Championship starts today!
May
2009
The sun is out, a little wind blowing out the left. It is a great day – lets play four.
Wooster and Carthage are up first. With the delay in the regionals, the Carthage team have been catching up all week. School is out with all their finals except this one in the past. The Red Men had a good practice and according to Head Coach Augie Schimdt, ‘The guys will be ready to go”. Wooster looked sharp and relaxed in their practice and the our first game could be the instant classic the championship is know for.
Who could ask for a better matchup in game two with the previous national champions going head to head. Kean is focused and Trinity’s head coach, Bill Decker is “willing to give it another good try”.
Four our third game do we bet the “Farm” or will the Hornets sting. We will end up with regional favorite St. Thomas with Chapman.
It will be key to get the first win. Few teams make it all the way back. Ithaca did it in 1980 but that was in a four team regional. In Grand Chute, three teams made the finals after a third loss, Montclair State (2000), Cortland State (2005) and Emory (2007), but lost in the championship game.
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May 22nd, 2009 at 12:40 pm
Live Stats kicks me over to an old St. Thomas game, I can’t pick up the video, and I can’t use live audio (I’m at work). Help!! What’s going on in the Carthage/Wooster game?
May 22nd, 2009 at 12:53 pm
Live stats is working for me — perhaps if you hit refresh it’ll get updated for you.
I spent the first five innings downstairs taking pictures — been a great day here so far. After Karpen homered for Wooster in the top of the fourth, Carthage had Bryan Kiefer warming but Perez got out of it. Perez has been missing with his breaking pitches here in the sixth again.
May 22nd, 2009 at 12:54 pm
Perez gets lifted here as Karpen comes back around and Kiefer is in.
May 22nd, 2009 at 12:56 pm
And Karpen greets him with a smash just fair down the third-base line, scoring two. 5-1 Wooster.
May 22nd, 2009 at 12:58 pm
Warren squeeze scores Sutton from third and Kiefer throws over the first baseman’s head, allowing Karpen to score and getting Warren to second.
May 22nd, 2009 at 1:02 pm
7-1 end of six.
May 22nd, 2009 at 1:10 pm
The wind helped Karpen’s home run but it sounded like it would have been out either way.
Wooster’s Stu Beath is 3-4 and Karpen has 3 RBIs to lead Wooster
May 22nd, 2009 at 1:33 pm
The “play-by-play” screen is fine. The “game status” page is still on the old game.
May 22nd, 2009 at 1:51 pm
Karpen is Wooster’s best player. Best offensive player, best defensive player. Can’t see how he wasn’t an site A-A if any Wooster player was.
Good call by the ABCA on him as 2nd team A-A and Cimino as 1st team A-A. Cimino had an outstanding year against tough competition and by the postseason most teams weren’t even pitching to him when they didn’t just have to. Every bit as good as the big hitters in MC history over the past couple decades.
Would like to know why McDowell is still in this game as many innings as he’s thrown since the start of NCAC postseason. Could tell on them if/when they go to recycle him. They could have had him out after 6.
May 22nd, 2009 at 2:04 pm
ABCA page doesn’t have a POY notated with the asterisk. I assume it was Hedman? Moceri’s 1st team AA and Gold Glove honors is pretty impressive.
May 22nd, 2009 at 2:31 pm
They had two guys warming in the eighth — I think they were surprised McDowell stayed in, too. Sounded like he was one baserunner from being pulled mid-inning.
May 22nd, 2009 at 2:31 pm
Spence — the release here in the press box lists co-POYs, Hedman and Gilblair.
May 22nd, 2009 at 2:56 pm
Darn. Was hoping for Moceri to be a co-POY. 1st team + Gold Glove has to get you pretty close, plus he has 3 Ks in the season. Looking forward to seeing him in the online video.
Thanks for the info. I’ll make it back up there again someday; tougher to manage now being in the AF.
May 22nd, 2009 at 3:03 pm
Welp…Trinity got a run in the first…might be all they need with Bayer throwing.
This Bayer definitely doesn’t relieve headaches. Well, for anyone but Bill Decker.
May 22nd, 2009 at 3:03 pm
Trinity strikes first with an unearned run — Jack Abbott singled and stole second, then drew a throw back to second base after bluffing his way about 30 feet toward third base. Kean’s throw went over the second baseman’s head and rolled all the way into the Kean bullpen and Abbott came around to score. 1-0 end of 1.
May 22nd, 2009 at 3:12 pm
Dunno, Spence, Bayer is struggling with his control a bit and Kean is doing a good job being patient at the plate here in the second.
May 22nd, 2009 at 3:18 pm
Bayer escapes with just one run as Vinny Galya lines into an unassisted DP.
May 22nd, 2009 at 3:26 pm
Yeah I see…you know what I’m saying though. He’s very good. But yes, he’s having a bit of a time of it today for some reason.
Reasonably impressed with Kean’s pitcher. If he’s their 5th best (as from innings and starts it seems he might be), they’ve got a heckuva staff.
May 22nd, 2009 at 3:38 pm
Is this NJAC baseball or what? Just relentless pressure.
May 22nd, 2009 at 3:49 pm
I don’t need a book. That inning was chicken soup for my little-ball loving soul.
May 22nd, 2009 at 4:54 pm
One of the stats that just made the rounds here in the press box is Jeremiah Bayer’s line for the season: 22 runs allowed, five earned. Hasn’t been a pretty day defensively for Trinity.
May 22nd, 2009 at 4:57 pm
Brandon Aich comes in to relieve Rivera after he walks the first two batters of the bottom of the seventh. Tight strike zone today in both directions.
May 22nd, 2009 at 5:12 pm
Aich walked two more, sandwiched around a ball that just got under Michael Moceri’s glove to bring home two. 6-5 Kean, end of seven.
May 22nd, 2009 at 5:18 pm
Consensus here that Trinity should’ve appealed that Ramagli left early from third base on the sac fly. But another Trinity error leads to a Kean run.
May 22nd, 2009 at 6:55 pm
New pitcher for Farmingdale State: 32 pitches – 4 walks, 2 strikeouts left with 2-0 count.
Not a good start for the Rams.
May 22nd, 2009 at 7:58 pm
Shenandoah has found themselves in a little trouble. Farmingdale State needs to get that big hit to keep the game close.
Rams get two runs but a runner is out at the plate. Was it enough? The Rams need a shutdown inning to keep the momentum going.
May 22nd, 2009 at 8:36 pm
Pat, that stat on Bayer’s unearned runs looks more like cooked books than bad defense to me. He had 6 errors behind him in this game and still only had half the runs unearned. Unless he had a couple of games where he gave up a string of unearned runs thanks to a 2 out uprising, that number looks suspicious to me.
They do definitely have a subpar defense for this level though, which was one big reason I didn’t pick them to win the title. They don’t have 3 aces like they did last year.
Reading through their boxes, I’ve already found one play that was incorrectly scored an unearned run.
May 22nd, 2009 at 8:38 pm
Actually check that, I just thought of a way that it might not have been earned. Wish there was an “erase post” option lol.
May 22nd, 2009 at 8:44 pm
Be nice for Shenandoah to get a couple more runs here and maybe be able to keep some miles off Van Sickler.
May 22nd, 2009 at 9:26 pm
Word on whether Kitchens will start is much anticipated, at least by me.
Gotta call my bookie before gametime lol. Hopefully he based his lines on that Hardball Times guy’s odds.
May 22nd, 2009 at 10:17 pm
Sigman is listed as the Chapman starter.
May 22nd, 2009 at 10:56 pm
Spence, agreed on the earned/unearned runs thing. Also looked bogus to me on first glance but in going back through the book I could see where they could be conceivably called earned.
May 22nd, 2009 at 10:59 pm
Chapman wastes a big opportunity there, leaving the bases full.
May 22nd, 2009 at 11:33 pm
UST’s Schuld just keeps shutting down every attempt to score by Chapman.
UST leads 3-0 in their bottom of the 5th.
May 22nd, 2009 at 11:45 pm
Agree Pat…question of whether the scoring was overly lenient, and none of us will ever know the answer to that question. I suppose with a pitcher that gets that many strikeouts and grounders, and a defense that bad, a highly anomalous number is possible.
If I had done my homework ahead of time, I would have found it interesting that the only shutouts in which Bayer started were the no-hitter and the regional game against USM. Still, Kean was outstanding in their approach in the batter’s box and on the bases.
St. Thomas just doing what they do. Like Wooster, I think the pitching injuries could end up being too much to overcome later. Lot of shallow pitching staffs in this tournament, it seems.
May 22nd, 2009 at 11:49 pm
Tough call here for Denning. Schuld’s thrown a lot of pitches over the last 9 days, but he doesn’t have a very deep staff and there’s still some time left. How far do you take Schuld? This question’s come up twice already and in both cases the coach opted to leave the pitcher in. Neither of them had thrown as many pitches as Schuld in the postseason though.
May 22nd, 2009 at 11:50 pm
I hear the band practicing in the background…
“Turn out the lights. The party’s over.”
Tommies 8-0.
Going to the Chapman 6th.
May 23rd, 2009 at 12:07 am
I must be some kind of softy or don’t understand the logic the coaches are using behind keeping their aces in there in a game that’s out of hand.
I think a key in Marietta winning in 06 (among many) was Eisenberg’s low pitch count going into the Series. He only threw 50ish pitches in the first game of the regional and coming out of the region had only thrown something like 160 pitches and was strong in the Series.
After throwing so many pitches in the regionals, I would think the coaches would jump at the chance to save a few miles on their top arms. But all three of them didn’t.
So what am I missing? Is this something anyone there is talking about or has some insight on?
May 23rd, 2009 at 12:07 am
I guess if you were to make an argument for keeping him in, it’s that he just had a really easy inning and he seems to have put it all together since that mound visit in the fifth.
May 23rd, 2009 at 12:11 am
Obviously, Van Sickler didn’t throw many innings in the regional, so with the last part I’m primarily referencing Schuld and McDowell.
May 23rd, 2009 at 12:16 am
Right — I was talking specifically Schuld.
It sounds like (rumblings here) in a lot of cases coaches are looking at today’s starters as not starting again until Tuesday, if they get there.
May 23rd, 2009 at 12:36 am
Well, that’s ideally what you want to do. If you are the 3-0 team you can. But if you lose tomorrow, all that goes out the window. There are examples of this every year.
I guess I should be surprised at this given the coaches involved and their histories.
May 23rd, 2009 at 12:36 am
should = shouldn’t. I apparently lead the tournament in double posts.
May 23rd, 2009 at 1:32 am
I have no logic to what the actual coaches think but will give my take on the situation. I personally agree with letting the starter handle his own game. Realistically, if you are short arms in the bullpen the last thing you want to do is use another arm in a game that is already in control. Also, in my opinion pitch counts are too often thought of as a set number. Once you have thrown 50 pitches and had that muscle breakdown, I dont really see much difference between 80-100-120. Also, the other fact is always momentum and confidence, no sense putting a lesser pitcher out there and give up a few runs if you dont have to when your team is confident and playing well. Dont rock the boat. Also, in these game with metal bats team can have a big inning.
Overall, I believe if a pitcher is your ace, you want him to have the ball, and finish his game. And trust me, when push comes to shove and you need him in another game, the ace of the staff wants the ball again.
May 23rd, 2009 at 11:27 am
He may want the ball, but it doesn’t mean that’s he’s going to be able to deliver. Schuld for St. Thomas and McDowell for Wooster have thrown more than 400 pitches since last Wednesday (Thursday for McDowell).
I’m definitely not guilty of being a slave to pitch counts. I can sort of see what you’re saying on the difference between 80-100-120. But you don’t know when you’re going to need your ace again in a tournament like this.
We’ll see how it works out, I guess. Neither of these guys are seniors, by the way.