Wichita State Host The Huskers For 3 Games

[1972Shocker]

Looks like the starting rotation will be the same as it has been:

Wichita St. Baseball @GoShockersBSB weekend rotation vs. Nebraska





Series Notes

[Kung Wu]

Would this be considered the first "real" test for the Shox?

[pogo]

To the best of my Nowledge:yahoo:

[SPEShockAlum]

Would this be considered the first "real" test for the Shox?

Yes. NU will be able to hit the ball, so for our pitchers this will be a big test. NU is down 3-4 pitchers in the first two week of the season, so I expect we may have some high-scoring affairs this weekend.

[1972Shocker]

Yes. NU will be able to hit the ball, so for our pitchers this will be a big test. NU is down 3-4 pitchers in the first two week of the season, so I expect we may have some high-scoring affairs this weekend.

Maybe Nebraska will be able to hit. That is a bit hard to predict. Atfer 8 games they are hitting 0.216 as a team with an OPS of .619 and a total of 2 home runs in 8 games.

Nebraska pitchers are allowing opponents to hit 0.290 with an OPS .763 and have given up 4 home runs with an ERA of 4.37.

By contrast, the Shocks are hitting .254 as a tea, with an OPS of .850 and a total of 9 home runs in 6 games.

Shocker pitchers are allowing oppinets to hit .232 with an OPS of .678 om 6 games and have given uip 4 home runs with an ERA 4.00

Nebraska is 5-3 with a Boyd's World ISR rating of 55 and has played 2 games each against teams with ISR's of 1 (Oregon State), 51 (Utah), 93 (Wasington State) and 127 (UC Riverside).

The Shocks are 6-0 with a rating an ISR of 132 and have played 3 games each agaisnt 52 (McNeese State) and 281 (Nebraska-Omaha).

Not sure how valuable these ISR ratings are this early in the season. I'm guessing that Nebraska's surperior ISR is partly due to having 2 of their 3 losses agaisnt Oregon State.

I think this series could go either way. Hopefully, we will get some quality starts from Codi, Liam and Conner.

[Kung Wu]

So if you were to decode this in English to someone that doesn't speak baseball, you are saying we might be very similar to Nebraska?

[ShockTalk]

"Might" being very key.

[1972Shocker]

Exactly. Maybe. Not Sure. We'll see.

[WuDrWu]

Looks like a fairly warm for this time of the year but breezy weekend. Great opportunity for the program to take a big step forward and it would be a lot easier if a few thousand Shocker faithful showed up to assist. Go Shocks!

[Cdizzle]

Love some early-season workday baseball listening. Lets get it.

Go Shox

[1972Shocker]

Looks like a fairly warm for this time of the year but breezy weekend. Great opportunity for the program to take a big step forward and it would be a lot easier if a few thousand Shocker faithful showed up to assist. Go Shocks!

A little breezy indeed. 20-25 mph winds out of the South all 3 days. Stay alert if driving past the stadium on 21st street during the games. Hopefully, the Shocks pitchers can keep the ball down and you don't want to be issuing a lot of free passes with the potential for fly balls to blow out of the stadium.

I wonder if we will see Trey Vickers this weened?

[WuDrWu]

Down is good. Although the one homer Liam gave up at McNeese State was almost in the dirt.

[1972Shocker]

Trey Vickers not in the lineup. Dugas (.182), Ritter (0.91) and O'Brien (.176) are batting behind Bohm in the 4 through 6 spots. I don't expect Nebraska to give Alex much to hit especially with the way the wind is blowing today. We'll see.

[Cdizzle]

Meanwhile Troutwine(.294) and Boyer(.263, also last year's RBI-leader) bat 8 and 9, and the regular with the 2nd lowest OBP and 0 walks leads off. Practices must have looked a lot different than games the last few years.

Sometimes I really struggle.

Go Shox.

[1972Shocker]

I'll give HCTB the benefit of the doubt for now due to very small sample size to work with and he sees these guys in practice and I don't.

[Cdizzle]

0-0 Mid 2nd. Heuer battling.

[Cdizzle]

Dugas now 9/23. Strikeouts.

[1972Shocker]

Scoreless afer 3. Nebraska has threatened in every inning but failed to score. The Shocks only runner was Mason O'Brien with a 2-out single in the 2nd.

[1972Shocker]

Codi has his 1st clean inning in the 4th. Jenista, Bohm and Dugas due up for the Shocks.

[Play Angry]

Alavarado's been brilliant so far this season, kudos to Codi for matching him so far through 4. Hopefully the offense can get something going here.

[1972Shocker]

An error, single by Dugas and a walk to Ritter load the basies for the Shocks in the bottom of the 4th.

Mason O with grand salami. Atta Boy. That's the way you want to get the opposing pitcher out of a jam.

That was the 1st extra base hit Alvarado has given up this year.

I asssume the wind didn't help Mason's home much since it was to right.