Shox vs. Missouri State

[ShockerFever]

We didn't give up a walk? All game? Is that a season first?

[Veritas]

Great job by Tyler Did the Announcer say on that last out, Tyler was protecting his honor? (Funny)

[Dave Stalwart]

Hilariously, all the right teams lost and WSU will be in third place now :)

[ShockerFever]

WSU has a better Valley record than SWOMO currently.

There's another lmao.


Might as well get em in while we can.

[DUShock]

Based on a fluky win or two? God, I sure as hell hope not. The tens of people attending games have spoken.

@Veritas: was tongue and cheek, sorta (if the trend were to continue).

[Aargh]

Todd Butler, the Marty Simmons of Valley baseball!

[1972Shocker]

Only giving up 2 runs despite allowing 11 hits is the epitome of a hard hat effort by Cody Tyler. Not necessarily a Rembrandt but plenty good enough. Shows a great competitive toughness to do that and seemed like it may have carried over to the offense as well.

Shocks certainly needed some sun to shine on their butts and you got to give the young men credit for getting the job done. The real challenge for this team has been to sustain the occasional glimpses of competency. We'll see what happens. You know MSU will be a highly motivated tomorrow.

This is a great opportunity for the Shocks to show that they aren't as bad as they have led us to believe. I don't have a great deal of confidence that they can do it but I suppose stranger things have happened.

[ShockerFever]

They aren't winning the next two.

You can take that to the nearest Wells Fargo.

[Dave Stalwart]

They aren't winning the next two.

You can take that to the nearest Wells Fargo.

And it may be 15-0 kind of games too. I'm not getting my hopes up.

[Dave Stalwart]

Yep, WSU vaults to 3rd. Season is saved :) pretty sure we were in 7th. Can we freeze the season now and call it good?

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[1972Shocker]

Yep, WSU vaults to 3rd. Season is saved :) pretty sure we were in 7th. Can we freeze the season now and call it good?

You could freeze it but no way in hell you could call it good.

[ShockTalk]

We didn't give up a walk? All game? Is that a season first?

A little too much credit with the "we" Fev. :wink-new:

Cody didn't give up a walk.

[Aargh]

We're in 3rd, but we really have a great shot at second. Evansville is only ahead of us - oops - I mean the Shox- because Evansville has played the Shox. Once Evansville meets some real competition, they'll drop like a rock.

Second place, here we - I mean the Shox - come.

[WSUwatcher]

Nice ending. Was he wearing a cup? :)

Just one more reason to get a guy out after eight solid, gritty innings, 100+ pitches, and a big lead. When you stick around to throw 117, it's not just your arm that can be at risk.

Seriously, nice game by the Shocks -- a Friday win by someone other than Schwanke. Who were those guys, Sundance?

[1972Shocker]

BTW, one helluva catch by Tanner Kirk ranging well into CF from his 2B position. I think that was in the Top of the 8th. It was an Alcides Escobar-worthy effort by Tanner.

Cody Tyler was terrific but he had to be a freaking magician to make it past the 1st few innings. MSU collected 7 of the 11 hits in the 1st, 2nd and 4th innings and they collected them early in the inning. Somehow Cody managed to hold the Bears to only 1 run during the stretch.

In the 1st the Bears went single, bunt single, K, K, K.

In the 2nd the Bears went double, bunt single, bunt popped up to C, caught stealing and K.

In the 3rd the Bears went down in order.

In the 4th the Bears went triple, RBI single, double, ground to 3B, runner at 3rd picked off by C, line out to P.

After surviving that Cody seemed to settle down a bit. The 5 runs the Shocks scored in the 5th and 3 in the 6th certainly help with that.

In addition to Tanner Kirk's outstanding catch, Chase Rader made a nice over-the-shoulder catch on blooper in the 5th and Gunnar Troutwine helped by throwing out the 2 runners above in critical situations.

Not sure you can make a living pitching in as much trouble as Tyler was early in the game but some how he and his teammates did it. It sure helps when you don't walk anyone. Cody did hit a batter with 2 outs in the 6th. But for one game anyway the Shocks put on quite a show and I have to give them a :encouragement: for that.

Perhaps the Shocks best game of the season in terms of playing a complete game. Decent pitching, good and timely hitting and good defense.

When you look at the box score it as the feel that we were living in oppo-world:

MSU 2-11-0-8
WSU 9-11-0-5

Just the opposite of what we have generally seen for this Shocker team. It is very hard to have any confidence at all that this will continue.