#2/2/2/2/2 Vanderbilt went all the way to #11/12/14/15/17 Oregon for a 3 game series, and Vandy won Game One 4-1...Vandy had only 6 hits, and held Oregon to only 2 The Vandy starting pitcher, Kevin Ziomek, went all 9 innings, with 13 Ks, 1 walk, and 117 pitches thrown
Alabama went to #5/14/19/20/20 Louisville for a 3 game series and Bama gave em hell in Game One, going 14 innings before losing 3-4
Texas A&M went all the way to #8/11/10/12/13 Cal State-Fullerton for a three game series, and the Aggies whooped em in Game One, 6-1 Aggie pitchers held Fullerton to a .193 batting avg in the game
Maineiri: " Aaron Nola was brilliant through the first six innings, and you have to credit Washington for finally getting to him in the seventh," said LSU coach Paul Mainieri . "I don't think it was necessarily a case of Aaron throwing bad pitches; Washington just did a nice job of stringing together some hits." "I was very pleased with our offensive approach throughout the game," Mainieri said. "We were aggressive at the plate and delivered key hits when we needed them. There was never a sense of panic after Washington had their big inning; our guys stayed focused and gave us the cushion we needed."
With SEC play about to begin, here's what our Friday ace Aaron Nola has looked like this season... Maryland 6.2 IP, 84 pitches, 0 earned runs, 2 hits, 9 Ks, 1 walk BYU 6.0 IP, 90 pitches, 4 earned runs, 4 hits, 6 Ks, 3 walks Brown 7.0 IP, 101 pitches, 0 earned runs, 3 hits, 11 Ks, 0 walks Washington 6.1 IP, 78 pitches, 4 earned runs, 5 hits, 6 Ks, 0 walks
Here's the 5 guys that hit Nola last night, in order: Single --senior OF Jayce Ray -- he's batting .391 this season (#6 in the Pac 12) and .311 last season. he was a first-team JUCO All- America before cominig to UW Single --senior OF Joe Meggs is batting .291 for his career at UW, including .317 in 2011 (he's .286 so far this season) 2 RBI Single (he also later singled v Berry) --soph 1B Trevor Mitsui -- he's currently only batting .268 this season, but he hit .308 last season (bringing his UW career avg to .299). coming out of high school, he was drafted 12th Round in the Draft and he was a first-team All-America selection by both USA Today and Baseball America (second- team All-America by the ABCA) as well as the Gatorade Washington state player of the year and the Washington State coaches' 3A state player of the year 1 RBI Single --senior OF Michael Camporeale -- he was a JUCO All-America before he came to UW, but hit .270 last year at UW and is hitting .259 this year 1 RBI Single --soph 3B Andrew Ely -- he's batting .235 for his career at UW... .216 this season and .250 last season. In high school in Idaho 5A, he hit .417 as a senior, .404 as a junior, and .421 as a soph
Hard to pick a player of the game last night: Bregman was 3 for 4 with a walk and scored 2 runs Laird was 2 for 4 and scored 2 runs and had 1 RBI Rhymes was 3 for 5 with 2 RBI Ibarra was 2 for 4 with a walk and hit 3 RBI Only two LSU hitters didn't get a hit last night: Katz and Jones. But Katz walked twice in five at bats and scored a run. Jones had no walks, was 0 for 4, he scored a run, but only after reaching 1B on a fielders choice that threw Ibarra out at 2B both Rumbelow and Cotton were perfect throughout the 2.2 innings they pitched, retiring all 8 batters they faced for 8 outs...and they both came into the game in clutch situations (1 out, runners 1st & 2nd for Rumbelow...bases loaded, no outs for Cotton)
Top 1 Eades mows em down 1 2 3... Laird with great catch in OF for the first out Bot 2 With 2 outs, Bregman BLASTS IT OFF THE TOP OF THE WALL FOR A DOUBLE!!!!!! Rhymes walked BIG KATZ WITH A THREE RUN HOME RUN!!!!!!
