Gillespie owns USC
by Paragon SC on Apr 29, 2009 7:30 AM PDT
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PrintI know we don't cover a lot of baseball here on CC but this is just too good to pass up...
USC baseball put up a fight against No. 1 UC Irvine on Tuesday, but fell apart in the ninth inning and let the Anteaters walk off with then 6-5 win, almost exactly as they had done more than a month ago at Dedeaux Field.
USC (21-20) held the lead from the second inning on, and it looked as if it was going to pull off the upset of the nation’s top team. But Irvine (31-11) took advantage of some pitching mistakes in the ninth, and took the win with a two-run single.
The situation was strangely familiar for the Trojans, who in a March 10 contest at Dedeaux, held the lead heading into the ninth, but ultimately fell 6-5 in a 12-inning battle.
It only took nine innings for the Anteaters to win on Tuesday, but the result was just as disappointing.
This win makes former USC baseball skipper Mike Gillespie 4-0 against SC.
Now I'm not going to say that we should have kept Gillespie, he was struggling and Garrett rightly or wrongly needed to make a change. But it is clear that the change in jobs gave him a little spark to his career.
I had more of a problem with Garrett hiring Kreuter than I did the firing of Gillespie. Kreuter was hardly qualified for the job and we seeing those results right now, I don't care if they were on a hot streak earlier this season the overall product is poor.
This sure aint like the old days when it comes to USC baseball...
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I read about the game last night . . . .
. . . .maybe I’m jinxing the team. Everytime I get eager and interested in our baseball team, they start to do bad.
It sounds totally corny, but when it comes to sports. . . . .I’m totally superstitious. (from this point forward, I’m gonna force myself to NOT be interested in Chad or our boys. maybe they’ll get a regional berth or something? yes. i’m that self-important to myself)
Comer4tide to Nico2.0: "How come I've never heard of any of your random songs?"
Todd to Comer: "Because if you had, he wouldn't listen to it. BOOM. Roasted."
Nico to Todd: "Shouldn't you be off voguing somewhere?"
After their strong run to get back into the regional picture
it looks like the Trojans are back on the outside looking in right now. With a pretty weak finishing schedule, SC should be able to pick up some wins and improve their record, but their RPI will suffer. How will the players handle the pressure? They haven’t really played any meaningful late season games so this will be new to them. I don’t know which direction they’ll go, but it should be an interesting finish.
by Ryan Rosenblatt on Apr 29, 2009 12:52 PM PDT reply actions
Huuuuge win for SC last night over Fullerton
Their RPI is up to #47 now. It will probably drop a little down the stretch because of their weak schedule, but if they can rack up the wins, their RPI should stay in the top 55.
by Ryan Rosenblatt on Apr 30, 2009 1:45 PM PDT reply actions
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