I feel like I want to put the Arkansas
@RazorbackBSB
at No. 1 and hope they never fall out of it till July. They've had some tough breaks the last few years. But that offense this year... Kjerstad, Martin, Optiz. In a word, YIKES.
#PreseasonTop25
First Rankings ‘O The Week
The StitchHead Power 16:
1- Texas Tech
2- Georgia
3- Louisville
4- UCLA
5- Florida
6- Miami
7- TCU
8- Ole Miss
9- Arkansas
10- NC State
11- Vanderbilt
12- Tennessee
13- Long Beach State
14- Mississippi State
15- Oklahoma
16- Illinois
For those baseball players signing letters of intent with the college of your choice today, keep this stat in mind for your pro baseball aspirations...
It starts today with 300 playing ball.
In 131 days there will be only two left playing.
Let the college baseball Hunger Games begin.
#NationalCollegeBaseballDay
#GoBaseball
#OnThisDay
in College Baseball: 1962
@UMichBaseball
’s John Kerr throws two complete games on the same day. Wolverines beat W. Michigan 3-2 & 7-6 in two 10inng games to win District 4 title. Kerr threw 313 pitches on the day & also hit the GW RBI to send UMich to Omaha.
A nice ovation.
@HailStateBB
fans cheer as Gary Henderson acknowledges the crowd after the 5-2 loss to Oregon State ended their 2018 season. Great job coach Hendo. This has been an incredible turnaround for the boys from
#StarkVegas
.
#OnThisDay
in College Baseball: 1984
The
@LSUbaseball
program gets changed forever as Skip Bertman earns his first two wins as head coach, 7-1 & 8-7 vs. Southern Miss. 868 wins & five national titles would follow before he retired in 2001.
CONFIRMED: Just got done talkin' w/
@USC_Baseball
coach Andy Stankiewicz. He told me the Trojans would practice at El Camino College & play "home" games at LMU & Great Park in O.C. for next two years. A new on campus Dedeaux Field will be ready for 2026 season.
@d1baseball
Luke Heimlich taking a curtain call from the crowd after being taken out in the 9th inning, one batter away from a complete game.
@BeaverBaseball
downs Minnesota 8-1 in what will be Heimlich's final appearance at Goss Stadium.
So Baseball America has this as their top 10 recruiting classes for 2018:
1 LSU
2 Vandy
3 FSU
4 L'Ville
5 Fla
6 UCLA
7 A&M
8 Texas
9 Clemson
10 Miami
Good for those programs but we all know that in three years
@BeaverBaseball
&
@TTU_Baseball
will still be Omaha regulars.
I have no idea where St. Ambrose University is but if THIS is where they play baseball, you bet your sweet arse I'm going there to watch a game in 2021. And I'm gonna sit at the top of the ferris wheel while doing it.
#StitchTip
: Don’t play
@TCU_Baseball
after a loss. And don’t beat them, they’ll only beat the hell out of you the next day. Love that statistic. Frogs just beat Texas 12-8 to win the series.
#OnThisDay
in CollegeBaseball: 2004
@UVABaseball
beats NCA&T 10-7 for
@UVACoachOConnor
's 1st win as head coach. Going into 2022 he's piled up 750 wins, five CWS appearances & the 2015 national title. Not bad for a dude from Council Bluffs.
#OnThisDay
in College Baseball: 1985
In the 1st night game at Cole Field
@RazorbackBSB
's Ralph Kraus hits jog-off HR to beat Texas 5-4.
#SWC
. The lights were donated by former Razorbacks & MLBers Kevin McReynolds, Matt Willard & Johnny Ray.
At the World Univ. Games in 1977, Louisville's Darrell Griffith jumped over a 6'5 Poland forward on a layup. That Polish player went on to marry, have 3 children & won a Polish Distinguished Citizen Award. But NOTHING will surpass the honor of having Dr Dunkenstein leap over him
#OnThisDay
in College Baseball: 2018
Oregon St
@BeaverBaseball
down to its last out, gets an RBI single from Cadyn Grenier to tie the game, then a 2run HR from Trevor Larnach to even the series w/ a 5-3 win vs Arkansas. OSU would win the title in game 3.
Okay, let's NEVER underestimate the
@BaseballTitans
again. Ever.
Even in the years where they don't seem all that daunting, coach
@Rick_Vanderhook
& his boys make it to the Round of 16. They won 5-2 at Stanford to advance to their 14th Super ever.
We. Are. Marshall.
How ‘bout THAT for an ending?
9-hole hitter Marshall Gilbert gets the game-winning hit and a mad mob from his teammates.
@HailStateBB
wins 5-4 over Auburn. Don’t worry, I’ll have a better picture of the mob scene later.
#OnThisDay
in College Baseball: 1983
MSU (
@HailStateBB
) Hall of Famer Will Clark hits his 1st career HR, a grand slam, in a 27-10 rout of Ole Miss. Clark would go on to a career-best .391 average, which is still a Bulldog record.
#OnThisDay
in College Baseball: 2014
Louisiana
@RaginCajunsBSB
beats Ga. State 5-3 to improve to 22-2 on the season, helping to earn their first-ever No.1 ranking. The Cajuns would finish the season with a school-record 58 wins under the direction of the late Tony Robichaux.
#OnThisDay
in College Baseball: 1983
@HailStateBB
Hall of Famer Will Clark hits his 1st career HR, a grand slam, in a 27-10 rout of Ole Miss. Clark would go on to a career-best .391 average that season, which is still a Bulldog record.
It's the Dawgs... the southern version.
@HailState
downs Washington 1-0 on Luke Alexander's game-winning RBI. Hunter Stovall did the honors of crossing the plate here. MSU goes on to take on UNC on Monday.
#CWS
#CWS2018
#OnThisDay
in College Baseball: 2000
@LSUBaseball
beats Florida 9-6 to win
@SECbaseball
title. MVP honors go to the late Wally Pontiff, who hit .615, including a grand slam in the championship game win over the Gators. That Tiger team would go on to win the national title.
#OnThisDay
in College Baseball: 1985
No.8
@OSUBaseball
sweeps DH vs No.2 Oklahoma.
The 11-6 win in Game 1 was win No. 1000 for OSU program. Game 2 was no-hitter by Cowboy starter Joe Giordinella as Pokes cruised 6-0. Pete Incaviglia homered in both games (try to act surprised)
#OnThisDay
in College Baseball: 1989
Washington St
@Cougbaseball
's John Olerud has surgery for a brain aneurysm before jr. season. He returns in April, hitting .359 & going 3-2 on the mound as Cougs win Pac 10 North. He would wear a helmet in the field for the rest of his career
#OnThisDay
in College Baseball: 2002
@ECUBaseball
's Keith LeClair begins final season as head coach with a 10-6 win vs Delaware. Due to his fight with ALS (Lou Gehrig’s disease), LeClair would retire after the 2002 season, having taken four of his five ECU teams to the NCAAs.
“Don’t call it an upset”
@SacStBaseball
head coach Reggie Christiansen said “ we beat somebody like this every year so we’re tired of it being called and upset”. Hornets sweep Long Beach with 5-4 win today
Not only a bad-ass linebacker on the
@UCLAFootball
team but also a skilled outfielder making Willie Mays-type catches at the wall. Ladies and gentlemen,
@UCLABaseball
right fielder Jon Jon Vaughns
#OnThisDay
in College Baseball: 2008
UNC
@DiamondHeels
beats then-No. 1 Miami 12-11 to win the series and earn the first-ever No. 1 ranking in TarHeels history.
#OnThisDay
in College Baseball: 2014
Louisiana
@RaginCajunsBSB
beats Ga. State 5-3 to improve to 22-2 on the season, helping to earn their first-ever No.1 ranking. The Cajuns would finish the season with a school-record 58 wins under the direction of the late Tony Robichaux.
Helluva Holliday
@OSUBaseball
head coach Josh Holliday congratulates his team after gutting out a 3-2 win over Michigan in 10 innings on a bases loaded walk.
#GoBaseball
Jon Jon Vaughns, an outfielder on the
@UCLABaseball
team, just recovered an onside kick vs USC. Vaughns had five home runs in his 63 at-bats last spring. Coach Savage sees him contributing even more this coming season.
#OnThisDay
in College Baseball: 1985
In the 1st night game at Cole Field
@RazorbackBSB
's Ralph Kraus hits jog-off HR to beat Texas 5-4.
#SWC
. The lights were donated by former Razorbacks & MLBers Kevin McReynolds, Matt Willard & Johnny Ray
Well THAT just happened.
@HailStateBB
went from being no hit to taking a 6-4 lead on UVA with 6 runs on 6 hits against 4 Cav pitchers. We go to the bottom of the 8th with MSU up by one and the Cowbellers going crazy.
#OnThisDay
in College Baseball: 2002
@ECUBaseball
's Keith LeClair begins final season as head coach with a 10-6 win vs Delaware. Due to his fight with ALS (Lou Gehrig’s disease), LeClair would retire after the 2002 season, having taken four of his five ECU teams to the NCAAs.
#OnThisDay
in College Baseball: 1994
Bobo Brayton of WSU
@CougBaseball
coaches his final game, an 11-9 win vs Portland. From 1962 to 1994 Bobo won 1,162 games, 21 conf titles & two CWS appearances. He was also Wazzu's first All American in 1947 as a shortstop.
So get this.
@GCU_Baseball
now has mid-week wins over Arizona (
#10
RPI), CSUN (
#32
), Oregon St. (
#22
), Ariz St (
#126
) & now Texas Tech (
#20
). They still have UofA & ASU again too. Good stuff for the Antelopes.
Anatomy of a GriffBomb.
1- The swing.
2- The bat flip.
3- The "I'm rounding 3rd!" yell.
4- The Cowboy pony ride.
@CowboyBaseball
is up 6-1 on Baylor thanks in part to Griffin Doersching's sonic 3-run yard call.
@Big12Conference
#OnThisDay
in College Baseball: 2010
In a game played in Myrtle Beach,
@NCStateBaseball
beats UC Irvine 7-4 in 10 innings. The winning runs came on a 3-run homer from a slugger named Russell Wilson, who would go on to a modicum of success as a quarterback in the NFL.
@Broncos
One last legendary curtain call.
With the crowd chanting “11! 11! 11!” Mike Martin came out for one last wave to the crowd.
@FSUBaseball
has its season end with a 4-1 loss to Texas Tech.
#GreatMan
#DontGo
#StillTooYoung
#OnThisDay
in College Baseball: 2018
Oregon St
@BeaverBaseball
down to its last out, gets an RBI single from Cadyn Grenier to tie the game, then a 2run HR from Trevor Larnach to even the series w/ a 5-3 win vs Arkansas. OSU would win the title in game 3.
#OnThisDay
in College Baseball: 2010
A backup 1st basemen & bullpenner who had thrown just 26.1 inns. all year, Michael Roth makes his first start and pitches a 3-hit gem as
@GamecockBasebll
beats Clemson 5-1 on its way to the national title.
#OnThisDay
in College Baseball: 2019
@FSUBaseball
’s legendary Mike Martin wins his 2,000th game, a 5-2 decision over Virginia Tech. I'm reasonably confident that record will stand forever, unless the NCAA increases the season to 162 games.
Every time Stanford seems to get something going it always happens to be with two outs. Then they hit a harmless little dribbler to end the inning. Then again Levi Wells has a lot to do with that.
@TxStateBaseball
up 5-2, 6 outs to go.
So I go to the gym & see a guy in a Michigan baseball shirt. Then I see another. Then three more. I soon realize the entire
@UMichBaseball
team is working out at my gym. And yes, that's coach Erik Bakich with 10 plates on the hip sled.
#GoldsGymVeniceBeach
#MeccaOfBodybuilding
Great Line Alert:
ESPN’s
@claymatvick
after Bryson Worrell knocked in another run for ECU, “Bryson Worrell could run for mayor of this city right now”
@ECUBaseball
leads Texas in the 8th 12-7.
Meant to mention this last night, but
@GatorsBB
CF Jud Fabian is a flyer. He ran down a pair of screaming liners vs. LB, one of which would've pulled the Dirtbags within one. For a freshman, he covers the meadow big time. He also stroked a 6th-inning double. Player to watch.
Call it an Omaha-ism.
Down to their last strike, the
@VandyBoys
get an improbable, unlikely and unreal bottom of the ninth to complete a scintillating comeback win, 6-5 over Stanford. These kind of finishes are becoming a habit at the 2021
#CWS
#TheShirtlessHero
You can’t swing a cat in this town without hitting something that says “2018 National Champions”
I dig how Oregon State is a baseball school.
@BeaverBaseball
Stunned silence at Blair Field
@SacStBaseball
’s Josh Rolling parked another Devereaux Harrison offering to make it Hornets 5, Long Beach 4. They are three outs away from sweeping the No. 6 team in country
#HardToBelieve
#OnThisDay
in College Baseball: 2010
A backup 1st basemen & bullpenner who had thrown just 26.1 inns. all year, Michael Roth makes his first start and pitches a 3-hit gem as
@GamecockBasebll
beats Clemson 5-1 on its way to the national title.
#OnThisDay
in baseball: 2012.
Former
@GTBaseball
star Jason Varitek retires from the
@RedSox
. He is the only player ever to have played in Little League World Series, College World Series, World Series, Olympics & World Baseball Classic.
#OnThisDay
in College Baseball: 1928
@TexasBaseball
plays its first game at Clark Field, a 12-8 exhibition loss to the Detroit Tigers. This would be the Longhorns home field till Disch-Falk Field is built in 1975. And yes, the 12-15 foot rock wall you see IS in fair ground.
#OnThisDay
in College Baseball: 1983
On the first pitch of his college career
@HailStateBB
's
@Rafael_Palmeiro
crushes a 3-run home run in a 12-8 loss to Mississippi College. He would go on to hit 66 more in his MSU career, some of which the baseballs were never found again.
50 Fave Stadiums: North Dakota
Went up to Fargo for a football game back in 2004 and was blown away at how nice of a facility
@NDSUbaseball
played in. Newman Outdoor Field is one of the best hidden gems in D1
Oh Mah Gaw-wed.
Totally diggin' this view of the new stadium at
@OSUBaseball
. This is a program that needs new digs like this to live up to its lofty success rate. I admit, I'm drinking the Kool-Aid, Cowboys win the next three national titles.
So THIS just happened
@StanfordBSB
scored 3 in btm 9th to beat Texas State. Trevor Haskins, on his 13th at bat of the season, cranks an RBI single to win it
#OnThisDay
in College Baseball: 1994
Bobo Brayton of WSU
@CougBaseball
coaches his final game, an 11-9 win vs Portland. From 1962 to 1994 Bobo won 1,162 games, 21 conf titles & two CWS appearances. He was also Wazzu's first All American in 1947 as a shortstop.
Couldn't have been more impressed with
@TexasBaseball
this weekend. Same could be said for that raucous atmosphere at Disch-Falk Field. Here's my write-up from Sunday's
#WinterClassic
in Austin:
This team has been thru hell and back. And now they come back from a loss on Friday to make it to the Supers.
@HailStateBB
is en fuego and to be feared... even with a banana phone.
Randy Mazey talks to his team after
@WVUBaseball
routed Oklahoma State 11-1. Yep, Manoah got pulled in the 9th and the shutout was broken. But those ‘Neer bats... lethal.
My first - and favorite - memory of Augie Garrido was as a kid, looking at the CWS program and telling my father, "He's the only coach in this whole program who is smiling".
#RestInPeace
Great Augustus
@TexasBaseball
@BaseballTitans
#TBT
to when I was thrown out at Arkansas for arguing balls and strikes...
Once I was tossed, the umpire told me to go “where he could not see me.”
So naturally, I went and stood on home plate.
50 Fave Stadiums: Arkansas
Best park in The Natural State? Easy... Baum Stadium
@RazorbackBSB
. Hell, maybe best atmosphere in D1. Experienced that raucous left field vs LSU last April.
I’ve always been impressed with the
@BeaverBaseball
following, especially with this turnout every year here in Arizona where they host this tournament. Good DAM crowd in orange and black. At the halfway point and OSU leads Gonzaga 4-0
50 Fave Stadiums: Missouri
Hammons Field, home of
@MSUBearBaseball
, is impressive joint. Big league feel. Best in ShowMe State, best in MoValley. Loved covering games there. Lots of shade & brew too.
Tanks A Lot.
@LSUbaseball
gets a mob-off win over Wake Forest due to Tommy White mashing a Camden Minacci speedball over the left field fence. Wow x 1000.
Then he gives Minacci a consolatory hug. That's first class right there.
@d1baseball
@D1SECExtra
#UnpopularOpinion
: I usually don’t give a rats ass who wins, but I gotta admit a trip to Omaha with no Vandy whistler sounds mighty good to me right now. Last year was painful.
#OnThisDay
in College Baseball: 1990
@CitadelBaseball
beats Miami for the second day in a row, 4-1, to claim the Atlantic Regional title under legendary head coach Chal Port. The win leads the Bulldogs to their only appearance in the
#CollegeWorldSeries
For the record,
@IlliniBaseball
did NOT dogpile, dump Gatorade over coach Hartleb's head or shoot off any confetti cannons. But they did beat Washington 7-1 to win the
#DQClassic
title with a 3-0 record. Well done Orange Crush.
I walk into a bar...
Bartender: how’s it going boss?
Me: I admit, I’m depressed.
Brtndr: is it the rain?
Me: Nah, I’m a college baseball writer & I just found out the season is cancelled.
Brtndr: Oooh, sorry to hear that.
.
.
.
Brtndr: here you go, first Stella’s on me, man
#OnThisDay
in College Baseball: 1989
@WSUCougarBSB
’s John Olerud has surgery for a brain aneurysm before his junior season. He returns in April, hitting .359 & going 3-2 on the mound as Cougs win Pac 10 North. He would wear a helmet in the field for the rest of his career
Yep, Langeliers is the new King
@BaylorBaseball
's Shea Langeliers, and his hair like The Boz, has set the NCAA Tournament all-time record with 11 RBI in the rout of Omaha. 3 HRs, a single & a double. Doesn't it look like he's having fun?
Beach coach Eric Valenzuela says that
@LBDirtbags
catcher Connor Burns "ight be the best defensive catcher in the country." He got mobbed after throwing out a would-be base-stealer to end the 3rd inning. Burns also had 3 RBI & a double vs. SDSU.