04-29-2025, 06:48 PM
Thank you. Probably also true for softball
Stanford Baseball 2025/26
(04-29-2025, 06:48 PM)BobK Wrote: Thank you. Probably also true for softball
No, the top 12 teams qualify for the ACC softball tournament. Bottom 3 teams do not qualify and their seasons are presumably over.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_Atlan...tournament
(04-29-2025, 06:48 PM)BobK Wrote: Thank you. Probably also true for softball
No, the top 12 teams qualify for the ACC softball tournament. Bottom 3 teams do not qualify and their seasons are presumably over.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_Atlan...tournament
05-02-2025, 03:31 PM
In case anyone needs a reminder (like I did), Stanford playing at BC right now. These darned east coast games are hard to get used to (and I’m not even traveling)!
05-02-2025, 06:05 PM
We win 2-0! Volchko (6IP) and Keenan (3IP) combined for a 3-hit shutout! Keenan had 7Ks in 3 innings! WOW!
05-03-2025, 11:57 AM
Currently up 1-0, B3. Matt Scott was scratched from the start minutes before the game and Uber is making the emergency start. Sasaki hit a double and scored on a Saum bloop single for our lone run.
05-03-2025, 01:28 PM
We are down 2-3, B7. Uber gave us 4IP, Speshyock 2IP, now O’Harran on the mound.
05-04-2025, 01:27 PM
Whew, the end of that game got a little loose with the Tabasco. But that's a series win, our first one since...... what, the Boston Tea Party?
“You often hear in chess and other sports that ‘this player is more talented’ but ‘that player works harder.’ This is a fallacy. Hard work is a talent. The ability to keep trying when others quit is a talent.” --- Garry Kasparov
Whew, the end of that game got a little loose with the Tabasco. But that's a series win, our first one since...... what, the Boston Tea Party?
“You often hear in chess and other sports that ‘this player is more talented’ but ‘that player works harder.’ This is a fallacy. Hard work is a talent. The ability to keep trying when others quit is a talent.” --- Garry Kasparov
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(05-06-2025, 10:25 AM)TonyLima Wrote: Current RPI. We’re #47? https://www.11point7.com/college-baseball/rpi-rankings
Baseball America has a projected NCAA tournament field. This is of course very unofficial, but, as of April 30, Stanford is not close to being invited to the dance:
https://www.baseballamerica.com/stories/...-april-30/
Maybe last weekend's series win over BC (65 RPI) helped a little, but I kind of doubt it. We have regular season games left against Santa Clara (211) tonight, Grand Canyon x 3 (90) this weekend and North Carolina State x 3 (36) next weekend.
Stanford is currently 15th (out of 16) in the ACC rankings with a 9-18 conference record and no chance to earn a first-round bye in the ACC tournament starting on May 20. To win the automatic bid, we would need to win five games in six days.
In 2024 no ACC teams with a conference record below .500 were selected as at-large teams, although Georgia Tech and Wake Forest were 15-15.
I don't follow non-Stanford college baseball, so I have no idea what we would need to do to earn an at-large bid. Sweep SCU and GCU, win the series @ NC State and make the semis of the conference tournament? I don't know, that's just a WAG.
If there's one thing people have learned in Berkeley, it's that you can't put "Cal football" and "Rose Bowl" in the same sentence. The words just don't fit. You'd be better off linking "covered wagons" with "Mars travel." (Bruce Jenkins, Cal '70, SF Chronicle, Nov. 11, 2017)
(This post was last modified: 05-06-2025, 03:16 PM by Papa John.)
(05-06-2025, 10:25 AM)TonyLima Wrote: Current RPI. We’re #47? https://www.11point7.com/college-baseball/rpi-rankings
Baseball America has a projected NCAA tournament field. This is of course very unofficial, but, as of April 30, Stanford is not close to being invited to the dance:
https://www.baseballamerica.com/stories/...-april-30/
Maybe last weekend's series win over BC (65 RPI) helped a little, but I kind of doubt it. We have regular season games left against Santa Clara (211) tonight, Grand Canyon x 3 (90) this weekend and North Carolina State x 3 (36) next weekend.
Stanford is currently 15th (out of 16) in the ACC rankings with a 9-18 conference record and no chance to earn a first-round bye in the ACC tournament starting on May 20. To win the automatic bid, we would need to win five games in six days.
In 2024 no ACC teams with a conference record below .500 were selected as at-large teams, although Georgia Tech and Wake Forest were 15-15.
I don't follow non-Stanford college baseball, so I have no idea what we would need to do to earn an at-large bid. Sweep SCU and GCU, win the series @ NC State and make the semis of the conference tournament? I don't know, that's just a WAG.
If there's one thing people have learned in Berkeley, it's that you can't put "Cal football" and "Rose Bowl" in the same sentence. The words just don't fit. You'd be better off linking "covered wagons" with "Mars travel." (Bruce Jenkins, Cal '70, SF Chronicle, Nov. 11, 2017)
05-06-2025, 04:17 PM
(05-06-2025, 12:03 PM)Papa John Wrote:(05-06-2025, 10:25 AM)TonyLima Wrote: Current RPI. We’re #47? https://www.11point7.com/college-baseball/rpi-rankings
Baseball America has a projected NCAA tournament field. This is of course very unofficial, but, as of April 30, Stanford is not close to being invited to the dance:
https://www.baseballamerica.com/stories/...-april-30/
Maybe last weekend's series win over BC (65 RPI) helped a little, but I kind of doubt it. We have regular season games left against Santa Clara (211) tonight, Grand Canyon x 3 (90) this weekend and North Carolina State x 3 (36) next weekend.
Stanford is currently 15th (out of 16) in the ACC rankings with a 9-18 conference record and no chance to earn a first-round bye in the ACC tournament starting on May 20. To win the automatic bid, we would need to win five games in six days.
In 2024 no ACC teams with a conference record below .500 were selected as at-large teams, although Georgia Tech and Wake Forest were 15-15.
I don't follow non-Stanford college baseball, so I have no idea what we would need to do to earn an at-large bid. Sweep SCU and GCU, win the series @ NC State and make the semis of the conference tournament? I don't know, that's just a WAG.
47 is better than 147. Otherwise, I agree with your assessment.
(05-06-2025, 12:03 PM)Papa John Wrote:(05-06-2025, 10:25 AM)TonyLima Wrote: Current RPI. We’re #47? https://www.11point7.com/college-baseball/rpi-rankings
Baseball America has a projected NCAA tournament field. This is of course very unofficial, but, as of April 30, Stanford is not close to being invited to the dance:
https://www.baseballamerica.com/stories/...-april-30/
Maybe last weekend's series win over BC (65 RPI) helped a little, but I kind of doubt it. We have regular season games left against Santa Clara (211) tonight, Grand Canyon x 3 (90) this weekend and North Carolina State x 3 (36) next weekend.
Stanford is currently 15th (out of 16) in the ACC rankings with a 9-18 conference record and no chance to earn a first-round bye in the ACC tournament starting on May 20. To win the automatic bid, we would need to win five games in six days.
In 2024 no ACC teams with a conference record below .500 were selected as at-large teams, although Georgia Tech and Wake Forest were 15-15.
I don't follow non-Stanford college baseball, so I have no idea what we would need to do to earn an at-large bid. Sweep SCU and GCU, win the series @ NC State and make the semis of the conference tournament? I don't know, that's just a WAG.
47 is better than 147. Otherwise, I agree with your assessment.
05-07-2025, 12:41 PM
(05-06-2025, 10:38 PM)BostonCard Wrote:(05-06-2025, 06:34 PM)BobK Wrote: Sasaki with a 3 run HR. Bates back with a HR lavin with a HR. 5-0 Stanford in the 2nd
Unfortunately that was the high water mark. We got outscored 13-1 the rest of the way.
BC
And now I’ll concede. Postseason hopes vanishingly small.
(05-06-2025, 10:38 PM)BostonCard Wrote:(05-06-2025, 06:34 PM)BobK Wrote: Sasaki with a 3 run HR. Bates back with a HR lavin with a HR. 5-0 Stanford in the 2nd
Unfortunately that was the high water mark. We got outscored 13-1 the rest of the way.
BC
And now I’ll concede. Postseason hopes vanishingly small.
Spent 3-plus hours watching yesterday’s Senior Day game vs Grand Canyon from being down 4-8 to trading blows back and forth, giving up late leads, forcing extra innings with 2 away B9, and winning it in the 10th with no hits, a walk and 3 HBP including a sayonara one to Sasaki.
“The two teams combined for 31 runs on 39 hits, 12 walks and seven hit-by-pitches.”
I’m still tired… We next play NC State on 5/15 in the ACC tourney.
Gostanford senior day recap
“The two teams combined for 31 runs on 39 hits, 12 walks and seven hit-by-pitches.”
I’m still tired… We next play NC State on 5/15 in the ACC tourney.
Gostanford senior day recap
Spent 3-plus hours watching yesterday’s Senior Day game vs Grand Canyon from being down 4-8 to trading blows back and forth, giving up late leads, forcing extra innings with 2 away B9, and winning it in the 10th with no hits, a walk and 3 HBP including a sayonara one to Sasaki.
“The two teams combined for 31 runs on 39 hits, 12 walks and seven hit-by-pitches.”
I’m still tired… We next play NC State on 5/15 in the ACC tourney.
Gostanford senior day recap
“The two teams combined for 31 runs on 39 hits, 12 walks and seven hit-by-pitches.”
I’m still tired… We next play NC State on 5/15 in the ACC tourney.
Gostanford senior day recap
05-13-2025, 11:24 AM
(05-12-2025, 06:04 PM)JJJ Wrote: Spent 3-plus hours watching yesterday’s Senior Day game vs Grand Canyon from being down 4-8 to trading blows back and forth, giving up late leads, forcing extra innings with 2 away B9, and winning it in the 10th with no hits, a walk and 3 HBP including a sayonara one to Sasaki.
“The two teams combined for 31 runs on 39 hits, 12 walks and seven hit-by-pitches.”
I’m still tired… We next play NC State on 5/15 in the ACC tourney.
Gostanford senior day recap
That’s not how I read the schedule.
(05-12-2025, 06:04 PM)JJJ Wrote: Spent 3-plus hours watching yesterday’s Senior Day game vs Grand Canyon from being down 4-8 to trading blows back and forth, giving up late leads, forcing extra innings with 2 away B9, and winning it in the 10th with no hits, a walk and 3 HBP including a sayonara one to Sasaki.
“The two teams combined for 31 runs on 39 hits, 12 walks and seven hit-by-pitches.”
I’m still tired… We next play NC State on 5/15 in the ACC tourney.
Gostanford senior day recap
That’s not how I read the schedule.
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