2024 Season Thread

[Chicat]

It’s always a good day to be a Wildcat.

But some days are better than others.

BTFD!

[UAEebs86]

Poor OSU and Wazzu. They were right there to win baseball and basketball in the last year of the PAC-12 after they got screwed by realignment, but the 'Cats snatched both regular season titles.

[84Cat]

[scumdevils86]

Awesome

[Postmaster]

Bunting practice for the next week

[mofo]

Bunting practice for the next week

Holy cow, I'll say. 1 right back to the pitcher by Roberts, a pop up that should've been caught right afterwards, then an o'fer including a 2 strike attempt for an out by Roberts again. I'm all for moving them over, but you gotta make it happen!

[ALASKACAT]

Gutsy win especially after watching the first two disastrous games, not cashing in on numerous runners in scoring positions during the first eight innings, failing behind in the ninth after the bullpen once again failed to put up a goose egg and then scoring two runs in the bottom of ninth against a pitcher with a sub two earned run average. Cam Walty was special when he absolutely needed to be—-a clutch performance to be sure. Good to see Summerhill get out of his late season slump. I wish Mason White would cut down his strike out rate. Hoping Jackson Kent can find his 2nd wind and that we can get Breyfogle and/or Adams back for the post season. (We need their bats). The Casey Hinz experiment as a center fielder was a failure especially at the plate as he failed to get a hit in the series or for that matter the season although to be fair he had less than 10 at bats coming into the series. Shaky as an outfielder too.

As far as postseason prospects are concerned, need to have all three starting pitchers on their game as I don’t trust anyone in the bullpen. And of course, we need to get our injured players back healthy and productive. Hopefully a win like this will be a springboard to newfound confidence.

[UAEebs86]

Fuck ASU

[TheCatInTheHat]

Poor OSU and Wazzu. They were right there to win baseball and basketball in the last year of the PAC-12 after they got screwed by realignment, but the 'Cats snatched both regular season titles.

I really think that was part of OSU's motivation in this series. Sure, they wanted a regular season conference title, and obviously that was by far the biggest deal. But, a little extra might have involved sticking it to one of the (many) schools that bailed out using all of the remaining parachutes. In any event, it's historic to win the last Pac-12 title. Going from (predicted) ninth to first and dealing with multiple injuries, I don't think we need to apologize too much for the earlier poor showings. And, it made things that much more dramatic.

[84Cat]

[AZCatGirl]

[Postmaster]

Who is Mark Haugan?

[azcat49]

Who is Mark Haugan?

Just a stupid ASSU fan who tried to run down the cats on every social media post about us winning

[AzCatFan2]

There's an old baseball adage. Score as many runs you can today, but remember, the scoreboard resets back to zero tomorrow, and the runs don't carry over. The Beaves beat us 2 out of 3, but the Ls count the same if had lost both games by 1 each, or 100 each. And on Saturday, after the scoreboard reset, we beat them and won the pennant. That's baseball.

[Irish27]

https://shop.arizona.edu/2024-pac-12-me ... quantity=1

[Postmaster]

Who is Mark Haugan?

Just a stupid ASSU fan who tried to run down the cats on every social media post about us winning

Well, at least he has basketball…..

[Irish27]

Coach Hale is the first person in conference history to be named Pac-12 Player and Coach of the Year!



Much deserved. Congrats Chip!

[azcat49]

Definitely much deserved and a no brainer. If he can somehow make it to Omaha he should be national COY

[FreeSpiritCat]

I thought this is pretty cool in the Cat's win for the championship.

[Irish27]

Mason White blasts a 3-run homer and the Cats are up 4-2 in the third.

[Irish27]

[UAEebs86]

[wyo-cat]

Crazy play. Runner interference called when dude slid halfway to second. It’s a no brainer.

[AZCatGirl]

That got a little too close, but we got it done.

Fuck the Huskies.

[Irish27]

Cats win 6-5 and advance to the semi-finals. Really liked how Chip saved all three of his starters.

[wyo-cat]

Tidy win.

[azcat49]

Cal is next up and they have really been playing well since we took two out of three from them.

We are in the semi final with the run tonight but we can still host a regional and Cal’s RPI is decent so we need this win

[Irish27]

Cal is next up and they have really been playing well since we took two out of three from them.

We are in the semi final with the run tonight but we can still host a regional and Cal’s RPI is decent so we need this win

Only chance they have to host is to win the Pac-12 tournament. I don't believe tomorrow's game against Cal is that important, but a win would be nice.

[Irish27]

If UofA beats Cal tonight, Oregon State will play tomorrow. If Cal wins, Oregon plays tomorrow and the Beavers go home.

[wyo-cat]

If UofA beats Cal tonight, Oregon State will play tomorrow. If Cal wins, Oregon plays tomorrow and the Beavers go home.

I heard that. How does that actually work?

[azcat49]

Cal would win the A pod and Stanford won the B pod and can’t remember who won the C pod and we would be 1-1 but being the 1 seed gets us in over 1-1 OSU or any team 1-1 below us

[wyo-cat]

This is gonna be a real shit sandwich for them, but I don’t care.

[Postmaster]

Kent is not looking good

[wyo-cat]

Summerhill hit the foul pole with runners on the corners.

3-0

[wyo-cat]

4-0 Cats, bishes.

[RichardCranium]

Bottom 6th
Treeline 0 0 1

Good pitching by Cats except for wild pitches that have do e no harm... yet.

[wyo-cat]

5-0 anther Tree cut down - pitcher knocked out of game.

[UAEebs86]

6-0 Cats top of 7

[wyo-cat]

6-0 safety squeeze with runners on the corners.

[wyo-cat]

Candy threw a gem. 6-1 after 7

Tonko prolly in for the 8th

[wyo-cat]

Casey Hinz, CF last week due to injury gives up a run

6-2 Cats B8

[84Cat]

[84Cat]

Cats win 6-3

[Irish27]

Cats beat Stanford 6-3 and advance to the championship game tomorrow vs USC. Btw, this was the last live sporting event televised on the Pac-12 network.

[RichardCranium]

I'll take the win for sure, but I must acknowledge that Stanford got dudded on that last play. Tie goes to the runner. Every time.

[RichardCranium]

Cats beat Stanford 6-3 and advance to the championship game tomorrow vs USC. Btw, this was the last live sporting event televised on the Pac-12 network.

Why aren't they doing the Championship game?

[UAEebs86]

Cats beat Stanford 6-3 and advance to the championship game tomorrow vs USC. Btw, this was the last live sporting event televised on the Pac-12 network.

Why aren't they doing the Championship game?

On ESPNU

[AZCatGirl]

Cats beat Stanford 6-3 and advance to the championship game tomorrow vs USC. Btw, this was the last live sporting event televised on the Pac-12 network.

Why aren't they doing the Championship game?

ESPN U has it. Probably for the same reason every other conference championship has been on other networks, they actually want people to watch.

Pretty nice goodbye video they aired to end the network. I imagine when the lights go off they'll just re-air it.

[Irish27]

Cats beat Stanford 6-3 and advance to the championship game tomorrow vs USC. Btw, this was the last live sporting event televised on the Pac-12 network.

Why aren't they doing the Championship game?

ESPNU is showing the game. They had a nice sendoff after tonight's game, showing video from the last 12 years. They showed the Hail Mary vs Cal and even showed a shot of Sean Miller cutting down the nets.

[azgreg]

I'll take the win for sure, but I must acknowledge that Stanford got dudded on that last play. Tie goes to the runner. Every time.

As an ex umpire let give you a secret. There's never a tie.