Quest For Bru-104: Sunday Night Baseball Open Thread
by Nestor on Jun 1, 2008 3:01 PM PDT
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PrintWe are done with the Bru-103 watch.
On to Bru-104. And we have one more shot left for the 2007-08 season.
Jermaine Curtis, Brandon Crawford and Alden Carrithers, (aka the Killer Cs) and their team mates are on fire. With their backs against the proverbial wall the Bruins stormed into the post season and yesterday they sent a message to the rest of the country by pummeling the perennial powerhouse Titans on their home field. But they started clicking since we looked to these guys for serving up some MOJO for baseball open thread. So we will stick with what has been working last few weeks:
Photo Credit: UCLA Softball (flickr)
This "softball mojo" is our way of sending our little something to the team so they can keep up the late season rally.
Our baseball teams need one more win to advance to the super regionals. They will look to get it done tonight at Fullerton’s Goodwin Field starting at 8 pm PST (against the winner of CSUF/UVa game). The game is going to be broadcast live on ESPNU. As always you can track the game online via the official site. But if you live in Southern California, please head out to Fullerton and support our boys in person. You can get all the ticket information here.
Otherwise for the rest of us spanning the entire globe - this is the place to rock and roll with the Bruin Nation.
Swing away.
GO BRUINS.
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can we stick a softball picture on this thread? It’s been working for the baseball team the past few weeks.
Stanford-UC Davis
An elimination game with the winner to face Pepperdine.
Tied 3-3 going into the bottom of the 8th, Davis get a run to put them ahead. Considering the Aggies swept the Cardinal in the regular season and beat them in the regional opener, Stanford seemed destined to give up and start packing their bags, right? Nope. Stanford struck for 5 in the top of the 9th and beat the Aggies 8-4.
Stanford and Pepperdine will play tonight with a Pepperdine win sending them to Supers and a Stanford win forcing a deciding game tomorrow. The winner of this regional will play the winner of the Fullerton regional.
We've got our first Super Regional team
Other west coast teams still alive:
UC Irvine has a 2-0 lead in the 3rd over Oral Roberts. The Anteaters are 2-0 in their regional so Oral Roberts has to win twice to advance.
Arizona leads Kentucky 2-0 in the 4th. Arizona is also 2-0 and needs to win only 1 of 2 to advance.
Fresno St. and San Diego are the two remaining teams in the Long Beach regional. Fresno is the 2-0 team there.
Arizona St. will face Oklahoma tonight as the 2-0 team.
Fullerton has a 3-0 lead over Virginia
in the 3rd inning. Virginia has already pulled their starter and gone to Matt Packer. Packer was probably going to get the start tonight if they advanced so the Virginia staff is thin now. More reason to root for the Cavs.
Well when you have an umpire like that one
whose imagination is running wild you’re going to be in trouble.
by Ryan Rosenblatt on Jun 1, 2008 6:01 PM PDT up reply actions
if anyone was watching the CSUF-UVA game in the 6th
can you possibly explain the runner’s interference call on UVA in the 6th? Because I can’t believe that call was made.
For those of you who didn’t see it, UVA had the bases loaded, 0 out in the bottom of the 6th. The batter hit a grounder to 1st, and the 1st baseman threw to second for the force. No further play was possible, so it appeared as though the score was 4-1, with UVA runners on the corners with one out.
However, the umpire ruled that the runner going into second had made an illegal slide by raising his elbow to prevent the double play from occuring. By rule, the batter is also out, and all runners have to return to their bases. So now, it was still 4-0, with runners on 2nd and 3rd with two out.
The only problem was that the UVA runner made a perfectly legal slide. He did absolutely nothing wrong…so basically the 2nd base umpire cost UVA at least 1 run, and probably more, as the next hitter made out and the inning ended.
I would’ve much rather played UVA than Fullerton, so I was extremely disappointed when that call was made. The ump may have made our road to Omaha much more difficult.
That being said, we beat CSUF last night and we can do it again. GO BRUINS
There's not much to explain
The umpire blew the call. He claimed it was an illegal slide, but there was nothing wrong with it. It was just an example of an umpire’s imagination running wild.
P.S. Congrats on the Bison’s upset of FSU Friday. They didn’t make it oit of the regional, but they had one great game that they won’t ever forget.
by Ryan Rosenblatt on Jun 1, 2008 7:34 PM PDT up reply actions
friday
they shut FSU out; today they allowed 24 runs…hahaha when has that ever happened before
i was bummed but i still found it hilarious
by bucknellbruin on Jun 1, 2008 7:47 PM PDT up reply actions
Thats a real shame this wont be on tv
anywhere in so-cal…you’d think with all the softball coverage on WWL that one of the FSNs would at least pick up some good local baseball..too bad.
O.A.
Well ESPN has the exclusive rights to all the tourney games
They sell the rights for some regionals they don’t televise to some local channels but they’re covering this one on ESPNU.
by Ryan Rosenblatt on Jun 1, 2008 7:31 PM PDT up reply actions
Road to 104- is baseball the only remaining shot?
Men’s track is ranked 3rd in the country (per official website), and narrowly missed winning western regional.
Is there no way they can win, or could baseball possibly be on the march to 105 instead of 104?
Man
Brooks got the first two outs and the bottom just dropped out. That pickoff throwing error was horrible.
Brooks
walks the bases loaded. All this with 2 outs.
Phew
Flare out to Crawford. Titans leave the bases loaded. 1-0 CSUF after 1.
Yup
Should be another run in and one out. Oh, well.
by Give me a B... on Jun 1, 2008 8:56 PM PDT up reply actions
Brandon Crawford ties the game!
Walk, takes second on a wild pitch (risky move as the ball barely got away from the catcher), took third on a fielder’s choice off Tim Murphy’s bat and scored on another wild pitch.
And Dolan hits a single to left field now.
For the record
I’ve followed more sports via the internet this month, than maybe ever. Thanks for all the updates guys.
Dang, I thought
Curtis’ IF single would slowly roll into the outfield for an RBI. Hope they can get this run in.
Nope, strike out. Both teams have left the bases loaded.
Dunno
They are infield hits, though. Their pitchers’ wildness is great, though.
Now Brooks’ wildness isn’t great.
Yeah their pitcher is pretty unstable right now.
I really hope we take of this tonight when they are tired. Because, best of 3 series with CSUF scares me a lot and tomorrow will be much harder.
Well, if Brooks doesn't get this guy out
I’d pull him. He has NO control.
Sac Bunt
Runners at 2nd and 3rd, 1 out. I’m not sure I’d bunt until I could prove Brooks could throw a strike.
Finally pulled
Bases loaded. The last 7 hitters have: gotten 1 out, 1 sacrifice bunt for an out, 3 walks and 2 HBPs. Plus the wild pitches and throwing error. =\
Drummond coming in
A double play here would be fantastic.
Don't want to be overly negative
A 4-run lead is nothing in college baseball, especially as the opposing pitcher has displayed poor control and has had to sit around a long time. But you absolutely must stop the bleeding here.
An out!!!
Finally, a non-sacrifice out! Two outs.
This is Reminidng Me of Softball
Bruins are outhitting CSUF but are trailing because of weird errors, mental and physical. Balk, bad pickoff, 2HBPs.
Also sytikcing out in clutch situations.
Lots of ABs left though.
For a second there...
I thought you meant the score was 5-4.
by SuperBruinMan on Jun 1, 2008 9:45 PM PDT up reply actions
Dolan!!
Too bad no one was on base. 5-2 on the HR.
And CSUF
starts off with a single in the bottom of the 4th.
Ugh
Ball falls in the middle of a triangle in right field, should have been caught.
UCLA gets out of it though
4-3 groundout.
To the 5th we go, UCLA down 6-2.
Come on
Can any of our pitchers hold down this team for an inning or two? Every time we score soem runs they answer
That double play
was a hell of a play by Crawford to catch the throw and swipe the tag in one motion.
CSUF up 7-4 after 6.
Man
That pickoff was bad, you just knew the HR was coming too.
curious
I am not thinking negatively, as the Bruins look like they mount a rally here in the 8th, but if they should not win, who would get the start tomorrow?
Curtis steals second
Then Weisser grounds out to end the inning.
Heading into the bottom of the 8th.
Is it worth it?
Should we really use up another pitcher in a situation like this?
by SuperBruinMan on Jun 1, 2008 11:45 PM PDT up reply actions
Yikes
Really poorly played game. Bad base running, poor defense, horrid control. =\
Mental mistakes have really hurt
Pop fly to right, falls untouched. Leads to a run. Guys getting picked off, cost another run and two precious outs.
by Give me a B... on Jun 1, 2008 11:47 PM PDT up reply actions
Would like to see another HR
Just to see if Haerther can crush it any further.
we need about what, ten more of those?
by Give me a B... on Jun 2, 2008 12:02 AM PDT up reply actions
I'll take the runs off a HR
over building a rally but having fewer runs scored.
I'll take the runs off a HR
over building a rally but having fewer runs scored.
Babineau walks
At the very least, I don’t think CSUF’s closer will be available tomorrow.
11-8
RBI single.
Tying run coming up to the plate.
Groundout, 5-unassisted
That’s the game.
Let’s win this baby tomorrow.
darn a decent effort to come back
from what seems like a generally sloppy effort, but yea who goes tomorrow on the mound?
O.A.
Another long game
just over 4 hours. Come on guys, I have bar exam review class in a few hours. jeez.
in these games
you can get a lot of studying done in between pitches
by Give me a B... on Jun 2, 2008 12:17 AM PDT up reply actions
Track still is in the mix
I hate to be wet blanket, but give credit where credit is due to Bruin athletes. Nestor, you do an extraordinarily fabulous job with everything there and I have the utmost respect for your loyalties! But I just wanted to point out that the both the hard-working Bruin men and women tracksters are still gearing up for the NCAA championships with high hopes.
I realize that track fanatics are a special breed (I count myself among them) and it’s certainly not for everyone, but they do work has hard as any Bruin athlete and have contributed to dozens of our 103 NCAA titles. So when you say of our heroic, clutch baseballers On to Bru-104. And we have one more shot left for the 2007-08 season., I’m a bit disappointed. Let’s also acknowledge our Bruin Tracksters, who had some valiant efforts this past weekend at the West Regionals to qualify a couple dozen athletes for the NCAA championship meet in 10 days. The men are ranked #3 in the nation and the women are #7. Both are darkhorses for the title, but then again so was our men’s Golf team..
Easy money and faithless women, red-eye whiskey for the pain...
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