Shox 5 vs. FGCU Eagles 3 -- Series Tied 1-1

[twister17e]

Hall with a diving catch on the warning track. What a catch! Cooper with a 1,2,3 inning!

Brown now pitching for FGC.

[WSU_Mom]

Home run by Bascue!!!!!!!!

[WSUwatcher]

Deja vu

I certainly expect far better things this year than last, but this series so far has a distressing deja vu quality to it: the bullpen debacle yesterday, the extreme lack of productivity with men on today as the Shocks have pretty much extracted the minimum from their opportunities.

Let's hope they get this stuff out of their system early in the year. It will not lead to good things later on.

[twister17e]

Springer with a sac fly to score Baez. Lassley with a triple. Shox lead 5-3. Bascue strikes out to end the inning :cry:

[twister17e]

Cooper out, Johnson in.

Coop's stats from livestats:
ip=8 | h=5 | r=3 | er=2 | bb=1 | so=7

Update: TJ McGreevy in, Johnson out after allowing a leadoff single. TJ gets a double play from the Shocker defense. Strikeout ends the game :yahoo:.

[1972Shocker]

TJ McGreevey with a strong 9th inning coming in after the lead off single given up by Remington.

TJ looks like a guy we can rely on out of the pen.

Shocks win 5-3

[GoShockers89]

Nice win for the Shocks. Get tomorrow's game and we can call the weekend a success.

Is TJ going to usurp the closer role? I say stay with the hot hand.

[twister17e]

Looks like we won't have Justin Kemp this weekend. His hand was stepped on requiring stitches during batting practice. We need to stop the friendly fire injuring our own team :shock: .

[Rosewood]

Home run by Bascue!!!!!!!!

Man, I wish I could have been there for that. I really hope he gets more playing time this year.

gg shox

[KC Shox]

Great win. I wish Cooper didn't go 8 - does anybody know how many pitches he threw? But going 8 means Gene lacks confidence in the bullpen already?

[twister17e]

Great win. I wish Cooper didn't go 8 - does anybody know how many pitches he threw? But going 8 means Gene lacks confidence in the bullpen already?

Cooper's pitch count was 100 exactly. It sure did look like Gene lacks confidence in the bullpen. He pulled Johnson almost immediately after allowing a leadoff single.

[tru2thaduce]

Bascue's shot was an absolute BOMB!!

[shock10]

The only thing that keep Bascue's home run from 21st street was the top of the score board. You are right a BOMB......

[Wheatshocker]

Great win. I wish Cooper didn't go 8 - does anybody know how many pitches he threw? But going 8 means Gene lacks confidence in the bullpen already?

Cooper's pitch count was 100 exactly. It sure did look like Gene lacks confidence in the bullpen. He pulled Johnson almost immediately after allowing a leadoff single.

You're darn right he's low on confidence in the 'pen. Here's hoping guys like McGreevey take control.

I'm OK with 100 pitches for Coop -- 70 for strikes -- in start No. 2, but I wouldn't have gone any higher.

Good job taking advantage of their miscues, good clutch bomb by Bascue and nice job by Baez of manufacturing an insurance run in the seventh. Let's take the series tomorrow.

[SB Shock]

But going 8 means Gene lacks confidence in the bullpen already?

Do you have confidence in the pen?

Frankly I was shocked with Hoch being brought in this early in a meaningful game. Guys coming off arm surgery are high risk especially early in the season. My expectation is the best you can expect from Hoch and Fleming is that might be able to provide positive contributions late in the season.