2021 Season

EastCoastCat · Post by **EastCoastCat** » Sat May 08, 2021 6:00 pm

AZCatGirl wrote: ↑Sat May 08, 2021 5:57 pm
EastCoastCat wrote: ↑Sat May 08, 2021 4:43 am 10 game winning streak comes to an end after a 13 inning loss to Stanford last night.

Really need to come back strong today.
No problem there.

No shit. Pounded the trees. Funny thing was we scored 20 runs but still had 14 LOB. Lol.

ekat · Post by **ekat** » Sat May 08, 2021 6:26 pm

Hopefully they saved some hits for tomorrow!

wyo-cat · Post by **wyo-cat** » Sat May 08, 2021 9:36 pm

We had back to back jacks in the 2nd. It all went downhill from there for the trees.

AzCatFan2 · Post by **AzCatFan2** » Sat May 08, 2021 10:23 pm

Nice win today. But you don't take the runs with you the next game. Have to show up again tomorrow and take the series.

EastCoastCat · Post by **EastCoastCat** » Sun May 09, 2021 3:08 am

Yeah I get that we can't take the runs with us. But I also get smacking your opponent in the face after a tough extra-inning loss doesn't hurt either.

As they say in baseball, momentum is only as good as your next day's starting pitcher.

azgreg · Post by **azgreg** » Sun May 09, 2021 4:35 pm

azcat49 · Post by **azcat49** » Sun May 09, 2021 5:18 pm

I think regional host are announced this week so hopefully we get good news on that

azgreg · Post by **azgreg** » Sun May 09, 2021 5:26 pm

azcat49 wrote: ↑Sun May 09, 2021 5:18 pm I think regional host are announced this week so hopefully we get good news on that

https://www.ncaa.com/news/baseball/arti ... s-schedule

2021 College World Series schedule
Selection show: Noon ET on Monday, May 31, on ESPN2
Opening Celebration Day — Friday, June 18
First day of games — Saturday, June 19
CWS Finals — Start Monday, June 28 (best out of 3)
Final championship game — Tuesday/Wednesday, June 29/30

azgreg · Post by **azgreg** » Thu May 13, 2021 7:22 pm

EastCoastCat · Post by **EastCoastCat** » Fri May 14, 2021 6:59 am

I think Leiter will get it. He gets a lot of pub because of his Dad.

azcat49 · Post by **azcat49** » Fri May 14, 2021 7:36 am

If Berry can win the conference triple crown that would be amazing

RichardCranium · Post by **RichardCranium** » Fri May 14, 2021 5:14 pm

How come two RHP doubling at 1B are on the list? Don't 'quality' 1B players have to be lefties any more?

ChooChooCat · Post by **ChooChooCat** » Fri May 14, 2021 10:50 pm

Baseball blew a 1 run lead going into the 9th and are currently imploding in the 10th. We’re not going to win the conference by losing games to the last place team.

Irish27 · Post by **Irish27** » Fri May 14, 2021 11:23 pm

What a comeback! Cats score 4 runs to beat Washington 17-16!

ChooChooCat · Post by **ChooChooCat** » Sat May 15, 2021 5:15 am

Irish27 wrote: ↑Fri May 14, 2021 11:23 pm What a comeback! Cats score 4 runs to beat Washington 17-16!

Absolutely crazy snatched victory from the jaws of defeat. They literally did it twice this game. Literally may have saved the conference title with this win.

azcat49 · Post by **azcat49** » Sat May 15, 2021 5:39 am

Blew a one run lead in the 9th and give up 16 runs to a team batting .233 on a Friday night. Maybe an anomaly but that is concerning given this could be an Omaha type team. That offense though, wow

EastCoastCat · Post by **EastCoastCat** » Sat May 15, 2021 6:11 am

Poor outing from both Silseth and Vannelle. Hopefully, just a bad night.

The one thing this team does exceptionally well is score with 2 outs. All 4 of those runs in the 10th came with 2 outs.
Crazy.

Merkin · Post by **Merkin** » Sat May 15, 2021 8:33 am

Amazing ending.

https://www.azdesertswarm.com/arizona-b ... aD1ugOPUCc

Arizona scored four runs in the bottom of the 10th inning, all with two out, rallying to beat last-place Washington 17-16 in a game it could not afford to lose. The Wildcats (33-13, 17-8) were actually down to their last strike, as sophomore Tyler Casagrande—a 9th-inning defensive replacement for No. 5 hitter Ryan Holgate in right field—roped an 0-2 pitch into left-center field for a 2-run single to make it 16-15.

84Cat · Post by **84Cat** » Sat May 15, 2021 8:48 am

Chicat · Post by **Chicat** » Sat May 15, 2021 9:07 am

EastCoastCat wrote: ↑Fri May 14, 2021 6:59 am I think Leiter will get it. He gets a lot of pub because of his Dad.

How is Jack Leiter a 21 year old freshman?

wyo-cat · Post by **wyo-cat** » Sat May 15, 2021 11:55 am

Nice walk off 10th inning win by the Bat Cats last night.

EastCoastCat · Post by **EastCoastCat** » Sat May 15, 2021 2:01 pm

Chicat wrote: ↑Sat May 15, 2021 9:07 am
EastCoastCat wrote: ↑Fri May 14, 2021 6:59 am I think Leiter will get it. He gets a lot of pub because of his Dad.
How is Jack Leiter a 21 year old freshman?

He's actually a Sophomore. Btw, he was initially drafted by your Yankees albeit in the 20th round because he committed to Vandy.

Chicat · Post by **Chicat** » Sat May 15, 2021 2:21 pm

EastCoastCat wrote: ↑Sat May 15, 2021 2:01 pm
Chicat wrote: ↑Sat May 15, 2021 9:07 am
EastCoastCat wrote: ↑Fri May 14, 2021 6:59 am I think Leiter will get it. He gets a lot of pub because of his Dad.
How is Jack Leiter a 21 year old freshman?
He's actually a Sophomore. Btw, he was initially drafted by your Yankees albeit in the 20th round because he committed to Vandy.

I don’t think last year counts. How many starts did he get before the season was canceled? 1? Maybe 2?

azgreg · Post by **azgreg** » Sat May 15, 2021 2:23 pm

Vanderbilt lists him as a sophomore.

https://vucommodores.com/sports/basebal ... ck-leiter/

Irish27 · Post by **Irish27** » Sat May 15, 2021 5:32 pm

Cal beat Stanford with a walk-off win.

ekat · Post by **ekat** » Sat May 15, 2021 5:34 pm

Irish27 wrote: ↑Sat May 15, 2021 5:32 pm Cal beat Stanford with a walk-off win.

Thank you Cal! Now take advantage and shut down the Huskies tonight.

EastCoastCat · Post by **EastCoastCat** » Sat May 15, 2021 8:47 pm

4–1 win tonight. Irvin with a much needed complete game. Another series win.

Let’s get the sweep tomorrow.

azgreg · Post by **azgreg** » Sat May 15, 2021 8:47 pm

Better pitching and defense today.

ChooChooCat · Post by **ChooChooCat** » Sat May 15, 2021 8:57 pm

Pretty amazing this team can go from giving up 16 runs with 4 errors one day and the next give up only 1 run with 0 errors the next.

EastCoastCat · Post by **EastCoastCat** » Sun May 16, 2021 5:55 am

ChooChooCat wrote: ↑Sat May 15, 2021 8:57 pm Pretty amazing this team can go from giving up 16 runs with 4 errors one day and the next give up only 1 run with 0 errors the next.

Says a couple of things Choo.

They don't need to outslug teams to win. But it also says we don't know which team will show up on a given day too.

As they say you're only as good as your next day's starting pitching. I'm hoping Silseth's outing on Friday was an aberration because Irvin has stepped up big time as the Sat. starter. That's a nice 1-2 punch going into the post-season.

TheCatInTheHat · Post by **TheCatInTheHat** » Sun May 16, 2021 9:48 am

Basically, we're in a pack of 5 or 6 horses coming around the turn and heading for the home stretch. We're in a pretty good spot, with the fewest remaining conference games on the schedule offering a chance to lose. Except that we have to go to Oregon St. We'll see how it plays out, recognizing that a conference trophy is nice, but post-season seeding is the main thing. I'm not sure how key RPI is, versus the other rankings. We're #7 there, by far the highest of any conference team. Meanwhile, there's a big disconnect between UCLA's #33 RPI, and being ranked #9 in the college baseball writers' poll. Looks like they've packed the court with LA writers and/or somebody's in the bag for the Bruins. Here are the standings by loss column, with the remaining schedule:

Oregon 16-7.....@ Utah (1)/Stanford/@ Cal
Stanford 13-7...@ Cal (1)/@ Oregon/OSU
Arizona 18-8....Wash (1)/@ OSU
ASU 14-9........OSU (1)/@ USC/UCLA
UCLA 14-10.....Cal/ASU
OSU 13-10......@ ASU (1)/Arizona/Stanford
Cal 11-12
USC 10-13
WSU 10-16
Washington 3-17
Utah 5-18

ChooChooCat · Post by **ChooChooCat** » Sun May 16, 2021 10:05 am

TheCatInTheHat wrote: ↑Sun May 16, 2021 9:48 am Basically, we're in a pack of 5 or 6 horses coming around the turn and heading for the home stretch. We're in a pretty good spot, with the fewest remaining conference games on the schedule offering a chance to lose. Except that we have to go to Oregon St. We'll see how it plays out, recognizing that a conference trophy is nice, but post-season seeding is the main thing. I'm not sure how key RPI is, versus the other rankings. We're #7 there, by far the highest of any conference team. Meanwhile, there's a big disconnect between UCLA's #33 RPI, and being ranked #9 in the college baseball writers' poll. Looks like they've packed the court with LA writers and/or somebody's in the bag for the Bruins. Here are the standings by loss column, with the remaining schedule:

Oregon 16-7.....@ Utah (1)/Stanford/@ Cal
Stanford 13-7...@ Cal (1)/@ Oregon/OSU
Arizona 18-8....Wash (1)/@ OSU
ASU 14-9........OSU (1)/@ USC/UCLA
UCLA 14-10.....Cal/ASU
OSU 13-10......@ ASU (1)/Arizona/Stanford
Cal 11-12
USC 10-13
WSU 10-16
Washington 3-17
Utah 5-18

Finish off the UW sweep today and take 2 of 3 from the Beavs and chances are very high we take the conference title.

EastCoastCat · Post by **EastCoastCat** » Sun May 16, 2021 1:01 pm

7-1 Cats in the 6th. Out of the 5 hits 3 of them are HR’s.

EastCoastCat · Post by **EastCoastCat** » Sun May 16, 2021 2:12 pm

Sweep is complete.

Oregon won and Stanford is leading.

Irish27 · Post by **Irish27** » Sun May 16, 2021 4:07 pm

Cal beat Stanford 9-5 to take 2 of three from the Cardinal.

ekat · Post by **ekat** » Sun May 16, 2021 5:04 pm

Irish27 wrote: ↑Sun May 16, 2021 4:07 pm Cal beat Stanford 9-5 to take 2 of three from the Cardinal.

So now, if they could beat Oregon at least once, that would be super helpful.

And we need to not screw up against the Beavs.

wyo-cat · Post by **wyo-cat** » Sun May 16, 2021 5:14 pm

Cool.

azgreg · Post by **azgreg** » Mon May 17, 2021 3:58 pm

azgreg · Post by **azgreg** » Mon May 17, 2021 4:03 pm

azgreg · Post by **azgreg** » Mon May 17, 2021 4:08 pm

azgreg · Post by **azgreg** » Mon May 17, 2021 7:25 pm

azcat49 · Post by **azcat49** » Mon May 17, 2021 9:27 pm

Seems to fit what the NCAA wants. Funny how that works

azgreg · Post by **azgreg** » Tue May 18, 2021 7:58 pm

The Cat's bats are hot again.

azgreg · Post by **azgreg** » Tue May 18, 2021 8:01 pm

EastCoastCat · Post by **EastCoastCat** » Fri May 21, 2021 7:00 am

Didn't see we "mercy ruled" NMSU yesterday.

Big series against the Beavers starting tonight to determine Pac 12 conference champion plus important CWS seeding/hosting.

To win the conference it will be all about percentage points since each team will not be playing the same number of conference games. It basically comes down to 3 teams - Arizona, Oregon, and Stanford.

Oregon and Furd play head to head and it looks like Stanford would have to sweep the Ducks and we get swept for them to win the the conference so I think it's basically down to us vs. Oregon.

A) If both teams sweep, Ducks win the conference
B) If both teams take 2 out of 3, Ducks win the conference
C) If Arizona takes 2 out of 3 and Ducks lose 2 out of 3, Arizona wins the conference
D) If Arizona sweeps and Ducks win 2 out of 3, Arizona wins the conference

I think C is our more realistic scenario but still need help from the Trees.

RollCat · Post by **RollCat** » Fri May 21, 2021 7:27 am

EastCoastCat wrote: ↑Fri May 21, 2021 7:00 am Didn't see we "mercy ruled" NMSU yesterday.

Big series against the Beavers starting tonight to determine Pac 12 conference champion plus important CWS seeding/hosting.

To win the conference it will be all about percentage points since each team will not be playing the same number of conference games. It basically comes down to 3 teams - Arizona, Oregon, and Stanford.

Oregon and Furd play head to head and it looks like Stanford would have to sweep the Ducks and we get swept for them to win the the conference so I think it's basically down to us vs. Oregon.

A) If both teams sweep, Ducks win the conference
B) If both teams take 2 out of 3, Ducks win the conference
C) If Arizona takes 2 out of 3 and Ducks lose 2 out of 3, Arizona wins the conference
D) If Arizona sweeps and Ducks win 2 out of 3, Arizona wins the conference

I think C is our more realistic scenario but still need help from the Trees.

Oregon still has to go to Cal next weekend and Stanford stills has to play Oregon St. That said, it will come down to percentage points w Stanford but Oregon will (should) play all 30 games. Oregon is up one on the loss column so we would need to at least tie them in that column to win PAC.

EastCoastCat · Post by **EastCoastCat** » Fri May 21, 2021 7:29 am

RollCat wrote: ↑Fri May 21, 2021 7:27 am
EastCoastCat wrote: ↑Fri May 21, 2021 7:00 am Didn't see we "mercy ruled" NMSU yesterday.

Big series against the Beavers starting tonight to determine Pac 12 conference champion plus important CWS seeding/hosting.

To win the conference it will be all about percentage points since each team will not be playing the same number of conference games. It basically comes down to 3 teams - Arizona, Oregon, and Stanford.

Oregon and Furd play head to head and it looks like Stanford would have to sweep the Ducks and we get swept for them to win the the conference so I think it's basically down to us vs. Oregon.

A) If both teams sweep, Ducks win the conference
B) If both teams take 2 out of 3, Ducks win the conference
C) If Arizona takes 2 out of 3 and Ducks lose 2 out of 3, Arizona wins the conference
D) If Arizona sweeps and Ducks win 2 out of 3, Arizona wins the conference

I think C is our more realistic scenario but still need help from the Trees.
Oregon still has to go to Cal next weekend and Stanford stills has to play Oregon St. That said, it will come down to percentage points w Stanford but Oregon will (should) play all 30 games. Oregon is up one on the loss column so we would need to at least tie them in that column to win PAC.

Shit, good catch. I forgot they had more games to play. My bad.

azcat49 · Post by **azcat49** » Fri May 21, 2021 8:02 am

Cal isn’t a bad team so the ducks have a tough road. Cal beat us once and won two of three from Furd. We win this series and I like our chances

EastCoastCat · Post by **EastCoastCat** » Fri May 21, 2021 9:06 am

Yep, because it's all about percentages and if we win 2 out of 3 we will be in good shape because it puts more pressure on Furd and Oregon.

I think if my calculations are correct (even though I screwed up the first time) if we win 2 out of 3 against the Beavs, Stanford would need to go 6 out of 6 in their remaining games, and the Ducks would need to go 5 out of 6 to win the conference and 4 out of 6 to tie us.

Chicat · Post by **Chicat** » Fri May 21, 2021 11:49 am

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