2010 College Baseball thread

[cartman]

While the MLB is just now shaking the rust off of the pitchers and catchers, College Baseball kick off their season today.

[MJ4H]

Yep. Going to try to go tomorrow. Would go today but the game starts during work hours. Arkansas hosts Ball State.

[cartman]

Here's the games this weekend involving Baseball America Top 25 teams:

Top 25 Series
New Mexico at (1) Texas
(3) Virginia at (18) East Carolina
Centenary at (3) Louisiana State
(5) Rice at Stanford
Missouri State at (6) Georgia Tech
South Florida at (7) Florida
Loyola Marymount at/vs./at (8) UC Irvine
Georgia State at (9) Florida State
Duquesne at (10) South Carolina
Sam Houston State at (11) Texas Christian
Bowling Green State at (13) Louisville
Northern Illinois at (14) Arizona State
Rutgers at (16) Miami
Ball State at (17) Arkansas
George Washington at (20) North Carolina
Northwestern State at (21) Southern Mississippi
Louisiana-Monroe at (24) Mississippi
(25) Oregon State at Hawaii

Top 25 Tournaments
Round robin, three sites in Southern California:
(4) Cal State Fullerton, Long Beach State, Oregon, Pepperdine

Caravelle Resort Tournament, Conway, S.C.:
(12) Coastal Carolina, Kentucky, Virginia Tech, West Virginia

Round robin, two sites in South Carolina:
15) Clemson, Furman, Miami (Ohio), Michigan State

San Diego State Tournament:
19) San Diego, Indiana, Oklahoma, San Diego State

QTI Apparel Opening Weekend Classic, Waco, Texas:
(22) Georgia, Baylor, Duke

MLB Urban Invitational, Los Angeles/Compton, Calif.:
(23) UCLA, Bethune-Cookman, Cal State Northridge, Southern

[Thomkal]

go Coastal Carolina! Pre-season hype seems to give the Chants a good chance to go to Omaha this season, sure hope that happens.

[Pumpy Tudors]

Maybe New Orleans can win the Sun Belt in their final year as a member of the conference. I can dream.

[MJ4H]

omfg im watching arkansas baseball

[Philliesfan980]

Does anyone know if any of these games are being streamed on the net(and free too)?

Thanks.

[cartman]

Originally Posted by Philliesfan980

Does anyone know if any of these games are being streamed on the net(and free too)?

Thanks.

It isn't quite the same as live audio or video, but the NCAA has brought back their gametracker from last season. It was a great tool to use during the CWS.

NCAA.com – The Official Website of NCAA Championships

[MJ4H]

Well the Arkansas game is being streamed live, but it is premium content for Razorvision subscribers (which I am).

[Philliesfan980]

Originally Posted by cartman

It isn't quite the same as live audio or video, but the NCAA has brought back their gametracker from last season. It was a great tool to use during the CWS.

NCAA.com – The Official Website of NCAA Championships

Cool, thanks. It's better than nothing.

[MrBug708]

Lets see if UCLA can to their career CWS appearances of...1

[MJ4H]

Arkansas wins their opener 9-2.

EDIT: excuse me, 10-2

[cartman]

Originally Posted by MrBug708

Lets see if UCLA can to their career CWS appearances of...1

That is kinda strange, considering how much success Cal State Fullerton and USC have had over the years.

[cougarfreak]

A former student/player of mine is playing for Navy, Will Shuttleworth. Go Navy!

[Pumpy Tudors]

Originally Posted by MJ4H

omfg im watching arkansas baseball

wow that never happens

[MrBug708]

Originally Posted by cartman

That is kinda strange, considering how much success Cal State Fullerton and USC have had over the years.

Yup. They had a coach, Gary Adams, who was there for about 30 years. Nice guy, graduated players, and thats all Peter Dalis ever wanted from the program

[MJ4H]

Originally Posted by Pumpy Tudors

wow that never happens

not when its not baseball season it doesn't

[Pumpy Tudors]

Originally Posted by MJ4H

not when its not baseball season it doesn't

english only please

[Lathum]

Hoping UW women softball team can repeat. Go Dawgs!

[k0ruptr]

Hawaii has a good shot again this year, spent a lot of last season in the top 25. I think they will be decent.

[k0ruptr]

dola, bottom 7 right now hawaii tied 6-6 with Oregon St.

[MJ4H]

Well Arkansas dropped one to Ball State today. 5-2. Blech. Went to the game. Cold, wet, and miserable.

[JetsIn06]

With Medlar Field a 45 second drive away, I'll be going to a ton of PSU games this year.

[MJ4H]

Arkansas salvaged the series with Ball State (who was a surprisingly good mid-major team) with a 9-3 win today.

Next weekend is Troy for 3 games.

[Thomkal]

Coastal Carolina went 2-1 in their tourney, losing 3-2 to Kentucky in what was a very sloppy last game for them-got thrown out at home, got picked off twice, and a passed ball in the last lead to the losing run.

[JonInMiddleGA]

Loving Georgia Tech (14-1) getting a 6-5 win over Georgia (8-9) tonight as the Dawg pen walks home the eventual winning run in the bottom of the 8th.

Shouldn't have been that close but I'll take it.

[RPI-Fan]

UVA somehow managing to hold on to its #1 ranking in BA poll despite a great LSU team staying undefeated. One of UVA's losses was a bad-ish loss (the other one is as good of a loss as you can have ... giving up a walk-off HR to the #3 team in the country on a Sunday conference game on the road). Guess we're getting back some of that karma from getting royally screwed last year.

[cartman]

Originally Posted by RPI-Fan

UVA somehow managing to hold on to its #1 ranking in BA poll despite a great LSU team staying undefeated.

Looking at the correct week? LSU lost twice last week.

[RPI-Fan]

Originally Posted by cartman

Looking at the correct week? LSU lost twice last week.

Whoops, assumed they stayed undefeated. Careless on my part.

Anyways, glad UVA is doing everything it can to avoid another screw job!!!

[Celeval]

Not that the ACC isn't always pretty darn good at baseball, but damn:

#1 UVA (12-3)
#3 Georgia Tech (13-1)
#5 Florida State (13-2) - both losses to #1 UVA
#11 Clemson (13-1)
#17 Miami (10-4)
#24 North Carolina (12-4)

(courtesy baseball america)

[MrBug708]

UCLA is undefeated this year curtersy of their two superb aces in Gerrit Cole and Trevor Bauer. Cole was the first round pick of the Yankees two years ago and a client of Boras who was shocked that he picked college over the Yankees.

Good story about the kid
Why Did Gerrit Cole Turn Down Millions For UCLA? - Bruins Nation

[MrBug708]

UCLA continues to cruise as they look to have one of the best, if not the best pitching staff in college baseball right now.

Just gotta pray to avoid the Bruin fade

[MJ4H]

Arkansas sweeps Alabama, winning 10-5 today. Last season, Arkansas was 1-5 vs. Bama and LSU, this season, 4-2 (and should be 5-1, frankly: complete bullpen meltdown cost the Hogs in Game 2 vs. LSU). This team is improved over last year and it was a CWS team last year. I'm excited. Hope we hold it together and peak at the right time.

[JonInMiddleGA]

#3 GT (21-2, 8-1) sweeps #17 UNC on the road with an 11-8 win in 10 innings today. Never mind the sweep, this is the first series win over the Tar Heels since 2006, first series win in Chapel Hill since 2003.

[MJ4H]

Zack Cox (best 3rd baseman in the country) just snapped his 24 game hitting streak with a fly out in the bottom of the 8th leading 9-4 over Centenary (unless Centenary rallies and Arkansas bats around). Too bad, I guess. Arkansas is up to #8 in the RPI. #10 Baseball America.

[MrBug708]

UCLA is 21-0 on the season and up to #6

[MJ4H]

Arkansas drops game 1 at home against Kentucky, 12-8. Come back to win 10-1 on Saturday setting the stage for an epic game 3.

Both teams 1-2-3 in the first inning which is pretty lol. The end of the 2nd inning it was 8-5 Arkansas. Arkansas then added 5 more and looked to be on their way to an easy win at 13-5. Kentucky slowly crawled back into it at 13-9 going to the 8th. A 7 run inning for Kentucky saw them pull back in front 16-13. Quick work until the bottom of the 9th. Arkansas works the bases loaded with 2 outs and 2 strikes and Colin Kuhn hits a walk-off grand slam to win the game and series 17-16.

Wow.

[JonInMiddleGA]

#2 Georgia Tech (25-3) recovers from a mid-week loss to Kennesaw State to sweep Duke.

UGA's (10-17) struggles continue, although they did manage to win 1 of 3 from #4 LSU this weekend.

[MJ4H]

Arkansas up to #3 in the RPI! If the pitching gets better (which I think it will) this team can be really good. The hitting is definitely picking up, and the fielding is improving (man, we had a lot of errors at the beginning of the year). I think this team is capable of a lot.

[MJ4H]

Arkansas destroys St. Louis 32-8. Game was called after the 7th inning. A 14 run 1st inning got things started.

[MJ4H]

Arkansas swept New Mexico in a mid-week series (tough team, 2 one run wins) and then sweeps Georgia this weekend, outscoring them 33-9. Arkansas is now leading both the SEC West and SEC overall races, both by one game over LSU and South Carolina, at 12-3.

ETA: also swept Mississippi State on the road last weekend.

[cartman]

Texas gets their 3rd straight series sweep and now have won 11 in a row.

[MrBug708]

UCLA drops their first series of the year, to Oregon. The 3rd game is today, but I doubt it matters. That was a short lived stay as #1

[JonInMiddleGA]

#5 Georgia Tech completes the sweep of #16 Clemson with an 11-3 decision this afternoon, wrapping up a great week that included a 26-5 win over UGA that marked the most runs & most hits allowed by their rival in more than 100 years.

[MJ4H]

Georgia's weekend starters were pretty terrible; I can only imagine what kind of nonsense they put on the mound for a mid-week game. One guy today threw the worst pitch I've seen ever in my life. It hit the netting behind the plate. Not the backstop, the netting. Must've missed the catchers attempt to stab at it by 15 feet or more.

[JonInMiddleGA]

Originally Posted by MJ4H

Georgia's weekend starters were pretty terrible; I can only imagine what kind of nonsense they put on the mound for a mid-week game. One guy today threw the worst pitch I've seen ever in my life. It hit the netting behind the plate. Not the backstop, the netting. Must've missed the catchers attempt to stab at it by 15 feet or more.

Well they had plenty of choices, they used 10 pitchers in the mid-week game, none of whom lasted more than 2 IP's and like 3 or 4 who lasted 1/3rd or less. They're truly one of the worst staffs I can ever recall seeing at this level, so much so that the natives are starting to use the word "fire" in relationship to Coach Perno in spite of a ton of historical success. I don't see any way that happens now but if next year starts out the same way I doubt he'd make it to the end of a second year of this, it's truly abysmal baseball.

I love it

[Chief Rum]

Originally Posted by MrBug708

UCLA drops their first series of the year, to Oregon. The 3rd game is today, but I doubt it matters. That was a short lived stay as #1

I wouldn't sweat it. MLB, of course, is not the same as college, but in the MLB, the best teams ever have, what, a little over a 70% winning percentage? UCLA's at around 85% now, maybe higher, and Oregon's a decent new program. I think UCLA has already done plenty to prove its credentials, and the Bruins will no doubt bounce back quickly.

[RPI-Fan]

UVA with an awful loss today to VaTech, failing to get the series sweep. Walked four guys in a row in the top of the 9th with a two-run lead and one out.

[Thomkal]

Coastal Carolina swept yet another Big South opponent to remain undefeated in the Conference and has the most wins of any team in the nation. After beating North Carolina on the road last week, its looking more and more likely that Coastal will get its first ever national seed in the postseason.

I just hope this is the last time this season they face N. Carolina, as they own Coastal in the postseason.

[JonInMiddleGA]

Speaking of UNC, here's a pretty good illustration of how goofy hard the ACC is right now.

The Heels were #31 in the latest RPI (4/13, new one due tomorrow I guess), still in the "still receiving votes" for all of the Top 25's ... but if the season ended today they wouldn't even qualify for conference tournament (8 teams get in, top 2 from each division + four best remaining records in ACC).