Iowa Baseball vs Indiana - B1G Tournament
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IU should appeal every ball called against our right-handed batters, even if they don't actually swing. I'm sure they'll get plenty of extra strikes called that way...
What a turn of events. IU's first two batters reach.....then they have a failed hit-and-run where runner was tagged at 3rd in a run-down.....then a strike-out/throw-out double-play with Morial throwing out the baserunner at 2nd to escape the inning unscathed.
Not exactly the easy coasting start you'd like....but no harm, no foul.
Not exactly the easy coasting start you'd like....but no harm, no foul.
Moriel comes up big with Matthews in an early jam, throwing out two baserunners to end the 1st knotted at 0-0.
Mathews is the type of guy I've noticed, that if a team is going to get to him then it is early. So hopefully he settles down and can give Iowa five or six quality innings. We need it.
Second game in a row Iowa facing a starter they didn't see during the 3-game series with the opponent earlier in the year. Definitely had trouble dialing in on Michigan's Nutof yesterday. Seems the same today.
Well Iowa is done. Oh well. At least the made progress and won more games this year during the regular season. It's the little things. Maybe someday Iowa will allow themselves (and be allowed) to do something meaningful in postseason play besides being there.
BAU....right?
BAU....right?
Anything that can go wrong pretty much has for Iowa in the Michigan game AND so far in this game....
I vote for no more Iowa games on BTN this season. If Iowa ends up losing this, that will make them 1-3 on BTN this year.
I am hopeful that Iowa can get into regionals, been A LOT of upsets in conference tournaments of teams that would have for sure bids. Lets hope the committee judges Iowa by what they did all season and not just this weekend. Easily the worst Iowa has looked all season in consecutive games. Plus, I don't think it'd make a difference but we haven't gotten any favors from this ump crew today or last night.
Hosting is not going to happen IMO. Now, we may fall to a 3 in seeding at a regional, which doesn't really make a difference as its 2 v 3. Hopefully if our name is called on Monday, we avoid playing in a regional at one of the national seeds.
So I guess going off the theme from every other big sport we should talk about the firing of both Heller AND Barta together since this yet another sport Iowa didn't win a Big Ten championship in. That is what we're suppose to do isn't it....
I think Rutgers garbage baseball and the fact that they won the series rubbed off on Iowa unfortunately. Basically they've looked pretty poor since that series.
They have looked poor vs Indiana and Michigan. However, Peyton was dealing thru six vs Ohio State and lost it some in the 7th. Iowa played well that game, just ran into Lakins from OSU who can be a monster on the mound.
As I type this, it looks like Joel Booker may have been safe, but that doesn't seem to matter to the guy at 1B. He calls what he wants, as we saw last night.
We're at a point in the game where I'd like to see a guy like Nick Gallagher get some work. He was OK in most midweek games. I'd like to see what he can do against a lineup like Indiana. Going to need Gallagher to step up next year big time IMO, so I'd like to see if he can have any success vs the IU lineup.
I will be interested to see the regional draw. There are good draws and bad draws this time of year.
Iowa loses 10-2, definitely two of our worst games all season from a pitching/defensive stand point the last two days.
Iowa is now 39-16 on the season.
Iowa is now 39-16 on the season.
