Ongoing UF Baseball Commentary

South Florida Visits Gators for Midweek Matchup - Florida Gators

 

Gator baseball put a beatdown on a very young USF team Tuesday night 18-3. Florida hit 6 home runs, 3 by Jud Fabian (8 RBI including a grand slam in the 2nd inning) and solo shots from Mac Guscette, B.T. Riopelle and Ty Evans. Sterlin Thompson was 2-3 with 4 RBI and Wyatt Langford went 3-4 with 2 RBI. Riopelle started at 1st base and Kris Armstrong at 3rd, with Armstrong going 2-4. Deric Fabian & Kendrick Calilao got the night off. Nick Pogue was very good on the mound in his 4 innings, giving up 2 runs (1 earned) on 4 hits, 4 K's and NO walks. Tyler Nesbitt went 2 innings and only gave up a hit and no walks. Karl Hartman threw an inning and gave up no runs, no hits and a walk with 2 K's; and Anthony Ursitti pitched the final 2 innings, giving up a run on 2 hits, 2 walks with 2 K's. It was encouraging to see a quality start from Pogue and see the Gator bats go wild, getting 16 hits and 9 walks, scoring 2 runs in the 1st inning, 6 in the 2nd, 2 in the 3rd and 6 more in the 4th. This weekend's series at Mississippi State is crucial to Florida's post season hopes and it will be interesting to see the starting lineup that takes the field behind Brandon Sproat for Game 1 Friday night at 8 pm on the SEC Network.

 

FSU got beat by Stetson 6-0 tonight, Vandy lost to Louisville 1-0 and Missouri State beat Arkansas 6-4.

 

Stats comparison between Florida and Mississippi State, just to start getting us all geared up for this huge series.
UF / Miss. St.
Record 26-18 / 25-20
SEC 8-13 / 9-12
RPI 20 / 86
SOS 3 / 66
Batting Avg. .275 / .280
Home Runs 83 / 83
Walks 185 / 213
Runs per game 6.7 / 7.4
Strikeouts 353 / 378
ERA 4.48 / 5.32
Walks 156 / 201
Strikeouts 397 / 494
Fielding % .979 / .984

 

Starkville-Bound Gators Take On Mississippi State - Florida Gators

 

UF baseball hung on to beat Mississippi State 8-6 in the opening game of their weekend series to improve to 9-13 in the SEC, 27-18 overall. The Gators got a solid start from Brandon Sproat and built a 7-0 lead going to the bottom of the 5th, but shaky bullpen pitching and shaky defense put the outcome in doubt until Ryan Slater closed the game out for his 3rd save. B.T. Riopelle went 4-4 with a HR and 6 RBI to pace the Gator attack, but batters 5-9 went a combined 1-23 to keep Florida from blowing the game open early. Wyatt Langford went 3-4 and Sterlin Thompson drew 4 walks, as the Gators scored 2 runs in the 1st inning and 4 in the 2nd, but had to hang on late, as Florida's bullpen continued to struggle. But an SEC road win is big and Florida needs to find a way to win tomorrow and Sunday if they hope to make it to the post season.

 

I'm guessing Pogue gets the start Sunday.

 

Again I'm guessing, but think Nesbitt is the first guy out of the pen today.