2011 Baseball Thread

[CatMom]

With a 16-2 drubbing of NWS, yesterday, TXST coach Ty Harrington got his 400th career win

[eagleskins]

Rodney Hennon has our best pitcher by far closing while he scrambles to find a Sunday starter. Genius. And this guy was a starter the last two years. Awful coach with great talent.

[CatMom]

You're playing on Easter? Wow. Then again, I just checked d1baseball and it seems most of the eastern conferences have games.
We play Thurs, Fri, Sat, Easter week.

[Thumper 76]

You're playing on Easter? Wow. Then again, I just checked d1baseball and it seems most of the eastern conferences have games.
We play Thurs, Fri, Sat, Easter week.

SDSU played on Easter, being a northern team we have to take advantage of every good day we get for our games. On a side note from that, SDSU lost to SUU 10-0 the game before and then came out and spanked SUU 17-0 during which the SUU coach filed a protest about use of an "illegal bat". Which really makes the Jacks sound like a shady bunch. But, before you judge, please read this article, and then shake your head at the SUU coach for me please.

http://www.argusleader.com/article/2011 ... ltered-bat

Leading 3-1 in the bottom of the third inning, Jackrabbits catcher Zach Briggs connected on a two-out, three-run double that prompted Thunderbirds coach David Eldredge to question the legality of the bat Briggs used. He requested an inspection, asserting that more than 18 inches was covered by pine tar.
After a 10-minute discussion, the three-man umpiring crew ruled that the bat was "altered" rather than "illegal," meaning it would be removed from the game and Briggs' hit stood. Eldredge disagreed, angling for Briggs to be called out and end what turned out to be a six-run inning, and immediately filed an official protest.

Eldredge admitted that possibility was part of his motivation for pointing out the minor infraction - one fewer league loss could make the difference in qualifying for the four-team conference tournament.
"I even apologized to the ump - I didn't want to put him in a spot," he said. "But for our sake I had to maybe find a way to get a half game out of this if we can take a tie instead of a loss.

[Seawolf97]

StonyBrook improved to 27-9 with a 17-12 win over Fairleigh Dickinson Univ. this afternoon. SBU trailed until the 8th inning when they tacked on 8 runs and never looked back. SBU takes on Fairfield tomorrow on the road.

[bonarae]

Fullerton lost to San Diego 12-8. What's wrong now?

[Seawolf97]

StonyBrook improved to 28-9 this afternoon by shutting our Fairfield 9-0. SBU will host Binghamton in a 3 game series this weekend.

[Shellin]

WSU's had a rough go of things this season, which is too bad since pre-season I felt like we were going to be pretty good. We swept a double-header against BYU yesterday to improve to 17-19 on the year. The two games against BYU broke a streak of 21 consecutive games where the Cougs' opponent was ranked at the time of the game.

[tampajag]

Southern hosts UAPB this weekend for a 3 game series. The Jags have a 3 game lead over Grambling in the SWAC west

[Seawolf97]

StonyBrook swept a double header this afternoon from Binghamton Univ.
Game 1 SBU 5 BU 4 (10 innings) Game 2 SBU 6 BU 0.
StonyBrook is 30-9 on the season and 11-1 in America East play. Game three of the series in tomorrow 12 noon. This is StonyBrooks best start since joining Div. 1

[93henfan]

CAA baseball standings. Leave it to Towson to get a fucking tie in baseball.

Baseball
Standings as of 05/01/11
Team CAA Overall
Delaware 15-8 25-18
Old Dominion 13-8 21-20
James Madison 14-9 29-15
Georgia State 12-8 32-13
UNC Wilmington 12-8 23-20
William & Mary 12-11 22-23
Towson 10-10 19-21 -1
VCU 8-12 16-24
Northeastern 8-12 13-25
Hofstra 9-14 11-25
George Mason 5-18 18-27 -1

[Seawolf97]

StonyBrook dropped the 3rd game of its 3 game series with Binghamtom today 4-2. The Seawolves are 30-10 and 11-2 in America East play and remain in 1st place leading Binghamton by 3 games. SBU will play Marist this Wednesday
in the final non conference game of the season.

[CatMom]

Took 2 of 3 from McNeese. We needed the sweep because SFA lost a game to UTA.
Sure wish UTA had held on today, though. They blew a 10-1 lead and lost in 10 to SFA 13-12
(leaves us in a 1st place tie)

Regardless, we had a great game today. Team had 6 HR's
Our LF/LHP/DH (McVaney) had 3 solo shots.
He is the first Bobcat to have 3 HRS in a game since 1987 and only the second player to ever do so. (we started BB in 1985). He also had a HR yesterday in our loss.

http://www.txstatebobcats.com/index.asp ... h=baseball

There was also a call at 2nd that the ump completely missed. Our 3B (Kubitza) hit a single to right. Runner on 1st headed to third so RF sent the ball there. Our 3B headed to 2nd and slid into the bag, hand first, on the outfield side. The tag was late. Our coach usually will walk calmly out to the ump with his hands in his back pockets and present his case, but not today. He practically stormed out with his asst (Fikac) close at hand.
(from my post @ BCR)
I think the best part of the game was when Ty came out to argue Kubitza being called out at 2nd. Fikac came out with him and escorted Kubitza back to the dugout and Ty just ripped into that ump. He was in his face, pointed, he gestured, he followed the guy from 2nd, over to third and into left field. He didn't get tossed, not even close. The ump knew he had blown that call so he couldn't justify ejecting the coach.

The crowd was so into this and McVaney was on deck. Atwood (RF) was on third and I would love to know what he heard. After roars and constant enthusiasm and encouragement from the crowd Ty finally concluded, McVaney stepped in and hit his 2nd solo HR (Atwood had scored on a WP).

[tampajag]

Southern takes two out of three from UAPB (Game 1 15-10, Game 2 6-10, Game 3 9-2). The Jags win the SWAC West (25-16, 15-6 Western Division)

[bonarae]

Fullerton took 2 of 3 from Pacific. Next series: at UC Riverside.

[CatMom]

TXST has taken 2 of 3 so far from UTSA. I have to miss today and tomorrow because SA is 100 miles each way for me (split rivalry series - I did get to last night's game in SM)
McVaney gets the save in both games but gave up a run today
Fri - Carson Smith pitched 8 innings of shut-out ball and had 14Ks. His last 2 outings he has pitched 15 innings and had 27Ks without allowing a run. Hard to believe he has 3 losses but he was recovering from a shoulder injury early in the season but................he's back

Today we took a 6-0 lead and had to hang on for the 9-7 win

Now back in first place by ourselves as SFA has lost 2 so far this weekend (been tied there for too many weeks)

30-16, 19-7
Got ranked by Baseball America this week (@ 25)
7 conference games left

[Seawolf97]

StonyBrook swept a double header from the Univ of Hartford today.
Game 1 SBU 5 Hartford 1, Game 2 SBU 3- Hartford 2. The teams will paly another double header tomorrow. StonyBrook is now 32-10 and 13-2 in America East play

[tampajag]

Southern split a double header with Texas Southern, losing game 1 7-2 and winning game 2 16-3. Game 3 is this afternoon. The Jags record is now 26-17, 17-7 SWAC.

[T-Dog]

Leave it to Towson to get a fucking tie in baseball.

Last year App and WCU split their 3-game series 1-1-1 with the third game ending tied in the 8th after storms came in.

This year however, App got the series win with 11-4 and 10-9 wins the last two days. Final game on Monday.

[CatMom]

TXST opens up a 3 game lead in the SLC courtesy of a sweep of UTSA and a SAM sweep of SFA

SLC standings....May 8...6 conference games left
TXST 31-16, 20-7
SFA 30-17, 17-10 (-3)
SAM 33-17, 16-11 (-4)
SELA 31-18, 15-12 (-5)

the rest of the teams are out of the race.

[Seawolf97]

StonyBrook completed the sweep of Harford this afternoon winning both games.
Game 1 SBU 10 Hartford 3, Game 2 SBU 9 Hartford 6. StonyBrook is now 34-10 and 15 -2 in America East it is there best season ever including at the D3 level years ago. This team can win 40 games this season with 7 conference games remaining plus the AE tournament.

[bonarae]

Fullerton swept UC Riverside. I was out of town this weekend so I was unable to post individual game scores.

[tampajag]

Southern loses their final SWAC series against Texas Southern losing Game 3 5-3. 26-18, 17-8 SWAC

[bonarae]

Fullerton was shut out by Pepperdine 7-0.

[Seawolf97]

StonyBrook defeated Binghamton today 17-7 in a America East game. SBU is now 35-10 and 16-2 in America East play.
The teams will play a double header Saturday to complete the series.