College World Series: Texas A&M 3, Gators 2 — Kurland Robbed of Go-Ahead Homer, UF Cold with Runners on Base - Florida Gators
The Gators could not overcome an early deficit against Texas A&M to lose their first game of the College World Series.
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Be careful if any of y’all are in the stands against NCSU.Pitching was very good. Plenty good enough to win this game. But the bats just didn't come through. 1-11 with RISP, 16 K's, 10 LOB. Wilson, Shelton & Donay just looked overmatched. Maybe they can beat NC State and stay alive Monday afternoon.
Miami has no fans.Be careful if any of y’all are in the stands against NCSU.
Consensus is that their fans are WAY worse than Miami’s, which is saying something.
The runs the gators scored off Cortez were like the first runs he’d given up in five appearances.
Today’s game off to a pretty crazy start. Just one inning for cags after 33 pitches in the first inning. Velocity way down again. Maybe dealing with a tired arm.
Thanks for the update. CBB has sketchy media coverage regarding schedules of the CWS and starting times. Yahoo's coverage is horrible.Texas A&M beat Kentucky 5-1, so we get the Wildcats in our next elimination game Tuesday night at 7 pm.
I like our chances. KY is a tough out though - hell ranked #2 in the country so they are all tough from here on out.Texas A&M beat Kentucky 5-1, so we get the Wildcats in our next elimination game Tuesday night at 7 pm.
It's really not shocking to me. Half the CWS is comprised of UF's regular competition this season. There are a few SEC teams that didn't quite make it that are as good as the other teams in this series. It's a matter of playing your best baseball down the stretch. We lost that A&M game by the length of a foot more on a fly ball at the wall.So far the Gators have eliminated the the B10 Tournament Champs (Nebraska), the B12 Tournament Champs & National Seed (Okie State) and two National Seeds from the ACC (Clemson & NC State).
That could open up a chance for Caglione to start again and maybe Neely a couple of innings of relief?Thank god they did it now - lol that game a week ago that started at 11p almost killed me.
The postponement helps us for the first game tomorrow, but hurts us for the potential 2nd game. Oh well, outside of Neely we pitch by committee anyway so maybe it doesn't matterI think we definitely get more Neely for the UK game, but we would have had him for a couple innings anyway today. Now maybe we get 4 innings of him tomorrow, but game 2 would be an adventure if we get there. Tough deal to have to win three games in 24 hours against the best teams in the country, but I guess that's life in the loser's bracket. Seems like these guys kind of like having their backs against the wall.
O'Sullivan told the dugout reporter during the NC State game that Jac had a tired arm. I doubt we see him pitch again for the Gators. I think his future in MLB is at 1st base anyway. The Texas A&M coach said Cags was the best defensive first baseman he's ever seen.Shane Mathews program today - he suggested the thought Cags' arm was either injured or "was shot". He couldn't hardly get to 90 the other day and normally pitches upper 90's.
Might be the last time we see Cags pitch already.
Yep, I agree. His bat is too valuable.O'Sullivan told the dugout reporter during the NC State game that Jac had a tired arm. I doubt we see him pitch again for the Gators. I think his future in MLB is at 1st base anyway. The Texas A&M coach said Cags was the best defensive first baseman he's ever seen.
LaPorta is in the stands cheering him on.We as Gators really need to soak this up as we may never have another Caglione in a Gator lineup.
I would have given good odds we wouldn’t win the early game without having to use Neely.This game couldn't have worked out any better for Florida. Coppola goes 5 innings and gets his first win as a Gator.
We as Gators really need to soak this up as we may never have another Caglione in a Gator lineup.