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[Class of '66 Old Fart 80,927]

Due to expected bad weather, Tuesday's scheduled game against Miami  (OH) has been postponed.

[Class of '66 Old Fart 80,927]

 

[Class of '66 Old Fart 80,927]

Beer man!  Beer man!  Get your cold beer here!

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[Class of '66 Old Fart 80,927]

If you sell it, they will come.  Opening day record 1,984 fans here at Bart Kaufman Stadium this afternoon to enjoy some Hoosier baseball and cold beer on a beautiful March day.  Hoosiers pound out a 15-2 win over Miami (OH).  We had 13 hits that included 3-run HRs from Tibbits and Fougerousse both in the 2nd inning.  Ellis a 2-run HR in the 4th and Tibbits with his second HR of the day a 2-run shot in the 5th.  We used 5 pitchers no one going more than 2 innings.  Collectively they allowed 4 hits and 8 walks. 

This  weekend the team will be in Springfield, MO for a 3-game series with Missouri State.

[Aaron 4,147]

18 minutes ago, Class of '66 Old Fart said:

If you sell it, they will come.  Opening day record 1,984 fans here at Bart Kaufman Stadium this afternoon to enjoy some Hoosier baseball and cold beer on a beautiful March day.  Hoosiers pound out a 15-2 win over Miami (OH).  We had 13 hits that included 3-run HRs from Tibbits and Fougerousse both in the 2nd inning.  Ellis a 2-run HR in the 4th and Tibbits with his second HR of the day a 2-run shot in the 5th.  We used 5 pitchers no one going more than 2 innings.  Collectively they allowed 4 hits and 8 walks. 

This  weekend the team will be in Springfield, MO for a 3-game series with Missouri State.

Think the big crowd had more to with the weather than the beer. Every other home opener its been freezing and gross out before today.

First ever nice weather on opening day hence the record crowd. 

[Class of '66 Old Fart 80,927]

Single game this afternoon at 4:00 against Cincinnati.  Freshman Luke Hayden is the probable starter.  

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[Aaron 4,147]

Team rounding into form. IU up 7-0 in 7th. Cincy gifted IU five runs in first with many walks in a row without a hit while IU was just a passenger, but team looking better.

Hayden needs to move to the Saturday spot with Perkins Friday and Mudungo Sunday with how each one is pitching. Let Brehmer have weekdays as I still don't trust hem yet. Gotten to the point where I have confidence in Perkins and Hayden as starters and know Mudungo has it in him. Rest of guys still make me uncomfortable but hopefully may be improving. 

[Class of '66 Old Fart 80,927]

Bottom of the 6th and Hoosiers lead 7-1.  Walker and Kraft have each pitched 3 innings with each giving up 2 hits.  PFW scored its lone run off Kraft in the 6th.  Pyne has 3 RBIs which include a 2-run HR in the 4th.  

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Final score 12-1.  Hoosiers had 14 hits and were aided by 3 PFW errors.  In addition to Pyne's HR, Ellis had 2 HRs and 3 RBIs on the day.  Platt, Bothwell and Moran each pitched an inning collectively giving up 1 hit and 1 run.  We've now won 4 in a row and our season record is 6-6.  We'll be in Troy, AL next weekend. 

[Class of '66 Old Fart 80,927]

 

 It will be home sweet home for the Indiana baseball program for the next three weeks and it begins with a matchup against Kentucky at 5 p.m. on Tuesday (March 15) at Bart Kaufman Field.
 
Indiana (6-9) has won all three home games in 2022 and Kentucky (14-3) will play its first road game since the opening weekend of the season. The Hoosiers enter after being swept in a three-game series at Troy, while Kentucky swept its weekend series with High Point.
 
Gameday Info
 
Tuesday, March 15 (5 p.m.)
Probable Starters
IU: Luke Hayden, RHP, Fr.
UK: Seth Logue, RHP, So.
 
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Live Audio: bit.ly/IUAudio
Live Stats: bit.ly/IUStatbroadcast
 
Quick Hitters

• After a rough opening weekend, the Indiana pitching staff has started to find its groove and it showed in a shutout of Cincinnati on Tuesday.
  MORE ON PAGE 7
• Redshirt-junior Matt Ellis has been seeing the ball well and is tied for the Big Ten lead in home runs. The left-handed hitter has also hit some mammoth home runs so far in 2022.
  MORE ON PAGE 3 & 8
• Redshirt-junior Jack Perkins is off to a solid start to the 2022 season on the mound in his first season in the cream and crimson.
  MORE ON PAGE 7
• Head coach Jeff Mercer owns 78 victories as the Indiana frontman and is poised to become the eighth IU skipper to reach 100 victories in the cream and crimson.
  FULL BIO ON PAGE 4
• Freshman Josh Pyne is off to a hot start to his college career and enjoyed a productive week at the plate last week, as he led the team in average, hits and RBIs.
  MORE ON PAGE 7
• Freshman Brock Tibbitts took a pair of pitches out of the park in the IU's season opener versus Miami (Ohio), but you don't have to look far in the record books for the last rookie to hit multiple home runs in a game.
  MORE ON PAGE 3 & 7
• Graduate student Tyler Doanes has been a table setter for IU and ranks among the national leaders in walks through four weeks of the season.
  MORE ON PAGE 7
• Indiana matched a school standard with four student-athletes selected in the first 10 rounds of the Major League Baseball Draft in 2021.
  MORE ON PAGE 7

 
Scouting the Opponent

• Kentucky enters with a 14-3 overall record and is 7-2 over its last nine games with a series win over TCU and a series sweep of High Point.
• Two of the Wildcats three losses have come in the midweek, with Western Kentucky and Ohio defeating the Wildcats.
• After starting the season with a three-game road series, UK has played its last 14 games at home. The Wildcats will play four straight on the road starting on Tuesday at Bart Kaufman Field.
• Chase Estep enters the week hitting .476 with 25 runs, 30 hits and 21 RBIs on the season. He has walked 14 times to just eight strikeouts and owns a team-best seven home runs and six stolen bases.
• As a team, Kentucky is tied for the national lead in hits (164) and is No. 24 nationally in runs scored (9.3).
• The pitching staff is No. 20 in the NCAA in strikeouts per nine inning (11.2).

 
Series Notes

• The midweek contest with the Wildcats will mark the 44th all-time meeting between Indiana and Kentucky.
• It's a series that dates back to the 1903 season, when the two programs split a pair of meetings. They met seven times between 1903 and 1920 and didn't play again until 1974.
• The longest winning streak in the series belongs to Kentucky at six games from April 19, 1977-April 22, 1981. Indiana preceded those six wins with five straight victories in the series from May 11, 1920-April 1, 1975.
• Of the 44 all-time meetings, 10 of them have been played at neutral sites.

[Class of '66 Old Fart 80,927]

Schedule changes for our upcoming weekend series with Xavier.

  With wet weather projected all day on Friday, the Indiana baseball program has announced a schedule change for the weekend series at Bart Kaufman Stadium versus Xavier. The two teams will now play a single game on Thursday (March 17) and Saturday (March 19) and a doubleheader on Sunday (March 20).
 
The new schedule is as follows:
Thursday, March 17 – 6 p.m.
Friday, March 18 – no game
Saturday, March 19 – Noon (single game)
Sunday, March 20 – Noon (doubleheader)
 
Parking for the weekend will remain the same, with lots around Bart Kaufman Field remaining open for patrons to park. There will be no access to Lot 13 due to the NCAA Women's Basketball Tournament.
 
For tickets, the Friday ticket will now be valid for entry on Thursday night. Saturday will be free to the public and Sunday's ticket will be valid for both games of the doubleheader.

[Class of '66 Old Fart 80,927]

After 4 complete, Hoosiers lead 8-4 over the Wildcats.  Both teams scored 4 in the 1st.  Hoosiers added 1 in the 2nd, 2 in the 3rd and 1 in the 4th.  Ellis has 2-HRs and 4 RBIs.  We have 10 total hits.  Hayden started but only lasted 1 inning allowing 4 runs on just 2 hits but one was a solo HR and the other a bases loaded triple sandwiched around 3 BB.  Kraft took over and has pitched no-hit ball thus far.

[Class of '66 Old Fart 80,927]

And in the 5th, Kraft falls apart gives up 3 hits, walks 3, hits a batter.   Stahl takes the mound and the first 2 batters he faces get hits, the first a 3-run double to make it 8-7.  We get 3 back in the bottom of the inning on a Jessee solo HR and a run scoring double by Glasser.  We then loaded the bases with 1 out but Pyne struck out.   Colopy drew a bases loaded walk to make it 11-7, and Mathison ended the inning with a ground out.  Glasser 3-4 on the day with all 3 hits being doubles.  Jesse and Glasser each with 2-RBIs on the day to go with Ellis' 4-RBIs

[TheWatShot 13,335]

Man, our pitchers are terrible. 

[Class of '66 Old Fart 80,927]

Stahl falls apart in the 6th and loads the bases for Holderfield with just 1 out.  Stahl faced 7 total batters allowed 4 hits and he hit a batter.  Holderfield bails us out by striking out the first 2 batters he faces to end the Kentucky 6th.

In the bottom of the 6th we again load the bases with 1 out.  Ellis struck out on a wild pitch that scored our 12th run.  Tibbitts followed with a 2-run double and then scored on a Pyne single.  It's 15-7 after 6 innings.  Hoosiers now with 17 hits on the day.

Kentucky goes 3 up, 3 down in the 7th.   Mathison a solo HR for IU in the bottom of the 7th to make it 16-7.

We score 4 more in the 8th and it's 20-7 which is the final score.  Teams combined for 33 hits!  Hoosiers with 23, which includes 9 doubles and 6 home runs.  Our pitching staff gave up 10 hits, 5 walks and hit 3 batters.  

[btownqb 8,206]

13 hours ago, TheWatShot said:

Man, our pitchers are terrible. 

They scored 6 runs on 2 hits last night. Absolutely dominated outside of that. 

[Aaron 4,147]

IU is doing very well in weekday games since they have a good offense and their back end pitching depth is OK. The problem though is they still don't have good weekend starters (outside Perkins) and when they face top end pitching talent they cannot win the weekend pitching duals.

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7 hours ago, btownqb said:

They scored 6 runs on 2 hits last night. Absolutely dominated outside of that. 

And those 2 hits plated 6 runs because our pitchers put so many people on base. 

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3 hours ago, TheWatShot said:

And those 2 hits plated 6 runs because our pitchers put so many people on base. 

Ehh.. one was a dropped foul ball that led to that opportunity. Did you watch the game? 

Ryan Kraft was excellent. Kentucky was absolutely dominated. 

True FR pitched all but 2 outs.