Bear Down Wildcats

Beat the Scum tonight 7-6. I’ll take it.

Nice!

wyo-cat wrote: ↑Fri Apr 02, 2021 10:09 pm Beat the Scum tonight 7-6. I’ll take it.

Nice win. Honestly, why do asu fans think they are a baseball program? They have not won a CWS title since 1981. We are definitely a better baseball program than they are.

I like that but I would throw (literally) UCLA in that group. They can pitch

So we're basically at the halfway point in the season (19-8/5-4.) Highlights to date are beating Oklahoma twice and Missouri, and the Pac-12 series wins over Oregon and ASU. Here are the remaining conference series:

California
@ WSU
USC
Utah
@ Stanford
Washington
@ Oregon St

In less depressing news, we beat Cal 5-1 last night and Silseth threw another gem. He’s 5-0 now.

Team is off to its best start since 2017. 20-8 on the season and 6-4 in the PAC which puts them in third place currently.

Ranked #3 in the country in RPI before the Cal win Friday...

mofo wrote: ↑Sat Apr 10, 2021 2:42 pm Ranked #3 in the country in RPI before the Cal win Friday...

Don't look now - baseball is tearing it up. For as much drama as there's been in FB & MBB this year, softball, baseball, and of course WBB are pretty freaking good right now. I gotta say, JJ's had a few detractors on here for some reason but he's been good. The only major UA sport that's been more successful since JJ got here is softball and that's only due to consistency (not a lot of high-bar sports over that period unfortunately). Softball hasn't won a title or been in a championship game since 2007. Baseball had a title in 2012 and runner up in 2016, which came down to the last pitch of the game. Baseball appears to be an upper Pac and nationally relevant program again. Keep in rolling!

JFC!

Holy bat shit! What is going on? Silseth and the staff getting rocked

Yipes.

Fucking WHAT?!?!?

There was some jacks in that game.

Donta’ Williams on fire today.

1. Lead off solo jack to open the game.
2. HR stealing play at the fence.
3. 2 steaks on a double in the 7th.

Bat Cats up 10-5 now in bottom of 7th.

Final score Cats 14 - WSU 8.

We take the rubber game.

EastCoastCat wrote: ↑Sun Apr 18, 2021 5:21 pm Final score Cats 14 - WSU 8.

We take the rubber game.

Different. Usually we win the first two and lose the third.

A game the cats desperately needed. Hit 4 home runs and Dante led off the game with a dinger. Next 6 at home should determine if we are a conference winning caliber team

The goal is to host a regional at Hi Corbett. Here's where we stand...

Record: 23-11/9-6
Composite Poll Ranking: 17
RPI: 8

The RPI bodes well for us. We have very beatable teams in USC, Utah, and Washington coming in to the Hi-C for 9 of our remaining conference games. The bad news is the two remaining road trips to Oregon St and Stanford.

Conference standings, by loss column, are as follows:

Stanford/Oregon - 4
Oregon St - 5
UCLA/Arizona/USC - 6
California/ASU - 7
Washington - 9
WSU - 10
Utah - 11

We really need to make hay the next two weekends, and get out of the 2 wins/1 loss rut.

Yep, next 8 home games might tell the tale but I like those tough roadies to improve our RPI should we win those series.

I had heard the cats have already sent in a bid and that those sites would be chosen far before the season ends

Should be the FOY.

Cats win 8-4 and sweep USC to get their first Pac-12 sweep of the year.

Cats sweep the Trojans.

And UCLA beat Oregon which was really needed. We need to sweep Utah and Washington at home and somehow win 4 of 6 against Furd and Oregon St on the road. That should give us a chance at the conference crown

I likes!

ARIZONA 12-6 27-11
OREGON 10-5 24-9
OREGON STATE 10-5 26-12
STANFORD 8-4 22-7
UCLA 10-8 23-13
ARIZONA STATE 10-8 22-13
USC 6-9 18-16
CALIFORNIA 6-9 19-19
WASHINGTON STATE 7-11 19-15
UTAH 5-13 10-23
WASHINGTON 3-9 17-18

Need to sweep the two PAC series at home, and do no worse than split Stanford and Oregon St. Do that, and we should be hosting at the Hi C. Win the Furd and Beaver series, and we have a chance at being a top 8 seed. It's all set up for us.

I like the way the team approaches at bats too. Very patient and smart. I just wish we had a lock-down starting pitcher. We have a lot of good arms, but I'm not sure there is a great one among them. Would love to see one step up and throw a good 7 innings against either Utah and build some momentum. We gave up 15 runs to USC over the weekend. I don't think we can do that against top teams and win the series.

AzCatFan2 wrote: ↑Mon Apr 26, 2021 1:06 pm Need to sweep the two PAC series at home, and do no worse than split Stanford and Oregon St. Do that, and we should be hosting at the Hi C. Win the Furd and Beaver series, and we have a chance at being a top 8 seed. It's all set up for us.

I like the way the team approaches at bats too. Very patient and smart. I just wish we had a lock-down starting pitcher. We have a lot of good arms, but I'm not sure there is a great one among them. Would love to see one step up and throw a good 7 innings against either Utah and build some momentum. We gave up 15 runs to USC over the weekend. I don't think we can do that against top teams and win the series.

They’re announcing sites the week of May 10th, right after that Stanford series. There’s a heavy emphasis on COVID testing, etc... and U of A has done really well in that area. But that Stanford series is going to be important for PAC 12 and for the site announcements (assuming we take care of business against Utah and the non-conference games).

(Softball sites are supposed to be announced this week)

Arky, Bullies and the other backwards southern states aren’t going to host this year. More to go around for the west.

Cats the #4 seed overall in Baseball America's bracketology, https://www.baseballamerica.com/stories ... -64-42821/

So given our #4 seed I assume we would play #13 South Carolina if it went chalk? That would be fun

Nice comeback win last night. Scored twice in the 8th to win 4-3.
That's now 8 wins in a row and 6 straight conference series wins.

Go for the sweep today.

Big week prior to the announcements of the regional hosts. GCU beat us the first time and we need to get TJ Nichols going (I s=assume he will itch tomorrow). Then the three game set with Furd for first. They still have three top end team series to play so I like where we are at but if we can get two of the three we should be in great shape

Steamrolled GCU 13-2. That’s 10 in a row.

Hope our bats stay hot this weekend. Big series against the Furd.

10 game winning streak comes to an end after a 13 inning loss to Stanford last night.

Really need to come back strong today.

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.