Softball vs. UCLA 9:43 EST on ESPN
Go get 'em team #38
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Oh, man, Wagner just missed hitting a 2-run shot! Long fly ball ends the frame, but 4 runs come across for Michigan in the meantime!
Anything we get from Wagner at the plate is a bonus.
That said, she hit hugely important homers vs Minny and Georgia. It's either home run or out with her.
That's how it seems sometimes. :) I remember watching her hit a grand slam her freshman year against Purdue. Ball landed just in front of me in the bleachers, IIRC.
started in 2005 myself.
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for many years. Played baseball, slow-pitch and a bit of modified fast-pitch in my own playing career, and also coached a couple women's slow-pitch team years ago. So i've always had some interest.
But I really got into being a fan of women's fast-pitch softball a couple decades ago when my niece/goddaughter and her younger sister both played high school ball at Caledonia at the varsity level for a really good program, the older of the two was an all-conference pitcher there. Not to mention that their dad (my brother-in-law) coached pitchers at Caledonia for years and years. In fact, he coached one of the current Michigan players, walk-on bullpen catcher Morgan Swift, for many years throughout her pitching career at Caledonia.
My own daughter also played during her school career so obviously I'm hooked. Being a Michigan Softball fan, then, became an outgrowth of that when I'm already a huge Michigan Sports fan and then got a taste of our Softball Team's success under Hutch for so very long.
And now the Bruins get their first two on board with a HBP and a sharp single. Back and forth we go...
4-4, end 3.
I'm not sure if I like that trade-off or not.
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Wow, what a weird play. A double play, but a bad throwing error in the middle of it allows the tying run to score. 4 all after 3.
WOWWWWWWWW.....
What the hell did we just witness LOL
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evened out by a bad throw. All tied up, though and out of the inning on one STRANGE double play.
errors will kill you
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BLANCO leads off our 4th with a sharp single.
We're timing this starting UCLA pitcher real well, so they're making the switch to the bullpen
Pitching change for UCLA. Smart, we're clearly dialed in on their starter. Time for a change of pace to see if they can throw us off-balance. Hopefully it won't slow us down too much.
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No it's a good decision but bad throw. You have to go after the lead runner and throw to third behind where she is to get her caught in a rundown.
Nice bunt from Ramirez moves the runner along - speedy pinch runner on 2nd with the top of the order coming up.
Ta'amilo has pitched only 69 innings this year. Very interesting decision.
Unintentional-intentional walk to Romo. Make 'em pay, Christner!
This team will be insane next year. We only lose Wagner and Sweet.
Isn't losing Wagner kind of a big deal tho?
At least somewhat mitigated by getting Driesenga back (supposedly). Not an even trade, but not a dropoff to nothing, either.
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We still have 8/9 returning and Betsa. We're already one of the top offenses in the country this year. Next year we will be unbelievable.
Establishing a 2nd pitcher behind Betsa will be the key. Does Driesenga come back on a medical? Can Blanco or the freshman step right in? If any of those things happen ... look out.
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From what I've seen in softball 2nd base isn't 'scoring position' like it is in hardball.I don't think giving up an out just to get a runner to 2nd is worth it.If a runner is on 2nd with nobody out a bunt make more sense to me.