Nicholls St. (17-5) vs. Nebraska (12-5) Series Game Thread

[Bugeaters1]

Sounds like the weather will decent for the Friday and Saturday games.

[throwback]

A little surprised we're leaving Christo on Friday, but this is his chance to show he belongs there. Nicholls can hit, so he needs to be more precise and accurate in the zone and not serve up as many hittable pitches as he tends to do occasionally.

 

If it doesn't work this week, we probably shuffle next weekend in the last tune up before league play starts.

 

[throwback]

By the way, Nicholls' starter tonight was a freshman All-American last year and is considered a pretty high MLB draft pick in 2025. He'll be a handful for us. Makes it even a little more surprising that we didn't flip Sears and Christo this weekend. Hopefully Christo is on his A game. Definitely cannot afford to fall behind 4-0 again tonight.

 

[Bugeaters1]

WINNER WINNER CHICKEN DINNER!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Bugeaters1]

 

[hskr4life]

lol— had my first “are you kidding me” of the spring today when I muted the basketball game to listen to the top of the 9th for baseball.

[throwback]

10 hours ago, Bugeaters1 said:

 

The one thing about RPI is our winning pct is a decent part of it - since we were 10-5, we can still ramp up our winning percentage a bit, where teams like FSU and A&M can only go down from where they are now. I still don't expect us to be anywhere near the top of the rankings by next Sunday, even if we with the other 7 games on the homestand, but we probably won't fall as far as I was initially thinking if we keep winning, thanks to the winning pct portion of the formula.

 

Another gutsy win last night ... at least I think so. I was a little distracted.  I do know that game was going to be the toughest of the 8-game homestand by far. A real chance now to go 8-0 here. Difficult, but a realistic chance.

 

We'll see how much consistency we can build - we've shown plenty of ability to get into -- and then win -- tight, wild games. The next 7 games should be all about taking care of business in workmanlike fashion. College baseball teams that want to be highly successful must have that component.

 

[throwback]

I see the team asked Dennis LeBlanc to jump into the winning team photo with them last night and he was yelling "we're 1-0!"  

[throwback]

To be fair, LeBlanc has worked directly with the baseball team for a few years, so these guys know him well, but still pretty damn funny. 

[throwback]

Needed a nice, easy win today and got it and then some. Walsh responds to his first at-bats in a while in a big way. Good job by everyone of finding ways to get on base - 16 runs on 11 hits takes some work. 

 

Sears wasn't as sharp as normal, but he still puts up six zeros, and Worthley was really good, saving the rest of the bullpen for tomorrow. Shutting out that team on 4 hits is pretty impressive, considering their numbers coming in.

 

Love our chances to finish off the sweep tomorrow. We should have almost all of our key bullpen arms recovered from Friday, other than maybe Timmerman, while Nicholls burned through a billion pitchers today. Hopefully Horn dominates and gives the bullpen another day off, though.

 

[Bugeaters1]

That was a royal ASS KICKING.

[Bugeaters1]

Walsh hits a bomb into the wind to get the game tied @ 3

 

[Huskerpapa]

[Bugeaters1]

WINNER WINNER CHICKEN DINNER!!!!! And that is a sweep.

 

[throwback]

Another dominant workmanlike performance today - although it'd be nice to stop falling behind by multiple runs.

 

Overall, a really good 4-1 week.

 

We have so much depth - has to be tough for the coaches to push the right buttons everyday with the lineup, but that's a great problem to have. Plenty of depth on the bump, too.

 

We're a really good baseball team - not sure we have superstars like last year, but we have a ton of really solid players. 

 

We did a great job taking care of business in this sweep - now we can't lose focus this upcoming week with school restarting and with 3 of the weakest teams on our entire schedule coming to town. Anything less than 5-0 this upcoming week would be a disappointment. Set the tone heading into B1G play the following weekend.

 

[Huskerpapa]

[AuroranHusker]

HECK YEAH!!!

 

Keep it rollin' Big Red.