College Baseball - 2013

Bats are usually sluggish first game... I bet UNC rips 10+ runs on the next one.

Not too sure about that...hitting has not been our strength since Holbrook left...speaking of which!!!!

LSU gets a 1 to 0 win over Maryland.  LSU picks up 9 hits to Maryland's 4 hits.  Aaron Nola gets the win pitching six and 2/3 rd's innings.  

Arkansas wins opener over W. Illinois  9-1.

Sloppy first game from Georgia. 2 errors, 2 hit batters, at least one wild pitch, and up only 1 with two runners on they gave GSU a 4-pitch walk. Somehow managed to scrape a 6-5 win.

Texas wins their opener against Sacramento State(co-champions of the WAC) 6-5. Last years Big 12 Freshman of the year, Peter French, showed he has recovered from last season's injury by pitching 7 shuttout innings while allowing only 3 hits, striking out 5 and no walks. Unfortunately, the bullpen didn't do as well. redshirt Freshman Toller Boardman threw 18 pitches and was pulled with the bases loaded and no outs. Corey Knebel, all-Big 12 reliever, did the same and 5 runs were scored. The catcher, Jacob Felts, picked off the 3rd base runner and the next reliever, Ty Marlow got the final 2 outs and pitched the 9th to get the save.

Oops. Forgot to mention 14 hits to 9 for Sac. State and Texas had 2 errors(0 for Sac. State), which does not give me confidence for the season. Last year Texas had something like 75 errors to their opponents 49. Not good.

The Tar Heels cancelled their Saturday match-up with Seton Hall due to rain and snow.  The game will not be made up and the 2nd game of the series will be played Sunday at 1:00 PM.  Going to be very cold and windy on Sunday.

From Dandy Don's web site:

"Now on to baseball news, it sure was nice being out at Alex Box Stadium last night to watch the Tigers open the season with a 1-0 win over Maryland in front of a record paid crowd of 12,373. LSU relied on the dominant pitching of Aaron Nola, and the solid relief pitching of Joey Bourgeois and Chris Cotton, for the win. Nola pitched 6.2 scoreless innings and gave up only two hits and one walk while striking out nine. Bourgeois was flawless in his inning of work and struck out one. Cotton earned his first save on the season and third of his career after 1.1 innings of work.

Centerfielder Chris Sciambra led the Tigers at the plate by batting a perfect 4-for-4 and scoring the game’s only run. It was great to see Sciambra have such a terrific outing in his first game since his devastating neck injury last season. Freshman shortstop Alex Bregman went 1-for-4 and collected his first career RBI off of a hard hit single in the third inning. Raph Rhymes went 2-for-4, Ty Ross went 1-for-3 and Jacoby Jones went 1-for-1. Mason Katz had an off night at the plate and went 0-for-4 with three strikeouts, but he had a great game defensively at first base.

Game 2 of the three-game series will begin today at 1 p.m. and will be broadcast live on Cox Sports Television. Junior right-hander Ryan Eades will take the mound for the Tigers, and junior right-hander Brady Kirkpatrick will take the mound for the Terrapins."



How about the paid attemdance of 12,373?  New record for Alex Box Stadium.  Actual attendance was 8,746.  Way to geaux Tigers.

 

    

 

Geez...I was happy to have 2,400 at the Carolina game.

Tigers win today 5 to 1 over Maryland.  Hitting still below par as the Tigers only pick up five hits for the day, but bunched three of them along with three walks and an error to post four runs in the bottom of the seventh.  Pitching has been outstanding though.   Paid attendance was 11,209 and
actual attendance 7,104.

Texas loses 5-3 to Sac. State and had 2 errors to their 1. I saw this coming, ugh. Longhorns also got outhit 9-10. Biggest hit was a double like yesterday. I'm not seeing any improvement from last season. Demo might have seen the game on LHN, not me. I watched bedlam basketball, great game as the Cowboys defended their territory against the Sooners.

Miami's opener vs. Rutgers was PPD Friday night.  It rained and rained from Thurs. at about 6 to Friday around midnight.

So, they played 2 today.  Miami took a 3-1 lead into the 9th of game 1 but their closer, who had a great year last year, gave up 3.  Not a good start to the season, but not all was lost, as Miami got 2 in the bottom of the 9th to win 5-4.

The second game was only a 7-inning affair due to time and the doubleheader and Miami won 4-1.  Their mid-week starter from last year started and pitched well.

Miami is down 2 starting pitchers right now, so some guys are going to get the chance to prove they can contribute.  Pitching is not their problem, however, the problem will be, similar to last year, a potential lack of hitting.  We'll see how it plays out.

UF wins last night to even the series with Duke. 

Anyone have a link to Gametracker? UNC athletics have gotten away with the assoc of Gametracker WTF****? Geaux know anything on this? Or M R?

Carolina replaced Gametracker with Nulion.  You can find it through GoHeels.com.

Bottom of the 2nd, Heels up 7-1. 

Try the old reliable link:
[http://www.d1baseball.com/]


This link has a lot of college baseball info.  


Go to the scores and it has links to stats for most games.  It had one for NC and they were leading by 14 to 1.   
    

Tigers breaking it open in the bottom of the seventh against the Terps today and lead 11 to 1.  Bats have come alive today and they also have a couple of dingers.  Way to geaux Tigers.

That link avove is:

[http://www.d1baseball.com/]
 

LSU has used five pitchers in the game today and I have not seen the names of four of them - has to be freshmen.  Maryland is using a lot of arms as well but for different reasons.  The score is 14 to 3 in the Tigers favor.

Gamecocks are putting the bat on the ball but simply to all 8 players on the field...  Liberty has gotten 7 runs of FIVE hits.  First game of a DH...