Iowa Baseball @ B1G Tournament
- Thread starter IowaHawkeyeFBnBB4Life
- Start date
Iowa wins 2-0, Martsching gets a K to end it. Martsching has absolutely come in and shut the door when needed in both games.
As a follower of Iowa baseball, I am really happy for Ryan Erickson today. He had such a bad game in the title game last year, and I am just really happy to see him have an outing like that in what could be his last outing as a Hawkeye.
That was about as unlikely as a shutout can be. Seems like Nebby had 2 on or more every inning.
Good job, Hawks!
Good job, Hawks!
Rick Heller is now 8-2 vs Nebraska. Things get interesting for Iowa come Saturday, really go to need our pitchers to step up. We win one tomorrow and we play for the title Sunday. Iowa will play the winner of Minnesota/Indiana and neither will be an easy out.
Hope Adams and Neustrom pick it up tomorrow. Whelan and McCoy have been getting on base enough.
Now will show what our pitching staff (read: bullpen) is made of.
Now will show what our pitching staff (read: bullpen) is made of.
So obviously I think we go with Elijah Wood in game three, but after that who do we start?
The choices would be Shane Ritter, Drake Robison, or Cole McDonald would be my guess.
We will see how Saturday goes, but I say in the fourth game whenever it is you give the ball to Shane Ritter. He has struggled at times, but he has the ability to give Iowa a solid start.
The choices would be Shane Ritter, Drake Robison, or Cole McDonald would be my guess.
We will see how Saturday goes, but I say in the fourth game whenever it is you give the ball to Shane Ritter. He has struggled at times, but he has the ability to give Iowa a solid start.
Gallagher COULD be an option on Sunday (if we make it) for a few because that would typically be the time of a bullpen session, but if he were to pitch on Sunday then no chance he could go Friday IMO.
I am getting WAY ahead of myself...
Me too but this win helps our pitchers imensly. I have a feeling though that the key to the rest of the tournament is through our offense.
They had to play MD/NE tonight, they had no choice. That is why MN/IA got moved to 9am. You don't play this game tonight, then you're taking a chance of a game on Sunday morning. I know they did it last year, but it's not ideal at all.
Maryland wins 8-5. Huskers leave another ridiculous number of guys on base. Now will wait for NCAA tourney.
Tomorrow's semifinal matchups:
Iowa vs. Minnesota
Northwestern vs. Maryland
(IA and NW advance to championship with one win. MN and MD must beat their opponents twice tomorrow to advance)
Tomorrow's semifinal matchups:
Iowa vs. Minnesota
Northwestern vs. Maryland
(IA and NW advance to championship with one win. MN and MD must beat their opponents twice tomorrow to advance)
A
anon_01irjibf16qqj
Guest
Minnesota throwing a pretty decent RHP against Iowa this morning that has a 3.19 ERA and opponents hitting .204 off him. Looks like he has made a few Sunday starts for them.
It's a one game final no matter who it is. They went to this format when they expanded to eight teams. The old six team bracket, you had to win twice from the losers bracket.
After Gallagher and Erickson it's been kind of an adventure for Iowa, so we'll see what happens.
Iowa definitely has their work cut out for them now.
WOW bases would've been juiced with one for Cropley, what an absolutely huge call.
I am still at a loss on that HBP on Adams, I mean it hit his leg. It's not like he leaned into it or anything of that sorts. Iowa gets at least two runs instead of one.
