NCAA Regional Final - Louisville vs. Wright State

[Howie Lindsey]

NCAA Regional Final - Louisville vs. Wright State

Drew Harrington will be on the mound for Louisville.

Trevor Swaney (9-1) will likely pitch for Wright State.

 

[CardsFirst]

NCAA Regional Final - Louisville vs. Wright State

Drew Harrington will be on the mound for Louisville.

Trevor Swaney (9-1) will likely pitch for Wright State.

When?

 

[Deeva]

When?

4pm today.

 

[Howie Lindsey]

Wright State’s Trevor Swaney is 9-1 with wins over Elon, Xavier (2), Cincy, Miami of Ohio, NKU, Oakland, Milwaukee and UIC. Loss at Georgia.

 

[Howie Lindsey]

Drew Harrington is taking the mound so it will be Pitcher of the Year vs. Pitcher of the Year.

Nice.

 

[EasyCard]

Strong left to right wind today

 

[Steelers2012]

Looks like runs are going to be a precious commodity today with these pitchers. Don't want to get behind.

 

[EasyCard]

Louisville fails to bring in Rosey after a lead off double in to right center

Bot 3rd Lou 0 WSU. 0

 

[Steelers2012]

Ahhhh....two pop ups with only 1 one out and a man on third.

 

[EasyCard]

WSU starts with lead off single through the right side and advances runner to 3rdbut fails to score when Tiberi cuts off a dribbler to end the inning.
Top 4 Lou 0 WSU 0

 

[Steelers2012]

2 run homer by Nick Solak puts the Cards in the lead 2-0.

 

[Howie Lindsey]

Cardinals up 2-0 heading into the 5th.

 

[Howie Lindsey]

Runners on 1st and 2nd now with 2 outs in the 5th.

 

[Howie Lindsey]

Solak hits a worm-burner to left. Logan Taylor scores from 2nd, Will Smith out at second to end the inning.

Cards up 3-0.

 

[Steelers2012]

Another RBI single for Solak makes the score 3-0 Cards.

 

[Steelers2012]

Leaving a lot of runners stranded with some very aggressive base running. Hope it doesn't bite us in the butt. Still leading 3-0 in the bottom of the 7th.

 

[EasyCard]

Burdi threw so hard in warm up he knocked Smith's palm pad out of his glove.

 

[EasyCard]

There's not 5 ss in college could have made Hairston's last throw out.

 

[Steelers2012]

This just in...that Hairston kid is good.

 

[scrumm21]

Way to finish! Go Cards! !!

 

[Steelers2012]

Wright State makes it interesting in the 9th with 2 hits, but the Cards shut it down to win 3-1.

 

[WildCard]

Wright State makes it interesting in the 9th with 2 hits, but the Cards shut it down to win 3-1.

Runners LOB + shaky base running kept this one closer than it should have been.

Peace

 

[Jack Coffee]

Wright State makes it interesting in the 9th with 2 hits, but the Cards shut it down to win 3-1.

the only extra base hits of the night

 

[earsky]

Nick Solak was the difference in the game,but Harrington was phenomenal.

 

[BPGhost]

Burdi (like his brother) has an incredible amount of talent but, for someone that has electric stuff - including triple digits - the situation is far from lights out when he comes in. Both guys seem to outthink themselves and make things more difficult than they need to be.

 

[earsky]

Burdi (like his brother) has an incredible amount of talent but, for someone that has electric stuff - including triple digits - the situation is far from lights out when he comes in. Both guys seem to outthink themselves and make things more difficult than they need to be.

I used to think exactly this,but he's really come a long ways just since earlier in this season.When you can throw it 100 mph,the other team pretty much sits on that pitch.He used to oblige them,but he is setting up that heat by popping those off speed pitches early in the counts.Like Funk,he has to be able to hit the strike zone early with the off speed.The second half of the season,he's become pretty good.

 

[nccardfan]

Supposedly the one chink in our armor is the bridge between our starters and Burdi, which is why I think Dan likes to go with Burdi for a 2 inning save. I wish Henzman or even kidston could fill that role in between.

 

[teamcanada]

How many other tea

I used to think exactly this,but he's really come a long ways just since earlier in this season.When you can throw it 100 mph,the other team pretty much sits on that pitch.He used to oblige them,but he is setting up that heat by popping those off speed pitches early in the counts.Like Funk,he has to be able to hit the strike zone early with the off speed.The second half of the season,he's become pretty good.

That 89 MPH slider he has is just a nasty pitch to try to hit.

 

[BPGhost]

I used to think exactly this,but he's really come a long ways just since earlier in this season.When you can throw it 100 mph,the other team pretty much sits on that pitch.He used to oblige them,but he is setting up that heat by popping those off speed pitches early in the counts.Like Funk,he has to be able to hit the strike zone early with the off speed.The second half of the season,he's become pretty good.

The issues that I have seen have not necessarily been with his fastball. It's when he tries to get cute and I don't think the batter. He has the tendency (or had) of getting behind in the count with his second and third best pitch and then hitters are of course sitting on his fastball. I will say that the younger Burdi seems to have more run on his fastball (2 seam vs. 4 seam) than his big brother did. Either way - for whatever reason, I was nervous when they brought Zack in and I'm nervous when they bring Nick in.