2022 Playoffs

[cubs]

Stevens Point will send their 3/4/5 hitters to the plate in the bottom half of the inning to try and walk it off.

After a walk to the #4 hitter, Bradley Comer, Kyle Finger doubles in his first at-bat of the game to score Comer and give the Pointers a 10-9 victory.

Stevens Point will need one win tomorrow to advance to the World Series.

[BSCpanthers]

Trinity takes game one over BSC in Birmingham, 9-8. 

[Ralph Turner]

LaGrange scored 2 in the bottom of the 8th to go ahead 6-3.

The problem with the webcast is that the placement of the microphone picking up crowd noise overwhelms the play-by-play call by the webstream.

Chapman's A J Anzai gets a two-out bases loaded double to tie in the top of the 6th. Chapman leaves runners on 1st and 3rd. Going to the bottom of the 9th...


LaGrange gets a bases loaded walk in the bottom of the 10th and win 7-6.

[Ralph Turner]

An extra inning 1-run victory
2 more 1-run wins
A 2-run win.
What a great opening day.

[cubs]

Baldwin Wallace is the first team to punch their ticket to the D3 World Series in Cedar Rapids, Iowa as they put up five runs in the sixth inning to knock off Endicott 7-4.

Stevens Point puts up a five spot of their own in eighth inning to break a 6-6 tie, and knock off WIAC rival Whitewater 11-7 for their first trip to the World Series since 2013 when they finished in 4th Place.

[Ralph Turner]

Baserunning error, a runner picked off 2nd base cost Chapman at least 1 run in the bottom of the 4th and possibly a 2nd. 3 BBs in this inning.
Chapman has lost 2 runners on the basepaths.

Score at the end of 4 is Chapman 4 LaGrange 2

Chapman 9, LaGrange 8. Chapman scores on a Sac Fly in the bottom of the 9th after LaGrange scored 2 in the top of the 9th, after Chapman pulled ahead scoring 2 in the bottom of the 8th...

Yes. It was that type of ballgame. 

https://www.d3baseball.com/seasons/2022/boxscores/20220528_umf6.xml


Going to game 3...

[Ralph Turner]

LaGrange 4 runs 6 hits 0 errors
Chapman  2 runs 5 hits 2 errors.

LaGrange manufactured runs in 2 innings and got great pitching from Ethan Fry who went 7.1 IP and gave up 2 runs on 3 hits.
LaGrange got 2 unearned runs in the 5th to go up 2-0 then added 2 more in the 6th. Chapman leaves the tying runs on 1st and 3rd in the bottom of the 9th.

Just a very tight competitive game.

[Ralph Turner]

The field is set: (Regions are in parentheses)

Pool A: ECSU (2), LaGrange (6), Marietta (7), UWSP (9)
Pool B: Salisbury (6)
Pool C: BWC (7), Catholic (5), Trinity TX (10)

[Ron Boerger]

Seedings and schedule are out.  Opening round on Friday:

#1 Marietta vs #8 Catholic, 10AM
#4 Salisbury vs #5 UWSP, 1:15PM
Saturday:  Losers play at 10AM, winners at 1:15PM

#2 ECSU vs #7 Baldwin-Wallace, 4:30PM
#3 Lagrange vs #6 Trinity (TX), 7:45PM
Saturday:  Losers play at 4:30PM, winners at 7:45PM

[ronk]

 Article today in The Washington Post on Catholic in the baseball World Series; mentions former players Brian Cashman(Yankees' GM) and Matt Kurkjian(brother of ESPN analyst Tim). I remember attending a clinic given by HC Ross Natoli for coaches of youth baseball 37 years ago when he was still at GW.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2022/06/03/catholic-baseball-college-world-series/

[Ralph Turner]

Heretical to say this, but watching the inconsistencies of the strike zones in the Championship series, I am ready for a 2 year trial of the electronic strike zone.
Figure out which conferences want to try it and let the experiment begin.

[108 Stitches]

The lack of picking depth finally caught up with Trinity, but you have to give them a lot of credit to get this far in the playoff's and even making it to the CWS as there are a lot of teams that would have liked to make it this far.
Really a credit to the scrappy nature of the team and the coaching staff.
I will be rooting for LaGrange to move on, but winning two will be a challenge for them tomorrow.

[Ralph Turner]

The lack of picking depth finally caught up with Trinity, but you have to give them a lot of credit to get this far in the playoff's and even making it to the CWS as there are a lot of teams that would have liked to make it this far.
Really a credit to the scrappy nature of the team and the coaching staff.
I will be rooting for LaGrange to move on, but winning two will be a challenge for them tomorrow.

Chapman has been my proxy for how strong and balanced the top half of the SCIAC was this year.
Chapman was a Pool C, won the regional and was flown 3 time zones east to play LaGrange. LaGrange won the first in 11 innings, Chapman won by 1 in the 2nd and Chapman had the tying run at the plate in the bottom of the 9th in that 4-2 loss. That is an incredible series.

The SCIAC teams eleiminated Pacific and then fought among themselves in the Regional.
I think that the SCIAC was just that good.

[cubs]

Pat, Ralph, or others....

Has there ever been any discussion of having the Winner's Bracket losers (theoretically Games #7 and #8) switch pools after they lose for the D3 Baseball Tournament now that they've made the move to Pools instead of the traditional 8-team Bracket?

It honestly never crossed my mind until I was watching the D1 Women's College World Series and they mentioned that Texas and Oklahoma started in the same pool.  After they lost to Oklahoma, they went into the other pool and ended up winning three straight games and will face Oklahoma again, but now in the best-of-three series for the National Championship and not in an elimination game like the D3 baseball bracket is constructed.  It doesn't cause any extra games to be played, and to be honest, I kind of like the concept behind it.

Thoughts?

[Caz Bombers]

Pat, Ralph, or others....

Has there ever been any discussion of having the Winner's Bracket losers (theoretically Games #7 and #8) switch pools after they lose for the D3 Baseball Tournament now that they've made the move to Pools instead of the traditional 8-team Bracket?

It honestly never crossed my mind until I was watching the D1 Women's College World Series and they mentioned that Texas and Oklahoma started in the same pool.  After they lost to Oklahoma, they went into the other pool and ended up winning three straight games and will face Oklahoma again, but now in the best-of-three series for the National Championship and not in an elimination game like the D3 baseball bracket is constructed.  It doesn't cause any extra games to be played, and to be honest, I kind of like the concept behind it.

Thoughts?

I do too but in fact D1 softball is the only one of the 6 that does the pool switch/bracket flip. Everyone else basically has 2 simultaneous 4-team mini tourneys where the winners meet at the end.