U of I Game

[Chop]

Top of 7. Still Max Grubbs on the mound.

Ground out and a fly out.

Grubbs gives up a single.

 

[Chop]

Grubbs gets the K

To the bottom of the Seventh

14-6 us.

 

[Chop]

A Rod

K

 

[Driver 8]

What's the opposite of furk?

 

[Chop]

Flores

1 out double to LF.

 

[Chop]

Flores

1 out double to LF.

Now Shoos doubles, but Flores doesn’t make it home.

Runners and 2 and 3. One out.

 

[aUTfan]

Schoos with a fly to the outfield, all safe. Game ending run on 2nd base. 10 run rule in effect.

 

[Chop]

Galvan draws a walk. Bases juiced for Borba.

 

[Chop]

Galvan draws a walk. Bases juiced for Borba.

Borba. K

It’s up to Farmer. Let’s bring in a bumper crop here Farmer.

 

[aUTfan]

What's the opposite of furk?

great
fantastic
terrific
awesome
wonderful
cool
fabulous
sweet
groovy
splendid
yeah
yes
excellent
finally
wow
amazing
hooray
nice
woohoo
woot
yay
booyah
unreal
wicked
incredible
whoopee
yippee


Take your pick....maybe Booyah!!!! after each win?

 

[Chop]

Borba. K

It’s up to Farmer. Let’s bring in a bumper crop here Farmer.

Farmer got hailed out this time. Pop out. End of 7.

15-6 Horns.

 

[aUTfan]

Dang it, pop up, out of the inning with a 9 run lead. On to the 8th.

 

[Chop]

Top of 8

Grubbs still pitching.

K. Ground out.

 

[Chop]

Fly out.

That’s

3 up
3 down

For Max Grubbs and the Texas D.

 

[Chop]

Bottom of the 8th. One run will run rule them.

 

[Chop]

Gumbo is batting.

 

[Chop]

Gumbo is batting.

He flied out. As did Max B.

Will to the plate.

 

[Chop]

I won’t ask for insurance runs. It’s impossible for us to blow this lead.

 

[Chop]

Some guy named Saunier is on the mound for us……?

 

[Chop]

Top of 9

Oliver Service is catching.

Fly out and a K


One out to go.

 

[Chop]

A final fly out. Game

VICTORY
15-6 HORNS!!!!!

 

[aUTfan]

10 wins in a row. Still some stuff to work on. Offense is performing ok but scary thing is, there is still more to get out of this offense.

 

[Chop]

Fantastic job by the bats!
What a lineup!

Grubbs was solid. He inherited a big mess, mitigated the harm, and pitched scoreless ball in all of his full innings through the Eighth.

Bing looked decent, until he didn’t……..

I think we’ll see more of this Saunier relief pitcher.

 

[Chop]

10 wins in a row. Still some stuff to work on. Offense is performing ok but scary thing is, there is still more to get out of this offense.

Yeah. We’re actually leaving a lot of men on base—as much as we’re scoring.

 

[Chop]

Fantastic job by the bats!
What a lineup!

Grubbs was solid. He inherited a big mess, mitigated the harm, and pitched scoreless ball in all of his innings through the Eighth.

Bing looked decent, until he didn’t……..

I think we’ll see more of this Saunier relief pitcher.

Grubbs or Volantis might be starting on Sundays in the near future.

Or Coach might want to use Grubbs as the fireman/cleanup crew and let him go plenty of innings after he cleans up the mess. That seems to be the pattern for Grubbs early this year.

Another possibility is the “other Flores”—the one that pitches. He may not just be throwing on weekdays for long.

 

[Horn6721]

Good day for Horns
Women had a great Senior day win
And now this decisive win

 

[Chop]

Interestingly, thus far Coach and pitching coach seem to prefer hulking big men who can throw in the upper 90s (McCreary, Rerick) to leaner crafty wizards who can throw nearly unhittable breaking stuff (Tumis, Hudson Hamilton). Of course, both of the latter can hit the mid 90s. Maybe they’re showing lousy control in practice or something….?

 

[Chop]

Interestingly, thus far Coach and pitching coach seem to prefer hulking big men who can throw in the upper 90s (McCreary, Rerick) to leaner crafty wizards who can throw nearly unhittable breaking stuff (Tumis, Hudson Hamilton). Of course, both of the latter can hit the mid 90s. Maybe they’re showing lousy control in practice or something….?

From what I’ve seen, the top 25% of the SEC batting lineups would light up McCreary and Rerick before they could touch Tumis. The only thing I can figure out is that he may be showing poor control in practice, or showing up late or something, or they’re injured but such injuries have not been disclosed (could be).

Both Tumis and Hamilton have nasty, filthy, bada$$ breaking stuff. And it’s objectively verifiable as well—Hudson Hamilton’s Spin rates are easily better than most major leaguers, and Tumis’s aren’t far off.

 

[Chop]

Oh yeah….

SWEEP!

 

[Vol Horn 4 Life]

I'm trying not to get too high yet because things are going so well, but this is a MASSIVE change in one summer from the last few years. Can't wait to see where this program goes!