Michigan baseball takes two from Lipscomb

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Michigan won both games of a double header today down south 8-2 and 4-3 to improve their record to 11-3 on the season.

Feel The Strength

March 10th, 2017 at 9:12 PM ^

I was at the 2nd game of the DH. The team fell behind 3-1 heading into the top of the 9th and played small ball to score three run in the inning. Lamb shut them down 1-2-3 in the bottom of the ninth for the close. A great day for maize and blue baseball. Go Blue!!!!

Alton

March 10th, 2017 at 11:29 PM ^

Lamb probably would have pitched the 9th inning of game 1 if Michigan hadn't put 4 on the board in the top of the 9th to make it 8-2.  But because they put game 1 away in the 9th, they were able to save him to finish out game 2.

Michigan pitchers combined for 27 strikeouts over the 2 games today, including 11 in 6 innings from #1 starter Oliver Jaskie.  Michigan is taking it easy on Jaskie so far, he hasn't pitched more than 6 innings in a game yet, and has not reached a pitch count of 100.

Feel The Strength

March 11th, 2017 at 4:04 PM ^

Yes I bought 7 tickets for tomorrow's game. Hopefully it gets warmer and the field is playable because I'd like is to sweep. I have a co-worker that used to coach basketball at Lipscomb and was running his mouth Thursday. Funny though when I put $100 down on the series he didn't take the bet lol.

Wolverine Devotee

March 10th, 2017 at 10:10 PM ^

Yeah, because Bud Middaugh was paying players and got busted by the NCAA.....

Not many people remember that Michigan Baseball, not Basketball, was the first program to cheat.

Wolverine Devotee

March 10th, 2017 at 10:51 PM ^

Hutch doesn't need to cheat to dominate the B1G and get to the World Series all the time, with a National Championship in 2005.

There actually are softball programs that have got busted for cheating. UCLA had a national title vacated.

Alton

March 11th, 2017 at 12:11 AM ^

UCLA recruited a pitcher from Australia named, believe it or not, Tanya Harding.  She enrolled in March, 20 games into the season, as a 23-year-old Freshman, pitched them to a WCWS championship in June, immediately left UCLA never to return, and (rumor says) never once attended a single class in between.

But that's not why they were put on probation.  They were put on probation because Harding was at UCLA on a soccer scholarship (soccer is a fall sport).

San Diego Mick

March 10th, 2017 at 10:45 PM ^

A good friend of mine's brother played on a stud SEC squad in the mid 80's that was in the college WS and ended up having quite a few all star MLB guys on that team and my friend's brother was good but not an MLB level player and he was getting paid envelopes of cash all the time.

This happens everywhere in many sports, don't kid yourself man.....U-M is as clean as they come but we're not as squeaky clean as we'd like to think, trust me.

chatster

March 11th, 2017 at 5:49 AM ^

RIP Gene "Big Daddy" Lipscomb -- A tragic life; born in Alabama, raised in Detroit by a single mother who was murdered when he was eleven; never went to college; played football in the Marines and became an All-Pro defensive lineman for the Baltimore Colts; worked as a professional wrestler in off-seasons; died in Baltimore of a heroin overdose at the age of 32.