Beautiful day for baseball
28
May
2007
May
2007
The sun is shining, the wind is blowing steadily out to left field and Emory is taking their final warmups out in the field just before the first pitch.
I’ll be on the blog for most of the day giving updates, tidbits and the like. Those of you who are unable to attend the games can catch everything via the live video, live stats and the scoreboard provided by CSTV, UW-Oshkosh and D3baseball.com.
May 28th, 2007 at 1:29 pm
Matt Tone just struck out three in the top of the first and gave up a single, a steal and a walk.
0-0 after one full.
May 28th, 2007 at 1:40 pm
Cortland took advantage of Brandon Custer’s wild throw to first and put a run on the board. End of one and a half, 1-0 Cortland.
May 28th, 2007 at 1:48 pm
Zander Sotiriou fouled a ball off his temple but returned to sacrifice to third advancing Sam Cunningham to third and Brandon Custer to second.
May 28th, 2007 at 1:53 pm
Tone got out of a second inning jam getting Sotiriou to ground out to third, Tyler Short to fly out to shallow left-center and rung David Hissey up on strikes.
Cortland 1, Emory 0.
May 28th, 2007 at 2:15 pm
Someone’s gotta tell the “afternoon” play-by-play guy HOW TO PRONOUNCE KEAN.
It rhymes with pain, not mean.
Heck, it’s just like saying “cane” if they can manage that.
The evening crew — aka, the ones that have done all the Kean games so far — know how to pronounce it. But the other guy keeps botching it.
May 28th, 2007 at 2:27 pm
Haha I just talked to the producer “He knows it’s ‘cane’ but sometimes he slips and reverts back to it.” Uh huh. Sure he does
May 28th, 2007 at 2:31 pm
Emory is mounting a comeback, Custer on second and Short on first with two outs. And Matt Tone has thrown five straight balls.
May 28th, 2007 at 2:32 pm
OH MY! That was a blast, cleared the Left field fence by at LEAST 30 feet and landed about 70-80 feet past the fence. Mark that one down as a 410-foot three-run home run by David Hissey. Emory 3, Cortland 1.
May 28th, 2007 at 2:35 pm
That monster was Hissey’s first home run of the season.
May 28th, 2007 at 2:45 pm
May 28th, 2007 at 2:46 pm
Thanks for the quick reaction on the photo. A celebration photo on the front too.
May 28th, 2007 at 3:18 pm
Cortland on its third pitcher of the inning and a run is already in for Emory. Bases remain loaded with one out.
May 28th, 2007 at 3:20 pm
Jason Hauck and Nick DeVito warming for Cortland.
May 28th, 2007 at 3:28 pm
They are now on their 4th pitcher, Bases loaded and two out. I looks like (inning over on a grounder to second) Joey Russo lost the popup for the second out twice against the patchy skies.
May 28th, 2007 at 3:37 pm
We’re being plagued with technical difficulties here in the box and on dialup so Pat’s taking over as much of the notes as he can. Thank you for your help Pat.
May 28th, 2007 at 3:53 pm
Reporting from the field: the balk was a bad call, clearly stopped his motion. The umpires have told the coaches that “this game will finish on time” and are limiting warmup pitches.
May 28th, 2007 at 4:00 pm
Also Cortland State’s coach Brian Huber went out to complain to the crew chief Gary Gilman about the balk, warm ups and other things and was told to, according to the word around the dugout, that he ‘has no right’ to complain and was shown back to the dugout by Joe Brown.
May 28th, 2007 at 4:05 pm
And now the Cortland head coach’s brother has been removed from the dugout.
May 28th, 2007 at 4:12 pm
We’ve lasted an inning of tranquility in the coach-umpire arena. Paul Merriweather is now pinchhitting for Joey Russo with one out.
May 28th, 2007 at 4:14 pm
And Merriweather was just rung up on strikes, watching the third strike pass on the outside part of the plate. Two out.
May 28th, 2007 at 4:15 pm
And a deep fly to left field ends the season for Cortland State. Final 6-3.
Next game will start in approximately one hour.
May 28th, 2007 at 4:21 pm
Does Cortland have a record for most appearances in the Series without ever winning it?
May 28th, 2007 at 4:31 pm
Apparently both the coach and the coach’s brother were both ejected from the game and are currently standing outside the stadium.
May 28th, 2007 at 4:37 pm
Andy Brown and Brian Huber standing outside the stadium following their ejections.
Photo by Ryan Coleman, D3sports.com
“I was given the green light; it was my time to go” said Brian Huber (in uniform on the right).
May 28th, 2007 at 4:40 pm
Spence, yes they do. Eight appearances without a victory. Cortland State is 15-16 and only went 0-2 once, their first appearance (in 1995), and have one 2nd place, two 3rds and a fourth place finish.
May 28th, 2007 at 5:07 pm
Final note on the umpiring crew, we got the lineup cards here a little bit ago and the two umpires involved in the ejections have been rotated out.
May 28th, 2007 at 5:24 pm
I have a field orientation question at Fox Cities Stadium…
Does the right field foul line extend from home due northward?
May 28th, 2007 at 5:27 pm
Ralph, that is a very good question. I will try to get an answer for you shortly.
May 28th, 2007 at 5:33 pm
A quick glance at the road map shows that the left field foul line goes due north. However I cannot make a positive assertation based on the satellite imagery because there is no imagery close enough to the field from Google.
May 28th, 2007 at 6:02 pm
The Hamster Dance (that’s not a typo) is playing over the loudspeakers during a discussion between Mike Twardowski and Second Base umpire Jon Garlits.
May 28th, 2007 at 6:26 pm
H-h-h-h
A-a-a-a
M-m-m-m
S-s-s-s
T-t-t-t
E-e R-R
Hamster
Dance!
Run your wheel if you want to, you can leave your friends behind.
Because your friends don’t dance, and if they don’t dance, well they’re
No friends of mine …
Or is that not how The Hamster Dance goes?
May 28th, 2007 at 6:42 pm
no…. uhm…. there’s a website from 1998 called hamsterdance.com and it was used in the clubs and was annoying…. anyway, it’s “old school” and obscure.
May 28th, 2007 at 6:53 pm
with a line of 771 to 681 one might think we have a cricket match gone bad here in Grand Chute.
May 28th, 2007 at 6:54 pm
This Emory 5th was some type of inning!
May 28th, 2007 at 6:55 pm
Old School may be at this game!
I’m thinking of our longtime poster:
http://www.d3sports.com/post/index.php?action=profile;u=149
May 28th, 2007 at 6:56 pm
Heck of an inning for the Eagles. Nix fails to get out of the fifth.
May 28th, 2007 at 7:14 pm
Things falling apart for the Pointers in the sixth. Three-run error on an infield grounder after Emory had loaded the bases with none out.
May 28th, 2007 at 7:16 pm
“Under Pressure” playing as the Pointers relieve Ryan Hopkins in favor of Jeremy Dunnihoo.
May 28th, 2007 at 7:17 pm
Hopkins lasted one-third of an inning, responsible for two runners and gave up three runs.
May 28th, 2007 at 7:19 pm
Dunnihoo has come out and thrown three straight balls.
May 28th, 2007 at 7:21 pm
a check-swing foul off the bat of Sam Cunningham went into the concourse, bounced off the ice cream vendor’s freezer and back into the stands, and never made contact with any fans. Magic baseball.
May 28th, 2007 at 7:23 pm
Wow. Dunnihoo just walked in the fourth run of the inning. Still just one out.
May 28th, 2007 at 7:27 pm
Pat Baloom is making another pitching change for the Pointers. Dunnihoo is coming out in favor of Brandon Hemstead. Hemstead went 2.1 innings in the regional allowed 6 runs (all earned), 5 hits and 3 walks including a triple and two home runs. He just gave up an infield single to Tommy Dugan.
May 28th, 2007 at 7:29 pm
UWSP finally gets the second out on the board but Cunningham came around to score making it 13-6.
May 28th, 2007 at 7:30 pm
And the inning GOES ON! A bad throw from third basemen Stewart Larsen allows Custer to score and brings Dan Molnar up.
May 28th, 2007 at 7:32 pm
WOW. This is just ugly. Joel Hojnacki last the ball in the sun and Larsen tried to catch up to it about midway into left and couldn’t. Molnar cleared the bases with a double.
May 28th, 2007 at 7:35 pm
And they keep piling it up. 17-6 as Bralver found the hole between second and first and drove in Molnar from second.
May 28th, 2007 at 7:37 pm
And the Pointers are out of the inning and having a team meeting off the third base line. 17-6. 10 runs on 4 hits, two errors and one left on.
The scoreboard cannot handle 10 on the board. And neither can the Stevens Point fans as they are filing out of the stadium and heading home.
May 28th, 2007 at 7:42 pm
And the Pointers have loaded up the bases with one out in the bottom of the sixth. And now walked in a run. 17-7.
May 28th, 2007 at 7:54 pm
Hot dogs are a buck and subs are two now. And the fans in the stands are now about one-fifth their original glory.
May 28th, 2007 at 8:03 pm
And we are through 7. 19 runs on the board in the last three innings (although the scoreboard says only 9).
May 28th, 2007 at 8:23 pm
And the race is over. Final 18-7.
May 28th, 2007 at 9:36 pm
And Kean wins the title. Don’t see how Emory can win two without throwing Glushon.
May 29th, 2007 at 1:28 am
It wouldn’t be too hard if those bats come back Kean will find it difficult to keep up.
May 29th, 2007 at 6:29 pm
Or maybe not.
Can’t take credit for this though…Jim was on Kean WAY earlier than I was, though I was on Johns Hopkins that could just as easily have won the regional.
Someone on the other thread said that Kean was a program on the rise. I disagree…they’ve been good, just have been cursed to be in the NJAC. Like I’ve said before, if you can win that league, you are, guaranteed, good enough to win the national title. Doesn’t mean you will, but the pieces are there.