pigsonthewing Posted March 10, 2006 Share Posted March 10, 2006 bunt, nimmo is at 2nd... 1 out.. Quote Link to comment
pigsonthewing Posted March 10, 2006 Share Posted March 10, 2006 intentional walk on gorsette... Quote Link to comment
pigsonthewing Posted March 10, 2006 Share Posted March 10, 2006 edelfson(??) the pinch runner, is up.. Quote Link to comment
pigsonthewing Posted March 10, 2006 Share Posted March 10, 2006 pinch hit... andrew brown Quote Link to comment
pigsonthewing Posted March 10, 2006 Share Posted March 10, 2006 1 out... 2 runners on... Quote Link to comment
pigsonthewing Posted March 10, 2006 Share Posted March 10, 2006 2-2... 1 out.. 2 runners on Quote Link to comment
pigsonthewing Posted March 10, 2006 Share Posted March 10, 2006 struck out... 2 outs Quote Link to comment
pigsonthewing Posted March 10, 2006 Share Posted March 10, 2006 buckman is up... Quote Link to comment
pigsonthewing Posted March 10, 2006 Share Posted March 10, 2006 NEBRASKA WINS!!!!! Quote Link to comment
pigsonthewing Posted March 10, 2006 Share Posted March 10, 2006 buckman hit one to left... drove in nimmo from 2nd... nebraska wins 2-1 in 11 innings... Quote Link to comment
Jarred04 Posted March 11, 2006 Share Posted March 11, 2006 great game to be at!!! I was 5 feet short of Gorsett's homer, and i was right next to the "fowl pole" when he almost hit the second one. Great game. Quote Link to comment
Eric the Red Posted March 11, 2006 Author Share Posted March 11, 2006 Blackshirt and I will be at the game tomorrow. Anyone want to meet up for beers? Quote Link to comment
Eric the Red Posted March 11, 2006 Author Share Posted March 11, 2006 Huskers slip past Alabama A warm March day, a record crowd, extra innings and a game-winning hit. Nebraska fans couldn't have wanted more after the Cornhuskers' 2-1 win over Alabama on Friday. Brandon Buckman singled to left in the bottom of the 11th to drive in Bryce Nimmo and give Nebraska (9-2) the win. Buckman's hit was the Huskers' first since the seventh inning. "I was just in the right place at the right time," Buckman said. "I just was trying to stay on the ball ... just drive it the other way." Alabama (13-4) had its chances, stranding 11 runners and leaving the bases loaded three times. The seventh inning -- the Crimson Tide had runners on the corners with no outs and eventually filled the bases -- was particularly costly, Alabama coach Jim Wells said. "The seventh inning was the key inning for us," Wells said. "We felt like that was our best opportunity." The Huskers almost ended the game in the ninth when Luke Gorsett hit a blast to left field that turned foul. Gorsett accounted for the Huskers' first run with a homer to left in the fourth, his sixth of the season. Nebraska got a strong outing from starter Tony Watson, who gave up five hits and a run in six innings. Watson was starting in place of ace Joba Chamberlain, who sat out to nurse a sore pitching arm. "I'm glad he viewed himself as a Friday night kind of guy," Nebraska coach Mike Anderson said of Watson. "I think if he would have thought anything different, then we would have been in trouble." Nebraska closer Brett Jensen (2-0) got the win for Nebraska after working 3 1-3 innings of relief. Alabama closer David Robertson (1-1) took the loss. Tide starter Wade LeBlanc (3-0) gave up a run and five hits while striking out six in eight innings. Alabama's run came off a fourth-inning single by David Ferazza, who was a redshirt for Nebraska in 2002. Ferazza, who went 2-5, said he was glad to get a couple hits at Haymarket Park. "It was good to finally do well in this ball park," Ferazza said. Ferazza's day would have been a little brighter if a strong wind had not kept a sixth-inning ball he hit to left in the park. "I was telling my buddies I love everything about Nebraska but the wind," Ferazza said. A crowd of 6,291 -- an opening-day record at Haymarket Park -- and a strong opponent helped create an atmosphere similar to a conference series, Anderson said. "They're a very good ball club," Anderson said of Alabama. "This is a unique Friday night, (home-opening) game." Quote Link to comment
Eric the Red Posted March 11, 2006 Author Share Posted March 11, 2006 Big Red halts Tide, 2-1 NU's Bryce Nimmo celebrates as he scores the winning run against Alabama on Friday. (AP) Brandon Buckman's two-out single in the bottom of the 11th inning brought home Bryce Nimmo and lifted Nebraska to a 2-1 victory over Alabama at Haymarket Park on Friday. Buckman’s hit was the Huskers’ first since the seventh inning. “I was just in the right place at the right time,” Buckman said. “I just was trying to stay on the ball ... just drive it the other way.” Alabama had its chances, stranding 11 runners and leaving the bases loaded three times. The seventh inning — the Crimson Tide had runners on the corners with no outs and eventually filled the bases — was particularly costly, Alabama coach Jim Wells said. “We felt like that was our best opportunity,” he said. NU's Brett Jensen, who entered the game in the eighth with the score tied 1-1, picked up the win in relief. Starter Tony Watson allowed five hits and one earned run in six innings of work. He struck out one and walked one. Husker pitchers Luke Wertz, Jared Cranston and Erik Bird also saw action on the mound. Watson was starting in place of ace Joba Chamberlain, who sat out to nurse a sore pitching arm. “I’m glad he viewed himself as a Friday night kind of guy,” Nebraska coach Mike Anderson said of Watson. “I think if he would have thought anything different, then we would have been in trouble.” Alabama jumped on top in the fourth when designated hitter David Ferazza lined a two-out single into left field, allowing Kory Valverde to score. The Huskers tied it in the bottom half of the inning, however, when Luke Gorsett launched a 2-1 pitch over the left-field wall. Nimmo started the 11th by drawing a walk from Tide closer David Robertson. Nick Jaros' bunt sacrifice got Nimmo to second, prompting Alabama to intentionally walk Gorsett. Robertson came back to strike out pinch-hitter Andrew Brown, but couldn't keep Buckman from driving an 0-1 pitch to left field for the game winning RBI. Tide starter Wade LeBlanc shackled the Huskers for much of the afternoon, scattering five hits through eight innings. Robertson took the loss. The No. 6 Huskers improved to 9-2 on the year with the win over the No. 25 Crimson Tide, who fell to 13-4. A crowd of 6,291 — an opening-day record at Haymarket Park — and a strong opponent helped create an atmosphere similar to a conference series, Anderson said. “They’re a very good ball club,” Anderson said of Alabama. “This is a unique Friday night, (home-opening) game.” Quote Link to comment
pigsonthewing Posted March 12, 2006 Share Posted March 12, 2006 Blackshirt and I will be at the game tomorrow. Anyone want to meet up for beers? doh! too bad i didnt read the forums before i left.. i would have met up for some beers... great game though.. G.I. johnny really pitched a great game.. fantastic weather.. i was sitting on the third base line and i am sunburnt as hell.. Quote Link to comment
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