(04-06-2020 04:24 PM)Hambone10 Wrote:  Ruchti was a huge difference maker gunning down runners... I didn't get to watch the rebroadcast (I'm bummed about that) but iirc, he also had a huge clutch hit??

I believe that was the game winning hit in the 9th to defeat and eliminate Texas, 5-4, propelling the Owls into the championship series which ended in the game 3 victory over Stanford.

(04-06-2020 04:24 PM)Hambone10 Wrote:  Ruchti was a huge difference maker gunning down runners... I didn't get to watch the rebroadcast (I'm bummed about that) but iirc, he also had a huge clutch hit??

Not an argument against anything above... just a comment. Our pitching was clearly superior as well. I'll give a 'tough call'... but if anything it really speaks to 3 great pitchers and a great closer vs 3 darn good pitchers (or two great and one darn good or whatever) and a great closer. Aardsma wasn't exactly hittable.

We had 3 great pitchers (including the consensus Pitcher of the Year, and Wade was clearly in the Top 3 for that distinction), a closer who had a so-so season but was lights out in the post-season, and a very good #4 starter. Stanford had one very good pitcher, two solid pitchers and a so-so bullpen. Manship's stats as a closer was nothing to write home about, and the fact that he was the closer as a Freshman says alot about the Cardinal bullpen that year. Stanford rode their powerful offense in 2003, and it managed to get them all the way to the CWS championship series. Unfortunately for them, they were going against the best pitching they had faced all season, and their decent but not great pitching staff was depleted after not only going through the loser's bracket, but being taken to 3 games by CSF in the semi-final round.

(04-06-2020 05:06 PM)waltgreenberg Wrote:  

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(04-06-2020 09:53 AM)grol Wrote:  

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(04-04-2020 08:46 PM)texowl2 Wrote:  Still can't believe that Chris didn't get MVP. Both announcers said he was the one and they saw all the games.....

At the time, flush with the magnanimity of victory, I readily acknowledged the award to Stanford pitcher John Hudgins, who started and won three elimination games in less than a week (two against Fullerton, one against Rice). I even had the chance to shake his hand after the final game.

But yes, it should have been Chris!

By the way, Hudgins is the last player to win the CWS MVP award without winning the championship.

Was the award for the whole tournament? Or the championship series?

In JP's zoom meeting, Chris is asked about this...

It is for the College World Series as a whole. Kolkhorst was the clutch offensive and defensive spark plug that year, while Hudgins was the clutch pitching stopper. Tough call.

How was it a tough call? Stanford lost. Rice won. Hudgins played just one of the three championship games. It was a ridiculous decision, and widely panned at the time by the college baseball pundits.

Ok Walt. Everyone who doesn't completely agree with you is stupid.

Well, I'm up for re-watching the 2003 Rice-UT games. Better than the championship blow-out.

(04-07-2020 01:52 PM)grol Wrote:  Well, I'm up for re-watching the 2003 Rice-UT games. Better than the championship blow-out.

Several of us have already made this suggestion to them. That's the game I want to see again. I'd also like them to run the women's volleyball 2019 victory over UT as I was unable to come down for that one and only watched it on OwlVision.

I wish Rice.EDU/KTRU or something had 'on demand' access to these things. I suggested that years ago, and it would have been perfect for 'now'. I don't know what the 'copyright' timeframe or cost would be, but I'd think it'd be worth it.

Heck, I'd like to watch some games from the 50's.