Here\u2019s a recap of our CWS coverage so far for 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Lets review the CWS group play. The CWS plays just one or two games a day; a far cry from the first weekend, where 64 teams played hundreds of games over the course of a long weekend. So this post has been written in one or two sentence increments for a week and a half\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n
My initial Predictions for the Group stages: Vanderbilt and Tennessee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In the Top Bracket<\/strong> ( NC State, #9 Stanford, #5 Arizona, #4 Vanderbilt )<\/p>\n\n\n\n Final Group standings<\/strong>: Vanderbilt, NC State, Stanford, Arizona<\/p>\n\n\n\n In the Bottom Bracket<\/strong> ( #3 Tennessee, UVA, #7 Mississippi State and #2 Texas)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Final Group standings<\/strong>: Mississippi State, Texas, Virginia, Tennessee<\/p>\n\n\n\n CWS finals discussion<\/strong>: Vanderbilt given a huge advantage by getting the walk-over and thus not burning Leiter, who will throw in game 1. Mississippi State had to burn both their top starters just to get to the CWS final. A rested full strength Mississippi State lost 2 of 3 in Vanderbilt earlier this year, but did beat Leiter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Pitching Matchups:<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n Vandy’s 3 starters look like this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n So, this would be an entirely different series if Vandy had been forced to burn Leiter to beat NC State a second time \u2026 the only potential for damage here is if Rocker comes into game 2, which would be pretty reckless. 123 pitches for Leiter a week ago was \u2026 pushing it. But the same coach pulled Rocker in the 7th at 111 pitches, doing the right thing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Miss State’s 3 starters look like this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Bednar is the ace. Macleod has struggled and Harding is more of a swing man. But you see the significant dis-advantage Mississippi State is in; the only way they get their Ace is if it goes 3 and even then he’s on 3 days rest, for a guy who is used to 6 days rest. And their game 2 starters is on 3 days rest regardless \u2026 and he’s their 3rd best arm. Meaning its likely a bullpen game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This situation represents a massive advantage for Vanderbilt in this series. But, on the flip side, Vandy’s offense has been in neutral. I think its enough to make this a pretty close series.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Prediction<\/strong>: Vanderbilt in three.<\/p>\n\n\n\n College CWS tournament references<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Here\u2019s a recap of our CWS coverage so far for 2019 Field of 64 announced Regional results (post lost during hosting migration) Super Regional Results Lets review the CWS group play. The CWS plays just one or two games a day; a far cry from the first weekend, where 64 teams played hundreds of games […]<\/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":[],"class_list":["post-17121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-college"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17121","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=17121"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17147,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17121\/revisions\/17147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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