Had to leave after 2 innings. Getting pounded 8 - 1.
Our starting pitcher was throwing batting practice or hitting batters or walking batters...didn't make it through 2 innings.
Game 2 at 6pm tomorrow.
Had to leave after 2 innings. Getting pounded 8 - 1.
Our starting pitcher was throwing batting practice or hitting batters or walking batters...didn't make it through 2 innings.
Game 2 at 6pm tomorrow.
7 run 7th and they're down 11-8 in the 8th
SIU falls 11-10. Late rally falls short, sounds like the umpires weren't great. Rhodes got ejected, Reis said it was his first career ejection.
SIU forced a guy at home in the 2nd inning..except the ump called him safe. Lance came out and gave the ump a good talking to on that questionable call.
SIU comes back from 11 - 1 only to lose 11 - 10.
C'mon SIU, Kick u of i's a$$ the next two games. Send them back to Champaign with their tails between their legs.
Dawg ball! 11 - 4. Grey Epps with two homers and 4 RBIs. Rog had a homer and two RBIs. 11 hits.
Much warmer tomorrow. Games starts at 1PM. Let's whip em again!
Looked like the Hill was packed tonight
https://twitter.com/SIU_DawgPound/status/1505337041445392389
SIU wins it 7 -5 in 10 innings on a walk-off HR! Wins the series against the Illini!
SIU wins it 7 -5 in 10 innings on a walk-off HR! Wins the series against the Illini!
Reis highlights from this game:
Money is one reason. Expense and revenue. The inability to do simultaneous baseball and softball home games due to lack of equipment and staffing is part of the money issue. All MVCs have that same issue. Softball was chosen this weekend over baseball because baseball was playing non-con Illinois and softball played MVC. Also, there is no requirement by the MVC to TV all baseball and softball home games as there is in basketball and football. And we have to do an ESPN telecast or we can't do any at all (ie Facebook Live). And the number of softball and baseball telecasts has to be equitable.
Salukis up 6-4 in the top of the 6th vs. Arkansas St. at the Itch this afternoon.
Also, the games scheduled for this weekend in Indianapolis with Butler and Northwestern have been moved to Carbondale because of rain in Indy that washed out Butler's field.
6-5 win and the Salukis are 16-5
Does anyone else read the recaps for these games on SIU’s website? I’m not one to be picky, but the person doing them, makes it really hard to follow…see for yourself.
https://siusalukis.com/news/2022/3/23/baseball-salukis-outslug-red-wolves-6-5.aspx
@siu_2011 She's a GA with a degree from Iowa. Not sure how she passed freshman English. Doesn't say much for a school with the famous Iowa Writers' Workshop. Wordy, clumsy, non-sensical, typos, bad grammar, odd word choices ... can't believe Weber let's it go on. She needs to say it out loud, then write that down (and read a lot of sports pages to see how it's done). Can't believe she would talk with such odd, clumsy wording. (and needs to run articles through a grammar checker - MS Word)
Someone who knows how to write a concise sports blurb needs to sit down with her and go over these articles before they're allowed to be published. I don't want to be cruel, but the Sports Info dep't is not doing her (or SIU) any favors by letting this continue without some serious intervention. It's a real embarrassment for the SIUSALUKIS.com website.
"Riffe had a rocky evening on the mound, throwing three innings, giving up four runs with three strikeouts before Matthre (sp) Steidl came on the bump (the bump??) to relieve in the fourth. The junior from Gallatin, Tennessee went on for three hits and a strikeout in the next inning. (meaning?)"
"SIU garnered another run in the eighth: after Nick Hagedorn was walked and advanced to second base by a wild pitch, a fielding error on the left side led for Cody Cleveland to head to first, while Hagedorn scored going home, unearned." Colon? Clumsy. Run-on sentence.
"...weekend when the Salukis' (no apost.- not possessive) host the"
@mr_woogers I miss "The Sporting News". Used to be the baseball bible. Now I read "out-batted" (outhit) and scored more points (In the Egyptian.) Sports writing used to be a training ground for great writers: Frank Deford, Dan Jenkins, Roger Kahn, Red Smith, Bob Considine, Tom Wolfe, Damon Runyon, Grantland Rice, Ring Lardner, and Jim Murray.
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