[Husker] Baseball

[Jon Johnston]

It was the first "all extra innings" series in school history. Pretty cool
that we won it. 

Jon Johnston
Corn Nation


On 3/6/11 5:59 PM, "Skylar Dodds" <sklarbodds at cox.net> wrote:

>Hehe, only if I can say, "I told you so" again to the list :)
>
>OK, taking it back a little further.   Pierce struggled the first inning
>giving up 3, but settled down and pitched so-so from there, but didn't
>give
>up any more runs.  Unfortunately, he had thrown 70 pitches after 3 and
>Yost
>came in for the 4th and gave up another run right away.
>
>From there, the bullpen kept them in check with Ryan Hander, Tyler King,
>and
>Casey Hauptman holding them scoreless from there.
>
>In the 7th, Kiser doubled with one out and Asche singles with 2 outs to
>get
>the Huskers on the board.
>
>In the 9th, with one out Pritchard hits for Cooper and reaches on an
>infield
>single, moves up twice on indifference and a wild pitch.  Kiser drove him
>in
>on a groundout to the first baseman.  4-2...TWO DOWN.
>
>Peters reaches and advances on an E-6 (otherwise game over)...Asche scores
>him on a "Ground ball with eyes". 4-3....TWO DOWN
>
>Asche swipes 2nd and then is driven home by Josh Scheffert to tie it at
>4!!!
>Kash K's to end the threat.
>
>In the 10th...UCLA gets a 1 out double and an intentional walk and a 6-4
>FC
>puts runners on the corners with 2 outs before Hauptman gets a ground ball
>to end the inning.
>
>In the bottom half, Chad Christensen put down a bunt single to lead off
>the
>inning and a sac bunt puts him at 2nd.  After an intentional walk and a
>wild
>pitch, the Husker have 2nd and 3rd with 1 out but back to back K's ends
>the
>threat.
>
>In the 11th, Hauptman sets them down in order with 2 ricochet ground
>balls,
>the first off 1st base and the 2nd off Hauptman's leg (reminiscent of
>Friday's loss). 
>
>In the bottom of the 11th, Bryan Peters leads off with a BOMB to win the
>series for the Huskers!
>
>Oh man, what a series.  3 extra inning games...two walk off wins for the
>Huskers over the #5 team in the country!!!
>
>WOW!
>
>--
>Skylar
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Tony lambert [mailto:slimmer37 at hamilton.net]
>Sent: Sunday, March 06, 2011 5:43 PM
>To: Skylar Dodds; 'Jon Johnston'; husker at tssi.com
>Subject: Re: [Husker] Baseball
>
>Skylar, Could you fill me in on the wonderful game that I missed today. I
>worked in my garage no AM stations had it.I got to listen to the 8th
>inning 
>and half of the 9th. The Huskers were down 4-1  last I heard. What
>HAPPENED 
>I see that the Huskers won HOLY SHIT BATMAN.
>
>Tony Lambert
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Skylar Dodds" <sklarbodds at cox.net>
>To: "'Jon Johnston'" <jon.johnston at gmail.com>; "'Tony lambert'"
><slimmer37 at hamilton.net>; <husker at tssi.com>
>Sent: Saturday, March 05, 2011 8:35 PM
>Subject: RE: [Husker] Baseball
>
>
>> Well, again today OH MY GOSH!!!  Huskers win 2-1 in 12 innings!!!!
>>
>> Trevor Bauer....the other 1st round draft pick from UCLA.  WOW.  He only
>> threw 10 innings, gave up a solo homerun to Kash Kalkowski and struck
>>out 
>> 17
>> Husker hitters....by the way, I forgot to mention yesterday that he led
>> the
>> country last year in strikeouts and has a good chance of doing it again
>> this
>> year.
>>
>> The best news, Matt Freeman and Dylan Vogt were INCREDIBLE for the
>> Huskers.
>> Freeman went 6, gave up 1 run and Dylan Vogt pitched 5 scoreless from
>>the
>> 8th inning on to give the Huskers a chance to win.
>>
>> Finally, big props to Mr. Lambert who suggested maybe Brandon Pierce
>>would
>> start Sunday, sure enough....
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Jon Johnston [mailto:jon.johnston at gmail.com]
>> Sent: Friday, March 04, 2011 12:33 PM
>> To: Skylar Dodds; 'Tony lambert'; husker at tssi.com
>> Subject: Re: [Husker] Baseball
>>
>> 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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