[treetop11]

Pretty wild game. I watched through the 5th and had to leave. Came back and checked the live stats and looked like we had lost but evidently the 9th inning was not showing. Unbelievable that we scored 15 runs in the 9th and 10th!

Pitching will defintely have to improve.

[treetop11]

Pretty wild game. I watched through the 5th and had to leave. Came back and checked the live stats and looked like we had lost but evidently the 9th inning was not showing. Unbelievable that we scored 15 runs in the 9th and 10th!

Pitching will defintely have to improve.

[CompSci87]

Three touchdowns beats a touchdown and two field goals! Whoops, this was baseball?

[CompSci87]

Three touchdowns beats a touchdown and two field goals! Whoops, this was baseball?

[BostonCard]

Highlights from the last two innings...

[tweet]https://twitter.com/StanfordBSB/status/1627523956118028291?s=20[/tweet]

BC

[BostonCard]

Highlights from the last two innings...

[tweet]https://twitter.com/StanfordBSB/status/1627523956118028291?s=20[/tweet]

BC

[TriangleTree]

How can Stanford hold its own in Baseball with 7/10 of the Top 10 being from the SEC, and walk around with pants around their ankles in MBB and Football?

That’s an easy one.
Baseball has a legitimate professional alternative out of high school.  Kids have a real choice to make between becoming a pro vs. a student athlete. Plays to Stanford strengths. 
brobdingnagian crowds to play in front of (and suspect now NIL) also play less of a role.

[TriangleTree]

How can Stanford hold its own in Baseball with 7/10 of the Top 10 being from the SEC, and walk around with pants around their ankles in MBB and Football?

That’s an easy one.
Baseball has a legitimate professional alternative out of high school.  Kids have a real choice to make between becoming a pro vs. a student athlete. Plays to Stanford strengths. 
brobdingnagian crowds to play in front of (and suspect now NIL) also play less of a role.

[CTcard]

A few thoughts on the Fullerton series as I wait for the Cal game to start. 

Pitching 
Its standard lore that pitchers are ahead of the batters at the beginning of the season, but that certainly was not the case for Stanford this first weekend. 
Ouch - 26 runs in 3 games; 8.0 team ERA; 2.07 team WHIP, 8 walks per game. 
Mostly no one pitched very well, but ... 
The Old - Nic Lopez, 5th year who had pitched a total of 12 innings before this year, pitched 1.2 perfect innings striking out 4 of the 5 batters he faced. 
The New - Matt Scott, frosh from CT, pitched 2.0 innings on Saturday allowing zero runs and getting the win. No hits but he did walk 3. 
It's not much of a sample for either, but I like to see guys who stick around eventually succeed, and the young guy represents hope for the future. 

Offense. 
Pretty good, but an awful lot of the positive statistics were from the 27th and 28th innings of the weekend. 
8 home runs in three games, but 5 different players. 
Braden Montgomery (So) is supposed to be our star - he hit .455 AVG, 1.534 OPS, HR, 2 Doubles. Check. 
Malcolm Moore (Fr) started his career with first at bat HR. Added 2 more on Sunday. .333 AVG, 1.308 OPS.

Two nice stories:
Owen Cobb (Sr) is a story I really like so far. He has begun each of the past three seasons as a starting middle infielder but lost the job each year due to lack of offense. Already, he has his most hits in a season with 5. Batted .385 AVG, 1.406 OPS, hit the triple that brought in the winning run in the 10th on Sunday. And he made a game saving and ending catch on Saturday. 
Alberto Rios (Jr) catcher has barely played so far, and I had more or less forgotten about him behind So Charlie Saum and Fr Malcolm Moore. He had more at bats this weekend than previously in his career and hit .444 AVG, 1.056 OPS. First four hits of his career. 

BUT, Carter Graham was 2 for 13, and had been 0 for 8 before starting game 3 with a HR. 
Eddie Park only hit .200, on Sunday had a 15 game hit streak broken. 


Miscellaneous
Was surprised to see Bowser at second with Troy at third. Expected the opposite. 
We haven't seen Tommy O-Rourke on the mound yet. He's had 55 appearances over the past two years. Injured?

[CTcard]

A few thoughts on the Fullerton series as I wait for the Cal game to start. 

Pitching 
Its standard lore that pitchers are ahead of the batters at the beginning of the season, but that certainly was not the case for Stanford this first weekend. 
Ouch - 26 runs in 3 games; 8.0 team ERA; 2.07 team WHIP, 8 walks per game. 
Mostly no one pitched very well, but ... 
The Old - Nic Lopez, 5th year who had pitched a total of 12 innings before this year, pitched 1.2 perfect innings striking out 4 of the 5 batters he faced. 
The New - Matt Scott, frosh from CT, pitched 2.0 innings on Saturday allowing zero runs and getting the win. No hits but he did walk 3. 
It's not much of a sample for either, but I like to see guys who stick around eventually succeed, and the young guy represents hope for the future. 

Offense. 
Pretty good, but an awful lot of the positive statistics were from the 27th and 28th innings of the weekend. 
8 home runs in three games, but 5 different players. 
Braden Montgomery (So) is supposed to be our star - he hit .455 AVG, 1.534 OPS, HR, 2 Doubles. Check. 
Malcolm Moore (Fr) started his career with first at bat HR. Added 2 more on Sunday. .333 AVG, 1.308 OPS.

Two nice stories:
Owen Cobb (Sr) is a story I really like so far. He has begun each of the past three seasons as a starting middle infielder but lost the job each year due to lack of offense. Already, he has his most hits in a season with 5. Batted .385 AVG, 1.406 OPS, hit the triple that brought in the winning run in the 10th on Sunday. And he made a game saving and ending catch on Saturday. 
Alberto Rios (Jr) catcher has barely played so far, and I had more or less forgotten about him behind So Charlie Saum and Fr Malcolm Moore. He had more at bats this weekend than previously in his career and hit .444 AVG, 1.056 OPS. First four hits of his career. 

BUT, Carter Graham was 2 for 13, and had been 0 for 8 before starting game 3 with a HR. 
Eddie Park only hit .200, on Sunday had a 15 game hit streak broken. 


Miscellaneous
Was surprised to see Bowser at second with Troy at third. Expected the opposite. 
We haven't seen Tommy O-Rourke on the mound yet. He's had 55 appearances over the past two years. Injured?

[TonyLima]

Might want to tune in to the Pac-12 broadcast. Mark Marquess doing color.

---

A few thoughts on the Fullerton series as I wait for the Cal game to start. 

Pitching 
Its standard lore that pitchers are ahead of the batters at the beginning of the season, but that certainly was not the case for Stanford this first weekend. 
Ouch - 26 runs in 3 games; 8.0 team ERA; 2.07 team WHIP, 8 walks per game. 
Mostly no one pitched very well, but ... 
The Old - 5th year who had pitched a total of 12 innings before this year, pitched 1.2 perfect innings striking out 4 of the 5 batters he faced. 
The New - Matt Scott, frosh from CT, pitched 2.0 innings on Saturday allowing zero runs and getting the win. No hits but he did walk 3. 
It's not much of a sample for either, but I like to see guys who stick around eventually succeed, and the young guy represents hope for the future. 

Offense. 
Pretty good, but an awful lot of the positive statistics were from the 27th and 28th innings of the weekend. 
8 home runs in three games, but 5 different players. 
Braden Montgomery (So) is supposed to be our star - he hit .455 AVG, 1.534 OPS, HR, 2 Doubles. Check. 
Malcolm Moore (Fr) started his career with first at bat HR. Added 2 more on Sunday. .333 AVG, 1.308 OPS.

Two nice stories:
Owen Cobb (Sr) is a story I really like so far. He has begun each of the past three seasons as a starting middle infielder but lost the job each year due to lack of offense. Already, he has his most hits in a season with 5. Batted .385 AVG, 1.406 OPS, hit the triple that brought in the winning run in the 10th on Sunday. And he made a game saving and ending catch on Saturday. 
Alberto Rios (Jr) catcher has barely played so far, and I had more or less forgotten about him behind So Charlie Saum and Fr Malcolm Moore. He had more at bats this weekend than previously in his career and hit .444 AVG, 1.056 OPS. First four hits of his career. 

BUT, Carter Graham was 2 for 13, and had been 0 for 8 before starting game 3 with a HR. 
Eddie Park only hit .200, on Sunday had a 15 game hit streak broken. 


Miscellaneous
Was surprised to see Bowser at second with Troy at third. Expected the opposite. 
We haven't seen Tommy O-Rourke on the mound yet. He's had 55 appearances over the past two years. Injured?

IIRC O’Rourke was up in the bullpen Sunday.

---

How can Stanford hold its own in Baseball with 7/10 of the Top 10 being from the SEC, and walk around with pants around their ankles in MBB and Football?

East Coast Media Bias.

[TonyLima]

Might want to tune in to the Pac-12 broadcast. Mark Marquess doing color.

---

A few thoughts on the Fullerton series as I wait for the Cal game to start. 

Pitching 
Its standard lore that pitchers are ahead of the batters at the beginning of the season, but that certainly was not the case for Stanford this first weekend. 
Ouch - 26 runs in 3 games; 8.0 team ERA; 2.07 team WHIP, 8 walks per game. 
Mostly no one pitched very well, but ... 
The Old - 5th year who had pitched a total of 12 innings before this year, pitched 1.2 perfect innings striking out 4 of the 5 batters he faced. 
The New - Matt Scott, frosh from CT, pitched 2.0 innings on Saturday allowing zero runs and getting the win. No hits but he did walk 3. 
It's not much of a sample for either, but I like to see guys who stick around eventually succeed, and the young guy represents hope for the future. 

Offense. 
Pretty good, but an awful lot of the positive statistics were from the 27th and 28th innings of the weekend. 
8 home runs in three games, but 5 different players. 
Braden Montgomery (So) is supposed to be our star - he hit .455 AVG, 1.534 OPS, HR, 2 Doubles. Check. 
Malcolm Moore (Fr) started his career with first at bat HR. Added 2 more on Sunday. .333 AVG, 1.308 OPS.

Two nice stories:
Owen Cobb (Sr) is a story I really like so far. He has begun each of the past three seasons as a starting middle infielder but lost the job each year due to lack of offense. Already, he has his most hits in a season with 5. Batted .385 AVG, 1.406 OPS, hit the triple that brought in the winning run in the 10th on Sunday. And he made a game saving and ending catch on Saturday. 
Alberto Rios (Jr) catcher has barely played so far, and I had more or less forgotten about him behind So Charlie Saum and Fr Malcolm Moore. He had more at bats this weekend than previously in his career and hit .444 AVG, 1.056 OPS. First four hits of his career. 

BUT, Carter Graham was 2 for 13, and had been 0 for 8 before starting game 3 with a HR. 
Eddie Park only hit .200, on Sunday had a 15 game hit streak broken. 


Miscellaneous
Was surprised to see Bowser at second with Troy at third. Expected the opposite. 
We haven't seen Tommy O-Rourke on the mound yet. He's had 55 appearances over the past two years. Injured?

IIRC O’Rourke was up in the bullpen Sunday.

---

How can Stanford hold its own in Baseball with 7/10 of the Top 10 being from the SEC, and walk around with pants around their ankles in MBB and Football?

East Coast Media Bias.

[Madera86]

The pitching woes continue: Cal goes up 7-2 after we just walked in a run.

Seems to me that we had cut down on the wild pitches and hit batters last season. Now they're back.

[Madera86]

The pitching woes continue: Cal goes up 7-2 after we just walked in a run.

Seems to me that we had cut down on the wild pitches and hit batters last season. Now they're back.

[JJJ]

Might want to tune in to the Pac-12 broadcast. Mark Marquess doing color.

---

A few thoughts on the Fullerton series as I wait for the Cal game to start. 

Pitching 
Its standard lore that pitchers are ahead of the batters at the beginning of the season, but that certainly was not the case for Stanford this first weekend. 
Ouch - 26 runs in 3 games; 8.0 team ERA; 2.07 team WHIP, 8 walks per game. 
Mostly no one pitched very well, but ... 
The Old - 5th year who had pitched a total of 12 innings before this year, pitched 1.2 perfect innings striking out 4 of the 5 batters he faced. 
The New - Matt Scott, frosh from CT, pitched 2.0 innings on Saturday allowing zero runs and getting the win. No hits but he did walk 3. 
It's not much of a sample for either, but I like to see guys who stick around eventually succeed, and the young guy represents hope for the future. 

Offense. 
Pretty good, but an awful lot of the positive statistics were from the 27th and 28th innings of the weekend. 
8 home runs in three games, but 5 different players. 
Braden Montgomery (So) is supposed to be our star - he hit .455 AVG, 1.534 OPS, HR, 2 Doubles. Check. 
Malcolm Moore (Fr) started his career with first at bat HR. Added 2 more on Sunday. .333 AVG, 1.308 OPS.

Two nice stories:
Owen Cobb (Sr) is a story I really like so far. He has begun each of the past three seasons as a starting middle infielder but lost the job each year due to lack of offense. Already, he has his most hits in a season with 5. Batted .385 AVG, 1.406 OPS, hit the triple that brought in the winning run in the 10th on Sunday. And he made a game saving and ending catch on Saturday. 
Alberto Rios (Jr) catcher has barely played so far, and I had more or less forgotten about him behind So Charlie Saum and Fr Malcolm Moore. He had more at bats this weekend than previously in his career and hit .444 AVG, 1.056 OPS. First four hits of his career. 

BUT, Carter Graham was 2 for 13, and had been 0 for 8 before starting game 3 with a HR. 
Eddie Park only hit .200, on Sunday had a 15 game hit streak broken. 


Miscellaneous
Was surprised to see Bowser at second with Troy at third. Expected the opposite. 
We haven't seen Tommy O-Rourke on the mound yet. He's had 55 appearances over the past two years. Injured?

IIRC O’Rourke was up in the bullpen Sunday.

---

How can Stanford hold its own in Baseball with 7/10 of the Top 10 being from the SEC, and walk around with pants around their ankles in MBB and Football?

East Coast Media Bias.

I think you mean Nine’s right hand man, Dean Stotz, doing color with Roxy Bernstein. 

He said Troy had Steve Sax-like yips at 2B but was fine at 3B. 

Boy do we need these young arms to settle down! Now 8-2 Weenies.

[JJJ]

Might want to tune in to the Pac-12 broadcast. Mark Marquess doing color.

---

A few thoughts on the Fullerton series as I wait for the Cal game to start. 

Pitching 
Its standard lore that pitchers are ahead of the batters at the beginning of the season, but that certainly was not the case for Stanford this first weekend. 
Ouch - 26 runs in 3 games; 8.0 team ERA; 2.07 team WHIP, 8 walks per game. 
Mostly no one pitched very well, but ... 
The Old - 5th year who had pitched a total of 12 innings before this year, pitched 1.2 perfect innings striking out 4 of the 5 batters he faced. 
The New - Matt Scott, frosh from CT, pitched 2.0 innings on Saturday allowing zero runs and getting the win. No hits but he did walk 3. 
It's not much of a sample for either, but I like to see guys who stick around eventually succeed, and the young guy represents hope for the future. 

Offense. 
Pretty good, but an awful lot of the positive statistics were from the 27th and 28th innings of the weekend. 
8 home runs in three games, but 5 different players. 
Braden Montgomery (So) is supposed to be our star - he hit .455 AVG, 1.534 OPS, HR, 2 Doubles. Check. 
Malcolm Moore (Fr) started his career with first at bat HR. Added 2 more on Sunday. .333 AVG, 1.308 OPS.

Two nice stories:
Owen Cobb (Sr) is a story I really like so far. He has begun each of the past three seasons as a starting middle infielder but lost the job each year due to lack of offense. Already, he has his most hits in a season with 5. Batted .385 AVG, 1.406 OPS, hit the triple that brought in the winning run in the 10th on Sunday. And he made a game saving and ending catch on Saturday. 
Alberto Rios (Jr) catcher has barely played so far, and I had more or less forgotten about him behind So Charlie Saum and Fr Malcolm Moore. He had more at bats this weekend than previously in his career and hit .444 AVG, 1.056 OPS. First four hits of his career. 

BUT, Carter Graham was 2 for 13, and had been 0 for 8 before starting game 3 with a HR. 
Eddie Park only hit .200, on Sunday had a 15 game hit streak broken. 


Miscellaneous
Was surprised to see Bowser at second with Troy at third. Expected the opposite. 
We haven't seen Tommy O-Rourke on the mound yet. He's had 55 appearances over the past two years. Injured?

IIRC O’Rourke was up in the bullpen Sunday.

---

How can Stanford hold its own in Baseball with 7/10 of the Top 10 being from the SEC, and walk around with pants around their ankles in MBB and Football?

East Coast Media Bias.

I think you mean Nine’s right hand man, Dean Stotz, doing color with Roxy Bernstein. 

He said Troy had Steve Sax-like yips at 2B but was fine at 3B. 

Boy do we need these young arms to settle down! Now 8-2 Weenies.

[TonyLima]

Might want to tune in to the Pac-12 broadcast. Mark Marquess doing color.

---

A few thoughts on the Fullerton series as I wait for the Cal game to start. 

Pitching 
Its standard lore that pitchers are ahead of the batters at the beginning of the season, but that certainly was not the case for Stanford this first weekend. 
Ouch - 26 runs in 3 games; 8.0 team ERA; 2.07 team WHIP, 8 walks per game. 
Mostly no one pitched very well, but ... 
The Old - 5th year who had pitched a total of 12 innings before this year, pitched 1.2 perfect innings striking out 4 of the 5 batters he faced. 
The New - Matt Scott, frosh from CT, pitched 2.0 innings on Saturday allowing zero runs and getting the win. No hits but he did walk 3. 
It's not much of a sample for either, but I like to see guys who stick around eventually succeed, and the young guy represents hope for the future. 

Offense. 
Pretty good, but an awful lot of the positive statistics were from the 27th and 28th innings of the weekend. 
8 home runs in three games, but 5 different players. 
Braden Montgomery (So) is supposed to be our star - he hit .455 AVG, 1.534 OPS, HR, 2 Doubles. Check. 
Malcolm Moore (Fr) started his career with first at bat HR. Added 2 more on Sunday. .333 AVG, 1.308 OPS.

Two nice stories:
Owen Cobb (Sr) is a story I really like so far. He has begun each of the past three seasons as a starting middle infielder but lost the job each year due to lack of offense. Already, he has his most hits in a season with 5. Batted .385 AVG, 1.406 OPS, hit the triple that brought in the winning run in the 10th on Sunday. And he made a game saving and ending catch on Saturday. 
Alberto Rios (Jr) catcher has barely played so far, and I had more or less forgotten about him behind So Charlie Saum and Fr Malcolm Moore. He had more at bats this weekend than previously in his career and hit .444 AVG, 1.056 OPS. First four hits of his career. 

BUT, Carter Graham was 2 for 13, and had been 0 for 8 before starting game 3 with a HR. 
Eddie Park only hit .200, on Sunday had a 15 game hit streak broken. 


Miscellaneous
Was surprised to see Bowser at second with Troy at third. Expected the opposite. 
We haven't seen Tommy O-Rourke on the mound yet. He's had 55 appearances over the past two years. Injured?

IIRC O’Rourke was up in the bullpen Sunday.

---

How can Stanford hold its own in Baseball with 7/10 of the Top 10 being from the SEC, and walk around with pants around their ankles in MBB and Football?

East Coast Media Bias.

I think you mean Nine’s right hand man, Dean Stotz, doing color with Roxy Bernstein. 

He said Troy had Steve Sax-like yips at 2B but was fine at 3B. 

Boy do we need these young arms to settle down! Now 8-2 Weenies.

Of course. My bad.

[TonyLima]

Might want to tune in to the Pac-12 broadcast. Mark Marquess doing color.

---

A few thoughts on the Fullerton series as I wait for the Cal game to start. 

Pitching 
Its standard lore that pitchers are ahead of the batters at the beginning of the season, but that certainly was not the case for Stanford this first weekend. 
Ouch - 26 runs in 3 games; 8.0 team ERA; 2.07 team WHIP, 8 walks per game. 
Mostly no one pitched very well, but ... 
The Old - 5th year who had pitched a total of 12 innings before this year, pitched 1.2 perfect innings striking out 4 of the 5 batters he faced. 
The New - Matt Scott, frosh from CT, pitched 2.0 innings on Saturday allowing zero runs and getting the win. No hits but he did walk 3. 
It's not much of a sample for either, but I like to see guys who stick around eventually succeed, and the young guy represents hope for the future. 

Offense. 
Pretty good, but an awful lot of the positive statistics were from the 27th and 28th innings of the weekend. 
8 home runs in three games, but 5 different players. 
Braden Montgomery (So) is supposed to be our star - he hit .455 AVG, 1.534 OPS, HR, 2 Doubles. Check. 
Malcolm Moore (Fr) started his career with first at bat HR. Added 2 more on Sunday. .333 AVG, 1.308 OPS.

Two nice stories:
Owen Cobb (Sr) is a story I really like so far. He has begun each of the past three seasons as a starting middle infielder but lost the job each year due to lack of offense. Already, he has his most hits in a season with 5. Batted .385 AVG, 1.406 OPS, hit the triple that brought in the winning run in the 10th on Sunday. And he made a game saving and ending catch on Saturday. 
Alberto Rios (Jr) catcher has barely played so far, and I had more or less forgotten about him behind So Charlie Saum and Fr Malcolm Moore. He had more at bats this weekend than previously in his career and hit .444 AVG, 1.056 OPS. First four hits of his career. 

BUT, Carter Graham was 2 for 13, and had been 0 for 8 before starting game 3 with a HR. 
Eddie Park only hit .200, on Sunday had a 15 game hit streak broken. 


Miscellaneous
Was surprised to see Bowser at second with Troy at third. Expected the opposite. 
We haven't seen Tommy O-Rourke on the mound yet. He's had 55 appearances over the past two years. Injured?

IIRC O’Rourke was up in the bullpen Sunday.

---

How can Stanford hold its own in Baseball with 7/10 of the Top 10 being from the SEC, and walk around with pants around their ankles in MBB and Football?

East Coast Media Bias.

I think you mean Nine’s right hand man, Dean Stotz, doing color with Roxy Bernstein. 

He said Troy had Steve Sax-like yips at 2B but was fine at 3B. 

Boy do we need these young arms to settle down! Now 8-2 Weenies.

Of course. My bad.

[GK3]

Might want to tune in to the Pac-12 broadcast. Mark Marquess doing color.

---

A few thoughts on the Fullerton series as I wait for the Cal game to start. 

Pitching 
Its standard lore that pitchers are ahead of the batters at the beginning of the season, but that certainly was not the case for Stanford this first weekend. 
Ouch - 26 runs in 3 games; 8.0 team ERA; 2.07 team WHIP, 8 walks per game. 
Mostly no one pitched very well, but ... 
The Old - 5th year who had pitched a total of 12 innings before this year, pitched 1.2 perfect innings striking out 4 of the 5 batters he faced. 
The New - Matt Scott, frosh from CT, pitched 2.0 innings on Saturday allowing zero runs and getting the win. No hits but he did walk 3. 
It's not much of a sample for either, but I like to see guys who stick around eventually succeed, and the young guy represents hope for the future. 

Offense. 
Pretty good, but an awful lot of the positive statistics were from the 27th and 28th innings of the weekend. 
8 home runs in three games, but 5 different players. 
Braden Montgomery (So) is supposed to be our star - he hit .455 AVG, 1.534 OPS, HR, 2 Doubles. Check. 
Malcolm Moore (Fr) started his career with first at bat HR. Added 2 more on Sunday. .333 AVG, 1.308 OPS.

Two nice stories:
Owen Cobb (Sr) is a story I really like so far. He has begun each of the past three seasons as a starting middle infielder but lost the job each year due to lack of offense. Already, he has his most hits in a season with 5. Batted .385 AVG, 1.406 OPS, hit the triple that brought in the winning run in the 10th on Sunday. And he made a game saving and ending catch on Saturday. 
Alberto Rios (Jr) catcher has barely played so far, and I had more or less forgotten about him behind So Charlie Saum and Fr Malcolm Moore. He had more at bats this weekend than previously in his career and hit .444 AVG, 1.056 OPS. First four hits of his career. 

BUT, Carter Graham was 2 for 13, and had been 0 for 8 before starting game 3 with a HR. 
Eddie Park only hit .200, on Sunday had a 15 game hit streak broken. 


Miscellaneous
Was surprised to see Bowser at second with Troy at third. Expected the opposite. 
We haven't seen Tommy O-Rourke on the mound yet. He's had 55 appearances over the past two years. Injured?

IIRC O’Rourke was up in the bullpen Sunday.

---

How can Stanford hold its own in Baseball with 7/10 of the Top 10 being from the SEC, and walk around with pants around their ankles in MBB and Football?

East Coast Media Bias.

I think you mean Nine’s right hand man, Dean Stotz, doing color with Roxy Bernstein. 

He said Troy had Steve Sax-like yips at 2B but was fine at 3B. 

Boy do we need these young arms to settle down! Now 8-2 Weenies.

Of course. My bad.

I know little about baseball, but find it hard to understand that if you are supposed to be a decent college level pitcher, how much better can you expect to get after the season starts?  Aren't you expected to be a pretty decent pitcher when you get to this level, meaning you can at least find the plate and not throw it in the dirt or hit the batter?  Maybe you don't quite have the speed or movement on your pitches yet, but have to be at least close.

[GK3]

Might want to tune in to the Pac-12 broadcast. Mark Marquess doing color.

---

A few thoughts on the Fullerton series as I wait for the Cal game to start. 

Pitching 
Its standard lore that pitchers are ahead of the batters at the beginning of the season, but that certainly was not the case for Stanford this first weekend. 
Ouch - 26 runs in 3 games; 8.0 team ERA; 2.07 team WHIP, 8 walks per game. 
Mostly no one pitched very well, but ... 
The Old - 5th year who had pitched a total of 12 innings before this year, pitched 1.2 perfect innings striking out 4 of the 5 batters he faced. 
The New - Matt Scott, frosh from CT, pitched 2.0 innings on Saturday allowing zero runs and getting the win. No hits but he did walk 3. 
It's not much of a sample for either, but I like to see guys who stick around eventually succeed, and the young guy represents hope for the future. 

Offense. 
Pretty good, but an awful lot of the positive statistics were from the 27th and 28th innings of the weekend. 
8 home runs in three games, but 5 different players. 
Braden Montgomery (So) is supposed to be our star - he hit .455 AVG, 1.534 OPS, HR, 2 Doubles. Check. 
Malcolm Moore (Fr) started his career with first at bat HR. Added 2 more on Sunday. .333 AVG, 1.308 OPS.

Two nice stories:
Owen Cobb (Sr) is a story I really like so far. He has begun each of the past three seasons as a starting middle infielder but lost the job each year due to lack of offense. Already, he has his most hits in a season with 5. Batted .385 AVG, 1.406 OPS, hit the triple that brought in the winning run in the 10th on Sunday. And he made a game saving and ending catch on Saturday. 
Alberto Rios (Jr) catcher has barely played so far, and I had more or less forgotten about him behind So Charlie Saum and Fr Malcolm Moore. He had more at bats this weekend than previously in his career and hit .444 AVG, 1.056 OPS. First four hits of his career. 

BUT, Carter Graham was 2 for 13, and had been 0 for 8 before starting game 3 with a HR. 
Eddie Park only hit .200, on Sunday had a 15 game hit streak broken. 


Miscellaneous
Was surprised to see Bowser at second with Troy at third. Expected the opposite. 
We haven't seen Tommy O-Rourke on the mound yet. He's had 55 appearances over the past two years. Injured?

IIRC O’Rourke was up in the bullpen Sunday.

---

How can Stanford hold its own in Baseball with 7/10 of the Top 10 being from the SEC, and walk around with pants around their ankles in MBB and Football?

East Coast Media Bias.

I think you mean Nine’s right hand man, Dean Stotz, doing color with Roxy Bernstein. 

He said Troy had Steve Sax-like yips at 2B but was fine at 3B. 

Boy do we need these young arms to settle down! Now 8-2 Weenies.

Of course. My bad.

I know little about baseball, but find it hard to understand that if you are supposed to be a decent college level pitcher, how much better can you expect to get after the season starts?  Aren't you expected to be a pretty decent pitcher when you get to this level, meaning you can at least find the plate and not throw it in the dirt or hit the batter?  Maybe you don't quite have the speed or movement on your pitches yet, but have to be at least close.

[TonyLima]

ICYMI. Friday’s game 2:00 start. Saturday doubleheader, first game at 12:05. Saturday ticket good for both games. If you have a ticket for Sunday only, exchange it at the box office.

[TonyLima]

ICYMI. Friday’s game 2:00 start. Saturday doubleheader, first game at 12:05. Saturday ticket good for both games. If you have a ticket for Sunday only, exchange it at the box office.

[CTcard]

Starting today is a series against Rice. 
The Sunday game has been moved forward due to a bad forecast, so doubleheader on Saturday with no game Sunday. 

Rice is 2-2 on the year. All games at home. 
They lost a series (1-2) to Louisiana last weekend then won a midweek game vs Sam Houston State. 
Louisiana is likely pretty good - they made the tournament last year and are 5-1 this year. 

Rice's Friday pitcher did okay in a loss. Their Saturday and Sunday pitchers both got chased in the second inning. 
Rice had a tough year last year, going 17-39. 
Don't know a lot about Rice. They have a .295 BA on the year (seems good), .808 OPS (less good), and hit 2 HRs.
Stanford sits at .273 BA, .926 OPS, and 9 HRs. 

Stanford's start has been a little disappointing so far, particularly the pitching. 
The cal game was disappointing, but not terrible - after the first inning. 
The teams had the same number of hits and base runners. But while cal got the ball up into the jet stream to left field for 6 RBIs on 2 HRs, Stanford kept hitting warning track shots into the wind in right field - but did get a solo HR to left from Cobb.

Still haven't seen O'Rourke pitch, making me think he's injured or something. 
The announcers at the cal game said something along the lines of Haskins not being available, so that was why Cobb was playing. 
I don't know if that is true, as in the article linked earlier in this thread, Esquer mentioned Cobb as a likely starter in the middle infield. At any rate, Cobb has done pretty well. His past struggles were mainly on offense. So far this year he's hitting .412, 1.180 OPS, a HR and a triple. He does have two errors, but made a game saving highlight catch to save the Saturday game vs Fullerton.  

Will be looking for updates on O'Rourke and Haskins.

[CTcard]

Starting today is a series against Rice. 
The Sunday game has been moved forward due to a bad forecast, so doubleheader on Saturday with no game Sunday. 

Rice is 2-2 on the year. All games at home. 
They lost a series (1-2) to Louisiana last weekend then won a midweek game vs Sam Houston State. 
Louisiana is likely pretty good - they made the tournament last year and are 5-1 this year. 

Rice's Friday pitcher did okay in a loss. Their Saturday and Sunday pitchers both got chased in the second inning. 
Rice had a tough year last year, going 17-39. 
Don't know a lot about Rice. They have a .295 BA on the year (seems good), .808 OPS (less good), and hit 2 HRs.
Stanford sits at .273 BA, .926 OPS, and 9 HRs. 

Stanford's start has been a little disappointing so far, particularly the pitching. 
The cal game was disappointing, but not terrible - after the first inning. 
The teams had the same number of hits and base runners. But while cal got the ball up into the jet stream to left field for 6 RBIs on 2 HRs, Stanford kept hitting warning track shots into the wind in right field - but did get a solo HR to left from Cobb.

Still haven't seen O'Rourke pitch, making me think he's injured or something. 
The announcers at the cal game said something along the lines of Haskins not being available, so that was why Cobb was playing. 
I don't know if that is true, as in the article linked earlier in this thread, Esquer mentioned Cobb as a likely starter in the middle infield. At any rate, Cobb has done pretty well. His past struggles were mainly on offense. So far this year he's hitting .412, 1.180 OPS, a HR and a triple. He does have two errors, but made a game saving highlight catch to save the Saturday game vs Fullerton.  

Will be looking for updates on O'Rourke and Haskins.

[magnus]

Thinking of going today. 

Is parking difficult and is there a better section to sit in?

I believe that is the start of family weekend or some such so maybe lots of out of towners filling up parking spots.

[magnus]

Thinking of going today. 

Is parking difficult and is there a better section to sit in?

I believe that is the start of family weekend or some such so maybe lots of out of towners filling up parking spots.

[Maple Leaf]

Starting today is a series against Rice. 
The Sunday game has been moved forward due to a bad forecast, so doubleheader on Saturday with no game Sunday. 

Rice is 2-2 on the year. All games at home. 
They lost a series (1-2) to Louisiana last weekend then won a midweek game vs Sam Houston State. 
Louisiana is likely pretty good - they made the tournament last year and are 5-1 this year. 

Rice's Friday pitcher did okay in a loss. Their Saturday and Sunday pitchers both got chased in the second inning. 
Rice had a tough year last year, going 17-39. 
Don't know a lot about Rice. They have a .295 BA on the year (seems good), .808 OPS (less good), and hit 2 HRs.
Stanford sits at .273 BA, .926 OPS, and 9 HRs. 

Stanford's start has been a little disappointing so far, particularly the pitching. 
The cal game was disappointing, but not terrible - after the first inning. 
The teams had the same number of hits and base runners. But while cal got the ball up into the jet stream to left field for 6 RBIs on 2 HRs, Stanford kept hitting warning track shots into the wind in right field - but did get a solo HR to left from Cobb.

Still haven't seen O'Rourke pitch, making me think he's injured or something. 
The announcers at the cal game said something along the lines of Haskins not being available, so that was why Cobb was playing. 
I don't know if that is true, as in the article linked earlier in this thread, Esquer mentioned Cobb as a likely starter in the middle infield. At any rate, Cobb has done pretty well. His past struggles were mainly on offense. So far this year he's hitting .412, 1.180 OPS, a HR and a triple. He does have two errors, but made a game saving highlight catch to save the Saturday game vs Fullerton.  

Will be looking for updates on O'Rourke and Haskins.

The announcers indicated that Haskins is recovering from mono, but should be able to resume practice in a couple of weeks.

[Maple Leaf]

Starting today is a series against Rice. 
The Sunday game has been moved forward due to a bad forecast, so doubleheader on Saturday with no game Sunday. 

Rice is 2-2 on the year. All games at home. 
They lost a series (1-2) to Louisiana last weekend then won a midweek game vs Sam Houston State. 
Louisiana is likely pretty good - they made the tournament last year and are 5-1 this year. 

Rice's Friday pitcher did okay in a loss. Their Saturday and Sunday pitchers both got chased in the second inning. 
Rice had a tough year last year, going 17-39. 
Don't know a lot about Rice. They have a .295 BA on the year (seems good), .808 OPS (less good), and hit 2 HRs.
Stanford sits at .273 BA, .926 OPS, and 9 HRs. 

Stanford's start has been a little disappointing so far, particularly the pitching. 
The cal game was disappointing, but not terrible - after the first inning. 
The teams had the same number of hits and base runners. But while cal got the ball up into the jet stream to left field for 6 RBIs on 2 HRs, Stanford kept hitting warning track shots into the wind in right field - but did get a solo HR to left from Cobb.

Still haven't seen O'Rourke pitch, making me think he's injured or something. 
The announcers at the cal game said something along the lines of Haskins not being available, so that was why Cobb was playing. 
I don't know if that is true, as in the article linked earlier in this thread, Esquer mentioned Cobb as a likely starter in the middle infield. At any rate, Cobb has done pretty well. His past struggles were mainly on offense. So far this year he's hitting .412, 1.180 OPS, a HR and a triple. He does have two errors, but made a game saving highlight catch to save the Saturday game vs Fullerton.  

Will be looking for updates on O'Rourke and Haskins.

The announcers indicated that Haskins is recovering from mono, but should be able to resume practice in a couple of weeks.

[JJJ]

Up 4-3 on a tougher than expected Rice. Mathews went 6.1 with 10Ks. Hoping the ‘pen can hold up. 

I’m liking Stotz as color man.

[JJJ]

Up 4-3 on a tougher than expected Rice. Mathews went 6.1 with 10Ks. Hoping the ‘pen can hold up. 

I’m liking Stotz as color man.

[Brickcity]

Up 4-3 on a tougher than expected Rice. Mathews went 6.1 with 10Ks. Hoping the ‘pen can hold up. 

I’m liking Stotz as color man.

Me too. He's old school: doesn't make it about himself. Knows the game inside and out and is a great explainer.

[Brickcity]

Up 4-3 on a tougher than expected Rice. Mathews went 6.1 with 10Ks. Hoping the ‘pen can hold up. 

I’m liking Stotz as color man.

Me too. He's old school: doesn't make it about himself. Knows the game inside and out and is a great explainer.

[BobK]

Matthews was great and Stanford wins 6-3

[BobK]

Matthews was great and Stanford wins 6-3

[magnus]

Rice was tough until their second baseman blew two straight throws to 1st that allowed Stanford to start a big inning. 

Fun game to watch.

[magnus]

Rice was tough until their second baseman blew two straight throws to 1st that allowed Stanford to start a big inning. 

Fun game to watch.

[BobK]

Stanford beats Rice 11-1. Cobb with 4 hits Troy 3 RBIs and a HR
2 nd gabe coming up

[BobK]

Stanford beats Rice 11-1. Cobb with 4 hits Troy 3 RBIs and a HR
2 nd gabe coming up

[TonyLima]

COBB!

[TonyLima]

COBB!