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Bellarmine @ Kentucky (UPDATE)

Sleepwalking through four. A little worried that almost every game so far has been pretty competitive against weak competition (15-1 win was close til 7th)
 
1 pitch and 1 out for Logue as a fly ball to foul territory behind third is ran down by Ritter.

Full count. Lined into left field and into the corner for a double. Second hit for the 1 hole hitter. Full count mistake pitch.

Crane up and he grounds one up the middle. Harris gets it and throws the runner out. Good play by Harris, made a long one hop throw. Runner moves to third with 2 outs.

Strikeout, 3 pitches and Logue gets his 6th of the game to end the threat.

2-0 Bellarmine going to the bottom 5.
 
Anu leads off the UK 5th. He's battling after falling behind 1-2, but he grounds out to first for the first out.

Harris also falls behind 1-2 and he battles and fouls some off. He strikes out. The first UK strikeout of the day. He's being very democratic with his outs.

Rubalcaba flies out to end the 5th.

2-0 Bellarmine
 
Kentucky going to the bullpen and Tyler Guilfoil will make his 2nd appearance of the year.
 
Can't leave work, but just walked up the street, Geez, it feels like about 25 degrees out, must be BRUTAL at the ball park.
 
The 2nd inning of work for TG. Last app he walked 2 and struck out 2 but has yet to give up a hit.

Case up again. He strikes out looking. Three fastballs in a row.

High fly into short center taken by Fogel, out 2.

Full count, hitter battling and has fouled a few off and he draws a walk.

9 hitter up. A lefty. TG works ahead of him and gets a called strike 3 to end the inning.

2-0 Bellarmine going to the bottom of the 6th.
 
Can't leave work, but just walked up the street, Geez, it feels like about 25 degrees out, must be BRUTAL at the ball park.

It's 66 here in Knoxville. Weird to think that its 35+ degrees colder there.
 
Liebert up out of the 9 slot. He draws a full count. Short hopped to second. Good contact but he's thrown out.

Ritter with the lone hit for UK today. He's been on twice. He's swinging early and sounds like he's putting a lot behind those swings. He gets frozen and goes down looking. 2nd strikeout for UK today.

Jump flies out into left field

2-0 Bellarmine going to the 7th. This one is going quick so far.
 
For those unaware, apparently Bellarmine is new to D1, having joined the collegiate big leagues just a year ago. They play in the ASun. They were 13-36 a year ago and have started 1-3 this season

Yes this is my schools second year full D1.

Coach Larry Owen has done a really good job in his time at BU. They made the D2 tourney the last few years before the jump to D1.
He was a former pitcher and coach in the minors.
Mens Basketball the driving force on campus and slated to take on UK next year at Rupp.

Very proud of my Alma Mater.
 
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The 2nd inning of work for TG. Last app he walked 2 and struck out 2 but has yet to give up a hit.

Case up again. He strikes out looking. Three fastballs in a row.

High fly into short center taken by Fogel, out 2.

Full count, hitter battling and has fouled a few off and he draws a walk.

9 hitter up. A lefty. TG works ahead of him and gets a called strike 3 to end the inning.

2-0 Bellarmine going to the bottom of the 6th.
Are the Cayts mailing it in because of the weather or is Bellarmine just that good?
 
Are the Cayts mailing it in because of the weather or is Bellarmine just that good?
So much of this stuff is mental, if you aren't focused you're going to scuffle, don't care who you play. We've seen it with Stoops and football and way too often with Calipari and basketball.
 
Top of the lineup to face TG in the 7th. Fogel one step shy of the wall brings in a ball that was real deep. Good play by Fogel. TG may have gotten away with one.

TG gives up his first base hit on a little flair into shallow left. 7th hit for Bellarmine today.

Balk advances the runner to second. Weird. He didn't throw the ball. Just kind of fell off the mound. Fly ball to center for out 2. Fogel doing well in center. Credit to him.

Full count walk. Runners at first and second, 2 outs.

K looking ends the threat again. UK playing with a lot of fire.

2-0 Bellarmine going to bottom 7
 
Another quick 1-2-3. Four straight for whoever this dude is.

Also Fogle is our cleanup guy huh. Can’t be batting over .100 so far this year.
 
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Plastiak leads off the 7th and he looks at a called strike 3 right down broadway. Just didn't see it well I guess.

Fogel gets ahold of one and off the bat that looked really good but it goes to just middle depth in left for out 2. First pitch swinging. That ball was up.

Estep looks at 3 balls before seeing a strike. He flies out to right.

Going to 8 with UK down 2-0
 
Darren Williams now coming in to pitch. He's second appearance as well.
 
He jumps ahead quickly getting two swinging strikes. Then gets a called K.

Whew Williams made a guy look silly.with a curve, but the next pitch is lined up the middle for a base hit.

Wild pitch gets way far away from Rubalcaba and goes to the UK dugout to advance the runner.

Looks like Williams is throwing a little slider that has downward motion and he's got a good feel for it right now. He gets a swinging K with high heat.

Bouncing ball goes to third and Estep gets eaten up. That'll be an error. UK may be lucky they didn't score there as the ball bounced right to Ritter and the EKU runner went back to second for a moment instead of being aggressive.

1 hole hitter up now. 3-1 on the top of the lineup. Now it's full. That slider again on the outer edge. Great pitch. He walks. Bases full.

Mistake pitch down Broadway is fouled off. UK a bit lucky there. Swinging strikeout to end the inning. Again, UK played with fire but didn't get burned.

2-0 going to the bottom 8
 
Pitcher Buhr now coming out of the game and they'll go to another righty.

UK has to take advantage here now that they're to the bullpen.
 
Anu will get first crack at it. Ugh. Why!? He goes to one knee to swing under a pitch at or below his knees and it's an opposite field fly out to left. No need to swing at that pitch in a 1-0 count.

Harris with a big swing. Not seeing it extremely well. Will need to shorten up here. He flairs one into shallow right that is in no man's land to go for a single.

Rubalcaba up now and he falls behind 0-2. He sees a ball way outside but he swings through a breaking ball for the second out.

Liebert up but the Knights will meet about it for a second first. They're keeping it low on him and worried about Harris running. Two balls at the shins before a curve for a strike. 3-1. He draws a walk. Big big at bat to turn the lineup over.

Ritter has one of two UK hits today. He'll get another chance. They'll meet again after a ball to Ritter. I guess the first was a catcher visit. Ritter pops up to short right. Can of corn out that kills the rally.

2-0 Bellarmine going to the 9th
 
Haha wow. Guy swings at a ball in the dirt that was in the other batters box. He didn't see anything Stricky threw. Struck out.

Crane first pitch swing and Liebert brings it in for out 2.

Bellarmine catcher falls behind 0-2 and then courtesy waves at a curve for strike 3.

2-0 Bellarmine. Last chance for UK.
 
Jump to lead off. First pitch swing that is dumped into center for a single. They pull him and bring in Thrasher to run.
 
Plastiak off the top of the wall for a double. Mingione thinks it's a home run. He's mad it's not a home run. 2-1
 
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He's uses some choice words. He may be right. It could be a homer. Hard to tell.
 
So they call it a HR after a meeting and then they go to review it. Looks like it may hit top of the fence and then off the black fence.
 
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