UConn @ Top 15 ECU (Thur. 4/18 @6:30p, *Sat. 4/20 Double Header> Game 2 starting @ 9a followed by Game 3*)

[dbmill]

This place is a bandbox, so there could be a bunch of runs.

Chris Winkel comes up with a one out single.

 

[dbmill]

No official announcement yet, but Chris Jones talking weather, says there is no way a game will be played tomorrow with the downpour of rain they are expecting.

 

[dbmill]

Winkel gets picked off 1B to end the inning.

 

[uconnbaseball]

Come on Chris...not at ECU...

 

[HawkHusky]

Gotta not swing at balls in the dirt or get picked off if we wanna compete in this series.

 

[uconnbaseball]

Yo Feole...8 and 9 hitters coming up, leave Packard with nothing to work with.

 

[dbmill]

Come on Chris...not at ECU...

Well, usually it seems he gets picked off or gets in a rundown between 3B and home.

 

[uconnbaseball]

Gotta not swing at balls in the dirt or get picked off if we wanna compete in this series.

Finding an upgrade at 3rd will be pivotal for next year. We cannot keep trotting out C-Mo unless his bat undergoes an unexpected transformation.

 

[HawkHusky]

Yo Feole...8 and 9 hitters coming up, leave Packard with nothing to work with.

Good thing.

 

[dbmill]

Finding an upgrade at 3rd will be pivotal for next year. We cannot keep trotting out C-Mo unless his bat undergoes an unexpected transformation.

Problem this year is that the whole bottom part of the order also hasn't hit a lot. Easier to have one poor hitter in the lineup than having a few of them in the bottom of the order as UConn has had this season. But at this point in Moriarty's career, you just can't expect him to transform his bat.

 

[dbmill]

Back to back two out doubles make it 2-1 ECU in the 2nd.

 

[ATLDYKA]

We continue to kill ourselves on the bases.

 

[HawkHusky]

dumb dumb dumb. so dumb.

 

[uconnbaseball]

The doubles really hurt...and just when my connection crapped out

 

[dbmill]

9am doubleheader on Saturday according to Chris Jones.

 

[ATLDYKA]

Gotta not swing at balls in the dirt or get picked off if we wanna compete in this series.

Our achilles is the offspeed pitch. We can't lay off ones in the dirt.

 

[uconnbaseball]

We continue to kill ourselves on the bases.

So this is going to be an issue this year after all. We are good but not so good that we can give a top 15 team on the road these outs. Disgusting.

 

[ATLDYKA]

Yo Feole...8 and 9 hitters coming up, leave Packard with nothing to work with.

Packard is a stud. We couldn't get him out last year at all.

 

[navery12]

 

[uconnbaseball]

Game 1 could be a bullpen game. Maybe start Wang for a few innings and ride our top bullpen arms to go all out to win that one.

 

[uconnbaseball]

Bunt single and Feole's pitch count continues to rise. This game has swung the other way again courtesy of the momentum slaughtering baserunning blunders.

 

[navery12]

Game 1 could be a bullpen game. Maybe start Wang for a few innings and ride our top bullpen arms to go all out to win that one.

That would be my guess. Need to make sure we take at least 1 game this series

 

[ATLDYKA]

Feole reminds me so much of Cate from last year. Expected really big things out of them going into their JR years and he has been ok but not the lights out we were expecting. I guess they can blame It on injuries, but a little disappointing.

 

[dbmill]

Feole reminds me so much of Cate from last year. Expected really big things out of them going into their JR years and he has been ok but not the lights out we were expecting. I guess they can blame It on injuries, but a little disappointing.

Unlike Feole, Cate was on the injury shelf for almost all of the AAC conference games last season.

 

[dbmill]

Bottom 3rd, scoreless inning for Feole. He's at 58 pitches.