Beavers vs. UCLA Conference Tournament Game 12 5/28/22 Official Gamethread

Guerra has not pitched yet.

As I read all the interpretations, Aristotle is right on the stepping off the rubber fake to third. I had always assumed so as well. Is it still legal to fake to third when off the rubber? It has to be. No difference in this result, but my beer head is confused.

Not being there... if he "parted" before stepping back, it's a balk. If he's on and steps toward, inside 45 degrees (usually the determination) he can also fake.

But, just stepping back doesn't eliminate correct mitt/hand contact.

okay I’d say we have 2 elite arms, 5 great arms, 5 good arm and some others that need to develop a bit. Significantly less than a to though.

Oh Frisch is elite and Mundt is great but out.

that's exactly right. They could have ended up calling delay of game, but I thought there was a warning for that.

To me it's pretty clear that wasn't a balk.

At the Battle of Coral Sea, Japan sent the Shōkaku and Zuikaku, the two most advanced Japanes carriers, to take Port Moresby.  It was the first time that they committed only two aircraft carriers to an attack like that.  The Shōkaku and the Zuikaku failed to take Port Moresby and sank the Lexington.  But the Shōkaku had been hit three times, was so badly damaged that she almost capsized in a storm and could not participate in Midway.  The Zuikaku lost all but 36 of its airplanes and so was also unavailable for Midway.  The Zuikaku had to leave the area.  The Japanese still went forward with the invasion, until a very hobbled Yorktown was seen by Japanese aircraft making what was merely a feint toward Port Moresby.  At that point, the Japanese called off the naval invasion and instead set off on simultaneous ruinous invasions of Midway and Port Moresby overalnd.

By destroying the Lexington, the Japanese had scored a tactical victory.  However, the Americans had bluffed off the invasion of Port Moresby and had weekend the Kidō Butai sufficiently that the Americans were able to destroy all four carriers in one foul swoop at Midway.

In the final analysis, if Port Moresby was important enough to send two carriers, at least four should have been committed.  Not committing sufficient resources to win cost Japan the majority of its carrier fleet and handed the Americans the carrier advantage for more than three months, which was all the time that the United States needed, in order to build up Henderson Field and begin launching next generation carriers.

That is all to say that Japan taking its foot off the gas and not committing sufficient resources cost it what should have been an easy win and led to additional subsequent losses, which led to a loss of World War II.

Oregon State started the ninth with Carpenter and then went with Victor Quinn before going to Ryan Brown.  If Ryan Brown was an option, he should have started the ninth or been put in at any point before Victor Quinn threw his four-pitch walk.  Brown should not have been put in in a six-run game with the bases juiced.  Brown gave up  three runs in the ninth, which would have won the game for Oregon State at the start of the ninth or at any point before Quinn pitched.  And then Gavin Logan would not gotten have in the ninth.  And then Justin Boyd would have gotten hurt in a game that he did not need to play in.

Very bad coaching there.  I see what the intent was, but pitching Carpenter against a team with a pulse is like playing catch with 200-year-old dynamite.