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9 minutes ago, caveman99 said:

The zone was pretty tight yesterday, both teams had several instances where they wanted to throw it around the horn or walk to the dugout only have the home plate ump call a ball. I do think the ump was consistent and equally tough to both teams however. I am wondering if there is an emphasis being made to remove the 2-4” off the plate strike that has been pretty common in the college game until recently. Used to bother me that so many pitches hitters are taught to lay off were called strikes in the past, but the trade off for tighter zones is higher pitch counts and more arm injuries, which is worse than more batters getting punched out at bad strike calls.

I agree. Maybe I am a little out of touch and I know that theses athletes are in fantastic physical condition, but I believe the CC starter went 103 pitches and Sears was around 90.  Both only went around 6 innings and were both very good, not wild. Seems like a lot of pitches for guys who don’t walk batters. Plus, it seems early in season for starters to be logging that workload. Not questioning Coaching, just an observation 

1 hour ago, Loebarth said:

These 150+ pitch games is happening far too often in college ball (Nebraska threw 148, CofC threw 156) and it's not just a few games. I don't know if it's umps with shoebox zones or umps that simply can't keep a consistent zone but it's become a huge issue. Teams pitching staffs by mid season are going to suffer. I noticed 3 years ago, it was bad last year and this year it seems like well over half the games I look at are throwing 135+...

 

As for this game, we won in the 9th again. Lot of people will say we won ugly. I won't.. I think 9th inning wins are more common with how games are being called at the plate. Also, you have to push runners across home to win so to me, winning is winning. Good win against and underrated opponent that prior to this weekend was unbeaten. We took the series now it's time to sweep it. Congrats Huskers & GBR!!!

I thought the imo tonight was squeezing both starters for most of the game. I missed the 7-8 innings 

Huskers rally for 2 in the 8th and 2 in the 9th.  ( was traveling so I couldn’t get details). We lead 5-4 going to bottom of 9.  Sears off the hook, which is good bc the way too well to take the Loss. Finish guys!!

We plate 2 in the top of 8th! 4-3 CC 

CC getting after Horn. Two hits, walk have cost Huskers 2 more runs….4-1 CC still batting in 7

Huskers fail to score in 6th. Horn into pitch ! 

Sears goes 1-2-3 again, with another k. 88 pitches, so probably headed to pen in the 8. Fantastic outing from Sears, going a full 6, 7 k, 1 bb, 2 hits. Get some runs!

Skers get 1 back.. Silva lead off double, scores on 2 out double by Evans

Sears with another 2 k, gives him 6. Unfortunately not getting any offense to help overcome the HR. C’mon skers !

Huskers had runners on 1&3 with 1 out but double play ends inning

Sears another 1-2-3 inning ( his 3rd out of 4 innings). Offense needs to string something together .  Huskers out hitting CC 4-1 but trail

Huskers trail 2-0 top of 4.  Sears pitching well, but did walk his 2nd batter of the season, followed by a HR. 1 hit, 4K, 1 bb, 2 runs 

offense struggled again in first 3 innings 

Didn’t get to watch, but was told Defense wasnt stellar today. Christo was solid, but CC didn’t strike out much. Offensively we struggled against that 73-74 mph fastball. Their reliever was awful today, allowing offense momentum. A win is a win and hopefully carries into tomorrow 

4 minutes ago, HS_Coach_C said:

They both pitched great, but Christo exceeded expectations, helped set the tone for the weekend, and saved the bullpen on the front end of the series. 

 

Overall a great weekend!

Very fair assessment! I only had a slight push back, but yes, Christo coming off of an iffy performance last weekend in relief really bounced back.  Saving the pen on Thursday and Friday (only 1 guy out of pen on Friday) was really big!! 

12 minutes ago, Loebarth said:

He's a freshman with a 3.0 era... I like that

Personally, my pitcher of the weekend vote would go to Drew Christo.. (I know you didn't say Jalen was the pitcher of the week)

 

My personal opinion (worth less than a bag of peanuts) is GCU managed to rattle us yesterday and today. That can't happen again so it might be a good thing they did. I think winning 3 at their complex says something. Indiana and Nebraska have played solid competition and have won. Penn State looks good with what they did to Stanford but I also think Stanford is down. They play a 4 game series against davidson next week followed by a midweek game against virginia so we'll know soon enough how good Penn State is. The B1G is lacking in pitching. Might be early arm syndrome but the pitching is way down.

 

Gotta say my 4 best in B1G:

Indiana 1 (they look like a host team right now)

Nebraska 2 (had the Huskers won one of the tech/OU games they too would look like a host team after winning 3 this weekend)

Penn State 3

Purdue 4 (Rutgers is interchangeable with them)

I may push back a little on Christo. Sears had a better stat line across the board… both went 6… Christo 7 hits, Sears 2… Christo 1 run , Sears 0…. Christo 4 k, Sears 7…. Both gave up 1 walk

granted, it was Christo’s  first start of the year.  Nice to debate over two quality starts. Hopefully both can continue to put up solid numbers!!

I still think Iowa may end up making a lot of noise, but I like what I have seen from our guys for the most part.

16 minutes ago, HuskersNC949597 said:

The thing about Friday though was all Brett Sears was doing was pumping his fist and shouting at his teammates. Didn't really try to show up GCU at all, and the umpire saw fit to lecture him, whereas they were just screaming straight at Nebraska's dugout and players on the field yesterday and today. Kyle Perry finally gave it back to them directly after the final out today, although I would prefer he not do that.

Agree!! Sears never looked at their players. I really thought it may get ugly after KP gave it to the guy.

Finish weekend 3-1, which is huge weekend! Need to get things in the pen figured out, bats were alive !!  Looked like no love lost between these two teams.  Huskers warned Friday, GC warned Sat after their pitcher absolutely went goofy after he got out of jam, teams had to be separated after game last night, and then a lot of stare downs after game today

GC gets game 3.

Last chance for Big Red. Top of 9, down by 2

Huskers with a two out rally of their own by loading the bases, all with 2 outs, only to fail to score when GC third baseman makes great diving catch to end inning 

GC gets that run back with a two out, walk, and triple when Silva dives for sinking line drive and it skips past.  7-5. GC

We only scratch one across after loading the bases with no outs, but still right in it. 6-5 GC , headed to bottom of 7

Sorry for lack of updates, had to step away.

6-4 GC, but Huskers making some noise in top of 7.  Bases loaded with no outs on top of 7

GC go back to back to take a 4-3 lead, bottom of 3

GC does something they haven’t done all series. They score 2 in the first. 3-2 skers