{"id":14180,"date":"2017-06-29T09:21:16","date_gmt":"2017-06-29T13:21:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=14180"},"modified":"2017-06-29T09:21:16","modified_gmt":"2017-06-29T13:21:16","slug":"2017-cws-finals-florida-finally-wins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=14180","title":{"rendered":"2017 CWS Finals: Florida finally Wins!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_14198\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/floridacws2017champs.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-14198\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14198\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-14198\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/floridacws2017champs-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Florida Gators; your deserving 2017 CWS champs. Photo via Alligator Army\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/floridacws2017champs-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/floridacws2017champs-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/floridacws2017champs-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/floridacws2017champs.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-14198\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Florida Gators; your deserving 2017 CWS champs. Photo via Alligator Army<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Here\u2019s a recap of our CWS coverage so far for 2017:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=13362\">College Baseball 2017\u00a0Kickoff<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=13884\">Field of 64 announcement<\/a>\u00a0with Regional predictions and highlights of top-end draft prospects.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=11114\">2017 Draft Preview<\/a> with coverage of\u00a0Local College-age eligible players of note (publishing closer to the draft)<\/li>\n<li>2017 CWS tournament: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=13898\">Regional Results, Super-Regional Pairings<\/a><\/li>\n<li>2017 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=13970\">CWS Super-Regionals recap<\/a>, CWS field and predictions<\/li>\n<li>2017 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=14142\">CWS Group Winners<\/a> and CWS Final preview<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Here&#8217;s how the finals played out.<\/p>\n<p>For Reference: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lsusports.net\/fls\/5200\/assets\/docs\/bb\/17stats\/teamcume.htm\">LSU stats<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/floridagators.com\/cumestats.aspx?path=baseball&amp;\">Florida Stats<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s how I thought the pitching matchups would go; turns out LSU pushed both Poche and Lange to go with a &#8220;bullpen&#8221; game 1, starting a guy in\u00a0<strong>Russell Reynolds<\/strong> who had a 8.50 ERA on the season in a gambit to get the pitching matchup advantages (and to get both Poche and Lange with more rest) for games 2 and 3. \u00a0Risky; if Poche gets beat in game two then you lose the CWS finals with your ace on the bench. \u00a0Meanwhile, Florida changed things up too, going with middle reliever\u00a0<strong>Tyler Dyson<\/strong> in game 2 instead of Kower on short rest.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Game 1: \u00a0Monday 6\/26\/17:\u00a0\u00a0LSU middle reliever\u00a0<strong>Russell Reynolds<\/strong>\/bullpen\u00a0vs Florida&#8217;s #2 starter\u00a0<strong>Brady Singer<\/strong> (8-5, 3.18 ERA) on 5 days rest.<\/li>\n<li>Game 2: Tuesday 6\/27\/17: \u00a0LSU&#8217;s #2 Starter\u00a0<strong>Jared<\/strong><strong>\u00a0Poche<\/strong> (12-3, 3.33 ERA on the season) with 5 days rest vs\u00a0<strong>Tyler Dyson<\/strong> (4-0 with a 3.23 ERA) with plenty of rest since he only has 2 starts on the year.<\/li>\n<li>Game 3 (if necessary): Wednesday 6\/28\/17: LSU&#8217;s #1 Starter\u00a0<strong>Alex Lange<\/strong> (10-5, 2.97 ERA) with 4 days rest vs\u00a0Florida&#8217;s #3 starter\u00a0<strong>Jackson Kower<\/strong> (12-1, 4.15 ERA) on 4 days rest\/#1\u00a0<strong>Alex Faedo<\/strong> (9-2, 2.26 ERA) \u00a0on 3 days rest.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Results:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In Game 1, Singer bent but did not break, giving up 3 runs in 7 IP and striking out a CWS record 12 guys before handing off to Florida&#8217;s all-american closer\u00a0<strong>Michael Byrne<\/strong> for a 2-inning save to close out game 1 win 4-3. \u00a0LSU&#8217;s Reynolds gave up 3 runs in 3 1\/3 innings before handing off to middle reliever\u00a0<strong>Nick Bush<\/strong> for the middle third and then deposed closer\u00a0<strong>Hunter Newman<\/strong> for the final 2 and 1\/3, and Bush\/Newman kept it close but LSU just couldn&#8217;t score late to tie it. \u00a0As mentioned above, an interesting gambit by LSU&#8217;s coaching staff going with a bullpen game against Florida&#8217;s best remaining arm. \u00a0Lets see if Poche and Lange can pull it off in games 2 and three.<\/li>\n<li>In Game 2, Florida rolled the dice by starting Dyson, who gave them a fantastic 6ip 3hit, 1run outing while Florida put a couple of runs on Poche. \u00a0LSU thought they had the game tied in the 7th when they scored a run on a double play ball, but an ill-advised slide caused the runner to be returned to third and LSU couldn&#8217;t capitalize the rest of the night. \u00a0LSU&#8217;s closer Hess finally ran out of gas, giving up 4 runs in the 8th inning to put the game out of reach. \u00a0Meanwhile, Florida&#8217;s coach tempted fate by bringing in his game 3 starter Kower to relieve his closer, a move that paid off as Kower shut down LSU to finish off the game and the win 6-1.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Your 2017 College World Series Champion<\/strong><\/span>:\u00a0<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Florida<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Commentary: I think the right team won, and the team I predicted would win ended up winning &#8230; but neither Lange nor Faedo pitched in the final series. \u00a0Why not put a day or two in there so that the pitching can work its way out and we could get a for-real three game series between these teams? \u00a0That was the only downside of this final. \u00a0Florida&#8217;s long storied baseball program finally gets a national title.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>This concludes the College Baseball season and our coverage of it for 2017. \u00a0I&#8217;ll post one more post that covers draftees and signing status for all local-connected players (prep and college). \u00a0I don&#8217;t really cover the summer collegiate wood bat leagues: for that I&#8217;d suggest NovaBaseball.com, which is really coming into its own in terms of local coverage for all players with local ties.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>2017 College CWS tournament references<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>d1baseball.com\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.d1baseball.com\/daily\/today.htm\">daily scoreboard<\/a> is my go-to link<\/li>\n<li>d1baseball\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/d1baseball.com\/regional-tournament-central\/\">Tourney Central<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Baseball America\u2019s\u00a0College coverage home page<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.collegebaseballdaily.com\/\">CollegeBaseballDaily.com<\/a> has coverage as well.<\/li>\n<li>CollegeBaseballCentral.com has coverage as well.<\/li>\n<li>Ncaa.com\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncaa.com\/interactive-bracket\/baseball\/d1\/2017\">interactive full 64-team bracket<\/a> for 2017<\/li>\n<li>NCAA <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncaa.com\/stats\/baseball\/d1\/current\/individual\/200\">Individual player stats<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Warren Nolan.com\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.warrennolan.com\/baseball\/2017\/index\">College Baseball RPI<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Warren Nolan\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/warrennolan.com\/baseball\/2017\/conferencerpi\">Conference RPI rankings<\/a> for 2017<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here\u2019s a recap of our CWS coverage so far for 2017: College Baseball 2017\u00a0Kickoff Field of 64 announcement\u00a0with Regional predictions and highlights of top-end draft prospects. 2017 Draft Preview with coverage of\u00a0Local College-age eligible players of note (publishing closer to the draft) 2017 CWS tournament: Regional Results, Super-Regional Pairings 2017 CWS Super-Regionals recap, CWS field [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[3202,2844,3653,3660,3655,3650,3658,3659,3657,3656],"class_list":["post-14180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-college","tag-alex-faedo","tag-alex-lange","tag-brady-singer","tag-hunter-newman","tag-jackson-kower","tag-jared-poche","tag-michael-byrne","tag-nick-bush","tag-russell-reynolds","tag-tyler-dyson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14180"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14206,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14180\/revisions\/14206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}