Leatherneck Nation

Season starts with a series down at Tennessee Tech (Cookeville, TN) today and tomorrow.
Due to weather, the game times have been changed. One game today at 3 PM and double-header tomorrow, time TBD.

Stats will be available here: http://stats.statbroadcast.com/broadcast/?id=119818

To bad these aren't home games but you can't predict the weather when doing the schedule.

First home game will be March 18 vs North Dakota State.

ibleedpurpleandgold wrote:To bad these aren't home games but you can't predict the weather when doing the schedule.

Right...it's unseasonably warm for us right now (mid-60s today)...so it's beautiful out. However, it's really windy and all the snow has just melted, so any ground is a soggy marsh.

You can also...well...kinda watch the game on periscope here: https://www.periscope.tv/w/1jMJgWZOezjJL
Quality isn't great, it's essentially just a static camera that someone set up pointed at the field, but you can kinda tell what's going on and you can hear the announcer if you turn it up a bit. Got it going on my second monitor....60 degrees out, baseball on the "TV"...sure feels like spring to me.

Currently TTU guys on 1st and 2nd, 1 out, bottom of the 1st, no score.

EDIT - the video is down now. TTU ended up loading the bases and getting a grand slam. Now top of the 2nd, WIU men on 3rd and 1st, 1 out, TTU up 4-0.

3 combined Hr's and just going to the bottom of the 3rd wind must be blowing out today.

ibleedpurpleandgold wrote:3 combined Hr's and just going to the bottom of the 3rd wind must be blowing out today.

I think it is. They were mentioning that it's pretty windy there. Looks like about 15-20 mph winds from the south/southwest. The stadium sits so that wind directly south to north would be going pretty much straight out right field (that's where our second guy hit his HR I know). Balls hit in left field would be pulled out to center field, but if you're hitting towards right field, it's a batter's day.

Tennessee Tech scored two runs on a walk-off single with two outs in the bottom of the 9th to win the game 13-12.

Western had scored six runs in the top of the 8th to take a 12-8 lead. Tenn Tech came back with 3 runs in the bottom of the 8th to make the score 12-11 going into the 9th.

It was 68, sunny, but windy.

Attendance at Tennessee Tech was 254.

The Saturday double-header will begin at 1PM.

Tennessee Tech won game 1 of Saturday's double-header 6-3.

Tennessee Tech won game 2 of Saturday's double-header 6-5.

Tennessee Tech pitchers combined to strike out 25 batters in the two games.

Attendance at Tennessee Tech was 240.

Western baseball will be in Carbondale next weekend for a three-game series with SIUC.

I don't know if it was mentioned somewhere at one time, but I see Steve McShane, a RB on the football team, is on the baseball roster. Not sure how much he will play this year, but I just thought I would mention it.