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Hard to blame Eloy for swinging at that when the ump called it a strike earlier in the AB.

That's been the case for a while. His right handed swing is all contact, very little power. He at least swings hard from the left.

How the hell does Faedo get 6 inches off the corner on both sides of the plate?

It feels like Eloy is late on anything high.

Robert is locked in

If he hustles too hard for a few more triples, I'd give him 2 weeks.

He's a control pitcher without a whole lot of control today. Hopefully today was a case of him not having it as opposed to this being just how he is. It is a bit encouraging that he had nothing and still found a way to work through 5 innings with a lead.

Yeah that's not where you want a sinker.

What the hell happened to Maldonado's framing? He's been around neutral until last season. I don't remember watching him before and thinking he can't catch. Is it just him getting old and losing reaction time?

Taking lessons from Eberflus.

That might have actually been gone if Meadows didn't rob it.

That works I guess

Stay healthy and go back to 2019 form. Maybe if he played like he did in 2021, there would be some trade interest.

With Maldonado up, yes. He's a walking double play.

Grifolball baby!

That's the first walk of the year

It helps that he doesn't swing like a sloth at the plate.

That'll be Jay Cuda's post tomorrow.

Eloy wyd

If he's not getting whiffs on the slider and splitter, he's not getting you out.

On top of the results, great ABs from Luis today. Saw a ton of pitches and battled to stay alive.

Both teams are great offensively. But UConn is much better defensively. I was actually impressed at how good we were defensively yesterday (especially the first half). Part of that might have been Iowa State forgetting how to play basketball though. I thought we were gonna struggle badly on offense against that style of defense, but we did a great job of passing out of doubles and finding the open guy. The way I see it, if we get hot from 3 and we actually hit our FTs, I think we can hang. UConn is an 8.5 point favorite ATM. That's usually a spread you see when a top team plays like the 8th or 9th seed. Not playing another top 10 team.

I don't think Illinois is gonna beat UConn. But you never know.

The game would be over if we could hit FTs.

At least they didn't drag this out.