Regionals...baseball

[billybud]

Out for the day...Regionals across town...got to head out to watch Ohio State and Georgia.

What a deal, compared to football. For $95 my wife and I have seats about six rows up in back of the first base dugout for all of the games.

Ohio State has pitching. Two ace pitchers with a combined record of 20-3. They are throwing Wimmer against Georgia and Wimmer is hot...11.9 strikeouts per 9 innings pitched...ERA under 3.00.

Georgia has HR hitters who can pound the ball if they see it...Gotta go...see y'all tomorrow...

[donovan]

Now we are talking......

[Dossenator]

Hogs beat Washington State today....they scored 9 runs in the bottom of the 8th inning to win 10-3.

[Spence]

Georgia beat Ohio State bad. Ohio State lost in the B-10 tourney early as well. They are not playing well right now. Coach Todd probably should quit whining about seeding now and get his players ready to play baseball.

[donovan]

Hogs beat Washington State today....they scored 9 runs in the bottom of the 8th inning to win 10-3.

Washington State was gifted into the tournament. I have long been of the opinion that Coaching can stop these 8 run onslaughts in one inning.....

[RazorHawk]

Hogs beat Washington State today....they scored 9 runs in the bottom of the 8th inning to win 10-3.

We play ZERO U tonight. If a miracle happens and we somehow make it to Omaha, I may be heading North for some baseball.

[Eric]

I caught a little bit of the action yesterday on TV. Strausberg was really good and Marist was hanging tight with FSU before that 3-run jack.

[billybud]

Well...Marist was beat down 16-4. Like a plug in the dam..when the FSU hits started rolling, Marist couldn't control the flood. Like a lot of small programs, Marist has not much pitching depth. Once they get past their ace, the pitching falls off.

With FSU's 8-2 win over Georgia today, things are looking up for the Noles. Holding the Dawg's big bats down was directly attributable to the rookie pitcher who went all nine innings. Georgia's pitcher wasn't any slouch, it was a two run game until the FSU bats came alive for a late spat of runs.

After watching Georgia pour on the 24 runs against the Buckeyes, I was really sweating their hitting. They have some power hitters.

It looks like it will be Georgia vs FSU for this regional unless the Buckeyes surprise me...they did get past Marist.

[Eric]

Yep. In college baseball, small-time programs have a decent shot in a one-game deal which is why we see a lot of head-scratchers in the CBB tournament. I noticed Dartmouth gave UNC a ballgame but lost to Kansas 16-0 today. I didn't see the final score from the FSU/Marist game though after assuming the 8-4 lead pretty much meant game over

[Dossenator]

Hogs beat OU today 17-6...Go Hogs!!!

Donovan, I agree....no way a team should score 8 runs on you in one inning. No coaching going on there.

[GoBoilers]

Hogs beat Washington State today....they scored 9 runs in the bottom of the 8th inning to win 10-3.

We play ZERO U tonight. If a miracle happens and we somehow make it to Omaha, I may be heading North for some baseball.

Have Hog hat. Will travel. Is Purdue still in it? LOL

[RazorHawk]

Florida St is up 20 - 0 after 3 1/2 innings against Ohio St. If Arkansas manages to beat OU once, either tonight or tomorrow night, they will probably be traveling to Tallahassee to play the Noles in the Super Regional.

[Dossenator]

Hogs whip OU 11-0 today. Hogs win the OU reginal easily...winning all three games they played (scoring 38 runs in 3 games). Go Hogs!!!!!

[billybud]

FSU set NCAA records playing Ohio State in the regional finals...beating the Bucks 37-6.

...37 runs...most runs in a post season game.
...38 hits...most hits in a postseason game
...15 doubles...most doubles by a team in a game...
...66 total bases...NCAA postseason record.

And, it could have been 50 runs. Coach Martin started pulling starters, FSU held guys at third when they could have gone home, didn't steal a base...and, put in pitchers, who were getting their first college at bat, for designated hitter and pinch hitter. Coach Martin, ahead by 30 runs, appealed to the NCAA to call the game after completion of the 7th inning and was denied.

[Dossenator]

Billybud...are you going to be at the Arkansas vs Florida St super regional? I'll be watching on my laptop. Should be good.

Last time the two schools played was in Fayetteville in 2004. The Hogs eliminated Florida St and received a trip to Omaha for the college world series that year.