2014 weekly game thread~

[Soonerjeepman]

post here for weekly games...

Took 2 from AC, next up 3 game stand against Rutgers...

DH today, 3 pm and 30 after...BOOMER!

(side baseball note, son going to KCKCC - juco for his visit today) Course MY dream would be for him to eventually get to OU...lol

[Sooner95]

Took game one of double headers today vs Rutger, 16-11.

Currently second game.

No score, T4

[Sooner95]

2nd game of double-header is actually Sat. game moved up due to pending weather.

[Sooner95]

OU 1-0 B5

[Sooner95]

B6 ties 1-1

[Sooner95]

Rutgers takes lead.. 2-1


Top 7: RU 2, OU 1. Scarlet Knights grab the lead on a two-out home run to left off the bat of Tom Marcinczyk. Ladd comes on to relieve Chop.

[Sooner95]

Down 5-1

[Sooner95]

HUGE inning for our boys!

End 8: OU 7, RU 5. Six runs on five hits (all XBHs) and one error. Garza on to close things out

[Sooner95]

Nice job!

Final: OU 7, RU 5. Sooners rally for six in the eighth to sweep doubleheader.

Great win, coming back from 4 down late.

[Soonerjeepman]

wow...I didn't even check earlier...was at juco visit then GF's. AWESOME wins. Definitely a big come back. Sat break finish on Sunday.

[Sooner95]

Sooner's fall today 8-6 to Rutgers.

[Soonerjeepman]

yeah saw that, think it's going to be an up/down season. Going to the OU/ku game up here (late March)...the one on Sunday. Son has games on the Sat.

[hvhurricane]

We just lost to a 3 win Rutgers team. Maybe they will get better when they move into the Big 10? Wait, the Big 10 is even worse in baseball.

I understand this team is going to have some ups and downs, as all BB teams do, but this team has too much talent on the roster to be losing to teams like Rutgers.

[Sooner95]

Beat UTA 3-2 yesterday.

Next up, a 3 game home set against Belmont (7-9) this weekend.

Upcoming games;

3/14/2014
Belmont

3/15/2014
Belmont

3/16/2014
Belmont

3/18/2014
TCU


3/19/2014
Arkansas-Little Rock


3/21/2014
Kansas State *

3/22/2014
Kansas State *

3/23/2014
Kansas State *

3/25/2014 at Oral Roberts

[Soonerjeepman]

too tired to look, but is ksu on the road? hence the *?

Plannin on going to one of the ku games, prob the 3rd game...son has games Fri/Sat.

[hvhurricane]

We better start playing Cody Thomas or it has been a complete waste of a Spring for him. I don't think SG promised CT 4 AB's after 15 games.

[Sooner95]

No, the * just designates a Conf. Game. All those games are at home.

[Sooner95]

Belmont leads 1-0 B1

http://www.soonersports.com/newLiveStats/Baseball/index.dbml?GAME_STAT_ID=1552180&db_oem_id=31000

[Sooner95]

1-1 B2

[NMSooner'80]

OU wound up winning, 4-3, in 10 innings. We tied it with two outs in the 9th on a wild pitch. The LiveStats "play-by-play" feature quit after 9, but I saw the 10th inning result in "recent plays." I would like to know what the count was when OU got the run home on the wild pitch.

[herecomedajudge]

Can't swear to it, but I was at the game and Hermalyn was at bat. Think the count was either 1-2 or 2-2. Herm struck out after the run scored.

[Sooner95]

Today's game has been moved up to 11AM due to weather.

[Sooner95]

We knock off Belmont 6-5 in 11in.

Final game tomorrow.

[Soonerjeepman]

wow, last 3 games have gone into extra inning....against AKPB and Belmont....hmmm...might be a tough year in the big 12. ksu beat someone 23-1 the other day.

[Sooner95]

Took care of business today. 10-1 win over Belmont.

[Soonerjeepman]

yes...better win. 10/1

ksu series coming up...that'll be big. Weird we play a single game against tcu...then finish later..?

[herecomedajudge]

Nope. Tuesday's TCU game doesn't count as conference game, just like midweek games with OSU. Only the three game weekend series count on conference standings. That will be in Ft Worth 5/9-5/11.

[Soonerjeepman]

wow, took one on the chin BIG TIME...lost to U of Ark little rock...2/11 ouch~

[herecomedajudge]

Big win over K-State, 11-4. 8 run 5th, all after two outs, including a grand slam.

[BoomerJack]

I was at the Friday game vs KSU. Great way to start conference play.

BTW: Looking at box score, there were no Sooner batters that struck out. How many times does a winning team does not have any strike outs???

[Soonerjeepman]

nice win...great win actually...

[Sooner95]

Game 2 against KSU.

Bot 8: OU 4, KS 2. Aikin delivers a RBI single to right-center on a 1-2 pitch to score Lorenzana with 1 out.

[Sooner95]

Woohooo!!!!!


GRAND SLAM!!! Mac James adds some serious insurance runs with a jack to left. 9-2 Oklahoma.

[Sooner95]

Final. OU 2-0 in BIG12.

Final: No. 30 Oklahoma 11, Kansas State 4. Sooners score 11 for second straight game.

[Sooner95]

Dropped game3 today, 5-0 to KSU.

18-7 (2-1)

@ORU mid week, then off to Kansas for conference road battle.

[Soonerjeepman]

planning on going to Sunday's ku game

[Sooner95]

Mid 7: ORU 3, OU 0. Time to stretch in Tulsa. Sooners get two hits, but a 1-6-3 GDP slows the threat. 5 hits, 8 LOB, 2 DP

[Sooner95]

End 8: ORU 3, OU 0. Krittenbrink keeps the Golden Eagles off the board and the Sooners send 6-7-8 to the plate in their last chance.

[Sooner95]

Final: ORU 3, OU 0. Three hard fly balls later and the game is over. Sooners hit the road this weekend in Big 12 play to face Kansas.

[BoomerJack]

Wow! Shutout twice in a row. Bit of a comedown after those two routs of KSU.

[JoeR]

ESPN3 is streaming the OU-KU game today at 6:00 pm CT.
http://espn.go.com/watchespn/index

[BoomerJack]

Sooners win: 2 - 1 !! Woo hoo!!

[Sooner95]

Nice! So far so good!

[BoomerJack]

Another 2 - 1 win vs. KU. Sure wish the bats would wake up some.

[Soonerjeepman]

headed there around 12:15 (takes about 30) with GF and her son. high is 75 today, not til 4 but it'll be nice during the game. BOOMER SOONER!

[BoomerJack]

Doggone it!! lose in bottom of 9th. Our hitting needs to get going. Score was 4 -3 on a walk off hit in bottom of 9th.

[Soonerjeepman]

yeah, tough game. OU just never really got in sinc...weird. For a while he had more hits...a tough 2 out HIGH pop-up to short that was dropped, run scored hurt. The wind was brutal.

[BoomerJack]

Our bats handcuffed again last nite in loss to OSU. Sure hope they get healthy this weekend and then vs. ORU next week. Last nite was the first of an eight game home stretch. Hopefully the sticks will get back on track.

[Sooner95]

Cal St Bakersfield in town for 3.

Doubleheader today.

OU takes both games. 17-4 and 4-3

Along with our 4-2 win on Friday, we complete the sweep.

[hvhurricane]

I don't know what the hell we thought we were going to accomplish with a pathetic out of conference schedule. This isn't the ACC where you play a bunch of nobodies and you watch your RPI skyrocket every year, win or lose. The only two teams that have a decent RPI in the Big 12 is UT and Tech. Tad lock is a good coach so I don't think he will let Ray pitch them out of games. KU has the next best RPI in the high 50's.

[TumbleweedDoom]

You do realize this is Sunny's non-conference schedule. And it was worse before Pete got here: Pete took a look at it and about died seeing how weak it was and called in some favors to replace a couple of real nobodies with Rutgers and Seton Hall.

Sunny was always hell-bent to get those 40 wins (strong rumors that he had a clause in his contract for a bonus if we got 40 wins). He knew his team was going to be inexperienced and young this season so he *REALLY* underscheduled. Pete, luckily, believes in more of a stronger non-conference and the two teams he brought in (Seton Hall and Rutgers) will do more for our RPI than nearly every Big 12 series. Even if they aren't of the ilk we'd really want coming in here, it was a pretty good coup to call in favors and get them at such late notice to replace the Western Illinois and Oaklands of the world!

[Soonerjeepman]

Thanks for the update, kid had baseball then went to juco game he's committing to.

I'm not in the Know..but seems Cal State is a decent baseball school?

[IndySooner]

I don't know what the hell we thought we were going to accomplish with a pathetic out of conference schedule. This isn't the ACC where you play a bunch of nobodies and you watch your RPI skyrocket every year, win or lose. The only two teams that have a decent RPI in the Big 12 is UT and Tech. Tad lock is a good coach so I don't think he will let Ray pitch them out of games. KU has the next best RPI in the high 50's.

HV, this is a ridiculous statement. Pete came in and added some decent RPI teams from out east because of how bad the schedule was. Replaced a couple of directional schools, also added some decent mid-week games. Pete's stated that he wants to improve the RPI for postseason play. Let this play out for more than two months.

[tycat947]

HV, this is a ridiculous statement. Pete came in and added some decent RPI teams from out east because of how bad the schedule was. Replaced a couple of directional schools, also added some decent mid-week games. Pete's stated that he wants to improve the RPI for postseason play. Let this play out for more than two months.

HV has been upset since SG left so must have strong ties to SG. That's fine, just go to Auburn boards and follow him there.

[BoomerJack]

Huge series this weekend against UT. IMO we need to win two to stay near the top of the standings. Hope the hitting stays strong and starting pitching stays in a few more innings than they have been lately.

[hvhurricane]

I don't know how you can say any different. Baseball schedules aren't made two to three years out. There may be one sereies, i.e. Pepperdine last year, that we have a home and home scheduled with. Our OOC schedule, except for midweek games, is done and our RPI is 70. He added some East Coast teams to our schedule that did nothing but hurt our RPI. The mid week games that are on the schedule are the same schools we have been playing for 20 years in the midweek. It is not like he came in and contacted those teams. As I said before, we have to beat UT and TT to gain any RPI strength.

[TumbleweedDoom]

Rutgers is 51 in the RPI and Seton Hall is 78. Those would be in the middle of the pack in the Big 12, which is pretty good for non-conference series. Not sure how they "hurt" our RPI any. In fact, to this point, Rutgers is the highest-rated RPI team we've played.

The fact some of our opponents that are usually at least semi-decent (in the 100-200 range usually) are having very down seasons (Santa Clara, CSU-Bakersfield, Belmont and Manhattan) are what's hurting our RPI. Along with the fact that Abilene Christian is now being counted in the RPI, when before the season they weren't going to be counted (they are a transitional D1 team ineligible for the postseason this year -- usually those teams aren't counted in the RPI and they weren't for the first month of the season, but for some reason they've been added now, including the official NCAA RPIs, which is just odd.) It certainly isn't those Rutgers and Seton Hall series.

And, yes, you're absolutely right the schedule isn't made two or three years out, but it was pretty much set by July, which is when Hughes got here. It wasn't written in stone -- hence, he was able to replace a "Western Illinois" and an "Oakland" with Seton Hall and Rutgers -- but there was little wriggle room as most were already handshake agreements. We should count ourselves lucky to get those two teams on there instead of more sub-200 RPI teams.

[Sooner95]

BTW....

ORU 1-0 over OU T3

[Sooner95]

2-0 ORU T4

[Sooner95]

2-0 ORU T7

[Sooner95]

Same score...T9

[Sooner95]

Final 2-0 ORU.

[Soonerjeepman]

well crap, so much for the bats "waking up" during the last series and staying awake~

[BoomerJack]

Yep. Disappointing offensive effort. But you gotta hand it to the bullpen. They're doing very well; keeping games close.

[Sooner95]

Sooner's lead Pokes 8-3 T5

[Sooner95]

OU 8-4 T7

[herecomedajudge]

Sooners win!! 12-9 in 18 innings. Longest baseball in OU history.

[Sooner95]

Yea, I couldn't stay up for that one. Good stuff tho!

[hvhurricane]

Got our *** kicked by WVU tonight. Thank god we brought Mike Anderson back into the conference. He is doing a great job with our hitters.

[Sooner95]

OU 5-3 winners today over WV. Game 3 tomorrow. We need it.

[hvhurricane]

Sooners lose the series to a bad WVU team at home. Just watch our RPI plummet every day. Way too much talent on this team to put out this kind of performance. Cody Thomas has got to feel like he got effed over.

[Sooner95]

Well... @ TTech this weekend.

At this point we need to start winning series or it's going to be a short season.

[Collier11]

we don't have that much talent honestly, but we should be better than this

[Sooner95]

Should yes.

9-5 loss tonight.

[Sooner95]

Got crushed yesterday 14-4, and are trailing today.

We are fading fast...

[Sooner95]

Another 14-4 RUN RULE loss.........

[Soonerjeepman]

The team has just really tanked lately. Maybe a reversal of fortunes....KCKCC, who my son signed with, was 5-15 and now are 32-18...

[hvhurricane]

Should yes.

9-5 loss tonight.


We have the players who were highly regarded in the baseball rankings. However, you have to actually coach the players when they get to school. I am not sure if that occoured when got the job or when he fired JG. I know he got in late, but he could have put a much better schedule than that. We are second to last in the Big 9. Yes, The Big 9. I didn't always like what SG did on the field, but I can tell you he would have never have let this happen. Yes, isn't it going to be great when when we let our batters do whatever they want to, Mike Anderson, doesn't it?

[hvhurricane]

Our RPI came out today at 93. It will be almost virtually impossible for us to even get into the 40's by the end of the year.

[colston15]

We suck and it's kind of hard to believe.

I hated to see SG go, but I thought Hughes would be an all right replacement. After nearly a season, and yes our season will mercifully be over soon, I'm scared we're heading for a 4-5 year run of mediocrity or worse.

Nothing this staff has done, at least on the field, has impressed me. We're better at nothing and worse at everything. Our talent isn't great, but it's good enough to make the NCAA Tournament, which we won't be doing.

[hvhurricane]

We have Top 20 talent but we are playing at a 100 RPI level.

[Soonerjeepman]

lost first 2/3
game 2 today

[Sooner95]

Finally. Snapped a 7 game losing streak with 13-7 win of Baylor.

Game 3 today.

[Sooner95]

BU 10-5 T7

[Sooner95]

Same score, B7

[Sooner95]

Final: Baylor 10, Oklahoma 5. Sooners total 12 hits on the day and leave the bases loaded.

6-12 Conf / 26-23 OA.

...........

[Sooner95]

Finish the season against the current Big9 leaders 1 & 2...

Maybe salvage some pride?

[Eielson]

FYRE SUNNNNYYY!!!

[hvhurricane]

Send the Bostonian back home. This was a horrible hire, and everyone knows it. I guess it is best that Th Big 12 Championship is in Tulsa this year since it will be the first time we fail to get into the tournament.

This program should make the NCAA at the very minimum each year.

[Sooner11JK]

The Big 12 Tournament is in Oklahoma City this year. It doesn't go to Tulsa until next year.....

[hvhurricane]

The Big 12 Tournament is in Oklahoma City this year. It doesn't go to Tulsa until next year.....

You are corret sir. Well then I guess we get to see the last game at OKC without OU, who is only 1 of two schools who has made it every season.

[Sooner95]

Lost 10-2 to TCU yesterday.

Game 2 today.

[nighttrain12]

FYRE SUNNNNYYY!!!

Bring back Sunny (and his hot daughter)!

[Sooner95]

Sooner's pick up a win last night. 7-5 in 11 innings.

Game 3 today.

[Sooner95]

Ugh, TCU 9-1 T4th..

[Sooner95]

Final TCU 9-1...

I'm really trying here, but I am about done with this team. We freakin suck...

[nighttrain12]

Final TCU 9-1...

I'm really trying here, but I am about done with this team. We freakin suck...

Yeah, we need a coach who is not afraid of tearing into his own team for motivational purposes. We are now 7-14 in conference with 3 games to go. We are also 8th and 3 games ahead of K-St who is in 9th but we won the season series and make the Big 12 post season tournament!

I think what has happened is OU and OSU have all switched bodies and that is why the Aggies are in 1st and we are 8th out of 9 teams.

[hvhurricane]

Final TCU 9-1...

I'm really trying here, but I am about done with this team. We freakin suck...

The team has top 25 team. However, they are being coached by a guy too far over his head, with a head assistant who single handly destroyed NU's program in Lincoln.

[Sooner95]

OU/DBU game has been cancel due to weather.

3 games left in regular season.