3 up/down.

End 8
8-6-0
1-4-3

I left after 6. It was just too slow and painful to watch.
The Wildcats came to play. They are excited, loud, and eager.
The Owls came to watch Arizona play.
Sigh

(02-19-2016 10:13 PM)Leoguy Wrote:  I left after 6. It was just too slow and painful to watch.
The Wildcats came to play. They are excited, loud, and eager.
The Owls came to watch Arizona play.
Sigh

Why?

I made it 7 innings.

(02-19-2016 10:08 PM)Frizzy Owl Wrote:  3 up/down.

End 8
8-6-0
1-4-3

Ditto.

Not a lot to crow about...

Inauspicious first game of the season.
Arizona was "up". The whole game. Rice, not so much.
But, it's just the first game. Long way to go.
Looking forward to tomorrow and evening up the series.

(02-19-2016 10:13 PM)Leoguy Wrote:  I left after 6. It was just too slow and painful to watch.
The Wildcats came to play. They are excited, loud, and eager.
The Owls came to watch Arizona play.
Sigh

they semed flat to me - ready to play, technically, and played hard, but no spark, no pizzazz, no rahrah. Never did wake up.

I Presume Graham will have them awake for tomorrow.

And we pick up where we left off.

(02-19-2016 10:26 PM)grol Wrote:  Not a lot to crow about...

Well, something to "EAT CROW" about!!

(02-19-2016 11:05 PM)Da.Owl Wrote:  And we pick up where we left off.

Yeah, pretty ugly opening game. 14 free passes surrendered by our pitchers, coupled with 3 costly errors, is not a recipe for success. Yes, the home plate umpire was gawd awful, but we can't use that as an excuse for this totally listless performance. Arizona didn't exactly hit the cover off the ball either-- of their 6 hits, at least one should have been ruled an error, and four of the other five were either of the infield variety or seeing eye just barely through the infield. You simply cannot give the opposition that many free opportunities and additional ABs and hope to survive. our offense was pretty offensive, especially given their pitcher had a fastball that topped out at 86 MPH and a breaking ball that had very little (and not very sharp) break to it. He may have been locating his pitches well, but we had VERY poor quality at bats, save for a single handful.

The only two positives was Gray's no doubter and the debut of Zach Esquivel, who I've heard is likely to be one of our mid-week guys. He reminded me very much of Austin Kubitza, with good movement on his fastball (albeit topping out at only 86 -87 vs. Austin's 90 - 92 MPH) and an exceptional, very late and sharp breaking spiked curveball. He's going to be fun to watch.

Tomorrow is another day....and it better be a better one.

Adding insult to injury, D1Baseball just posted a full-length article on "Arizona Hitting the Ground Running". Ugh....

http://www.d1baseball.com/analysis/arizo...d-running/

More than twice as many gifts as Arizona hits! Ugly!

(02-19-2016 11:05 PM)Da.Owl Wrote:  And we pick up where we left off.

Greenspan doomed us. Since then everything has been so much better.

(02-19-2016 08:26 PM)grol Wrote:  0-2-1
Teykl charged with E

From my seats I couldn't tell if batter would have been out with a good throw. Anyone have a better view?

Same team from the preseason scrimmage showed up.