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Another home loss, as Maryland hits 3 home runs and cruises to a 8-2 win. 3 errors officially, and could have been charged with more. Hard to believe we still have just 1 conference win at home.
 

A day after the Gophers couldn't take advantage of 5 Terrapin errors in an 8-5 loss, today they never lead in an 11-10 loss in the home finale. The bats finally showed some life to rally after being down 9-1, but 10 walks combined with a couple missed opportunities to get outs at home plate spells another L.

Looks like we will finish in 16th place. 1-14 at home in conference play. Even in the dumpster fire season of 2021, we were 4-14 at home. Guessing this is worst home conference record in program history. The hitting has been disappointing. Coming into today, we were last in runs scored in Big 10 play. The second half of season has gone south.
 

SomeGopherFan said:
A day after the Gophers couldn't take advantage of 5 Terrapin errors in an 8-5 loss, today they never lead in an 11-10 loss in the home finale. The bats finally showed some life to rally after being down 9-1, but 10 walks combined with a couple missed opportunities to get outs at home plate spells another L.

Looks like we will finish in 16th place. 1-14 at home in conference play. Even in the dumpster fire season of 2021, we were 4-14 at home. Guessing this is worst home conference record in program history. The hitting has been disappointing. Coming into today, we were last in runs scored in Big 10 play. The second half of season has gone south.
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We just didn't have the quality depth to withstand the number of injuries we got hit with this year. Offensively I don't think we had a single game where all 9 of our preseason starters were available. Starts from game 1 with Perry being out the first few weeks, then Fitzgerald is out a while, then the big loss of Spanier, Hokenson misses some time, Knoll the last month and a half and Elbeery too. There were a number of guys really playing through some stuff too especially in weeks 3-7 or so.
On the mound I was really hoping we would add another starter last summer but we weren't able to and then we get hit with Semb deciding to be done with baseball over winter break and we actually held up pretty well for the most part until the Selvig injury and that really unravled things.
 

It's really unfortunate at how the season swung once the final weekend of March rolled around. It takes away from the fact that much of February and March had some quality outcomes against really tough competition. Going into that Iowa series the Gophers were viewed as having a legitimate chance at the NCAA tournament. My how things have changed.
 

DarrenTheGreek said:
It's really unfortunate at how the season swung once the final weekend of March rolled around. It takes away from the fact that much of February and March had some quality outcomes against really tough competition. Going into that Iowa series the Gophers were viewed as having a legitimate chance at the NCAA tournament. My how things have changed.
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I agree, a lot of optimism when the B1G season started. All those home loses including the sweep by what ended up being a bad Purdue right off the bat.
 


I didn't have the Gophers beating Dzierwa and the Spartans tonight, but they did exactly that, in a 4-3 win. Sutherland with an RBI double and Neels with a 2 run single in first, and then Martin with a long solo home run in 2nd, and the pitching was able to make it hold up. Sundquist was outstanding in relief, and Clausen with the save in a clean 9th. Combined 0 walks and 13 Ks for Gopher pitchers.
 

SomeGopherFan said:
I didn't have the Gophers beating Dzierwa and the Spartans tonight, but they did exactly that, in a 4-3 win. Sutherland with an RBI double and Neels with a 2 run single in first, and then Martin with a long solo home run in 2nd, and the pitching was able to make it hold up. Sundquist was outstanding in relief, and Clausen with the save in a clean 9th. Combined 0 walks and 13 Ks for Gopher pitchers.
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They really made him work early and had some great ABs against a top 5 round pick and top 2 pitcher in the conference. The Sutherland double might've been the hardest ball hit I've seen in baseball this year man that was loud. Martin has shown that glimpses of huge power and the next step will be more consistent ABs which you'd expect to grow with more experience. Man Sundquist was good tonight and really left it all out there extending himself, Clausen was efficient and breaker looked sharp tonight.
 

Offense was clicking tonight. 15 hits, couple long homeruns from Richter, one from Sutherland, and Martin. Really wish we could have seen what this team would have done if they stayed healthy.
 

Gophers bust out the long ball and cruise to a 11-5 win. Richter with a big 3 run HR to break it open, then later a 2 run HR. Sutherland with a long 2 run dinger right of center and Martin also with a solo shot. Remington with a solid 5.1 and Rooney finished it off working last 3.2. Good to see them still competing and potentially playing role of spoiler.
 



Goldy Gopher said:
Offense was clicking tonight. 15 hits, couple long homeruns from Richter, one from Sutherland, and Martin. Really wish we could have seen what this team would have done if they stayed healthy.
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This was as many injuries in a season as I can remember in a long time.
 

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