2025 Creighton Baseball

[Tdjay114]

Jays up 3-1 bottom of the 5th against Portland. Shane Wendt pitched a great game again - three shutout innings just like last week! Conor Capece had an rbi single to make it 3 to 1 in the 4th.

[ictjay]

Now 4-1. Game on espn+

[Tdjay114]

4 - 1 Jays bottom 7! RBI single by Hess after MacLean got a double!

[Tdjay114]

Jays win game 1 of the series and of today's doubleheader 5 to 2! Capece with an insurance run rbi single, his second of the day, in the top of the 9th! Great game by him today, good job by Hess, and solid games from MacLean and Wendt (another strong outing) as well as the bullpen! Now let's get game 2!

[Tdjay114]

Well, we tried to rally in the second one. Lost 10-9, after a 2 hr night by McHugh (catcher who started this game after Conor Capece started the first one). Some positives to take from this though... Portland is a darn good team. They were a fringe bubble team last year and won over 30 games and could have made the tournament. It's early, it was a cold night in Portland (people were wearing coats and scarves), but our offense looked good in both of these first two games of the series. McHugh showed us that he can hit for power which is good to see; these were his first two hits of the season. Sailors played well. Capece did pinch hit late in the game, so it seems that even if one catcher sits, the other will find playing time at DH. Also, was really good to see Unga pitch well again. I watched on ESPN+, and he is an imposing figure on the mound. Definitely doesn't look like a freshman. He has not given up a run in either outing now, is a true freshman, and seems to hit mid 90s at least (as you could hear the pop of the glove on the broadcast). He also got really fired up when he got out of a mini-jam in the bottom of the 7th, which was good to see... good to see the fire and enthusiasm by him and the whole team. Venteicher continues to play well and might keep Scherrman DH'ing or pinch hitting for a bit as long as Venteicher is hot. Hopefully Scherrman gets it going to, because, as I said before, he was solid last year and a big part of the potent lineup we had last year especially on offense. Freshman pitcher Magers who had the no hitter going through 5 last week got a bit roughed up in giving up 3 runs, but that's fine... he's a freshman. He'll have his growing pains. Definitely good to have Tate Gillen back; he had two hits and played solid defense. Also, Hauser, a transfer reliever from Minnesota got roughed up last week but bounced back this week by not giving up any runs in his outing... So, overall, lots of positives to take from today's two games, I'd say. This team is good. 2-3 against tough competition on the road. Both opponents were fringe tournament teams last year and had over 30 wins. Hopefully we can win the next two, and hopefully the weather warms up a bit, and the typically Portland rain holds off, and we can win the next 2! 4-3 against this competition wouldn't be bad.

[Tdjay114]

Now 4-1. Game on espn+

Yesss! Was so pumped when we got that hit, I posted the same. My apologies. Let's keep that baseball in game discussion going! Glad you were following along on ESPN+ as well. I thought the announcers were actually pretty knowledgeable, other than the one guy kept pronouncing Tate Gillen's last name as Geee-yen. Hope you'll keep posting, and I'll try to post less during the games. I just get excited, and I've been trying to get more discussion going on the baseball board last season and this season, even during games.

[Jaybird]

Paragraphs are your friends.

[Tdjay114]

I guess... Why post that? I mean, it's not relevant to any Jays baseball discussion? Just to troll? You have fun on your Saturday; enjoy the day... Must be quite bored to log on here just to post that instead of writing about Jays baseball. Have a good one. Go Jays.

[LJay]

Not the “offending”poster; sorry you’re offended but some of us with some sort of disease I suppose need paragraphs to focus on a writing.

[Tdjay114]

Who is offended? I'm not offended. I don't get your joke about a disease. But, yes, sometimes long-form is better and more informative. I mean there is literally no in-depth coverage of the Creighton baseball team - on the White&Blue Review or with the OWH. One year, we won the Big East tournament against Xavier, and it was an incredible game (I think it even went extras), yet the World-Herald had it on like the 7th page in the Sports Section while the Big 10 tournament was rained out the same day, and they put that headline all over the Sports front page and even on the overall front page. Incredible. So, really, the only outlet where you can find in-depth and sometimes extra coverage of the Jays is D1baseball.com which I do pay to subscribe to. One of their writers mentions the Jays fairly often actually. All I'm trying to do is provide such coverage and even some in game commentary, like we have on the basketball boards. In any case, if people prefer that the long-form be on another outlet, I can always make a Jays baseball substack and then just write my thoughts there and do my in-game shorter posts here. Just trying to get discussion going like there is on the other boards. Happy to put long-form on my substsack. Though, eventually, I may, if there's enough interest, charge a subscription fee, so that would defeate the purpose. Who knows. For now, I'll keep posting here, since it's free. Hope we get the win today. Go Jays. Will be interesting to see who starts at pitcher.