Wolverine Devotee

April 17th, 2016 at 4:40 PM ^

What a great series and bounce back. Terrible game on Tuesday and the team finally got their bats going the next day against EMU in a 19-3 destruction. I guess all the runs were clogged up and waiting to be released.

Michigan beat Nebraska 10-6, 7-3 and 6-1 this weekend. Nebraska is a good team, too.

Lugbauer was huge today. 3 RBIs and two on a double to break the game open. Evan Hill was dealing today. I think he's the best pitcher on this team. Adcock has kind of trailed off lately. 

Thankfully sparty crapped the bed against 0-11 Purdue today. Now everyone is at 2 losses atop the conference. 

Also thankful that Tuesday game was a non-conference game. We got a look at them and get them at home in two of three games at the end of the month. That's gonna be a monster series. 

We get Toledo on Wednesday at home and then head out to play medicore Iowa for a weekend series. It appears last week was just a blip on the radar. 

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Alton

April 17th, 2016 at 6:50 PM ^

1. Michigan State (7-2)
2t. Minnesota (6-2)
2t. Michigan (6-2)
4t. Indiana (6-3)
4t. Penn State (8-4)
6. Nebraska (7-5)
7. Maryland (5-4)
8. Iowa (6-6)
9t. Illinois (4-5)
9t. Ohio State (4-5)
11. Rutgers (3-6)
12. Northwestern (2-10)
13. Purdue (1-11)

The bad news is that thanks to Michigan's and Minnesota's weather cancellation last weekend, those two teams will only have a 23-game conference schedule, and the rest of the conference will have a 24-game schedule (barring any further weather cancellations, of course).  The result is that Michigan State at 2 losses is ahead of Michigan at 2 losses.

The good news is that Michigan and Michigan State will have a chance to settle things on the field in 2 weeks, with (as WD mentioned) Friday and Sunday games at Ray Fisher Stadium, and the Saturday game at Kobs Field.

Michigan State can't look ahead, with a 3-game series against Indiana next weekend. 

The remaining schedules of the top three:

Michigan:  at Iowa, vs MSU, vs Rutgers, at OSU, at Illinois

MSU:  vs Indiana, at Michigan, vs Nebraska, at Iowa, vs Maryland

Minnesota:  at Northwestern, at Illinois, vs Indiana, at Purdue, vs OSU

Minnesota seems to have the easier schedule down the road, but this isn't softball--nobody is finishing the season 15-0.  Everybody will lose multiple games before the end of the season, so it's still a wide open race.  Hopefully we will know more in a week or two.

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SpikeFan2016

April 17th, 2016 at 10:10 PM ^

Honestly both Michigan and Minnesota have pretty easy schedules remaining. Ours is harder than Minnesota's because of Michigan State, but MSU is the only team we have left in the top half of the standings. 

 

Michigan State has by far the hardest remaining schedule; they don't get any teams from the bottom third of the conference and most are in the top half. We really just cannot get swept by MSU. Need to win 1 to stay alive and if we win the series I think we will likely just have to worry about Minnesota given the schedule differential. 

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