- Dansby stellar last night
I’m so pumped about our baseball team. 6-4 tonight over Cal-Irvine. Dansby Swanson with a huge night going three-for-four and making excellent plays at second base. Bryan Reynolds had two hits and Zander Wiel with two hits and two RBIs, including a double to deep left that just missed going out–just like Dansby, who also doubled and missed going yard by about five feet; the ball hit the wall at the 335 mark. We’re going to get one or two out soon, once this wind stops howling in from the outfield. Just shows how strong Dans and Z are. The wind was blowing in 20-25 MPH.
Defense was phenomenal and Walker Buehler just keeps getting it done on the mound. Walker pitched superbly in relief of Tyler, who only lasted 3.2 innings. Walker pitched 5.1 innings, threw 90 pitches with 58 strikes and 32 balls, he walked two and struck out seven. He just had complete command out there. The team just rallied once Walker got in there and started getting the Irvine pitchers out. He was sensational. I hope we can use him in a starting role before the CWS ends. He’s clutch and the team rallies around him.
We play the winner of Irvine and Texas on Friday @3 PM ET/2 PM CT on Duh U (ESPNU). Corbs has an interesting decision on whom will pitch. I say we go with Carson and nail this thing down so we/ll be playing for the title in the best of two out of three series starting Monday. If we win Friday, I’d go with Walker Monday and then, and this may sound a little radical, Adam Ravanelle or Hayden Stone on Tuesday. Then if we have to play a third game pitch Stoney or Ravanelle, whichever one doesn’t pitch Tuesday. To me that gives us the best chance to win it all. It’s Corbs call, so we’ll see what happens. We’re getting closer and closer to winning the national championship, but we just need to take it one game at a time and be ready to go Friday if it’s Texas or Irvine. We can get a lot of good quality practice time in this week. Not sure if we’ll go back to Nashville, but imagine we’ll stay out there and keep working towards Friday. Excellent work by the guys tonight. John Norwood also had a clutch single. Our outfield is starting to play lights out. Reynolds doing a stellar job in left and Rhett Wiseman getting better and better every time out in right. Like the way both the infield and outfield are playing. All three guys are first year outfielders and they have jelled into an excellent threesome. Infield play was excellent tonight. If we can keep this up Friday, we’ve got a good chance to get to Monday and start playing for a national title. But not going look ahead. Corbs strategy is a day at a time. So we just need to get better tomorrow with our work and keep getting better all week. Just so proud of’em!