Latest entries in Baseball live blog: Missouri vs. Kansas
The Maneater will be covering the Missouri/Kansas baseball game from Kauffman Stadium in Kansas City, Mo. Wednesday night.
April 22, 2009
Error costs KU as Missouri ties it
Kyle Mach laid down a perfect sacrifice bunt, but KU first baseman Preston Land dropped the throw, allowing Folgia to score. 1-1 tie, runners at the corners with nobody out and Steve Gray batting for Missouri.
Missouri threatening in fourth
Greg Folgia opened the inning by battling to a 3-2 count before drilling a hustle double to center, and Trevor Coleman followed that up with a good, patient walk. First and second, nobody out with Kyle Mach coming to the plate for Missouri now.
Clubb gets Missouri out of jam unscathed
Keep this play in mind if Missouri goes on to win this game: after falling behind KU cleanup hitter Buck Afenir, who has the game's lone RBI, 3-0, Ryan Clubb got a strike and then got Afenir to ground to Kyle Mach, who tagged third base and fired to first for an inning-ending double play. A play like that can be a big momentum changer, so stay tuned to see if Missouri can come out and get something going offensively in the top of the fourth with Folgia, Coleman, and Kyle Mach coming to bat.
Berger pulled in third
Things started to fall apart for Ian Berger in the bottom of the third. After allowing a leadoff single, it appeared he got a break when Trevor Coleman threw out KU's Jason Brunansky on a questionable caught stealing, but Berger responded by walking a batter and then hitting two in a row.
Ryan Clubb is in to pitch for Missouri. He'll have to navigate his way out of a bases-loaded, one-out jam.
Offense not showing up through three innings for Missouri
KU's Brett Bollman is throwing the ball well so far—Missouri only has one or two really well-hit balls off him today. We'll see how the offense does second time through, but it wasn't their best effort first time through the order.
Berger holds KU scoreless in second
A good sign for Missouri: Berger got ahead in counts in the second inning and didn't throw a ton of pitches in retiring KU in order. If Berger's going to pitch deep into the game, he's obviously going to have to have innings like this against the heart of the KU order, though.
Berger pitching into second inning
Ian Berger is still pitching in the bottom of the second, so either MU is going with a Johnny Wholestaff hybrid or Berger is just getting the start today. Stay tuned.b
Mach gets first hit, but Missouri still held scoreless
Kyle Mach picked up Missouri's first hit of the game with a single with one out in the top of the second and advance to third on a wild pitch and a groundout, but was stranded there when little brother Conner Mach flew out to right to end the inning.
Kansas jumps out front 1-0
Two-out walks are never a good thing: after Ian Berger issued a free pass to Kansas No. 3 hitter Brian Heere with two out, he allowed a run to score on a RBI double off the bat of Kansas' Buck Afenir to put the Jayhawks up 1-0 heading to the top of the second.
Missouri held scoreless in top of the first
Austin Holt flew out deep to left to begin the inning, but Missouri was unable to capitalize on an error by KU second baseman Robby Price. Ian Berger now takes the mound in the bottom of the first.
Also, the atmosphere at this game is already great. Both sides have already been very vocal so far.