[StanfordMatt]

Turning the page to this evening's win-or-go-home game... This Stanford team has proven its resiliency all season. My only fear is that we are low on pitchers. So far in this regional:
Brendan Beck: 116 pitches on Saturday.
Alex Williams: 104 pitches on Friday.
Quinn Mathews: 59 pitches on Sunday.
Zach Grech: 56 pitches on Sunday.
I have to think these three pitchers are emergency use only.

Everything is an emergency now.
I suspect we'll see at least a few pitches from this group, mostly Williams.

For comparison, in 2019 we won our regional out of the losers bracket - 5 games.
In the Monday game, Beck pitched 3.1 perfect innings (36 pitches) after pitching 101 pitches in the Friday game. Of course, this time he pitched on Saturday - the downside of that decision.
Grech (in 2019) appeared in games 2 (22 pitches), 4 (10 pitches), 5 (17 pitches).
Little appeared in games 4 (45 pitches) and 5 (15 pitches).

For UCI, the apparently most prominent guy who hasn't pitched yet in the regional is Josh Ibarra, 19 appearances, 4.62 ERA, 1.26 WHIP.
Their regular #2 Pinto only went 48 pitches against us, so he could be back.
And they have a guy named Stanford in their bullpen ... maybe a secret weapon?

I keep coming back to this post by CT. We’re by no means out of the woods yet, but if UCI had gone with Ibarra to start this is a completely different game and not in a good way. We’re very fortunate that they decided to press their luck going with their ace on short rest and spotting us that 7-run first.

[StanfordMatt]

Turning the page to this evening's win-or-go-home game... This Stanford team has proven its resiliency all season. My only fear is that we are low on pitchers. So far in this regional:
Brendan Beck: 116 pitches on Saturday.
Alex Williams: 104 pitches on Friday.
Quinn Mathews: 59 pitches on Sunday.
Zach Grech: 56 pitches on Sunday.
I have to think these three pitchers are emergency use only.

Everything is an emergency now.
I suspect we'll see at least a few pitches from this group, mostly Williams.

For comparison, in 2019 we won our regional out of the losers bracket - 5 games.
In the Monday game, Beck pitched 3.1 perfect innings (36 pitches) after pitching 101 pitches in the Friday game. Of course, this time he pitched on Saturday - the downside of that decision.
Grech (in 2019) appeared in games 2 (22 pitches), 4 (10 pitches), 5 (17 pitches).
Little appeared in games 4 (45 pitches) and 5 (15 pitches).

For UCI, the apparently most prominent guy who hasn't pitched yet in the regional is Josh Ibarra, 19 appearances, 4.62 ERA, 1.26 WHIP.
Their regular #2 Pinto only went 48 pitches against us, so he could be back.
And they have a guy named Stanford in their bullpen ... maybe a secret weapon?

I keep coming back to this post by CT. We’re by no means out of the woods yet, but if UCI had gone with Ibarra to start this is a completely different game and not in a good way. We’re very fortunate that they decided to press their luck going with their ace on short rest and spotting us that 7-run first.