B1G Baseball Tourney:FINAL:Mary 8 - Neb 5

[meo1960]

T3. Mary up
5 : K. 1out
42: 4-3. 2out
39: K. 3out

Mary 3-1

 

[meo1960]

B3. Neb up
39: 1b8. man on 1. 0out
11: K. 1out
44: 6-4. 2out. Ben on 1st
19: bb. men on 1&2. 2out
25: K. 3out

2,1,2=5 men left on.
Mary 3-1

 

[meo1960]

T4. Mary up.
6: bb. Man on 1. 0out
31: 1b9. Men on 1&2. 0out
4: bunt5. Bases loaded. 0out
23: LO7/8. 3rbi. Man on3. 0out

Total collapse!
Allow me to add. If your the best player, you'd better be a little more than tight to sit out a tourney game. .

 

[c3ntral08]

Too many stranded runners. Erstad seat back to being warm.

 

[meo1960]

Top9.
Gotta hold em and pray for 2.

 

[meo1960]

About 1 strike in the last 10 for #19.
Then gives up a rbi single to left.

 

[Pennsyhusker]

Too many stranded runners. Erstad seat back to being warm.

Hardly. We did win the B1G this year.

 

[dinglefritz]

Too many stranded runners. Erstad seat back to being warm.

You drinking I hope? There's only one guy his seat would be warm with and he lives in his Mom's basement and plays in a garage band.

 

[c3ntral08]

I was being dramatic but he tried a sacrifice bunt with 2 men on no outs after their pitcher just walked a guy on 4 pitches and was on his heels, with one of your best hitters up... that was an inexcusable mistake. Swing the bat. Make that pitcher who was giving up hits and a couple of walks pitch to you. You never but there. Ever.

 

[gd81]

In Bloomington, IN, in the rain. Nobody there, save a few Husker fans behind the plate. GBR!

Game1-(3)Minn def (6)Ind, 5-4
Game2-(7)NW def (2)Mich 6-4.
Game3-(1)Neb def (8)Purdue, 15-9

Game4-(5)Iowa def (4)Mary, 9-8
Game5-(6)Ind def Mich, 5-4
Game6-(4)Mary def (8)Purdue 5-2

Game7-(7)NW def (3)Minn 11-7
Game 8-(5)Iowa def (1)Neb 2-0
Game 9: (3)Minn def (6)Ind 9-8
Game 10: (4)Mary def (1)Neb 8-5

Crowds in Bloomington were pathetic. Go Omaha!! Let's show them what loyalty looks like in 1018.

 

[dinglefritz]

I was being dramatic but he tried a sacrifice bunt with 2 men on no outs after their pitcher just walked a guy on 4 pitches and was on his heels, with one of your best hitters up... that was an inexcusable mistake. Swing the bat. Make that pitcher who was giving up hits and a couple of walks pitch to you. You never but there. Ever.

Sounds about like some of Paul Molitor's moves for the Twins today. Pinch hit a guy that had 8 strike outs in a row when all they needed was something to the outfield for a walk off win. Make that 9 strike outs in a row for Sano. Then he pulled a reliever after a couple of outs in the 14th to bring in his coming Wednesday starter (only available arm). He promptly gave up back to back homers on I think 2 pitches. Ball game. Managers go by their gut sometimes. Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. Clearly some things didn't work for Erstad this past week but the biggest issue was that the hits just didn't fall in when we had ducks on the pond. That is largely luck not coaching when that happens. I will note that Iowa obviously was hot at tournament time and getting beat by Maryland is no disgrace.

 

[donahues17]

Not getting hits in key parts of the game when you have plenty of hits already is a mental aspect of the game. Nothing else. He has to get them mentally ready and that is his biggest failure in my opinion.