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Iowa Baseball in Taiwan

Had to be weird playing on a skin infield. Rarely see those anymore outside of small HSs and 3rd world countries
 
Iowa Baseball/Team USA beats Russia 13-3 in seven innings. This clinches them a spot in the medal round. They still have one more pool play game against Japan. It sounds like Japan is pretty salty.



 
Chris Whelan was 3-3 with 4 RBIs
Ben Norman 2-5 with 2 RBIs
Robert Neustrom 3-5 with 2 RBIs

Neustrom hit two triples it appears.

Sam Lizarraga started and threw 5 1/3 allowing three hits, three earned runs, one walks, and had seven K's.

This is one of the biggest positives for me...Cole McDonald threw 1 2/3 innings and just walked one.
 
Iowa Baseball/USA lost to Japan 11-5. Sounds like Iowa got a 3-run HR early and a good start. The bullpen got lit up by Japan.

Iowa faces the Czech Republic in game one of the medal round on Friday @ 5:30am.



 
I believe semi's are Monday and final games Tues or Wed. What a great experience for the Hawkeyes! This should help jump start for the season and integrate in some of the incoming freshman and new comers. Impressed with the new guys!
 
Nice win tonight. A bit sloppy on D but got some late timely hitting.

Think they found their 3rd baseman in Elion. Looks like a pretty good athlete. Reached some balls that would not have been made last yr. If he hits it could be huge

Need more production out of 2b and cf

Pitching is going to take a good sized dip from last year. Schanuel would have been a nice #3 if other 2 guys csme back. Going to need some big development by the staff
 
Elion has performed well. McCleary is another newcomer who seems to be hitting well as DH.

Pitching has been eratic. i think Daniels is earning closer role but starters will need to continue to develop.
 
Nice win tonight. A bit sloppy on D but got some late timely hitting.

Think they found their 3rd baseman in Elion. Looks like a pretty good athlete. Reached some balls that would not have been made last yr. If he hits it could be huge

Need more production out of 2b and cf

Pitching is going to take a good sized dip from last year. Schanuel would have been a nice #3 if other 2 guys csme back. Going to need some big development by the staff

I would guard against making pronouncements based on a few games. Norman and Boe both were huge in the B1G and NCAA tournament last year, which gave the Iowa lineup the depth it needed. Was good to see Crowl having some success in this tournament, the more options with bats Heller has the better.
 
I would guard against making pronouncements based on a few games. Norman and Boe both were huge in the B1G and NCAA tournament last year, which gave the Iowa lineup the depth it needed. Was good to see Crowl having some success in this tournament, the more options with bats Heller has the better.
Are you thinking Elion may not earn the 3b job?
 
Iowa vs Japan for the gold. Japan is pretty salty so we will see what happens. I know nothing about these world university games but Iowa is the first team USA to medal/play for gold.



 
Saw Heller will be starting freshman Jack Dreyer in the gold medal game tomorrow morning
 
I've been trying to keep the stats for the games in Taiwan, this is probably not 100% accurate, but here's what I got for the six games.
Team BA .296 OB .426 Slug .404 ERA 3.18 WHIP 1.12 44 K in 51 IP
Individual Stats
Whelan 8-22 .364/.500/.455 5 runs, 2 doubles, 11 rbi
Jenkins 0-2 .000/.333/.000
Norman 5-27 .185/.267/.222
Neustrom 11-27 .407/.448/.778 6 runs, 3 doubles, 2 triples, 1 home run, 6 rbi
Cropley 6-19 .316/.519/.368 2 steals
McCleary 6-20 .300/.364/.450 3 doubles
Wetrich 2-5 .400/.500/.400
Judkins 2-11 .182/.400/.182 4 runs
Crowl 7-18 .389/.560/.389 5 runs
Hoeg 4-18 .222/.364/.389 5 runs, 4 rbi, 1 home run
Boe 2-16 .125/.364/.125 5 runs
Elion 7-18 .389/.450/.500 4 runs, 2 doubles
Pitchers: (walks also include HBP)
Schanuel 8.1 IP 10 K, 9 BB, 5 H 2.16/1.68
Lizarraga 1-0 5.1 IP 7 K, BB, 3 H 5.06/0.75
Dreyer 4 IP 2 K, 3 BB, H 0.00/1.00
McDonald 1-0 10.2 IP 7K, 5BB, 0H! 0.00/0.47
Allgeyer 4.2 IP 6K, BB, 2H 1.93/0.64
Daniels 2-0 6 IP 4K, 4H save 0.00/0.62
Shimp 0-1 2.1 IP 6BB, 4H 19.29/4.29
Kampen .2 IP 2BB, 2H 40.48/6.00
Ritter 3 IP 4K, H 3.00/0.33
Jenkins IP BB, 2H 18.00/3.00
Judkins 3 IP 2K, BB, 3H 3.00/1.33
Probst 1-0 2IP, 2K, BB 0.00/0.50
 
Whelan is showing how big he is to this teams success. Look at what happened in Kansas without him.

Also, from a defensive stand point Boe is excellent. He was big offensively as the season wore on as well in certain games.
 
Japan takes it to USA/Iowa 10-0. The silver medal that USA/Iowa earns is the first ever in baseball during these games for USA.

This experience means our returning players and incoming freshman now have around 15 games already together. Hopefully come regular season time this pays off huge.
 
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