Ethan hedges has not pitched yet in this regional. So I think if they win this they get tomorrow off. Not sure. If so you use hedges here at some point. Right game. Long way to go. 9 outs.
But forcing start Mary’s and Oregon state to play another while usc rests a day would be huge.
Huge win for USC and one reason you spend all your bullets early. Same reason we always felt the most important game of the tourney is the semi finals.
We always felt other teams might hold back and try to save something and we spent a lot to win the semis. It meant we put ourselves in position to win it all with one good game. Even if we had wasted our top arm it meant we were there. So worst that happens is we lose. We know we got to the final and the kids got a trophy. BUT a lot of the time?
Whoever was on the other side of the bracket? They were spent too. And while we had maybe a soft throwing kid who could serve up easy to hit stuff. Maybe they didn't even have that. Or if we put balls in play they made errors. One final we played this team at the end of 3-4 days and 7-8 games. Our arms are gone. We come out and first two innings it's scoreless. We are thrilled out little P, might even have been my kid, not sure. Is surviving and we are making plays. He's not our tournament ace. He's the kid we pitch when we know we can win like 11-5. So it's scoreless. Bottom 3.
Their P apparently is out of innings. There are limits. And the next kid is just awful. Like my 9 year old throw as hard and with more movement. Walk Walk Botched Double play grounder. Grand Slam And after that they couldn't even pick up a routine grounder. Walk Walk HBP Double. It all happened so fast we didn't even realized we had scored 15-20 runs in one inning. it was like 10 year old LL. And we won.
Point is, that team was good. They had a bad inning. And it cost them the title. Why? Because we sold out to get there and anything can happen. Same with USC. Now. Other times when we sold out to get there? We showed up to the finals and the other team's ace is sitting ready and we got mowed down. Sooooooo that happens too hahahahaha
But USC is in good position to outlast the pitching from other teams right now and I really hope SM can find it in them to win one more game. I'd love to play them 1-2 more times. Only having to win one
Two wins in the postseason. We used to be about national titles. But this is progress compared to the last 15 years.
Nice win, congrats!
Huge insurance run there. I don't know these teams well but looks like the bottom of USC's lineup produced a little more in terms of hits, walks, RBI than SM did. Then again SM has one more shot to hit in the mid to bottom 1/3
This rally also helps a ton because it would appear that even if USC is done if they need it they rolled the lineup back to the top for the 9th
We go to B8, USC up 5-4. Got the high dose nicotine ZYNs working.
Agree. I would think if that happened they’d be completely out of gas Sunday afternoon and if they win then on Monday they’d be pitching walk one
5-3, T7