Louisville, Ky. (WDRB) – Find joy on the trip, not the destination.
This is a main message that coach Dan McDonnell instilled in his Baseball team at Louisville University.
Saturday and now Sunday will be a legitimate test of this philosophy for the cardinals. They coughed an advance of 4-1 at the start, equaled the match at 5 on the second circuit stroke of Eddie King Jr., then came across the last three heats of a defeat of 9-6 of 9-6 against Miami on Saturday at Stade Jim Patterson.
“They had a two -digit sure and almost two -digit races,” said McDonnell. “We knew we had a good opponent and they deserved it … You are sitting on the crazy chair if you think it’s going to be easy.”
The next stop on the unequal trip of the cards will be on Sunday at noon, with U of L as a home team. Beat the Hurricanes and Louisville (39-22) will go to the College World Series in Omaha, Nebraska, next weekend for the sixth time in the history of the program. Losing and this season will be over.
McDonnell said Louisville would start the recruit Ethan Eberle, a left -hander. Eberle won 6 of the 8 decisions with an average race earned of 4.42 and 50 stick withdrawals in 53 rounds. Miami coach JT Arteaga said he would probably launch a right -handers. But in an elimination game, expect each launcher in the two teams to be available.
“Whenever we are in a victory situation or to go home, my team stands out a little and we go out and we are moving,” said Arteaga. “There is no stop in this team … it’s going to be all hands on the bridge.”
After a dominant and clean performance while winning the opening of the series on Friday afternoon, the cards contributed to their difficulties on Saturday.
An idiotic game of Kamau Neighbors led to a choice to the second goal with the bases loaded in the fourth. Where was he going? The third base was occupied. Miami noticed that the neighbors danced too far from the base and called for the pocket. It worked.
An error in the Copstrame Alex Alicea put Miami’s advance out of the man on the basis of the fourth.
An appeal from the questionable referee at the first base canceled the third at the shelter of Miami, also in the fourth. The first basic player in Tague Davis cards made sure to keep his feet in a fair territory while aligning a ball on the ground by Michael Torres of Miami at 15 feet in front of the bag.
The referee of the first base, David Uyl, ruled that the Davis glove was in foul territory when he caught baseball. Instead that the cards close the Channel, Torres led a simple to the center to put the Miami runners in the first and second. McDonnell said he had too much respect for the referees to question the call and that a baseball match is never decided.
This led to this: a quick ball gets a launcher tiring tiring Tucker biven who led to a three-point home run by Jake Ogden who drained almost each drop of energy of the 6,066 crowd.
Add him and the Hurricanes scored four points in the fourth round to wipe this 4-1 u head of L.
“There are a million calls in a match with bullets and strikes and I know that these are good conversation pieces, but there is no hell that I will blame a very good referee,” said McDonnell.
“I am very convinced that my team does not live in the world of apting on the reasons why we have lost the match. In addition, it is disrespectful towards Miami and how they played. Nothing was offered to them today. They won it.”
The cards equaled the match on the second Home Run of King in the seventh. But the Hurricanes responded quickly and decisively with a race at the end of the seventh and three others on a Home Run by the third basic player Daniel Covet in the eighth of the left -handed lifter of the T Ty Starke.
I asked McDonnell if he had planned to replace Starke with a right -handers to face Miami’s best right -handed striker. He said he didn’t do it because Starke has a “funky” delivery that is difficult for all strikers.
“It’s the great thing about baseball,” said McDonnell. “I laugh or I don’t know the right word or the right smile inside, but” you are too late, McDonnell “is a sentence often that I hear when I walk towards the mound.”
Louisville succeeded in a round in the ninth and had two runners without anyone. But Miami, closer to Brian Walters, withdrew Zion Rose, King and Garret Pike on a volley, on the ground and on the fly to end the threat and force the third match on Sunday.
“We still have a match to play in this magnificent stadium, with these beautiful fans in the packaged stadium,” said King. “So I trust that we will bounce back.
“As the coach always says, we are overturned, but we hold back. So I have 100% of faith, we will come back and win tomorrow.”
“It’s the best weekend in university baseball,” said McDonnell. “You can play in front of 6,000 people in the Jim Patterson stadium. So my message is:” Take advantage of that, guy. “”
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