2013 West Regional - Austin Tx

[Texas Leaguer]

Alig (TU) has better stats in every category compared to linfield's #3 Brandon. Maybe we will see that matchup Friday at noon. Neither team should look past tomorrow though.

I don't think Linfield will have much trouble. Linfield's also played the better schedule by far. I don't think that numbers comparison means much given that context.

If the numbers hold, Trinity should roar past Tyler between a dominant performance from their pitcher.

First and foremost, Trinity needs to worry about getting by UT-Tyler tonight.  They're a good ball club. 

For whoever they face tomorrow, I wouldn't discount Alig's numbers too heavily.

Here are his last three starts:


Trinity University             IP  H  R ER BB SO
Andrew Alig ...............   6.1  4  2  1  3  5                  neutral site Centenary (25-14)  (.300 team BA)
Andrew Alig  W,4-1....    8.1  3  2  1  2  6                 @ TLU - 2013 West Regional team.   (.277 team BA)
Andrew Alig  W,3-1.....   7.1  5  1  1  1  6                 @ Concordia (22-22.  Regional qualifier in 2012.  Pre-season ASC West pick to win conference.  .251 team BA is low)

Linfield (.326 team BA)  is a better hitting team than all of the above.  That being said, those are three quality west region programs.  He's shown improvement throughout the year and really solidified the #3 spot in the rotation.  In an ideal world, Speer can go deep into tonight's game and Trinity can head into tomorrow 2-0 with Alig hopefully giving you 6 and Bentz taking it home. 

Looking forward to another great day of baseball out west.

[CrashDavisD3]

1 game lost by errors

Another one lost by pass ball

SCIAC could be coming home today

The small things make a difference in these games. Anyone could beat anyone at anytime in the regionals. Not much seperates these teams.

[TexasBB]

So the assumption is that Trinity will prevail over UTT tonight. If Mara is on, I think Tyler wins. Keep in mind that UTT beat Centanarry 2 out of 3 at Centenarry, a team Trinity had struggled with but beat twice in the championships. They both beat Texas Lutheran but UTT beat them most recently when Texas Lutheran was playing better baseball. I think these teams are very evenly matched and it can go either way. It will come down to the pitching and defense and both teams are strong in those areas.

[Just_Some_Guy]

Unless TLU can figure out how to stop walking people and start swinging the bat, their season will be over in a couple of hours.

Hebda gets TLU leadoff hitter Gennusa to ground out w/ the bases juiced in the bottom of the 5th. 4-1 CLU going into the 6th.

TLU threatening again with 2 outs and 2 on in the bottom of the 7th, but here comes Roth. He promptly induces an F8. CLU still leads by 3 headed to the 8th.

Harwell has been excellent so far, but Kistler into pitch in the 8th. Saving Harwell so he can come back IF the Bulldogs can come back or giving Kistler a few innings to close out his excellent career as a Bulldog?

TLU adds 2 ER against Roth in the bottom of the 8th to close the gap to 4-3, but now CLU threatening to give Kistler his first ERs of the year in the top half of the 9th.

CLU threatening with runners on 2nd and 3rd w/ 1 out. Intentionally BB clean-up hitter and Kistler induces the double play.

Roth able to go 3 up 3 down in the bottom half of the 9th.

CLU hangs on w/ a 4-3 win.

JSG

[Texas Leaguer]

I think these teams are very evenly matched and it can go either way. It will come down to the pitching and defense and both teams are strong in those areas.

Completely agree.  Marah vs Speer could turn out to be another pitchers duel, much like both team's first game.  Marah has a .206 BA against and Speer is .211.  Both strike out a a batter per inning. 
I still can't keep myself from looking ahead.  Who do you think UT-Tyler uses to start game three?

[Just_Some_Guy]

I think these teams are very evenly matched and it can go either way. It will come down to the pitching and defense and both teams are strong in those areas.

Completely agree.  Marah vs Speer could turn out to be another pitchers duel, much like both team's first game.  Marah has a .206 BA against and Speer is .211.  Both strike out a a batter per inning. 
I still can't keep myself from looking ahead.  Who do you think UT-Tyler uses to start game three?

Barkley with a relatively short leash or Tye Weber.

[dp643]

TLU has made some noise against Roth. CLU up 4-3 into the 9th.

[Teddy_Ballgame]

Cal Lu holds on as Roth gets a 1-2-3 9th inning to win 4-3. Only got to watch the last inning but as dp643 mentioned, looks like TLU actually got to Roth a bit in the 8th. That's now 3 innings for him over two days. Based on what he did in the SCIAC tournament and pool play, I don't think that's much of a concern. But they probably won't want to bring him in too early in their next game if they can avoid it.

Hebda had great numbers- 6.2 IP, 5h, 1R. Looks like maintaining their season-long rotation paid off, and that means Peters will start their next game against either Pomona Pitzer (if they upset Linfield) or the loser of UTT-Trinity.

Also I just realized that video of the games only occurs if the particular team brought their crew. So any games between non-Texas teams will only have live stats, including the PP-Linfield game in an hour and any potential Linfield-CLU matchup. Probably better for my work productivity but still a little disappointing 

[Just_Some_Guy]

Unless TLU can figure out how to stop walking people and start swinging the bat, their season will be over in a couple of hours.

Hebda gets TLU leadoff hitter Gennusa to ground out w/ the bases juiced in the bottom of the 5th. 4-1 CLU going into the 6th.

TLU threatening again with 2 outs and 2 on in the bottom of the 7th, but here comes Roth. He promptly induces an F8. CLU still leads by 3 headed to the 8th.

Harwell has been excellent so far, but Kistler into pitch in the 8th. Saving Harwell so he can come back IF the Bulldogs can come back or giving Kistler a few innings to close out his excellent career as a Bulldog?

TLU adds 2 ER against Roth in the bottom of the 8th to close the gap to 4-3, but now CLU threatening to give Kistler his first ERs of the year in the top half of the 9th.

CLU threatening with runners on 2nd and 3rd w/ 1 out. Intentionally BB clean-up hitter and Kistler induces the double play.

Roth able to go 3 up 3 down in the bottom half of the 9th.

CLU hangs on w/ a 4-3 win.

JSG

Who knows how another team shipped into the region would've fared, but playing the #1 and the #5/8 (depending on the poll) team in the country and dropping two hard fought games 2-0 and 4-3 was a respectable showing for TLU in my opinion. They don't swing it very well (albeit nobody has against Haddleland this year), but they play good D and they have pretty decent depth on the bump.

JSG

[Teddy_Ballgame]

Unless TLU can figure out how to stop walking people and start swinging the bat, their season will be over in a couple of hours.

Hebda gets TLU leadoff hitter Gennusa to ground out w/ the bases juiced in the bottom of the 5th. 4-1 CLU going into the 6th.

TLU threatening again with 2 outs and 2 on in the bottom of the 7th, but here comes Roth. He promptly induces an F8. CLU still leads by 3 headed to the 8th.

Harwell has been excellent so far, but Kistler into pitch in the 8th. Saving Harwell so he can come back IF the Bulldogs can come back or giving Kistler a few innings to close out his excellent career as a Bulldog?

TLU adds 2 ER against Roth in the bottom of the 8th to close the gap to 4-3, but now CLU threatening to give Kistler his first ERs of the year in the top half of the 9th.

CLU threatening with runners on 2nd and 3rd w/ 1 out. Intentionally BB clean-up hitter and Kistler induces the double play.

Roth able to go 3 up 3 down in the bottom half of the 9th.

CLU hangs on w/ a 4-3 win.

JSG

Who knows how another team shipped into the region would've fared, but playing the #1 and the #5/8 (depending on the poll) team in the country and dropping two hard fought games 2-0 and 4-3 was a respectable showing for TLU in my opinion. They don't swing it very well (albeit nobody has against Haddleland this year), but they play good D and they have pretty decent depth on the bump.

JSG

Allowing just 6 runs against those two offenses is very commendable. And scoring two runs in crunch time off of someone who has been as dominant as Roth is pretty impressive too. There's no way of knowing how other bubble teams would have fared, but TLU certainly didn't embarrass the folks who decided they deserved to be a part of the regional.

I'm sure they are disappointed with losing twice- any team with 33 wins is going to enter the tournament with a goal of winning it- but they should be proud of their performances against two very good baseball teams.

[CrashDavisD3]

2 and Q for TLU. They played 2 very good games and should be proud of their season.

Who is next on the ride home today.

[CrashDavisD3]

Pomona is the bluest of the teams.  That should help them.
A couple of the other team wear purple.

Only a very small patch of RED around the Chapman campus and parts of OC...Rest of the state is VERY BLUE.

[BamColt]

I would put my money on Trinity to take this thing.

[CAT BAT 22]

Concerned about Thomassen.  I was worried about how he would bounce back after getting bombed vs. Lewis Clark State in his last outing.  He's already given up one bomb in the 2nd inning vs. Pitzer.  Hope he can figure things out. 

Go Cats

[wildcat11]

Concerned about Thomassen.  I was worried about how he would bounce back after getting bombed vs. Lewis Clark State in his last outing.  He's already given up one bomb in the 2nd inning vs. Pitzer.  Hope he can figure things out. 

Go Cats

I thought about the same thing too...P-P has been getting to him a little...