OT: College baseball and softball

[JerseyNoles]

So much of it on tv this weekend
WCWS in OKC
Baseball regionals all over the country

Truly one of the great weekends for college sports junkies
Anyone else watching?

 

[Scarlet4Shore]

Hope to watch more of the WCWS. Tennessee pitcher broke her own record throwing a 79.4 mph pitch the other day.

 

[Erial_Lion_rivals140457]

Really interesting play in the Oregon baseball game last night.



Initial call was nothing, and runner safe. After review (and a really long one at that), they went with no Obstruction on the catcher, and malicious contact on the runner (which makes it an out, an immediate dead ball so the other runner was returned to first, an ejection on the runner, and he's suspended for the next game).

This was a tough one, but I think you have to call obstruction on this one. Catcher is clearly blocking the base path and doesn't have the ball. Yes, he's trying to make a play on the ball so you give him some leeway, but he's giving the runner no path. The malicious contact is a 50/50 call for me...runner looked like he started to slide, catcher was in the way, and it was an attempt where he had momentum and went through the catcher. I don't think I call that, but I have no issue with them calling it. However, if they go with the obstruction call, then the run counts and there is no out (and the other runner can be placed on 2nd).

 

[Erial_Lion_rivals140457]

And speaking of malicious contact, a really interesting/tough call from a high school game in Illinois...

I've watched this one 20 times, and I still have no idea what should have been called. It was a late slide, the slide was a little higher than you'd like to see, but is it enough to call malicious contact? I really don't know. 50/50 call for me, but the ump seems to be catching a lot of heat for it (granted he was late arriving to the play, but that's a tough one even with a perfect angle)...in real time watching it once, I thought it was an obvious malicious contact. But the benefit of replay told me that it might have looked a little worse than it was (especially with the 2nd baseman out in front of the bag a bit and very low).

 

[JayDogSmooth]

Two terrible calls w both the catcher & 2nd baseman obstructing the runners

Side note, Jamie Arnold is legit
Kid was dealing last night w 13 k’s

Mississippi State fans were awesome
Super nice people

 

[bigmatt718]

Expanding to the West Coast has proved to be a savvy move for the B1G in terms of spring athletics. Baseball/softball are significantly stronger with USC/UCLA/Oregon in the fold, Oregon with their unbelievable track and field programs, Washington with rowing, etc.

 

[JayDogSmooth]

Expanding to the West Coast has proved to be a savvy move for the B1G in terms of spring athletics. Baseball/softball are significantly stronger with USC/UCLA/Oregon in the fold, Oregon with their unbelievable track and field programs, Washington with rowing, etc.

Oregon looks like they have a really cool facility, as it’s right near the football stadium and on the one Concourse, you can actually look onto the baseball field

 

[rubaseball78_rivals]

And speaking of malicious contact, a really interesting/tough call from a high school game in Illinois...

I've watched this one 20 times, and I still have no idea what should have been called. It was a late slide, the slide was a little higher than you'd like to see, but is it enough to call malicious contact? I really don't know. 50/50 call for me, but the ump seems to be catching a lot of heat for it (granted he was late arriving to the play, but that's a tough one even with a perfect angle)...in real time watching it once, I thought it was an obvious malicious contact. But the benefit of replay told me that it might have looked a little worse than it was (especially with the 2nd baseman out in front of the bag a bit and very low).

I would not have called this a malicious slide. It was a late slide and a hard slide but didn’t slide through the base or pop up. The hard slide looked like he was trying to beat the throw not take out the fielder.

 

[rubaseball78_rivals]

Expanding to the West Coast has proved to be a savvy move for the B1G in terms of spring athletics. Baseball/softball are significantly stronger with USC/UCLA/Oregon in the fold, Oregon with their unbelievable track and field programs, Washington with rowing, etc.

Washington also good in softball.

 

[bigmatt718]

Washington also good in softball.

That they are.

 

[JerseyNoles]

A lot of top seeds went down. Clemson, UGA, overall top seed Vandy, etc.