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Thanks @Micheal for keeping up the play by play.

Series win.. Series win.. Coming from behind to win it 7-3 Go Big Red.. 5 & 0 baby... Awesome outing by the arms again. 3 pitchers used over 2 games. Fresh pen for the Sunday match up!! Illinois keeps the pressure on though.. scoring 3 in the 9th to take the 7-4 lead.

Done.. Top on 9, lead stretched to 5. 7-2 good guys. Worthley on to close it out. Good outing by him today as well. If he shuts the door the huskers will have used only 3 pitchers in the first 2 games.

Bottom of the 8th in Lincoln, still 6-2 but... in Minny, the gophers have tied it up in the bottom of the 7th, all knotted at 4.

Headed to the 7th. Good Guys up 6-2, Big McC still on the mound.

Quick 1, 2, 3 top of the 6th.. really good outing so far for McConnaughey. Through 6, he's only thrown 66 pitches

Yeah!!! Got some sticks (whew) AWESOME!! Might that be the spark they needed?

and bottom of 5 still trailing by 2, starting with the 3 hole at the plate. need a run, come on RED!!

Hoping Nebraska can quickly figure out it's sticks... Need to get at least one here. Lets go Huskers!! Trailing 2-0 bottom of 4

As a fan it frustrates me. Have to wonder how much more frustrating it must be for the players and staff. I keep saying I'm worried about the sticks but they keep scoring enough to win. Hoping it continues all weekend. GBR!!!

Umm... You forgot, B1G Pitcher of the week come Monday and I forgot, congratulations to Mr. Sears. He earned that!!

I'm watching the Michigan/Iowa game. Iowa's arms are throwing mostly breaking balls. Honestly, I'm not sure I've seen a consecutive fastball/fastball thrown. Loads of sliders and curves. Ugh... hate off speed pitchers. Give me the heat baby!!

I wonder if he knows how sorely he'll be missed by the Husker fans next year. I'm sure he knows/feels the admiration/support/love the fanbase has for him but I do wonder if he realizes just how much of a loss this is for the Universities connection to team and fanbase.

The ERA leader below (DeVooght) is a situational pitcher mostly. He typically throws 2 innings on the day of his starts and then it's turned over to the bullpen. Christo of late has kind of been that as well all be it he's been getting 4+ innings. He throws hard, has a pitching motion that torque's his elbow a lot as well. (Not releasing from the high point of his arm motion) So, putting in the Sunday spot keeps him extremely relevant in the team's success while also allows them to rest his arm more for the long haul. The Ohio State arm is scary at 1.15 until you look into his starts. (Link Here) Sunday, April 7 – 12:05 PM CT Pitching: Ohio State, RHP Gavin DeVooght (2-1, 1.15 ERA)

Surprised that Christo is throwing the Sunday matchup. I know he's struggled a little but admittedly, I am a little shocked. Good Move or Bad? Childress knows his pitchers so I trust in his leadership decisions.

That is a well thought out and even better articulated response. Thank you!! Personally, I felt like the game plan going in was to swing with power to get the ball in the air and let the wind carry it out. (Hence swing twice at balls in the dirt early and struggling the entire game with the slider.) I do think Husker fans tend to not give Creighton credit. Creighton this year is a very solid ballclub that just might stand in the way of us hosting. We have 2 more midweek games to get the head to head. I'm sooo hoping we are successful. As for the predicted.. As hopeful as I am that we can win the final 2 against the bluebabies it's double for eating crow on my predictions. I desperately want Nebraska to host. So I obviously prefer having to eat crow. I've said I expect us to drop at least 1 game this weekend. I still feel that way but if we just win each and every series that should get the conference regular season title but Illinois is going to be a contender.. They have by far the easiest remaining schedule and to host we have to be a conference regular season champion. Sadly, we don't play Illinois this year.

That is a correct assumption. Part of the reason why I suffered the weather and the humiliation live and in person. Last night's performance was the absolute worst display of hitting i think i've ever seen. It's like the husker's have never seen a slider or a change up. Maybe with the wind at their backs the idea was to hit bombs so they were swinging wildly and all the wild the bluebabies fans were cheering them on.

I'm curious, hindsight being 20/20.. Do you still favor Nebraska knowing how unpredictable Christo has been and the wild swings our hitters do? Nebraska has talent but that talent isn't showing up consistently. Truth is, they could easily only have 2 losses but they could just as easily have 4 or more losses and they get 2 more chances against the bluebabies. Hopefully they can win the next two. Sadly, I expect a weekend loss for this exact reason. No scary bats, to many wild swings and a loose defense (2 more errors tonight). I believe we are a post season team but we are not currently playing like a regional host team. To host we need to win the conference and have 40 plus wins. We will also have to win the Creighton series because both Nebraska & Creighton won't host and Creighton could easily run away with the Big East. Nebraska needs to figure out their sticks or they won't finish in the top 3 of the B1G. (Illinois, Iowa and M State will challenge for that honor.) I sat in the stands and puked inwardly at cheers with every wild swings. So no, right now I'm finding it hard to be positive!!

Could be a very explosive game tonight. Forecasted winds are Gusts +20 mph from the Northwest. Currently at 19mph from the Northwest.. Wind might shorten the outfield but for sure will effect the pitchers. Why can't this game be played in perfect weather every time.. Guess I'll be wearing my heavy husker jacket instead of my favorite Huskers mesh, full button jersey.. Ugh... and sitting amongst all that blue (dang it Huskerboard, add in a vomit Emoji please)

The BTN+ broadcast of Nebraska home games is really good. Truth is, you can watch every game (home & away) on BTN+ but sometimes, like the previous series, you have to tolerate horrendous play by play. (Northwestern used college students and they were really crappy)

Awesome Video but then any and all Husker Vision videos rock!! Thanks @Mavric for posting this!!

Illinois has 1 series left (at Maryland) and 1 mid-week game (Indiana State a regional winner last year) left in which the odds makers would wouldn't favor them. The Nolan prediction has them losing the Northwestern series also. They don't face either Nebraska or Michigan or Michigan State. They're 3 most difficult conference foes are Maryland (road series), Ohio State (home) and Iowa (home). Don't sleep on Illinois. Tomorrow they play a better than average Illinois State game and then a series against Minnesota on the road. They will likely go 3-1 but could easily go 4-0 (tomorrow's game is a tough matchup).. By season's end, Illinois could very easily have the regular season title by drawing this years easiest schedule. Next year this luxury of a "soft" schedule just won't exist with USC, UCLA, Washington & Oregon joining. Also, instead of playing 24 conference games, its not official yet but it expected the B1G will be moving to 30 conference games.. 2025 could be very interesting. Fun Fun things to come and maybe, just maybe the B1G will finally be a top level baseball conference. Now, can someone please get FOX sports to start broadcasting games.

@FrankWheeler We'll know how wrong I am come 7 days from now. I hope I'm wrong. My prediction: D1BASEBALL Poll ranked 23 but won't be following the weeks games. Creighton will be a loss by 3 or more runs. Nebraska won't get through this weekend unscathed. Anyone want to join me in this week's predictions? To many walks. To many errors. To many missed scoring opportunities. It's early, hopefully they make me eat crow. Especially this week as living in Omaha I've grown very disgusted with the snobs that wear the blue. So much that my second favorite team in any sport is whomever is playing the bluebabys. So, please PLEASE make me EAT crow. It will make my week!!!

Kendall is a Husker Hater. On 1620 a couple years ago he said he is not a fan of either Creighton or Nebraska in the CWS. Said every time one of those schools is in the attendance as a whole suffers. Hence why neither Nebraska or Creighton will never be a highly ranked team in D1's poll. Sadly, that is the poll most everyone, including ESPN, promotes. It's also the poll that never publishes who the voters are and how they voted.

It was a good win. They played clean on defense and what seems to be the norm, they did just enough offensively to win and with Oklahoma getting swept by Lamar this weekend enough to be ranked. Getting ranked is not a good thing for this team. Yes, I think Northwestern will surprise a couple teams in conference play but Nebraska is not playing like a top 25 team. They are giving up late inning runs, the fielding % is lacking and the team is winning shakingly. (All Huskers fans this weekend found ourselves begging for the win in all 3 games.) There is loads of reason for optimism though. This team just grinds. The pitching staff is deeper than projected and Bolt is allowing the base coaches to coach. The small ball play has been better than advertised. All of that is on the Staff and Players. Buckle Up folks, it's getting more real with each game. Tuesday's game against a red hot, very good Creighton team will be the Huskers best test to date Congrats to BIG RED, the team and the fans!! Let's keep it going. Very tough week ahead!!!!