First pitch - 4:05 p.m. - WEDNESDAY - moved due to anticipated weather issues
After Iowa's 5-3 Game 2 win on Sunday, Iowa dropped to #36 in RPI.
Current RPI Ranking: #36 - Iowa is 6 points behind #35 Ohio State and 2 points ahead of #37 Florida State.
RPI Metrics: Non-RPI game because Grand View is a NAIA opponent.
What do I know about Grand View? Jack Sh--.
From their website, I see that they are currently 13-3. They played a DH yesterday (two 7 inning games) - split games against Peru State College. Logan Smith started the first game and threw 89 pitches in 4 innings. Jason Moist started the second game and threw 87 pitches in 4 innings. That rules those two out as potential pitchers today. They had four other relievers pitch an inning or less . . . all of them threw 20+ pitches. They have 15 players on their roster with "P" next to their names. Thus, they should have plenty of arms . . . just difficult to see who might be the likely starter. The GV Baseball website does not have a "Statistics" page. Odd. Also, their roster is huge. 38 on varsity; 20 on junior varsity. Long way of concluding that I have no clue who will take the mound for GV today . . . their Twitter feed is not helpful.
Some familiar faces on GV's roster - players from my "neck of the woods." Langenberg, Llewellyn and Christensen's former Urbandale teammates Blake Heinen, Rece Heinen and Seth Wilson are on GV's roster. (The Heinens were coached by their father at UHS; he's now the coach at Waukee NW). Wilmes and Moss' former Johnston teammates Conner Canny and Jacob Wolver are on GV's roster.
Nearly certain that Heller will employ the proverbial "bullpen game" today. Whitlock is my bet for first in line and we'll likely see Gottilla, Tramontana, Young, Wheatley, Proskovec, DeTaeye and Henderson. Christensen will probably be the catcher and I'm really hoping that Guerin is in the lineup as a DH or 1B.
Even though it won't hurt the RPI, the optics of losing a game like this would be bad. Here's hoping for a double-digit margin of victory.
After Iowa's 5-3 Game 2 win on Sunday, Iowa dropped to #36 in RPI.
Current RPI Ranking: #36 - Iowa is 6 points behind #35 Ohio State and 2 points ahead of #37 Florida State.
RPI Metrics: Non-RPI game because Grand View is a NAIA opponent.
What do I know about Grand View? Jack Sh--.
From their website, I see that they are currently 13-3. They played a DH yesterday (two 7 inning games) - split games against Peru State College. Logan Smith started the first game and threw 89 pitches in 4 innings. Jason Moist started the second game and threw 87 pitches in 4 innings. That rules those two out as potential pitchers today. They had four other relievers pitch an inning or less . . . all of them threw 20+ pitches. They have 15 players on their roster with "P" next to their names. Thus, they should have plenty of arms . . . just difficult to see who might be the likely starter. The GV Baseball website does not have a "Statistics" page. Odd. Also, their roster is huge. 38 on varsity; 20 on junior varsity. Long way of concluding that I have no clue who will take the mound for GV today . . . their Twitter feed is not helpful.
Some familiar faces on GV's roster - players from my "neck of the woods." Langenberg, Llewellyn and Christensen's former Urbandale teammates Blake Heinen, Rece Heinen and Seth Wilson are on GV's roster. (The Heinens were coached by their father at UHS; he's now the coach at Waukee NW). Wilmes and Moss' former Johnston teammates Conner Canny and Jacob Wolver are on GV's roster.
Nearly certain that Heller will employ the proverbial "bullpen game" today. Whitlock is my bet for first in line and we'll likely see Gottilla, Tramontana, Young, Wheatley, Proskovec, DeTaeye and Henderson. Christensen will probably be the catcher and I'm really hoping that Guerin is in the lineup as a DH or 1B.
Even though it won't hurt the RPI, the optics of losing a game like this would be bad. Here's hoping for a double-digit margin of victory.
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