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Honestly Saalfrank did everything you would hope and more giving us 5 shutout innings. He's gotten better as season goes on and could be our 3rd starter or at least regular weekday guy next year. John Anderson is mad in his interview and sounds out of answers. In all seriousness he is the last of the longtime coaches in conference and has won consistenently (OSU, Minny and Mich have by far best overall history of Big Ten team). IU has been best team last decade in conference but were terrible every previous decade till then so its really been quite the turnaround.

Fineman has never developed into the hitter he should be but a much better defensive catcher than Schwarber was. Constantly throws out runners!

We were meat at the plate till catcher dropped ball for Minny on throw home! 5-0. One of the few times Dedelow just made solid contact for a single instead of swinging for fences.

These announcers are just dumb acting surprise that it is mostly our fans in the stands. It is our stadium which they have rememebered at times but forgotten at others clearly. At least they are on site as oppose to regular season when they call games from studio in Chicago. Great double than single for another run!

God everyone missing home runs by inches right now.

We agree. This is the time we criticize Lemonis for poor execution with swing decision. Also Dedelow as usual swings for fences and just misses but sac fly. In end we got 3 though which is solid.

3-0 he should not of swung. We got the run but force him to throw a strike without conceding the out. That's definitely a take 2 pitches no matter what.

Terribly impatient in 1st inning. Had pitcher down and let him off hook with double play ball on 2-1 pitch.

Guess we are visitors as apparently they apply a different procedure than Regionals (team that was home first time is visitors second time is first tiebreaker). We face their awful 3rd starter. Lets do this.

Iowa wins so huge opportunity. 6:05 start for us roughly.

Will be home tonight I think (based on fact we were road team vs Minny 1st time which I believe is 1st tiebreaker) than if we win visitors tomorrow morning and home if we win again. Also if Iowa holds on to beat Nebraska huge opportunity for us if we win tonight as Iowa has burned through their 2 good pitchers and has had a huge problem finding a solid third starter so whoever we face will be as bad as Hobby or Saalfrank. Nebraska on other hand has a decent no. 3 and is a better team so we would be at bigger disadvantage. Tonight for Minny they have either a guy similar to Kruger who has been a decent spot starter/long reliever or their number 3 who has been absolutely terrible. Minny outside of Gilbreath who we faced in 1st game and their closer has had awful pitching issues this year. Game will start at 6 or a bit after depending on how much longer this game takes (and than 45 min break).

Push our game back to at least 6pm because NW and Minny not quite done and its 45 min between games so assuming next game starts around 2:15pm than goes 3 hours than that's 5:15pm and 45 minutes is 6pm. Either way primetime Friday slot after work. Should finally have huge crowd but I still cannot go till tomorrow if we win but will definitely be watching now!!!

Officially just dropped for 5pm. Should finally give us a fairly full stadium since most people around town can be done with work and there. Huge home field advantage help. Also much better for me as I am done with work. Will go Saturday if we win but still not enough time to get to Btown tomorrow (baring a huge delay) as I finish work about 4:45pm but at least I can watch on TV instead of following on live stats at work. My house is 20 minutes from my office in Indy and Btown is 1:30 away in traffic that time of day (not to mention I would have to drive twice with no where to stay in Btown if we won) so I think I will head home and watch hope we win and than come down Saturday if we are playing.

http://www.gophersports.com/sports/m-basebl/spec-rel/052417aaa.html Well looks our game is getting bumped tomorrow as PU and NW just in 6th and its 9pm Eastern.

Something to watch: They are just starting game 3 now so unless it goes fast the Big Ten will either have to start NW/Minn after 11pm which is awful late or move to tomorrow which will move IU's game.

Well we burned Kruger who should of started tomorrow (and will now be stuck with Saalfrank) but we got it. Now no question we make tourney with another top 30 RPI win. If its Minny we have home field and if it's NW we toss a coin I believe (I know the formula pretty well from previous Big Ten Tournaments and Regionals but its so complicated I am not even going to try to explain it).

We have such poor plate discipline at the wrong times.

As I have said countless times we swing for fences way to much. He hit a ton of HR's but also fly out a ton as result and make less solid contact as result. Also as I said baseball gods clearly don't like us this tourney with all the things that have gone against us

Ugh. This game is so back and forth. Tied again. So glad we have home field for this game given how close it is.

Sowers did it! IU leads. Lozer has blown up for 2nd straight game after being perfect all year

Winning run at 3rd 2 outs in 8th after Dedelow single. Shocked he did not fly out deep or hit HR.

Lozer their reliever who had not surrendered a run all year and was perfect till blowing up and being terrible yesterday with game online again gives up a run to us today (although it will be charged Jaskie).

Tied again!

Like I said if that happens than maybe you strongly consider a move on our end it but I think he gets one more year and if he does you also ride Lemonis another year since were were not awful this year and still quite likely to make NCAA tournament (I know people are disagreeing with me but I believe we are in regardless and most pundits besides one IU media interviewed thought we were in even if we lost both games).

Actually I think its the hitting coach that needs replacement. Pitching was excellent last 2 years but has struggled this year with mass losses and is very young. Hitting on the other hand is very experienced and think our approaches at plate are often quite bad and hitters are not developing like they should.