Nebraska (21-13-1) vs. Iowa (28-10) Series Game Thread

[brfrad]

2 minutes ago, hskr4life said:

May as well just throw him now.  SMH.

Melt down of epic proportions in the 7th.  Walks, HBP, errors.  

Edited April 22 by brfrad

[brfrad]

12 minutes ago, hskr4life said:

Idk about using Shay in this one… we’re not up and it’s not looking great.

If Bolt would start playing an actual SS who could throw the ball to 1st, the game would be 7 - 4, and Shay would have thrown 4 pitches.

[brfrad]

We need to score some runs in the 9th to help our NET right?  Or, am I not thinking of the right sport?

[Bugeaters1]

PU Purdue is 2 outs from winning the 1st of three from Maryland. They are up 10 to 8 

[brfrad]

You are not going to win many games walking 10, hitting 2 batters, committing an error, striking out 13 times batting.

[Bugeaters1]

4 minutes ago, brfrad said:

You are not going to win many games walking 10, hitting 2 batters, committing an error, striking out 13 times batting.

Iowa has 13 walks and 5 hit batters. Purdue just beat Maryland.

 

 

[brfrad]

I will say for all our faults, we grind out at bats.

[AuroranHusker]

Nebraska better figure some things out, they need to win the next two.

 

 

[Bugeaters1]

Purdue is up 4-2 going into the bottom of the 4th.

 

[Bugeaters1]

6-5 marylaand end of 5

 

[Bugeaters1]

Looks like it is snowing in Iowa City.

[hskr4life]

Loser X2.  Can we at least avoid a sweep?

[hskr4life]

22 hours ago, cipsucks said:

Let's sweep these pricks on their home field.  Here's the deal: when we do win all three games, whoever posts tonight in this thread will get 6 Lucky Jerky Beef Sticks sent to their house. Gotta post tonight, though to qualify.  GBR!

 

 

Will we all owe you beef jerky?

[Bugeaters1]

Will we all owe you beef jerky?

From what I saw of the game, it looked like the Huskers didn't play well.

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[cipsucks]

Screw Iowa.  We will not be swept.  I'll send jerky to anyone who posts on the game thread tomorrow WHEN we win. GBR!

[hskr4life]

17 hours ago, cipsucks said:

Screw Iowa.  We will not be swept.  I'll send jerky to anyone who posts on the game thread tomorrow WHEN we win. GBR!

Hopefully pre-game posts count because F Iowa.  That’s all.

[AuroranHusker]

NU has to salvage at least this 1 game from a debacle of a weekend in I.C.

 

GBR

[brfrad]

Needed a series win, and are 9 outs away from getting swept.  That slim chance of an at large bid just slammed shut.  We weren't even competitive this weekend.

[brfrad]

Let's pile up Shay's pitch count so he's unavailable for the 2 mid week games.  I really like our chances of scoring 5 runs in 2 innings.  We have scored 7 runs in 25 innings. 

[brfrad]

Iowa's scored 23 runs in 6 innings.   In the other 17 innings,  they scored 2 runs.

[AuroranHusker]

NU 1

UI 6

 

 

Ughh, NU swept.

[brfrad]

I thought this team would be pissed about how they played on Friday, and come to actually play Saturday and Sunday.  Boy, was I wrong.

[cipsucks]

It feels like the ghost of Tony Sharpe is walking the base paths of Haymarket Park. I'm guessing he's dead. Should have checked before I posted....

[throwback]

Ugh. Didn't compete at all this weekend. Thought we had that kind of effort out of our system after the horrible trip to USD on opening weekend.

 

Team's at a crossroads now. Starting pitching needs to find its groove again, or this thing is over. 

 

Baseball teams tend to have blips on the radar like this on occasion during a season, and we've had more than our share of them in that hellhole of a diamond in Iowa City over the past decade plus, so hopefully that's all it is.

 

If you'll remember, the 2021 champs got swept at home by Rutgers in late April and recovered. The 2017 champs lost 3 of 5 to Iowa and Minny in mid-April and recovered.

 

The schedule sets up to get right over the next 6 games (3 in conference). Hopefully we can., but it's looking pretty bleak after that complete disaster of a weekend. No margin for error left now if we want to try to win the regular season title. Probably need to go 10-2, maybe 11-1, from here. Difficult, but possible ... but only if Olson and Kaminska bounce back fast.

 

Edited April 23 by throwback

[hskr4life]

Honestly— I fear that “that mindset” may be beginning to set in.  Unfortunately, baseball is a game of peaks and valleys.  Our valleys are low and we’ve only had one big peak…