on where the pitcher is suddenly effective, and that looks like it could be Rossomando at this moment.