Trotoff Cangy dbl's, ph Eustace laces deep liner to center for win

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Huge win over the Wilycats and their 40's RPI. 3bullpenners then Belcher survived us into a 2-2 tie to bottom 9th. Belcher not perfect but holding. Cangy leads off with a one-hop rope double off the left-field wall! This might help get us over the flu that kept us home watching on BTNplus. Now Miller will surely bunt the runner to 3rd...after they surely send in speedster Eustace to RUN for Cangy. But NO! Miller gets 2 strikes not even trying bunt. This is nuts. But Miller saves the AB with a 2-strikes grounder to 2nd just like he was trying to do to get Larrrennn-er,er rather bad-knee, Cangy, to 3rd. So NOW we can run Laren for Cang. OOPs. NOoooo. We pinch-hit Laren Eustace, the weakest stick on the plan-- er, team. UK loves this um offense as we keep badknee Cangy on 3rd and PH Laren comes in to run sorta, but from the batters box if he and Cang can leg-in a topper. UK has a seance on the mound and pulls the left fieder INTO the infield to have a picket fence of IF's staring batter Eustace in the face from 60 feet just daring him to hit the ball through or over them.
Stage is set. High fast ball (big high mistake you do not throw to a small hitter trying to elevate ball. BOOM, Kevin Wilson was heard to yell from hall mile away. Laren cold-cock shnockers the pitch on a line toward the open CF warning track. Hoosiers mob the latest hero out by 2nd base. Lemo laughs. Maybe at me for calling for Laren to PR not PH. He laughs last. Again. I can only smile.

 

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Huge win over the Wilycats and their 40's RPI. 3bullpenners then Belcher survived us into a 2-2 tie to bottom 9th. Belcher not perfect but holding. Cangy leads off with a one-hop rope double off the left-field wall.

Thanks for the note ... always nice to beat KY!

Go Hoosiers!

 

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Hoosiers Defeat Kentucky on Eustace's RBI Walkoff Singl

Next Game:
Illinois
5/13/2016 - 6:05 P.M.

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. – Sophomore Laren Eustace's pinch hit walk-off single in the bottom of the ninth gave Indiana baseball (29-17) a 3-2 win over the Kentucky Wildcats on Tuesday night.

Junior Luke Stephenson tossed 2.2 hitless innings with three strikeouts in relief of Indiana starter Jonathan Stiever, who allowed three hits over 2.1 innings of work. Sophomore B.J. Sabol worked around one run and picked up two strikeouts in his two innings on the mound. Junior Thomas Belcher earned his fourth win in two scoreless innings.

Junior Alex Krupa led the Hoosiers with two hits and scored one run. Freshman Ryan Fineman grabbed Indiana's other RBI in the effort.

After trading two scoreless innings, Kentucky capitalized off a leadoff walk in the top of the third to take a 1-0 lead, but three hits in the bottom half would tie the game at one-all. Junior Alex Krupa led off with a single back up the middle and went first-to-third on junior Craig Dedelow's single that broke through the right side. Two-out hitting by Fineman plated the Hoosiers' answering run to tie the game.

Krupa tagged his second single back up the middle in as many at bats in the bottom of the fifth before a leadoff home run for the Wildcats in the top of the sixth gave Kentucky back a 2-1 advantage. Two errors on Kentucky in the home half of the sixth placed junior Austin Cangelosi on second base. He came around to score on freshman Scotty Bradley's pinch-hit RBI single to left field.

Belcher worked out of a jam in the top of the eighth and forced Gunner McNeil to fly out to center, leaving the potential go-ahead run on second base. Kentucky put the go-ahead run 90 feet from home in the top of the ninth but a higher-bouncer to sophomore Tony Butler at second wiped out the first and third situation.

Cangelosi stroked a leadoff double to left field in the final frame of regulation and scooted to third on freshman Luke Miller's groundout. From there, with five infielders and two outfielders, Eustace stroked a line drive single to centerfield to score Cangelosi from third.

Indiana finishes out its home slate this weekend with a three-game set with the Illinois Fighting Illini. First pitch for game one is set for 6:05 p.m. on Friday.

Go Hoosiers!

Boxscore within:
http://iuhoosiers.com/news/2016/5/1...-kentucky-on-eustaces-rbi-walkoff-single.aspx

 

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IU fights back and walks off against Kentucky

by Zain Pyarali

Each time IU got knocked down by Kentucky and begin to trail, they responded.

The Hoosiers executed twice with two outs in the game to score runs off RBI singles and was tied heading into the final frame. With the Wildcats spoiling an opportunity in the top of the ninth having runners on the corners with two outs, the Hoosiers made sure they came through in the bottom half.

Junior first baseman Austin Cangelosi lined a lead off double that one hopped the left field wall to get the ninth started for the Hoosiers. Following a ground out to the right side from freshman designated hitter Luke Miller moving Cangelosi to third, sophomore left-handed hitter Laren Eustace was called upon to pinch hit after a pitching change with a right-hander taking the mound for Kentucky.

The Wildcats decided to bring in left fielder Zach Reks to put five Kentucky players on the infield, but it didn’t matter. Eustace sent the 1-0 count up the middle to where the centerfielder should have been, walking the Hoosiers off against Kentucky 3-2.

“I actually thought he could have bunted in the Miller spot,” IU Coach Chris Lemonis said. “He had helmet on and everything, but he was thinking he was bunting. But then we flipped it on him, which I’m glad I didn’t bunt him.”

IU was able to piece together a strong performance on the mound with freshman Jonathan Stiever getting the start. He lasted just 2.1 innings getting yanked immediately when things started to turn south following a RBI single to put the Hoosiers in a 1-0 deficit.

Junior right-handed pitcher Luke Stephenson then entered the game shutting down all eight Wildcat batters he faced over 2.2 innings.

“That was the best we had Stephenson all year, so that was exciting,” Lemonis said. “The velo and if you sit right behind home plate there’s a lot of run to his ball, so it’s difficult to square him up.”

Sophomore left-handed pitcher BJ Sabol took over in the sixth and was greeted instantly with a solo home run off the bat of Reks to give Kentucky a 2-1 lead. He quickly regrouped after the long ball, tossing two strong innings in relief.

IU turned around in the bottom of the sixth for its first big hit off the bench of the night. Freshman Scotty Bradley shot a two-out single to left scoring Cangelosi from second, but Bradley was thrown out at second base trying to stretch his single into a double.

Junior right-handed pitcher Thomas Belcher entered in the eighth and shutout the Wildcats in the final two innings of the game. Belcher’s performance on the mound set up Eustace for the Hoosier walk-off victory.

The win for IU marks its 17th over the past 21 games, as the Hoosiers hope to finish the year strong with its final home series coming up this weekend against Illinois.

“That’s the kind of team we’ve been lately, every time someone punches us we come right back and score runs,” Eustace said. “Beginning of the season if we would get punched we wouldn’t come back, but now we’re just a new team.”

Go Hoosiers!

http://www.idsnews.com/article/2016/05/iu-fights-back-and-walks-off-against-kentucky

 

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Jaysus, boys, give my old thumper a break, will you? What's that now, a dozen one-run wins? C'mon, this isn't soccer. You're allowed to win by more than that.