[Husker] Baseball

[Jon Johnston]

One other thing to note. Last season we had only 61 stolen base attempts
the entire season. So far this season, we've had 23 attempts and been
thrown out eight times. Small ball is alive!

Jon Johnston
Corn Nation

On 3/4/11 10:52 AM, "Skylar Dodds" <sklarbodds at cox.net> wrote:

>Pierce is a setup/closer role right now.  Great heater and a bigtime slow
>curve for a change of pace.
>
>Who knows, they may bring either one of those guys to a starter.  I just
>hope they don't.  We've tried changing starters to closers and vice versa
>in
>the recent past after the season has started and it hasn't worked out.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Tony lambert [mailto:slimmer37 at hamilton.net]
>Sent: Friday, March 04, 2011 10:47 AM
>To: Skylar Dodds; husker at tssi.com
>Subject: Re: [Husker] Baseball
>
>Is Pierce a set up guy or is he a starter ? if he is a starter would they
>go
>
>to him ?
>
>Tony Lambert
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Skylar Dodds" <sklarbodds at cox.net>
>To: "'Tony lambert'" <slimmer37 at hamilton.net>; <husker at tssi.com>
>Sent: Friday, March 04, 2011 10:38 AM
>Subject: RE: [Husker] Baseball
>
>
>> Yeah, just saw that.  Probably Neiderklien.  While I like Hauptman a
>>lot 
>> as
>> a starter, I think they want to keep him in the bullpen.
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Tony lambert [mailto:slimmer37 at hamilton.net]
>> Sent: Friday, March 04, 2011 9:03 AM
>> To: Skylar Dodds; husker at tssi.com
>> Subject: Re: [Husker] Baseball
>>
>> Lemke has been scratched from the rotation this weekend do we Hauptman
>> instead
>>
>> Tony Lambert
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Skylar Dodds" <sklarbodds at cox.net>
>> To: "'Tony lambert'" <slimmer37 at hamilton.net>; <husker at tssi.com>
>> Sent: Friday, March 04, 2011 8:49 AM
>> Subject: RE: [Husker] Baseball
>>
>>
>>> Man Tony, you're reading my mind.  I was going to send one out today :)
>>>
>>> For college baseball fans, today is a "take a 1/2 day or call in sick"
>>> because this series is a big deal.
>>>
>>> Remember in the 90's when teams like the Clippers would advertise that
>>> Michael Jordan's coming to town to sell tickets?  Well, this afternoon
>>> Gerrit Cole Jr. will become the best college pitcher to ever step foot
>>>on
>>> the mound at Haymarket Park (in my opinion, with all due respect to
>>>Joba
>>> and
>>> Komine).  Gerrit is challenging Matt Purke (TCU) as the best pitching
>>> prospect in the upcoming draft.  Both will probably go in the first
>>>5-10
>>> picks.  He is that good.
>>>
>>> The unfortunate thing for the Huskers is, their Saturday starter is
>>>also 
>>> a
>>> projected first rounder and their Sunday starter is a freshman stud who
>>> has
>>> a 0.66 ERA so far this year.   Bottom line, if the team scores double
>>> digit
>>> runs this weekend, Erstad's doing a good job.
>>>
>>> UCLA comes in ranked #5 in the country after making it to the CWS
>>> championship last year and they didn't lose a step.  Last year, we had
>>>a
>>> good shot at beating them in 2 out of the games in L.A., but ended up
>>> getting swept.  If we win 1 this weekend, it's a good weekend.  Maybe
>>>the
>>> chilly temps will give us an advantage  :)
>>>
>>> For Nebraska, the bats are going good....so far.  Kash is all of the
>>> sudden
>>> on a tear and the team is hitting .340 on the early season.  So, we'll
>>> see
>>> how that stacks up to some real legit pitching this weekend.
>>>
>>> There's been quite the shake up in the rotation for this weekend.  True
>>> frosh Jon Keller will go today (who is very good in his own right if he
>>> can
>>> throw strikes) and Senior Matt Freeman will go tomorrow after starting
>>>on
>>> Wednesday (only threw 27 pitches tho) with Sunday's starter not yet
>>> announced (probably Lemke).
>>>
>>> All in all, if you can make it out to Haymarket today and brave the
>>> weather,
>>> it will probably be worth it.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Skylar
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Tony lambert [mailto:slimmer37 at hamilton.net]
>>> Sent: Friday, March 04, 2011 7:40 AM
>>> To: Skylar Dodds; husker at tssi.com
>>> Subject: Re: [Husker] Baseball
>>>
>>> It's UCLA game day Skylar could you give us a look at the Bruins and
>>>what
>>> you think the Huskers chances are. Just heard on SN archive that
>>>Keller,
>>> Freeman and TBA. Looks like Erstad is having an effect on the hitters,
>>> What's your take ?
>>>
>> 
>
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