2024 College Baseball Season

[RedOctober3829]

Today is Opening Day for D-1 baseball.

Preseason D1Baseball.com Top 10
1. Wake Forest
2. Florida
3. Arkansas
4. LSU
5. TCU
6. Vanderbilt
7. Oregon State
8. Texas A&M
9. Tennessee
10. Clemson
Northeastern check in at #23. They have a projected first round pick in OF Mike Sirota.

Top College MLB Prospects
Jac Caglianone 1b/LHP Florida
Nick Kurtz 1B/OF Wake Forest
Travis Bazzana 2B Oregon State
JJ Wetherholt SS West Virginia
Chase Burns RHP Wake Forest
Brody Brecht RHP Iowa
Hagen Smith LHP Arkansas
Tommy "Tanks" White 3B LSU
Charlie Condon OF Georgia
Josh Hartle LHP Wake Forest
Mike Sirota OF Northeastern
Vance Honeycutt OF UNC

 

[AMS25]

Yes, indeed, it's opening day. Looking forward for it to be warm enough to attend a game in person.

 

[LogansDad]

Honeycutt hit an oppo-bomb to right center. Dude is fun to watch.

 

[RedOctober3829]

The Stony Brook Seawolves took down defending national champion LSU 5-2 this afternoon. Just an incredible win. A sophomore and a freshman combined for all 9 innings pitched and only gave up 1 ER.

 

[Laser Show]

Hagen Smith of Arkansas just struck out 17 in 6 scoreless on 78 pitches. Good god.

 

[Ale Xander]

Top 10 matchup in Fayetteville tonight/weekend between Tigers and Hogs. Damn too many sports events at the same time today/weekend.

 

[RedOctober3829]

Top 10 matchup in Fayetteville tonight/weekend between Tigers and Hogs. Damn too many sports events at the same time today/weekend.

Hagen Smith with another awesome start. 6 innings, 5 hits, 2 runs, 0 BB, 10 K. On the year, he's only given up 6 runs in 35 IP with 72 K's to 10 walks. Hitters are batting .136 against him. Their staff as a whole is ridiculously good. Brady Tygart is 3-0 with a 1.59 ERA in 28.1 IP. His stats are on par with Hagen Smith but with 1 less start. Mason Molina brings up the "rear" on the weekend rotation. 3-0 with a 2.57 ERA(47 K's and .133 BAA).

 

[absintheofmalaise]

Top 10 matchup in Fayetteville tonight/weekend between Tigers and Hogs. Damn too many sports events at the same time today/weekend.

Hagen Smith with another awesome start. 6 innings, 5 hits, 2 runs, 0 BB, 10 K. On the year, he's only given up 6 runs in 35 IP with 72 K's to 10 walks. Hitters are batting .136 against him. Their staff as a whole is ridiculously good. Brady Tygart is 3-0 with a 1.59 ERA in 28.1 IP. His stats are on par with Hagen Smith but with 1 less start. Mason Molina brings up the "rear" on the weekend rotation. 3-0 with a 2.57 ERA(47 K's and .133 BAA).

Tonight's game is on the SEC Network at 8 if y'all get that.

 

[Kremlin Watcher]

I am so unhappy with the Longhorn baseball program. David Pierce has taken the greatest program in NCAA history and is running it into the ground. I can’t imagine he lasts another year after this debacle of a season. What a disaster.

 

[Ale Xander]

Guessing the Rocket doesn’t want the job? Has it been ever offered to him?

 

[RedOctober3829]

Tonight's game is on the SEC Network at 8 if y'all get that.

I do. Thanks!!

 

[Ale Xander]

Wooo Pig Soooie
Hogs down 4-1 to Gators at home
Come back to take 6-5 lead
Gators load bases with 1 out on top of 8th
Fly ball to center field, Holt on Arkansas pump fakes, and produces an 8-5-2 double play to end the inning

 

[jacklamabe65]

Me. 50 years ago today. Jacksonville (coached by Jack Lamabe) at the University of Miami.

 

[Awesome Fossum]

Has Texas ever won a game at Globe Life?

 

[canderson]

Has Texas ever won a game at Globe Life?

Pierce needs to go

 

[Kremlin Watcher]

Pierce needs to go

Made the tournament but, oh, the indignity, playing in the Collie Station regional. I’ve read that if we don’t make it to the CWS Pierce is likely gone, which would be welcome news.

 

[canderson]

Made the tournament but, oh, the indignity, playing in the Collie Station regional. I’ve read that if we don’t make it to the CWS Pierce is likely gone, which would be welcome news.

No way this team makes the CWS. I don’t think they actually win a game this weekend. It to me is the worst team in ~30 years.

 

[Awesome Fossum]

They're clearly not worse than 2019 or 2016.

They're definitely a weird team though. They won 9 of 10 Big 12 series, but it just never seems like they come through when it matters more.

 

[steveluck7]

One interesting story on the D-3 side of things. Birmingham Southern advanced to the World Series this past weekend. What’s interesting is that the school is shutting down on May 31 after something like 168 years.
Birmingham Southern advances
Fun team to root for but they’ll be playing my Alma mater, Salve Regina in the first game of the World Series so I can’t fully pull for them!

 

[canderson]

They're clearly not worse than 2019 or 2016.

They're definitely a weird team though. They won 9 of 10 Big 12 series, but it just never seems like they come through when it matters more.

Those teams underperformed. This one has poor coaching and little talent the coaches can’t improve imo.

 

[Ale Xander]

One interesting story on the D-3 side of things. Birmingham Southern advanced to the World Series this past weekend. What’s interesting is that the school is shutting down on May 31 after something like 168 years.
Birmingham Southern advances
Fun team to root for but they’ll be playing my Alma mater, Salve Regina in the first game of the World Series so I can’t fully pull for them!

How's the view from the baseball stadium for regular season home games? Very lovely campus. I saw a game at Pepperdine once. Holy hell was that awesome.

 

[rsmith7]

One interesting story on the D-3 side of things. Birmingham Southern advanced to the World Series this past weekend. What’s interesting is that the school is shutting down on May 31 after something like 168 years.
Birmingham Southern advances
Fun team to root for but they’ll be playing my Alma mater, Salve Regina in the first game of the World Series so I can’t fully pull for them!

And in the 8 team D3 CWS field are two New England teams, Salve as noted and Endicott. SNHU is in the D2 CWS.

 

[steveluck7]

How's the view from the baseball stadium for regular season home games? Very lovely campus. I saw a game at Pepperdine once. Holy hell was that awesome.

No good views, unfortunately. Unless they’ve made significant upgrades since I left, it’s much closer to a high school field set up (small metal bleachers, etc). It’s a few blocks in from the cliff walk.

 

[steveluck7]

And in the 8 team D3 CWS field are two New England teams, Salve as noted and Endicott. SNHU is in the D2 CWS.

And Bryant won their conference and is in the regionals this weekend against NC State

 

[Awesome Fossum]

UConn gets the W over Duke in regional play.

Big upset so far is Evansville beating #16 seed ECU.

 

[canderson]

Nicholls State was down 9-1 to UC Irvine and came back to take a 12-11 lead in the T9.

UC Irvine then scored two runs with two outs in the B9 to walk it off.

 

[Awesome Fossum]

I love how ECU has standing room right along the outfield wall. That's pretty cool.

 

[tims4wins]

Birmingham-Southern still alive!

https://www.espn.com/college-sports/story/_/id/40259273/birmingham-southern-keeps-season-alive-d-3-world-series

 

[Kremlin Watcher]

This has to be it for David Pierce, right? Please tell me this is the end of the road for David Pierce.

 

[canderson]

This has to be it for David Pierce, right? Please tell me this is the end of the road for David Pierce.

They’ll let him finish in the bottom half of the SEC next year I think.

 

[DJnVa]

In Raleigh today, JMU eliminated South Carolina 2-0 and currently trails NC State 3-2. All 4 of JMU's runs are on solo HRs, all by Mike Mancini. He has never had a multi-HR game. Today he has 2 within 5 hours.

 

[BaseballJones]

UConn advances with a 7-1 win over Oklahoma!

Turns out, UConn is really good at a lot of sports.

 

[JOBU]

UConn advances with a 7-1 win over Oklahoma!

Turns out, UConn is really good at a lot of sports.

Not too bad. Unfortunately they are horrible at the only sport that matters

 

[Lose Remerswaal]

Salve's magical season ended yesterday, dropping 2 games to Wisconsin-Whitewater

 

[StuckOnYouk]

If there is a college baseball Hall of Fame, Jim Penders needs to be inducted someday.
What he and his staff have consistently done with a northeast school is just mind blowing.
UConn has made six straight appearances, and has now made the Super Regionals in 2 of the last 3 years. It doesn't even get warm in Storrs until May.
I believe everyone on the staff is a UConn alum which helps keep the foundation intact when larger schools try to poach.

 

[canderson]

UConn’s team today was clearly distracted by the Hurley news. Good god.

 

[JShams]

Honeycutt just got a little bit of that one…

 

[Greg29fan]

Carolina's won three games already that they historically don't in the tournament.

 

[Heating up in the bullpen]

WV starter threw 144 pitches. WTF???

 

[canderson]

WV starter threw 144 pitches. WTF???

Don’t look at pitch counts in college baseball unless you want to throw up.

 

[Awesome Fossum]

This uniform matchup in Clemson makes casual viewing pretty challenging. Clemson wearing purple jerseys with orange hats; Florida wearing orange jerseys with blue hats. ESPN's score bug has Clemson in orange and Florida in blue.

 

[shawnrbu]

Yes, the uniforms are very confusing.

Any idea why Clemson had two ejections in the 13th?

 

[shawnrbu]

Florida walks it off on a 2 run single with the bases loaded with 1 out to win 11-10.

 

[shawnrbu]

Aggie with 9 in the 7th to go ahead of Oregon 13-8.

Oregon State the only non SEC/ACC school still in the tournament.

 

[canderson]

Aggy scored 9 in an inning on two hits -- and the same player had both hits!


walk
single
strikeout
walk
walk
strikeout
walk
HBP
walk
*pitching change*
walk
GRAND SLAM

 

[steveluck7]

Aggy scored 9 in an inning on two hits -- and the same player had both hits!


walk
single
strikeout
walk
walk
strikeout
walk
HBP
walk
*pitching change*
walk
GRAND SLAM

Good to see that it’s not just my kid’s little league team putting up pitching lines like this

 

[shawnrbu]

Another walkoff for UNC.

 

[Greg29fan]

UVA pitching to Honeycutt there with first base open made no sense but thanks for doing it

 

[The Napkin]

FSU gets screwed on a check swing that should have ended the game and Tennessee goes on to tie it up. Oops.

 

[The Napkin]

And Tennessee wins it. Brutal loss for FSU