Shox vs. K-State, game 1

[Shocker85]

Not quite, but it is the longest since....last week!!

It's almost like Two-fer Tuesday!

[ShockerFever]

Regional lock!

[shocker3]

Just got back home from the game. The win sure makes the drive home easier, but these long extra inning games are hard on an old man.

I will say that the fans in Manhattan were much better than the Ku fans were in Lawrence. While many of the Kstate fans did leave early, there were still several there at the end. At ku there was nothing but Shocker fans left by te end of the game.

I thought AJ Ladwig pitched outstanding tonight. Actually if I remember right, Kstate didn't get a hit after Kyle Boughman came into the game. Kyle, Cale Elam and AJ didn't allow Kstate to get a single hit. And the top of the Kstate line up has some pretty dangerous hitters.

4-0!

[shocker3]

Mitch Mormann is slated to start for WSU. Hopefully we will see the Mitch that pitched against Tulane, Purdue, Long Beach and the first 4 innings against SIU and not the Mitch we have seen the last couple of weeks.

I thought Mitch pitched pretty well tonight. He did walk three batters and gave up that homer, but unlike the SIU game he didn't let it bother him this time. He also was able to go 5 innings. A definite improvement over his last few outings.

[shocker3]

Sounds to me like you have a case of Shockeritus.....it is common among previous hard core shocker fans. Symptoms is simply anything and everything takes precedence before shocker games.

I guess that must make me a Shockaholic since nothing takes precedence for me over a Shocker baseball game.

[shocker3]

Lambert 2 run hr to get it started

That homer by Lambert was a real moon shot. It just kept going up and up and up and when it finally came down it was on the other side of the fence.

Donnie's other hit tonight was also huge as it brought in the 2 runs to give us the lead in the 15th inning.

[shocker3]

Great work RH. Now the bullpen needs to put up zeroes from here on out.

That was a huge hit (homer) by Ryan Hege. And you called it. The bullpen not only put up zeros from that point on they never gave up a single hit after that.

[shocker3]

Kudos to A.J. Ladwig. He deserved the win. Although he should never have seen the mound tonight.

Honorable mentions to Ryan Hege for his tying home run to allow us to get to extra innings and to Dayne Parker for his consistent work at the plate and his solid defensive work.

Of KSU's 7 runs I believe 5 of the runs were scored by runners who were either walked or HBP and the other 2 were the guys who homered.

Dayne Parker made some great defensive plays and got 4 hits tonight. Besides Hege who also had another hit besides the homer and Lambert (2 run homer and 2 rbi hit), I would also give mention to Harbutz for his 2 hits and Casey Gillespie for 3 hits and for making some good defensive plays including that stab to end the game.

I believe you are right about KSUs runs, they only had 3 other hits in the whole game beside the 2 homers in 15 innings. Overall a really good night of pitching for the Shox (especially Ladwig, Elam and Boughman).

[shox1989]

I haven't had a chance to watch a tape of the game yet, but I am anxious too, it sounds like a pretty good one.

[shox1989]

Sounds to me like you have a case of Shockeritus.....it is common among previous hard core shocker fans. Symptoms is simply anything and everything takes precedence before shocker games.

It is more like wifeitus.

[bleed yellow]

This game almost turned ugly for KSU twice. You could tell by the KSU dugout and their fans in the stands that they were terrified of getting blown out on when WSU went up 6-1 in the 3rd inning. Their eyes were all as wide as saucers until WSU some how found a way to blow the lead. Too bad too. Besides OU beating them 64-0 in Manhattan during football season, you certainly don't hear about KSU losing badly in Manhattan in any sport really.. WSU could of made it an ugly game in 15th inning also, but didn't appear to be interested in doing so, and at that point I don't think anyone wearing purple in that stadium had the energy to care about WSU putting 22 runs on them, unlike in the 3th inning. It was a fun game to watch.

[shocker3]

Does anybody know if and when they are going to re-broadcast last night's WSU-KSU game?

[Zardoz]

Does anybody know if and when they are going to re-broadcast last night's WSU-KSU game?

Thursday on Cox22 or 2022 for the HD version.

[shocker3]

Thursday on Cox22 or 2022 for the HD version.

Thank you!

[shox1989]

For those who missed it or want to see it again, the game is being re-broadcast right now on KS 22.