Herget twirls gem to save season...beating #5 Lville!

[Brad]

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DATE: May 23, 2014

 

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Herget Dominates No. 5 Louisville, USF Wins 2-1

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Clearwater, May 23, 2014 – USF is good and well in the American Athletic Conference Championship after Jimmy Herget tossed a complete game six-hitter to lift the Bulls to a 2-1 victory over No.5 Louisville Friday afternoon at Bright House Field in Clearwater, Fla.

With the win, USF put themselves into contention to advance to Sunday’s championship game by defeating Memphis tomorrow night and Louisville defeats Rutgers tomorrow afternoon. Louisville and Rutgers will play at 3:00 p.m. followed by the USF/Memphis game at 7:00 p.m.

“I am really proud of the team after the way we played the first day,” said head coach Lelo Prado. “To come out and beat a great Louisville team says a lot about the young men we have in our clubhouse.”

“Jimmy is good enough to pitch against anyone in America and he proved it again today.”

Louisville got off to a quick starter manufacturing a run in the first as Nick Solak scored on a sacrifice fly by Alex Chittenden to give the Cardinals an early 1-0.

Luke Maglich got things going for USF in the third drawing a two-out walk and moving up to second on an Austin Lueck single into leftfield. On a 2-2 count, Kyle Teaf tied the ballgame with a single into centerfield allowing Maglich to score on the play.

 

An inning later, Zac Gilcrease led off the frame with a single into leftfield on a 0-2 count and moved up to second on a sacrifice bunt by Buddy Putnam. Luke Borders than had a great at-bat fouling off several pitches before delivering the game-winning hit to leftfield plating Gilcrease.

 

After the first inning, Herget really settled down for the Bulls retiring 13 in a row before Solak picked up his second hit of the game in the sixth. The right-hander dug deep striking out Jeff Gardner, the conference Player of the Year, and Chittenden to end the side.

In another key situation Herget showed his grit as he faced a first and third situation with two outs in the eighth and cleanup hitter Chittenden at the plate but again, the sophomore retired him on four pitches punching him out for his second strikeout of the inning.

 

USF had an opportunity in the eighth to an insurance run as Teaf and Levi Borders each singled with two outs but were stranded.

Louisville got a base hit the start off the ninth but Levi Borders quickly erased Grant Kay as he attempted to steal second base for the first out. Herget then got two straight outs to pick-up his second complete game of the season.

 

Herget allowed just six hits in the contest and didn’t allow more than two hits in an inning after the first. He struck out six including two in the sixth and eighth. In two games versus Louisville this season, he’s allowed just three runs in 17.1 innings of work while picking up 19 strikeouts and holding them to a .183 batting average against.

This was also the first time all season Louisville was held to under two runs and entered the game 30-3 when scoring in the first inning.

Offensively, Teaf and Gilcrease each went 2-for-4. Teaf and Luke Borders each picked up a RBI while Gilcrease and Maglich scored a run apiece.

In 12 games this season against ranked teams, Teaf has gone 18-for-45 (.400) including going 4-for-8 against Louisville.

Josh Rogers suffered the loss for Louisville giving up two runs on five hits and a pair of walks over six innings of work. Kyle McGrath tossed the final two innings for the Cardinals surrendering just two hits. Solak and Corey Ray each had two hits for Louisville.

 

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[JupiterBull]

Ah I see the format now. Two divisions of four, three round robin games, and tie breakers.

UCF wins tonight and they are in the champ game.

Temple is only team mathematically eliminated.

Houston has to best UCF tonight, and have Temple upset UCONN tomorrow.

UCONN needs Houston to beat UCF, and beat Temple tomorrow.

On the other side:

USF has to beat Memphis tomorrow and have Rutgers lose to Louisville.

Louisville needs to beat Rutgers and have USF lose.

Rutgers needs USF to win and they have to beat Louisville.

Memphis needs to beat USF, and needs Rutgers to win.

Only odd tiebreaker is if Houston beats UCF, and UCONN beats Temple, then you have three 2-1 teams with a tiebreaker against each. I guess they'd take highest ranked then? Or run differential?

That makes sense...not really following others, but Sunday v UL (if we're that lucky) would not be th Championship game, but rather a semi-final v the other pool winner.  Not good news, but makes more sense.

 

Let's hope we can get past Memphis...we're so inconsistent, but hopefully this win pumps the team.  Seems Herget's pitch count was fairly low, so perhaps he could throw again Sunday?

[bullsfan27]

 

Ah I see the format now. Two divisions of four, three round robin games, and tie breakers.

UCF wins tonight and they are in the champ game.

Temple is only team mathematically eliminated.

Houston has to best UCF tonight, and have Temple upset UCONN tomorrow.

UCONN needs Houston to beat UCF, and beat Temple tomorrow.

On the other side:

USF has to beat Memphis tomorrow and have Rutgers lose to Louisville.

Louisville needs to beat Rutgers and have USF lose.

Rutgers needs USF to win and they have to beat Louisville.

Memphis needs to beat USF, and needs Rutgers to win.

Only odd tiebreaker is if Houston beats UCF, and UCONN beats Temple, then you have three 2-1 teams with a tiebreaker against each. I guess they'd take highest ranked then? Or run differential?

That makes sense...not really following others, but Sunday v UL (if we're that lucky) would not be th Championship game, but rather a semi-final v the other pool winner.  Not good news, but makes more sense.

 

Let's hope we can get past Memphis...we're so inconsistent, but hopefully this win pumps the team.  Seems Herget's pitch count was fairly low, so perhaps he could throw again Sunday?

 

The announcers said if houston beats UCF and UCONN beats Temple then UCF would play on sunday. However if Temple beats UCONN Houston plays sunday. If we beat Memphis and Louisville beats Rutgers we play sunday and if rutgers wins Rutgers plays sunday. so lets hope we take care of business and louisville does us a huge favor.

[charsibb]

Congrats BaseBulls!

 

One game at a time. Go get em, boys!

 

Tromp the Tigers!!

[NewEnglandBull]

Totally unexpected and nice to see. Finish strong Basebulls!

[Danm1983]

UCF loses to Houston. So their side comes down to UCONN vs Temple.

[JupiterBull]

#5 Louisville????????????/

Yes...what's the question?

[JupiterBull]

http://espn.go.com/college-sports/rankings/_/pollId/9/sportId/10031000

 

#7 Louisville

 

NCAA has them at 5

 

http://www.ncaa.com/rankings/baseball/d1

[charsibb]

Louisville finished 1st in the conference.   USF was a 5 seed...Louisville was a 1 seed.  So how did they become #5?

 

http://www.gousfbulls.com/ViewArticle.dbml?SPSID=36641&SPID=2917&DB_LANG=C&DB_OEM_ID=7700&ATCLID=209498762

 

 

I don't follow baseball, so please help me understand.

 

 

#5 in the country, not the conference

[charsibb]

Houston beat UCF today, does that put them in the championship game?

 

Identical 2-1 records, but UH holds the head-2-head

 

EDIT:

 

Nope. All depends on tomorrow. Weird rules...

 

If UConn beats Temple, then UConn joins Houston and UCF at 2-1, but UCF would advance by virtue of being the highest-seeded of the tied teams.

If Temple wins, then Houston would advance thanks to the head-to-head win against UCF.

 

http://theamerican.org/news/2014/5/23/BASE_0523144918.aspx

Edited May 24, 2014 by charsibb