The 26-16 Huskies ( top ranked in BE @ #36 RPI | NCAA.com)
Uconn Baseball - BE Champs !
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The Husky "Bash Brothers".... leading Big East teams in batting ave. & homers.... knock off Seton Hall 11-4 with 5 more homers. They move into 2nd place with 3 more big games FRI & SAT (Free Tickets) to close out the season. Starting with a double header today at 12 noon. ( they also now qualify for BE tourney with 14 league games Min. required due to Covid rules)
HUSKY HOMER HIGHLIGHTS :
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Are they still using aluminum bats in college ball? I never understood why they did, heard it was a cost issue. However I do like the power and HRs. Not sure how good Big East pitching is vs. the rest of the country. Hopefully this can continue against top 25 pitching.
Uconn's only issue is, probably good, but not great pitching. They only have 2 good starters, 1 is OK and the 4th starter is a problem.
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Huskies take advantage of a 1st inning error & start off FRI's double header right..with a GRAND SALAMI !
vs. Seton Hall's All-Big East starter David Festa (6-2/ 1.61 ERA)
vs. Seton Hall's All-Big East starter David Festa (6-2/ 1.61 ERA)
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The Huskies are now in 1st....." Heading into the final day of the regular season, the Huskies need a win or a Creighton loss.... to clinch the BIG EAST regular season title. First pitch is a 1 p.m. against the Pirates "
The format of the tournament is double elimination. The first five games of the championship will be carried on the BIG EAST Digital Network .
2021 BIG EAST Baseball Championship Presented by JEEP
Thursday, May 27 – BIG EAST Digital Network
Game 1: #2 Creighton vs. #3 Seton Hall, 2:30 p.m. ET
Game 2: #1 UConn vs. #4 Xavier, 6:30 p.m. ET (approx.)
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How is Xavier's pitching, any good? UConn has been seriously raking of late and I am wondering if X has the arms to stop it or even slow it down.
They split 4 games @ Xavier, but tough to tell on X's pitching, they play in a band box , that's a bigtime hitters park. Also the series out there was right after Uconn hadn't played in 2 weeks because of covid shutdown.
Well the Huskies knocked out Xavier's 1st team All-Big East pitcher ( Nick Zwack ) in 3 innings with 5 runs.
Box Score
Thursday's highlights vs. Xavier ...(Fri's game will once again be on Youtube's BE digital network):
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I don't know who the UConn closer is in that video posted above but I LOVE to see a closer punch guys out with high fastballs to end a game. Doesn't get any better than that. I am a fan of that dude.
You or most husky fans either. That kid is a 6'6" 256lb FR named Garrett Coe from Lakeside , CT ( The Gunnery ), who only pitched 6.2 innings total, in blowouts, before yesterday's 3 inning mop-up. He was at Uconn but didn't make the 35 man active roster in 2020.
But looking at his stats now this year he has good numbers ( 0.93 ERA/ 9.2 innings/ 12 K's)... If he keeps it up he'll have a nice Husky future.
So they play the winner of the Creighton - Xavier loser's bracket game? Doesn't the winner of that game have to beat UConn twice, so that there are 2 chances for UConn to win the championship?
Correct .....The format of the tournament is double elimination.....Uconn hasn't loss yet.
Sunday, May 30 – Championship (FS2)
Game 6: Xavier vs. UConn
Game 7: Xavier vs. UConn (if necessary)
Now 7-3 in the 7th. Amazing that former Hall Of Fame MLB pitcher Bert Blyleven is FS2 color analyst tonight. Blyleven had one of the best curveballs in the history of MLB. Was his bread and butter pitch.
The latest bracketology has UConn as a 2 seed in the Fayetteville Regional, where the #1 seed is overall #1 seed Arkansas, the SEC Champions:
Total BS putting Uconn as a 2 in a regional vs. the overall #1, when they have #25 rpi. when teams like
Nebraska & Ga Tech with rpi's in the 40's get to play as 2's vs. regional 1 like Notre Dame (#7) and Tenn (#4). Northeast bias at it's best.
EDIT....so much for some site named D1Baseball, they didn't have clue about what they're writing about !
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Nice Job by the Stags, (37-3) made it as an at-large despite losing 2 in their conference tourney. Also shout out to Central Connecticut (28-13) who made it in..... and gives the state 3 baseball teams in the tourney
