Bear Down Wildcats

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.

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

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

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.

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?

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.