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How many people are feeling good about Stanford's chances in baseball this evening?



That melt down last night reminded me of the US Open Women's golf result yesterday.  You could see the front-runner leaking oil and the end-result was almost inevitable by 17.  Baseball and golf are different - in too many ways to count - of course, but I'm not liking Stanford's "mojo" in baseball right now (or the pitching prospects tonight).  At all.



Hope the Cardinal surprise and blow the doors of UCI.  (Agree with another poster who speculated that it might well take 10+ runs to win tonight).

"Mojo" is hard to predict.  You could be right, but I take heart from the season series against Arizona, when we came back from a 20-2 obliteration to win the next game and the series. Also, we took 3 out of 4 from UCI earlier in the year, and, when you look at the last two games, UCI had a nightmare inning in their loss to us, then we had a nightmare inning in our loss to them... so it seems to me it's their turn again to have the nightmare inning, right?



I'm guessing that mojo will have less to do with it than which pitcher on which team has the game of his life tonight.

I am neither feeling good nor bad about Stanford's chances tonight. It's baseball, and the two teams are fairly evenly matched. That's got to put the odds on the order of 50-50.

I didn't see any oil leaking as Stanford took games one 9-1 and two 12-4 (the latter against the team on tap). The main oil I saw leak before the not-foul call was Stanford leaving too many runners on base, but up to that point Stanford was getting more hits (9-6) and more extra base hits (5-1). Then non-foul and three infield singles off the pitcher's glove killed us. [Well, the other two doubles were pretty brutal too.]

I am nervous about tonight's game - always am. I am worried that UCI seems to have a deeper pitching staff. I am heartened by the power in Stanford's lineup that might come through as the pitching weakens, but worried that the night game will mean the balls won't carry as well. Heartened by the fact that Stanford has only lost back to back games a single time this season.
It's game 4 for Stanford, game 5 for UCI, chances are high that the game winner will have double digit runs.

[CTcard]

How many people are feeling good about Stanford's chances in baseball this evening?



That melt down last night reminded me of the US Open Women's golf result yesterday.  You could see the front-runner leaking oil and the end-result was almost inevitable by 17.  Baseball and golf are different - in too many ways to count - of course, but I'm not liking Stanford's "mojo" in baseball right now (or the pitching prospects tonight).  At all.



Hope the Cardinal surprise and blow the doors of UCI.  (Agree with another poster who speculated that it might well take 10+ runs to win tonight).

"Mojo" is hard to predict.  You could be right, but I take heart from the season series against Arizona, when we came back from a 20-2 obliteration to win the next game and the series. Also, we took 3 out of 4 from UCI earlier in the year, and, when you look at the last two games, UCI had a nightmare inning in their loss to us, then we had a nightmare inning in our loss to them... so it seems to me it's their turn again to have the nightmare inning, right?



I'm guessing that mojo will have less to do with it than which pitcher on which team has the game of his life tonight.

I am neither feeling good nor bad about Stanford's chances tonight. It's baseball, and the two teams are fairly evenly matched. That's got to put the odds on the order of 50-50.

I didn't see any oil leaking as Stanford took games one 9-1 and two 12-4 (the latter against the team on tap). The main oil I saw leak before the not-foul call was Stanford leaving too many runners on base, but up to that point Stanford was getting more hits (9-6) and more extra base hits (5-1). Then non-foul and three infield singles off the pitcher's glove killed us. [Well, the other two doubles were pretty brutal too.]

I am nervous about tonight's game - always am. I am worried that UCI seems to have a deeper pitching staff. I am heartened by the power in Stanford's lineup that might come through as the pitching weakens, but worried that the night game will mean the balls won't carry as well. Heartened by the fact that Stanford has only lost back to back games a single time this season.
It's game 4 for Stanford, game 5 for UCI, chances are high that the game winner will have double digit runs.