M v. ULL Super Regional Open Thread
Can't watch yet since it was moved off ESPN in favor of Oklahoma v. Texas A&M and then bumped off ESPN2 in favor of NASCAR qualifying and then subsequently blacked out on ESPN3 since ESPN thinks they're airing it on ESPN2.
Anyway, B1 0-0. Wagner starting.
Try it again as ESPN may have changed the settings now.
I click on the big headline link with M and ULL softball and it goes to the ESPN2 NASCAR feed. Odd.
Edit: Got it now.
I used the one from the NCAA website I think
Michigan coming to bat. M has been flashing the leather so far. Turned a nice DP in the 1st and a trio of huge pickups in 2nd.
Michigan is the visiting team right now.
home/away for game 3 (if necessary) is determined by a coin flip. Hopefully we don't find out today. Go Blue!
Gotta love the commercial where the guy jams a Q-tip halfway through his brain. I think this is the 5th one in the last two innings.
Oh, and I thought that ball was trouble when it was hit.
Its on ESPN 2 now.
It's back on the Duece. (My wife says I always find something Michigan to watch.) Go Blue.
This La Lafayette pitcher has now thrown about 200 pitches in less than 24 hours.
0-0 Middle 3rd now.
ULL's pitcher is fantastic. 5 stikeouts through 3, allowing 0 hits. Lucky for Michigan, she's also a tad wild. You'd think that at some point her pitching every inning for ULL will fatigue her a little bit and between that and the Michigan hitters seeing more of her pitches, they'll be able to start hitting sometime, but right now it's not pretty. Gotta keep them off the scoreboard until the bats can heat up.
LOL they just interview Gollum aka louisiana's coach again.
OU is just demolishing teams right now. If Michigan gets through, that first game is going to be huge
Hutch is a hero to every coach in the world right now. I kind of thought they were contracutally obligated to talk.
Bot 4th starting
Just hit a homer off Driesenga. I don't know much about softball, but I am not sure why Hutchins pulled Wagner.
They've hit 3 bombs off of Driesenga in her last three innings of work.
Driesenga getting shelled right now.
Why oh why did Hutch pull Wagner in the first place?
Why oh why is Hutch leaving Driesenga in?
Shortly after this one, I'm afraid.
Scheduled for 3:00.
I don't follow the softball team so is our offense in slump or are we going up against a women's Verlander right now?
Possibly a mix of both. But this pitcher played well yesterday and did not allow a run against LSU last weekend
so I'm not sure where he falls on the very good/elite/all-time scale, but ULL's pitcher is probably the top mid-major pitcher. However, she would actually be third on the depth chart for the team Michigan faces if they win their super regional, and would probably be at or near the bottom of WCWS pitching talent if they were to make it.
Bottom line, all the pitchers are good by this time of year, but she's not anything special to go against in a super regional.
They can bring her in one more time, per substitution rules.
Surprised to see our team struggle so much on offense though.
Wagner is hurt, so it it looks like its Driesenga or bust for Michigan. She just has to regain her regular season form and pitch Michigan into the WCWS.
Gonna need a clutch hit with girls on base.
Coach Hutch is going to have a conniption soon.
Glad they got that right. It wasn't even close to a catch
1-0 at this point seems insurmountable.
We just finished the 4th, so ULL is coming up to open the 5th.
7.
We're down to our last 9 outs.
Nice play Romero! That should fire Michigan up!
If that doesn't, I don't know what will at this point.
WOO! 2-1 U-M!!
KA-BOOM!!!
2-1. Just. Like. That.