Men UConn @ UCLA Bruins (Tuesday 3/12/24 @9p EDT) Game will be on Pac12 Network & streamed on Pac-12.com.

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Bottom 4th, Coe with a scoreless inning after giving up a 1 out walk. Game tied at 1.

UConn pitchers have 7 walks so far in the game.

 

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Top 5th, with 2 out Shpur is hit by a pitch, he is picked off for the final out. Game tied at 1.

 

[scotty0330]

My god. The mistakes this team makes…two pick offs, two failed pick offs by our defense….walks galore. I can’t remember a UConn team like this

 

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Bottom 5th, after a leadoff single, Coe faces the minimum with the aid of a double play. Game tied at 1.

 

[huskymedic]

Bottom 5th, after a leadoff single, Coe faces the minimum with the aid of a double play. No score.

 

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Top 6th, first 2 UConn batters get walks. Pitching change.

Broadhurst with a 1 out 3 run homer, UConn up 4-1. After the homer, Malcom with a 2 out walk and a Garbowski single puts runners on the corners. Padilla follows with an RBI single, 5-1 UConn, runners again on the corners before the inning ends.

Might have left 2 runners on base, but for a change it was a nice productive inning.

 

[huskymedic]

There ya go Luke.

“Robust swing”

 

[huskymedic]

Broadhurst with a 1 out 3 run homer, UConn up 4-1.

 

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Bottom 6th, Joe Carrea comes in to pitch to start the inning.

 

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Padilla follows with an RBI single, 5-1 UConn, runners again on the corners before the inning ends.

 

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Bottom 6th, a leadoff solo homer for UCLA, 5-2 the score. Carrea walks the next batter, and then gets the next 3 batters out leaving the runner at 3B. 5-2 UConn.

 

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Top 7th, Daniels with a leadoff walk, but is thrown out on a stolen base attempt for the first time this season. A scoreless inning for the UConn offense, 5-2 UConn.

 

[huskymedic]

Bottom 6th, a leadoff solo homer for UCLA, 5-2 the score. Carrea walks the next batter, and then gets the next 3 batters out leaving the runner at 3B. 5-2 UConn.

 

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Bottom 7th, Carrea issues a leadoff walk, and comes out of the game. Braden Quinn comes in to pitch.

Quinn issues a 1 out walk after a balk, and then a batter reaches on a throwing error by Garbowski to load the bases. Quinn gets 2 strikeouts this inning on his way to stranding the bases loaded. 5-2 UConn.

 

[huskymedic]

Bottom 7th, Carrea issues a leadoff walk, and comes out of the game. Braden Quinn comes in to pitch.

Quinn issues a 1 out walk after a balk, and then a batter reaches on a throwing error by Garbowski to load the bases. Quinn gets 2 strikeouts this inning on his way to stranding the bases loaded. 5-2 UConn.

 

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Top 8th, with 2 out, Malcom gets his 3rd walk of the game, Drew Kron pinch runs for Malcom. Garbowski then picks up his 2nd single of the game, but nothing comes of this 2 out rally attempt. 5-2 UConn.

 

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Bottom 8th, Quinn with a 1-2-3 inning with 2 strikeouts, 4 for his 2 innings of pitching. 5-2 UConn.

Chris Jones says that Afthim was warming up that inning, so I would not be surprised to see him come in to pitch the 9th.

 

[huskymedic]

Bottom 8th, Quinn with a 1-2-3 inning with 2 strikeouts, 4 for his 2 innings of pitching. 5-2 UConn.

 

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Top 9th, UConn offense leaves 2 runners on base. 5-2 UConn.

 

[huskymedic]

Top 9th, UConn offense leaves 2 runners on base. 5-2 UConn.

Just one run there would have done wonders for my agita!

 

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Bottom 9th, Quinn still on the mound to start the inning. Quinn strikes out the side! Quinn picks up the save.

UConn wins 5-2. Good night!

 

[huskymedic]

What an effort by Braden Quinn…

 

[uconnbaseball]

4-9 with wins at UCLA, Auburn, and Louisville.

Start cup stacking wins please.

 

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[MarkyMark]

Trip Report:
1) nice facility, sparse crowd. It was coolish but no wind and it didn’t get colder which saved the day. Was a long game For 5-2 but midweek lot of pitching changes. Wonder if savage‘s seat getting hotter at ucla great recruiting classes but haven’t made a super or won pac 12 since 2019.
Good: 1) I like the lineup it has some logic to it. I’d let that try to work now and see if that’s the going forward framework.
2) Quinn game ball really settled things down, threw well and against RHB too. Really dominated showed fight and emotion.
3) they actually had a rally with that 4 run inning with the Luke bomb (hardest ball I’ve seen hit live this year….(harder than UCSB guy off of Finn) and the Bry RBI Single
4) defense other than Broadhurst was pretty good
Bad:
1) Tammaro and both picked off. Unreal.
2) Broadhurst had his toughest game at 1B. On the 2 pickoff throws I assume he hasn’t had alot of reps with those he also dropped the throw on that swinging bunt.
3) Morton got doinked pretty hard in the head, seems ok. Also shpur got hit on the hand. They've dodged some bullets so far with Studley hit on hand over weekend those are dangerous.
4) Cookie started off well then it collapsed a la the way it used to with Sears. I think he threw 11 straight balls at one point. Really concerning. His motion isn’t anywhere near as complex as Sears. Bizarre.
5) Coe got the win I thought he was ok, Correa once again pays dearly for the mistake with the HR then has trouble putting batters away. He’s close. Just needs another small jump to be effective at the D1 level.

Good to get in the win column for the confidence alone. Good energy in the dugout all game long. They wanted this game. Let’s see if they can build on it. Back to Vegas but will try and catch rest of cali trip on tv, etc.