2023 NCAA Men's College World Series. On to Omaha.

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TCU...

...became Arkansas’ worst nightmare. Especially the second baseman. Before Sunday, Tre Richardson had two home runs this season in 239 official at-bats, and 44 RBI in 60 games. Then he turned into Roy Hobbs from The Natural. In 11 at-bats against the Razorbacks, he had four homers, two of them grand slams in consecutive innings. In two games, he had 14 RBI, 11 on one night. That led to TCU’s fearful pounding of the No. 3 seed in the tournament. The Horned Frogs scored 32 runs in two games against Arkansas — in Fayetteville.

 

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Indiana State...

...won its first regional in 37 years, with the usual clutch hitting. The Sycamores have 152 two-out RBI this season. The title was not painless. Ten Sycamore batters were hit by Iowa pitches in the clincher Sunday to tie an NCAA postseason record, and five of them scored runs. Getting plunked is part of Indiana State’s offensive game plan, with 125 HBPs this season. When pitches wander inside off the plate, “we try not to move,” coach Mitch Hannahs said. Though that’s not a standing order because “it’s easy to be tough with someone else’s body... But it’s the guys that’ve kind of bought in. If one guy is going to do it, then every guy is going to stand in there and that’s why it’s kind of taken off. We don’t have practice where we throw at guys.”
Hannahs, who played on Indiana State’s 1986 regional champions — “I spent most of that on the bench. I remember getting a free bat,” he recalled of the trip to Omaha — doesn’t mind being the underdog team the big names don’t see coming. “We’re fine sitting here in our little crevice,” he said. “I’m certainly not going to call out any power-5s.”
Indiana State just beat Iowa twice and now must go to TCU, even though as a higher seed it could have been host. But the Special Olympics are in Terre Haute this weekend taking all the hotel rooms and requiring a big effort from the community to host, so the Sycamores had to start packing.

 

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LSU...

...did what LSU does with its megawatt star power. Dylan Crews hit .615 at the top of the lineup, Paul Skenes threw a complete game seven-hitter in his start, striking out 12 with no walks, and the Tigers confirmed their super regional in Baton Rouge, where no visitor would want to go, but Kentucky now has to. Those seven losses to SEC opponents in May don’t matter much now. Skenes will start Friday with 179 strikeouts this season — 41 more than anyone else in the country.

 

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Kentucky...

...came into this June not having thrown a shutout in the NCAA Tournament since 1949. Then the Wildcats blanked Ball State 4-0 Friday. They had waited 74 years for the last one, but only two days for the next one, 10-0 over West Virginia Sunday. Get the pitching theme of the weekend for Kentucky? There was no shutout Monday, but Wildcat starter Darren Williams — a 25-year-old in his seventh year of college baseball — gave up two early Indiana runs and then teamed with reliever Mason Moore to allow no more the last seven innings.
So now Kentucky heads for Baton Rouge, where it faced the Tigers' feverish crowd and won one of three games in April. “I told them, I don’t know how to prepare you to have 13,000 people go against you,” coach Nick Mingione said about that trip. It’ll be even louder this visit but the Wildcats clearly understand why they’ll be there. On one wall of their meeting room in Lexington is a huge picture of the front of Charles Schwab Field in Omaha and the statue that every single College World Series team will pose in front of for pictures. “That’s why we have it in here, as a constant reminder,” Mingione said Monday night.

 

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Late game play

Oral Roberts +115

 

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Got the Sycamores +155 for the series.

 

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TCU this weekend will donate $1 for every concession stand transaction to the Indiana State special Olympics being held this weekend at the Indiana State University campus. Today they raised over $6,000. Kudos to TCU.

 

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Lets Go Ducks !

 

[Willie99]

Lets Go Ducks !

damn, I had a small bet on Oral Roberts, liked being up 8-0

 

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damn, I had a small bet on Oral Roberts, liked being up 8-0

bad beat Willie...my squad benefited from it on the other side of it
Trying to get to the show

 

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bad beat Willie...my squad benefited from it on the other side of it
Trying to get to the show

I'll jump on Oregon for you, we make a good tandem

Let's go Ducks (hey, maybe we'll both wind up in the Big 12 )

 

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