2015 UofA baseball season thread

UAEebs86 · Post by **UAEebs86** » Sat Feb 07, 2015 10:56 am

This board didn't exist last season, so I thought I'd get the ball rolling for this season.

How are the 'Cats looking this year? I haven't been following very closely.

UAEebs86 · Post by **UAEebs86** » Sat Feb 07, 2015 10:56 am

Nice article about former 'Cat Refsnyder:

On Deck for the Yankees, From South Korea, Rob Refsnyder

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/02/06/sp ... &referrer=

rgdeuce · Post by **rgdeuce** » Tue Feb 10, 2015 8:54 am

Refsnyder is doing well. Have seen a few major articles about him

scumdevils86 · Post by **scumdevils86** » Tue Feb 10, 2015 9:38 am

hoping to get out to a couple games this year

Katzenfreund · Post by **Katzenfreund** » Fri Feb 13, 2015 6:23 pm

Katzenfreund · Post by **Katzenfreund** » Fri Feb 13, 2015 9:13 pm

ASUHATER! · Post by **ASUHATER!** » Fri Feb 13, 2015 9:25 pm

hopefully we outperform our preseason picks. we barely even got any votes and were unranked. last year was hugely disappointing.

Irish27 · Post by **Irish27** » Fri Feb 13, 2015 9:54 pm

Hamlin came in and got the save, striking out five batters in two innings. Right now I would give him the closer job over Troupe.

Katzenfreund · Post by **Katzenfreund** » Sat Feb 14, 2015 8:25 pm

Irish27 · Post by **Irish27** » Sun Feb 15, 2015 8:16 am

Katzenfreund wrote:Cats pummel EMU 16-3 in game 2 of the series. Redshirt frosh Robby Medel showed some promising pitching over 7.2 innings, giving up five hits and one run.

The 9th inning saw the debuts of Matthew Troupe, who returned from March 2014 Tommy John surgery, and frosh Handsome Monica behind home plate. With Monica catching like a champ, Troupe's balls loaded up the bases but Coach Lopez didn't let him finish and pulled him after throwing it 21 times. Next guy in line was freshman Kale Morton, whose first appearance on the mount turned out to be a quickie of only six pitches, with two EMU runs blasting through. Finally, Lopez made Monica catch the balls of a third guy in one night. Redshirt freshman Rio Gomez got the job done and the Cats received a break until tomorrow 12:00 p.m. MST.

Scott Kingery and Bobby Dalbec both homered, with Dalbec's rocket flying all the way across center field. Once again, Kingery led the squad with five hits, three runs and three RBIs in six ABs.
After hitting only .288 as a team in the 2014, the Cats showed some improvement in that category, going .488 on 21-43 hits.

Game 3: Sunday, Feb. 15, 12:00 p.m. MST
Live Stream: http://pac-12.com/videos/university-arizona

It will be interesting to see how much Troupe can contribute this year. His problem has always been control issues. I think he would be best used as a long-inning specialist. Pitching will determine how far this team goes. Offense should be just fine.

Katzenfreund · Post by **Katzenfreund** » Sun Feb 15, 2015 10:06 am

Katzenfreund · Post by **Katzenfreund** » Sun Feb 15, 2015 4:40 pm

Irish27 · Post by **Irish27** » Tue Feb 17, 2015 7:07 pm

Cats beating North Dakota State 6-2 in the bottom of the third.

Irish27 · Post by **Irish27** » Tue Feb 17, 2015 8:21 pm

Cats beat North Dakota State 7-2. Hamin was the winner.

Katzenfreund · Post by **Katzenfreund** » Tue Feb 17, 2015 8:44 pm

Bruins01 · Post by **Bruins01** » Wed Feb 18, 2015 5:51 pm

I wonder how the new balls are affecting the sport nationwide. UCLA, in four games this season, has already matched last year's team home run total and has outscored its opponents 50-13.

Katzenfreund · Post by **Katzenfreund** » Wed Feb 18, 2015 9:21 pm

wyo-cat · Post by **wyo-cat** » Wed Feb 18, 2015 9:26 pm

Dalbec has some nice power.

Does he still come to the plate to TNT by AC/DC?

Katzenfreund · Post by **Katzenfreund** » Wed Feb 18, 2015 9:28 pm

Irish27 · Post by **Irish27** » Thu Feb 19, 2015 5:47 am

We will know more about this team after their weekend series with Rice.

azgreg · Post by **azgreg** » Thu Feb 19, 2015 6:48 am

Irish27 wrote:We will know more about this team after their weekend series with Rice.

Rice had a tough season opening with Texas.

Katzenfreund · Post by **Katzenfreund** » Fri Feb 20, 2015 11:02 am

Irish27 · Post by **Irish27** » Fri Feb 20, 2015 3:29 pm

azgreg wrote:
Irish27 wrote:We will know more about this team after their weekend series with Rice.
Rice had a tough season opening with Texas.

Taking 2 of 4 from the #10 team in the country is not too shabby.

Katzenfreund · Post by **Katzenfreund** » Fri Feb 20, 2015 6:37 pm

azgreg · Post by **azgreg** » Sat Feb 21, 2015 3:20 pm

Rice trying to throw this game away in the bottom of the 9th and the Cats tie it up.

catgrad97 · Post by **catgrad97** » Sat Feb 21, 2015 3:25 pm

Cats win!

azgreg · Post by **azgreg** » Sat Feb 21, 2015 3:25 pm

Steal home for the win! fantastic.

scumdevils86 · Post by **scumdevils86** » Sat Feb 21, 2015 3:26 pm

F yea that was awesome

azgreg · Post by **azgreg** » Sat Feb 21, 2015 3:28 pm

Must have been 3 Rice errors there.

Merkin · Post by **Merkin** » Sat Feb 21, 2015 3:38 pm

Katzenfreund · Post by **Katzenfreund** » Sat Feb 21, 2015 4:22 pm

Irish27 · Post by **Irish27** » Sat Feb 21, 2015 5:05 pm

Scored two runs without a hit is pretty telling on Rice's behalf. Newman was safe even if the catcher held onto the ball but the ump was going to call him out.

AZCatGirl · Post by **AZCatGirl** » Sat Feb 21, 2015 5:26 pm

http://www.snappytv.com/tc/487363

Full video of the final play. Just amazing.

azgreg · Post by **azgreg** » Sun Feb 22, 2015 1:37 pm

The Owls jump out to a 3 run lead, but the Cats come back to tie it up at 4.

UALoco · Post by **UALoco** » Wed Feb 25, 2015 10:25 am

Thanks for this thread. We lost the series against Rice but competed. Looking forward to the series against ASsU at Phoenix Muni Stadium.

Katzenfreund · Post by **Katzenfreund** » Wed Feb 25, 2015 11:53 am

Irish27 · Post by **Irish27** » Sat Feb 28, 2015 10:22 am

UofA vs Mississippi State is on the SEC Network right now.

UAEebs86 · Post by **UAEebs86** » Fri Mar 27, 2015 5:46 pm

After losing two out of three to Utah two weekends ago, the 'Cats swept a three-game series at Stanford last weekend for the first time in school history.
Talley with a 3-hitter on Sunday.

Sitting at 19-6, 4-2. Hosting 18th ranked Oregon this weekend.

azcat49 · Post by **azcat49** » Fri Mar 27, 2015 6:34 pm

I was worried after the collapse with Utah at home. Nice rebound though in sweeping Furd.

EDIT: just checked and our game is the Friday night game on the PAC channel

UAEebs86 · Post by **UAEebs86** » Fri Mar 27, 2015 10:34 pm

UAEebs86 · Post by **UAEebs86** » Sat Mar 28, 2015 10:15 pm

ASUHATER! · Post by **ASUHATER!** » Sat Mar 28, 2015 10:19 pm

Awesome. One good thing going on I suppose. 21-6 and 6-2 in conference. Would be nice to get back to the playoffs this year.

UAEebs86 · Post by **UAEebs86** » Sat Mar 28, 2015 10:21 pm

Game 2 vs. South Carolina in the CWS championship series on PAC-12 Network now if any of you need something to take your mind off today's hoops game.

ASUHATER! · Post by **ASUHATER!** » Sun Mar 29, 2015 1:18 pm

Already up 10-1 on Oregon in the 5th. Looking like back to back sweeps and a 7-2 conference start

azcat49 · Post by **azcat49** » Sun Mar 29, 2015 1:24 pm

Maybe we have something this year. Lopez really worked those pitchers hard and I mean hard in the off season. He said he was not going you have a repeat of last year and it looks like he won't.

We definitely can hit. I think we lead the nation in batting average

ASUHATER! · Post by **ASUHATER!** » Sun Mar 29, 2015 1:34 pm

It helps we played one of the weakest non-conference schedules in existence. We don't really play big ooc games anymore to load up on wins. Our rpi the last few years suffered because of it and is probably why we missed the tournament in 2013.

Irish27 · Post by **Irish27** » Sun Mar 29, 2015 5:47 pm

It's nice how team has turned it around since the debacle against Utah. Hopefully Talley's injury is not serious because they can't afford to lose him.

azgreg · Post by **azgreg** » Mon Mar 30, 2015 6:39 pm

azgreg · Post by **azgreg** » Mon Mar 30, 2015 6:40 pm

How many programs can boast of having their football, basketball, baseball, and softball teams ranked in the same year?

ASUHATER! · Post by **ASUHATER!** » Mon Mar 30, 2015 6:59 pm

Now if we can only get women's bball out of the gutter.

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