Baseball Live Thread: Oxford Regional (Day Three)
by Bill C. on May 31, 2009 12:00 PM CDT
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Who: #2 seed Missouri (35-26) vs. #3 seed Western Kentucky (40-19) @ 1:00 p.m.
#1 seed Ole Miss (42-17) vs. the 1pm winner @ 5:00 p.m.
When: May 31
Where: University Stadium/Swayze Field (Capacity: 10,000+)
Radio: ESPN 1580 AM (KTGR.com)
TV (Online): OleMissSports.com
Weather: Current Hour-by-Hour Forecast
NCAA Bracket: Hit the link
Around SBN: Red Cup Rebellion (Ole Miss)
Preview Material: Know Your NCAA Regional Opponent - Western Kentucky
Know Your (Potential) NCAA Regional Opponent - Ole Miss
The First Time Around: Six-run first leads Western Kentucky to 11-5 win over Tigers
Only you can save us, Johnny Wholestaff!! If Mizzou is to extend its baseball season past today, they will need lots of offense and lots of strong pitching from Ian Berger, Scooter Hicks, and the aforementioned Mr. Wholestaff (and possibly his cousin, Johnny Wholecloser).
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so we have to beat both WKU & Ole Miss today
then beat Ole Miss again tomorrow.
We’re going to need to put up a bunch of crooked numbers to do that.
The sleeper has awoken. . .awakened. . .he woke up.
Z-O-U!
I cannot believe I’m going to watch another baseball game. Yesterday I watched:
Mizzou softball lose to Georgia
Mizzou baseball beat Monmouth
San Diego throw one away against the Rockies
the last 8 innings of the Texas/BC game
Never seen a game like the UT game last night.
UT 3, BC 2 (25 innings).
From the AAStatesman piece
It was Austin Wood who probably won over Longhorn fans forever.
Wood, who threw 169 pitches, came on in relief with a runner on second in the seventh inning. He pitched the next 121/3 innings before he gave up his first hit, a single in the bottom of the 19th.
He struck out 14, walked four batters and gave up two hits in 13 innings. Making Wood’s performance even more impressive was that the game was on the line in every inning. And all of this came after he pitched two innings Friday in a 3-1 victory over Army.
The sleeper has awoken. . .awakened. . .he woke up.
by SleepyFloyd7 on May 31, 2009 12:28 PM CDT up reply actions
To further hit on the point
Making Wood’s performance even more impressive was that the game was on the line in every inning.
He got a standing ovation after every inning since before I started watching in the 18th inning. As well as a curtain call when he came off for the last time.
And let’s not forget the performance by Mike Belifore, the BC reliever who pitched 9 2/3 innings and only giving up 3 hits and striking out 11….all while hitting in the DH slot. Both of these young men played their hearts out, and it’s a shame someone had to lose the game.
This concerns me
Kyle Gibson was only throwing 87 yesterday and has experienced some forearm tightness.
He says it’s nothing, but I have to wonder if throwing all those 120-pitch starts with [according to one person] bad mechanics is finally taking its toll. Whatever team drafts him might strongly consider shutting him down for the rest of the year, even if it takes until August to sign him.
Chicago White Sox Examiner — Your what hurts?
yeah...
…forearm problems don’t worry me as much as elbow or shoulder problems, obviously, but it’s certainly not a positive thing…
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so of course
he gives up 3 runs on 4 hits in the bottom of the first
going to the second
Mizzou 0
WKU 3
Jesus.
I just turned it on to see a WKU homer go about 500 feet onto the tennis courts over the bullpen in right.
7-0 WKU and Berger likely on his way out.
first and third, two outs
bloop base hit to right. 7-1.
senne has a great at-bat, 10 pitches
and drills a single to left-center. 7-2, runners still on the corners. Let’s play 1st and 3rd, Kyle Mach.
and mach flies out to fairly deep right
Two runs there in the top of 3. LOTS of time left in this game, but we’ve got to hold them down.
WKU goes down in the 3rd
Coleman flies out to the track to start the top of 4. let’s go boys, keep the pressure on.
one-out single for senne
lots of baserunners; just have to bring em around now
two on, two out
gray at the plate. find a gap, steve.
base hit!
7-3, still two on, two out. Now a gapper might make it a two-run game. Ampleman (sp?) at the plate
popped out to first
sigh. we’re chipping away, but too many LOBs.
got out of another jam in bottom 5
keep chipping, offense; keep chipping.
good. just need a run or two and we're back in it.
"Yeah this is my signature, big deal wanna fight about it?"
another one-out single
lollis is the batter. Sure could use something besides these singles.
and that's the sixth
down to nine outs, still 7-3
thanks for the scores..
just popped in to see what was going on. ’Twas not to be this season with the up and down nature of Tepesch and Berger never rounding back into sophomore form….lots of turnover for next season.
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to quote the antlers
“game’s not over (clap, clap, clap clap clap). game’s not over”
that's gonna hurt though
RBI single for WKU. 8-3 in the bottom 6. still batting
bases loaded now, just one out
toppers looking for the death blow
two more runs
10-3, still just one out
game might be over now
damn...
…and I thought my watching Major League, start to finish, a little while ago would be just the spark this team needed…
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And that's an 11-6 final
bottom line, you can’t give up 22 runs in two games to the No. 3 seed and have a chance in the regional. The hold-Gibson strategy backfired.
Oh well, nice season boys.
it definitely backfired...
…though even if Gibson had beaten WKU on Friday night (not a given, considering he didn’t have his best stuff), Mizzou wasn’t going to win this regional with pretty much no other pitcher pitching well. We knew going in that WKU was a patient, big-hittng squad, but so’s Ole Miss, really, so chances are Tepesch, Berger, etc., wouldn’t have fared any better against the Rebels. Just not our year. A really nice turnaround to keep the NCAA streak alive, though.
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