M Baseball
M was down 14-0 and came back to win 15-14 today. Amazing! Go Blue!
ugly game early, better late. the NW outfield had an amazingly tough time with fly balls
That's amazing. Shear speculation on what a 14-0 deficit in the 3rd inning would mean in football terms: Down 35-0 at the end of the 1st?
More like 70-0 early in the 2nd. This was unbelievable. I've never seen a bigger comeback. And for Berset to hit a 2 out, 2-run, game-tying homer in the 9th, and Dufek to hit the walkoff in the 10th - unreal! Hopefully we'll sweep the Nittanies next week and, I hate to say it, but we need OSU to beat Minney 2 of 3 for us to get the regular season Big 10 title!
But you'd have to ask the Oilers to be sure.
Having been on each side (Oilers for the loss, Michigan for the win), I'd have to say that Oilers hurt worse. They had a trip to the Super Bowl wrapped up. NU had all but sealed a trip to the BTT (still would need at least a win). In a game like NCAA baseball, things like this do happen a bit more often.
has made a couple impressive comebacks this season. Right now they're 1 game out of first, heading into an away series at Penn State (last in conference). Minnesota leads the Big Ten with a series at Ohio State (tied for 5th, but dangerous) coming up. Minnesota has the tie-break on us, so we need to make up 2 games to win the regular season, which could be difficult, but we do look good to finish top 2 and get the bye in the conference tournament, as we have the tie-breaker with everyone but Minny and Iowa.
Unfortunately, the team also let a couple get away from them, like yesterday (6-run comeback, including 3 consecutive solo home runs in the 7th to take an 8-7 lead, then getting 2 outs in the 8th, before an error gets a guy on, NW manufactures 3 runs to take a 8-10 lead, end of scoring) and the Saturday Minnesota game (taking 4-2 lead into the bottom of the 9th with normally most solid closer on, lets in one run, bases loaded, 1 out, strikes out the first guy but next guy gets a 2 RBI hit for the walk-off Minny win).
Things look good though, going into the last weekend it looks like they're really starting to hit (see: many home runs in the last couple games, Biondi getting back on track). If the pitchers can be consistent, they stand a really good chance of doing some damage in the tourney.
Which got me thinking: had this been softball, it would have been a run-rule game.
it would NOT have been a run-rule game. The rule says 8 run lead AFTER 5 innings. Disregarding that baseball is 9 innings to softball's 7, which would probably extend that 5 to at least 6, the score was 14-9 after 5 innings. That a 5 run lead, 5<8, therefore, the game would not have been a run rule game. :-)
I should have looked at the boxscore before posting.
The suggested run rule for baseball is 10 after 7 if the teams agree before the game. Some conferences might have something different. The Southland game I was at called it a run rule for 15 after 8. That might have been more UTA throwing in the towel. If I was Lamar's coach, I'm not sure I'd accepted a run rule. Positive side is you end it and no one chances getting hurt. Negative was that it was a run rule, so you lost the chance to waste more pitching.
when I was there. Anyway, the back to back to back homers were great. Go Blue !
Anybody consult the record book?
No specifics in the game notes. It'll probably take the team historian some time to find the record. There's plenty of history to go through. I want to say we've had a game that was in the 16-18 range, but heck if I can remember it. Still, this has got to be up there if not the record.
if the athletic dept released archival data on the 'net, crowdsourcing would have already answered the question.
free data now! who's with me?!?
On the front page of EPSN there is a little video showing the epic comeback!
reviewed the game on ESPN prior to the Yanks-Sox game tonight, including an interview w/ Maloney