BB: 2012 West Regional

[108 Stitches]

I laugh at the strapped for pitchers comment they have tons of arms available. They have used one guy so far...and have 5 starters available plus other pen guys, plus their closer who can also start if needed. People do not understand how much pitching this team has.

Coe beat St Johns for the first elimination today. (7-2)

[BamColt]

Trinity is pretty darn deep, but he was pointing out that Trinity is 7-4 since Lucero went down. It def hurts when its such a dominating arm such as his, the guys behind him will have some big shoes to fill.

[Ralph Turner]

Trinity is pretty darn deep, but he was pointing out that Trinity is 7-4 since Lucero went down. It def hurts when its such a dominating arm such as his, the guys behind him will have some big shoes to fill.

Is Klimesh 4-0 or 5-0 in that time?  Thanks

[El Hombre]

Setting up the critical game of the Regional - Concordia vs Trinity on Friday.

I disagree with this 100%.  The biggest game is Trinity/Whitworth.  Lets be honest, without Klimesh throwing the game he did yesterday I think Trinity would have dropped that game.  That was one hell of a performance and I agree, those Coe guys looked like they had never seen anything close to that.  Whitworth posted a shutout as well but gave themselves a little breathing room after their initial score.  I don't think the same can be said for the Trinity game as it was in doubt until the final strike.

That being said, if your prediction comes through and Concordia and Trinity do meet up, I am going to have to say the winner of that is in mighty good shape. 

Looks like there was some pretty solid baseball played yesterday and the teams that were expected to win, did.  Today is a whole new day and I do think the pressure is on Trinity to show that they can win without Klimesh on the hill.  Since Lucero went down it has been a pretty average team at 7-4.  Lets see what happens.

I agree - this is a critical game.  Both teams have some good bats, and they will need them in this game - it may take 9 or 10 runs to win this one. 

[Ralph Turner]

In the Big Inning...

                          1  2  3    4  5  6  7   8  9    R  H  E
Concordia (Texas)  0 0 0      0 2 0    0  - -      2 6 3
La Verne               0 0 0      0 1 0    5* - -     6 7 0

* still in the bottom of the 7th

 

[DoubleSteal]

Does anyone know what happened to Kyle Rodriguez and Collin Janssen for CTX?  Neither are playing right now.  Rodriguez didn't play the first game either, but Janssen must have gotten hurt.  That would be horrible for CTX.

[dp643]

If trinity is so stacked with arms why do we have so many innings concentrated on 2 pitchers? One Of which is done?

[(509)Rat]

La Verne over CTX is final. 8-5...

[likeamonkey]

I thunk the story on TU arms is what it's always been: tons of talent that doesn't always equate to effectiveness. Sometimes those guys mature and turn into a Ben Klimesh. After Lucero, TU has a bunch of guys that are like Klimesh was before his junior year. But Klimesh also no hit Notre Dame through 6 imnings as a freshman. For the remainder of this tournamwnt, I expect that TU arms will either get really hit around or they will leave other teams questioning why these guys didn't get more innings during the regular season - it could go either way.

[Jack Parkman]

Looks like Trinity is setting themselves up very nicely, especially with Concordia losing to La Verne.

[Ron Boerger]

Tanner Barron (4-1) goes eight innings, allows three runs, eight hits, and strikes out 12 Whitworth batters to send Trinity as the sole undefeated team into day 3 of the Western regional.  Jules Cronk had three hits and five RBI including a grand slam homer in the third, and Pat Hirschberg also added a two-run shot.   Carson Blumenthal (5-5) took the loss after allowing six runs in four innings of work. 

[108 Stitches]

Whitworth is the real deal. Solid team all the way around. Someone said they had 6-7 starting freshmen, if this is the case then they will be a force in the Nwest (and West) for some years. Barron was solid, and the TU bats are starting to warm up again, and defensively they made game changing plays, particularly the CFer. If the OF misses three balls they tracked down it is a different game.

The thing about Western teams is that they tend to establish 3 starting pitchers and then everyone else gets the scraps. Early in the season it was Klimesh, Lucero and Fink. Fink went down and Barron stepped in, and with Lucero out they have 2-3 others ready to fill those roles, so as I have said pitching will not be their problem. There are still some more electric arms that will be seen the next couple of days all they need to do is throw strikes and let the defense work.

I am not sure how much pitching Whitworth has left but they will give Concordia a game tomorrow. If Concordia kicks the ball around again they will lose.

If TU bats get going like earlly in the season they are going to be very very tough. They don't have 1-2 mashers just 9 guys that can beat you and you just don't know who it will be - which makes them dangerous.

[BamColt]

That 5 run inning hurt. If Jansen and Rodriquez are out then you can pretty much schedule the flight home to Austin earlier than anticipated.

[CrashDavisD3]

TU looks like they could win the Regional now.....

[Bishopleftiesdad]

   

Team................	CTX	TU	Whit	LV	Coe	St Johns
Batting Ave	192	46	131	117	156	8
Scoring	138	84	61	44	148	5
Runs	70	30	58	49	160	12
HR/gm	298	8	42	68	91	22
Slug	209	22	123	95	154	1
Stolen Bases	136	210	164	293	58	2
Base on Balls	2	28	193	261	165	38
Sac Bunts	1	38	22	26	165	62
ERA	8	44	151	158	67	37
K's/9	16	1	166	181	272	4
Hits Allowed	15	8	97	108	114	38
Field %	21	25	27	182	128	154

Could someone explain how to insert a table or a spreadsheet?

Here are the NCAA numbers by rank in the various categories. Based on this my new dark horse is St. John's. Actually they are not a dark horse based on their numbers....

I think their fate will be decided tomorrow in game one. If they can beat CTX then they have a good shot at winning the regional. It looks like a classic case of offense vs pitching. I am hoping to get to the game to see the last half. Their weakness looks like defense, but if they can jump on CTX early they might be able to shake them up a bit, as CTX does not look like they can hang with a high scoring team.


Does anyone know if they are a fast ball hitting team?

Copy the post and look at what I had to do to create a table.      

Thanks for the research.  +1!

Cool Ralph Thanks for the work on the Table that should help. +1