UConn @ Holy Cross (4/27/16 @1705hrs)

[huskymedic]

UConnBaseball 9:30am via TweetDeck
#UConn returns to non-conference action tonight at @HCrossBaseball. First pitch scheduled for 5 p.m.

#UConn owns a 42-20-2 record against Holy Cross dating back to 1923.

Baseball Continues Non-Conference Slate at Holy Cross

Baseball Set To Host Connecticut & Lafayette This Week

 

[ATLDYKA]

No Zapata again?

 

[huskymedic]

No Twitter/No Radio?

Live stats only @ this point.

T1 - DUFFIN homered to left field, SUNDBERG scored.

 

[dbmill]

WHUS internet only. Jack Riley starting pitcher for UConn.

 

[huskymedic]

Trading bombs

B1 - O'Neill homered to left field. 2-1

 

[huskymedic]

WHUS internet only. Jack Riley starting pitcher for UConn.

Just came on... CJ must have hit traffic

 

[huskymedic]

Just came on... CJ must have hit traffic

Scratch that - back out.

 

[dbmill]

Just came on... CJ must have hit traffic

I got it for now.

 

[dbmill]

Just came on... CJ must have hit traffic

Or he had trouble matching up the equipment with the facilities at Holy Cross. Either a good possibility.

 

[ATLDYKA]

Live stream showing on Patriot network on Holy Cross site.

 

[dbmill]

No Twitter/No Radio?

Live stats only @ this point.

T1 - DUFFIN homered to left field, SUNDBERG scored.

Twitter feed is up now.

 

[Stainmaster]

Joe Rivera in for Riley.

 

[dbmill]

Just got inside from playing with the dog, and birthday boy DeRoche-Duffin hits another home run in the top of the 6th. UConn up 3-1. Dandeneau coming in to pitch.

 

[dbmill]

I'm guessing DeRoche-Duffin wants to play Holy Cross a bit more often.

 

[dbmill]

Top of the 7th, a little more Husky offense. Buckley walks and Sundberg homers. 5-1 UConn.

 

[dbmill]

Dandeneau pitches two solid innings. It's pretty obvious that he has emerged as the main set up man (along with the lefty Domnarski) to the two closers Polonia and Ruotolo.

Polonia gets two outs in the 8th, then Poulin is comes in to face a lefty, and he gets the last out of the inning. Penders has been giving Poulin looks in the last three midweek games.

Zapata was warming up, but Ruotolo coming in to pitch the 9th.

 

[ATLDYKA]

Zapata has just disappeared from the rotation.

 

[huskymedic]

Nice quick win...

 

[dbmill]

UConn relievers Polonia, Poulin, and Ruotolo strikeout the last six Holy Cross batters of the game. Huskies win 5-1.

 

[huskymedic]

UCONNHUSKIES.COM :: University of Connecticut Huskies Official Athletic Site :: Baseball

Connecticut resumes American Athletic Conference play with a three-game series at Memphis on April 29 – May 1.

 

[dbmill]

Zapata has just disappeared from the rotation.

Or just plain disappeared. If it weren't for Chris Jones sighting him in the bullpen, I would have thought him a good candidate for the witness protection program.

 

[scotty0330]

Good win. Showed some offense - not a lot- but some pop with a few homers...little drama which is good for the soul in these mid week games.

Time to win another AAC weekend.

 

[scotty0330]

Love the penders interview with cj. Continues to be frustrated with team would never know he won game 5-1. Sounds like a coach who was in midst of 5 game losing streak

 

[dbmill]

Love the penders interview with cj. Continues to be frustrated with team would never know he won game 5-1. Sounds like a coach who was in midst of 5 game losing streak

At last, a Chris Jones/Coach Penders post game interview with decent sound quality. While Penders is usually a good interview, in most of the post game sessions this season he is barely understandable or audible due to post game music being played from ballpark loudspeakers, motorized groundskeeper vehicles doing up the field after the game, or some other noise that more or less drowns out what Penders has to say. I've been very disappointed with that. I don't recall having this problem so much when the interviews were on WHUS in previous years.

 

[uconnbaseball]

Holy Cross isn't terrible. As a whole, this is the strongest New England baseball has been in a very long time. Wish UConn has a better record than 22-18, there are a couple of really bad losses that will come back to sting (including those two losses to UTSA, who is a very bad baseball team this year).