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Post by flyfishinbeav on May 23, 2024 12:02:05 GMT -8
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Post by 411500 on May 23, 2024 12:19:54 GMT -8
Sorry if this has already been discussed elsewhere.....
Any chance Arizona throws their weakest pitcher tonight. Takes the loss. Drops OSU from the tourney. Saves their better arms for Finals.
GO BEAVS!!
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Post by Judge Smails on May 23, 2024 12:22:05 GMT -8
Sorry if this has already been discussed elsewhere..... Any chance Arizona throws their weakest pitcher tonight. Takes the loss. Drops OSU from the tourney. Saves their better arms for Finals. GO BEAVS!! They could do that, but they need all the wins they can get for post-season seeding purposes and to help their RPI. |
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Post by wilkyisdashiznit on May 23, 2024 12:32:32 GMT -8
Can someone just recap for me who we need to win or lose to keep going in the tournament? We want Arizona to win to keep playing. The USC/uo game doesn't matter other than for a possible next opponent/RPI purposes. Oregon State eliminated Arizona State, and Oregon State's win eliminates USC with a loss. (Arizona State needed to win and then have USC and Arizona win. USC could have backed in with a loss, if Arizona State and Arizona had both won.) Arizona and Stanford have clinched two of the spots in the Semifinal and will play each other. The USC v. Oregon winner will nab the third spot. The fourth spot comes down to the Cal v. Arizona game tonight. Cal advances and plays the USC v. Oregon winner with a win. Otherwise, the USC v. Oregon winner will play Oregon State. |
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Post by hottubbeaver on May 23, 2024 12:33:39 GMT -8
Sorry if this has already been discussed elsewhere..... Any chance Arizona throws their weakest pitcher tonight. Takes the loss. Drops OSU from the tourney. Saves their better arms for Finals. GO BEAVS!! They could do that, but they need all the wins they can get for post-season seeding purposes and to help their RPI. Cal doesn't get much attention, but it might surprise many to know going back to our series with them they're 19-4 and 35-18 overall. Arizona is 34-20. They have a better overall record than Arizona and a better record over the last half of season. It's far from an obvious conclusion UA will win with even their best effort. For our sake, I hope they do though. |
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Post by osubeaver2018 on May 23, 2024 12:38:26 GMT -8
They could do that, but they need all the wins they can get for post-season seeding purposes and to help their RPI. Cal doesn't get much attention, but it might surprise many to know going back to our series with them they're 19-4 and 35-18 overall. Arizona is 34-20. They have a better overall record than Arizona and a better record over the last half of season. It's far from an obvious conclusion UA will win with even their best effort. For our sake, I hope they do though. Cal's a decent ball club, they lost their series to Stanford which knocked them off the postseason bubble but could still get hot and surprise some people. It is in no way a foregone conclusion that UA wins tonight. |
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Post by wilkyisdashiznit on May 23, 2024 12:39:41 GMT -8
Really helps on the hosting front. More help on the way soon? East Carolina RPI 15 [OSU is RPI 17] is down 3-12 in the 7th inning. D1 BB latest projection (this morning) had E. Carolina as hosting as a #13 seed and OSU hosting as a #15 seed Wichita State up 12-3 in the ninth against East Carolina. East Carolina needs to lose to open up a path for Oregon State to host, just in case tonight's Cal v. Zona game turns out wrong. |
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Post by rgeorge on May 23, 2024 12:46:09 GMT -8
That strike call is a foot outside. Not even close and Reeder gets rung up on it. Catcher was set up in the other batters box Have to wonder what game you're watching... ball moved back over the plate to the catcher's left knee. Maybe figure it out that the camera angle is directly behind the pitcher and the catcher's positioning has zero to do with where he caught the call! Umpiring has been fine all tourney long. |
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Post by wilkyisdashiznit on May 23, 2024 12:47:23 GMT -8
They could do that, but they need all the wins they can get for post-season seeding purposes and to help their RPI. Cal doesn't get much attention, but it might surprise many to know going back to our series with them they're 19-4 and 35-18 overall. Arizona is 34-20. They have a better overall record than Arizona and a better record over the last half of season. It's far from an obvious conclusion UA will win with even their best effort. For our sake, I hope they do though. 19-4 takes you back to April 9/10. Before that, Cal lost four straight, three games at Evans Diamond to Arizona and a midweek game at Evans Diamond against St. Mary's. And before that, Arizona won eight straight. Arizona and not Cal has had a better second half of the season. Cal has had a better last third to be sure. |
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Post by flyfishinbeav on May 23, 2024 12:56:25 GMT -8
They could do that, but they need all the wins they can get for post-season seeding purposes and to help their RPI. Cal doesn't get much attention, but it might surprise many to know going back to our series with them they're 19-4 and 35-18 overall. Arizona is 34-20. They have a better overall record than Arizona and a better record over the last half of season. It's far from an obvious conclusion UA will win with even their best effort. For our sake, I hope they do though. Yea, Cal has had a solid season. Wouldn't surprise me a bit if they beat zona, and we are left out.....leaving you fate to others is often a losing proposition |
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Post by rgeorge on May 23, 2024 13:01:56 GMT -8
Because he's the closer, and does closer things. It worked out I'm thinking because ASU was a bit anxious.... thank you! Bridger wasn't even close the first two pitches to the first two hitters. He seems very out of sorts/unsettled. And, the 2nd hitter should have "worn" one pitch. But, as stated... it worked out. |
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Post by rgeorge on May 23, 2024 13:05:44 GMT -8
Excellent pitching again today. Gloves were very good. Bats were missing, but good win. It is a "postseason type" win. Probably not going to see pitching where OSU is going to bang out 9 runs per game. Need to be able to win these type of games. Unfortunately I think OSU needs to "time" some offensive outbursts for Kmatz and Segura starts. |
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Post by osubeaver2018 on May 23, 2024 13:08:20 GMT -8
That strike call is a foot outside. Not even close and Reeder gets rung up on it. Catcher was set up in the other batters box Have to wonder what game you're watching... ball moved back over the plate to the catcher's left knee. Maybe figure it out that the camera angle is directly behind the pitcher and the catcher's positioning has zero to do with where he caught the call! Umpiring has been fine all tourney long. I'd have to see it to double check (didn't record the game unfortunately), I admittedly was in and out of what I was able to watch the last 3 or so innings of the game. From what I can remember of the pitch though the catcher was set up either on the chalk line or into the left-handed box. Pitch was a slider, appeared to hit his spot 6-12 inches off the plate, and the pitcher gets the call after what I thought was a pretty weak attempt to frame it by the catcher.
Plate ump today was inconsistent IMO, some went our way, some went theirs. Both teams' hitters seemed frustrated, Kasper early in the game had a long conversation with the umpire on a called 3rd that should've been ball 4 as well (pitch missed away and looked to be about neck level). Keljo got the benefit of a strike call or 2 as well that I thought were pretty egregious. There were other calls where in the same at bat one was a ball, the other a strike. It's tough to tell from the centerfield angle yes, and I don't really ever buy into the fact that an umpire's calls has that much of an impact on a W/L result for either team, but even if the zone is consistently a big or small zone it's still consistently wrong.
Pitchers and hitters have to adjust, for OSU specifically the approach and adjustments just aren't there when an umpire has a generous zone and this has been the case all season long. 14 Ks and 8 looking isn't good regardless of how the game's being called, but I also hate to see guys get rung up on pitches that appear to be pretty objectively balls. There's a strike zone for a reason and it shouldn't be strike 3 just because a pitcher hits their spot or a pitch is "too close to take".
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Post by wilkyisdashiznit on May 23, 2024 13:12:15 GMT -8
Really helps on the hosting front. More help on the way soon? East Carolina RPI 15 [OSU is RPI 17] is down 3-12 in the 7th inning. D1 BB latest projection (this morning) had E. Carolina as hosting as a #13 seed and OSU hosting as a #15 seed Wichita State up 12-3 in the ninth against East Carolina. East Carolina needs to lose to open up a path for Oregon State to host, just in case tonight's Cal v. Zona game turns out wrong. Wichita State 14 - East Carolina 4. If Rice can upset East Carolina tomorrow, that will hopefully kill off East Carolina's hosting chances. That would free up a spot for Oregon State to host. I would say that it is definitively not time to be popping off champagne corks. Baseball America had Oregon State as the two-seed in the Santa Barbara Regional this morning. (I still do not think that Santa Barbara can actually host. I think that they could find a place to host nearby, though.) |
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Post by jefframp on May 23, 2024 14:14:51 GMT -8
I'd feel better if Guerra just stood there and took pitches hoping 4 balls came before 3 strikes. I'd feel better with Guerra on the bench. He isn't helping the team. That would have been a bad plan! LOL |
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