{"id":7018,"date":"2013-06-24T08:13:31","date_gmt":"2013-06-24T12:13:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com.\/?p=7018"},"modified":"2013-06-24T08:13:31","modified_gmt":"2013-06-24T12:13:31","slug":"college-world-series-update-the-final-is-set","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=7018","title":{"rendered":"College World Series Update; The final is set"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s an update of where we are in the 2013 College World Series (CWS). \u00a0We&#8217;re to the CWS final, having had the 8 competitors whittled to just two.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">To recap the entire NCAA post-season tournament with links to previous posts:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Here&#8217;s my look at the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com.\/?p=6755 \">Field of 64<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Here&#8217;s a review of the First round and a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com.\/?p=6839\">look at the Super Regionals<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Here&#8217;s a review of the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com.\/?p=6925\">Super Regionals and the CWS field<\/a>\u00a0with predictions.<\/li>\n<li>Here&#8217;s a look at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com.\/?p=6988\">first four days<\/a> of the CWS.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A couple helpful resources for those who want to follow the College game: here&#8217;s a link to the CWS schedule page at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.d1baseball.com\/2013\/daily\/0615.htm\">d1baseball.com<\/a>, which I use as the best way to quickly find all the core college site data. \u00a0And here&#8217;s the best (only?) College Baseball blog out there:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.collegebaseballdaily.com\/\">CollegeBaseballDaily.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">CWS Field: here&#8217;s the two Original Brackets.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Bracket 1: UNC,\u00a0NC State, UCLA, LSU<\/li>\n<li>Bracket 2: Mississippi State, Oregon State, Indiana, Louisville<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Days 5-6:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.d1baseball.com\/2013\/daily\/0615.htm\">Results<\/a>: Two elimination Games. \u00a0Oregon State v Indiana, and UNC v NC State.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.osubeavers.com\/sports\/m-basebl\/stats\/2012-2013\/game9.html\">Oregon State shut down Indiana<\/a> in one loser&#8217;s bracket elimination game 1-0 behind a complete game 4-hitter from senior lefty Ace\/Friday starter\u00a0<strong>Matt Boyd<\/strong>. \u00a0 Boyd improved to 13-4 on the season in what may have been his last collegiate start; he was a 6th round pick by Toronto. \u00a0 Boyd out-dueled fellow Ace\/Friday starter\u00a0<strong>Aaron Sledgers<\/strong>, himself a 5th round pick by Minnesota, who finishes his 2013 season 9-2 after giving up just one run on 7 hits for his complete game loss.<\/li>\n<li>UNC got a couple of runs on NC State&#8217;s ace starter <strong>Carlos Rodon<\/strong> (pitching on 3-days rest and on a pitch count limit) and #3\/Sunday starter <strong>Hobbs Johnson<\/strong> made it stand up, throwing 8 1\/3 shutout innings in the start of his career as UNC took the loser-bracket final 7-0 (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.goheels.com\/\/ViewContent.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=3350&amp;CONTENT_ID=783246\">box<\/a>\/<a href=\"http:\/\/www.collegebaseballdaily.com\/2013\/06\/21\/2013-cws-unc-7-nc-state-0\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+CollegeBaseballDaily+%28College+Baseball+Daily%29&amp;utm_content=Google+Reader\">gamer<\/a><strong><\/strong>).\u00a0 Johnson is an undersized lefty with decent velocity picked in the 14th round by Milwaukee.\u00a0\u00a0 By throwing their #3 starter, UNC can come back with their #1 <strong>Kent Emanuel<\/strong> and #2 <strong>Trent Thornton<\/strong> ready to go to try to beat UCLA twice to make the final.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Days 7-8:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 13px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.d1baseball.com\/2013\/daily\/0615.htm\">Results<\/a>: Bracket Finals: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.collegebaseballdaily.com\/2013\/06\/21\/2013-cws-mississippi-state-4-oregon-state-1\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+CollegeBaseballDaily+%28College+Baseball+Daily%29&amp;utm_content=Google+Reader\">Mississippi State over Oregon State<\/a> 4-1, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.collegebaseballdaily.com\/2013\/06\/22\/2013-cws-ucla-4-unc-1\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+CollegeBaseballDaily+%28College+Baseball+Daily%29&amp;utm_content=Google+Reader\">UCLA over UNC<\/a> by the same score.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Mississippi State got to Oregon State starter\u00a0<strong>Andrew Moore<\/strong>, hanging him with just his second loss of the season and their big-time hitter\u00a0<strong>Hunter Renfroe<\/strong> hit a 3-run homer to win the game for the SEC team (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hailstate.com\/fls\/16800\/stats\/bb\/2013\/ms0621.htm?ATCLID=208416660&amp;SPSID=90857&amp;SPID=10993&amp;DB_LANG=C&amp;DB_OEM_ID=16800\">box<\/a>).<\/li>\n<li>UNC&#8217;s Emanuel didn&#8217;t pitch badly (6ip, 1 earned run) but threw far too many pitches (112 pitches through six innings) while the Tar Heel&#8217;s offense couldn&#8217;t touch UCLA&#8217;s #3\/Sunday starter\u00a0<strong>Grant Watson<\/strong>, and UCLA cruised into the CWS final (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.uclabruins.com\/sports\/m-basebl\/stats\/2012-2013\/game12.html\">box<\/a>).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">CWS Bracket Results: here&#8217;s the final standings of each of the two CWS Brackets:<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Bracket 1:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1st place: #12 UCLA<\/li>\n<li>2nd Place: #1 UNC<\/li>\n<li>3rd Place: #9 NC State<\/li>\n<li>4th Place: #4 LSU<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Bracket 2:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1st place: #11 Mississippi State<\/li>\n<li>2nd Place: #3 Oregon State<\/li>\n<li>3rd Place: #10 Indiana<\/li>\n<li>4th Place: #15 Louisville<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Where do we stand in the tournament now\/What&#8217;s next?<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The final is set: Mississippi State and UCLA will play a 3-game set starting tonight 6\/24, 6\/25 and (if necessary) 6\/26.<\/li>\n<li>UCLA&#8217;s pitching staff is set up perfectly for the 3-game set, with Ace\u00a0<strong>Adam Plutko<\/strong> set to go on 6\/24 with more than a week&#8217;s rest since his 6\/16 victory. \u00a0If the series goes all three games, none of UCLA&#8217;s starters will be on anything other than regular rest. \u00a0Meanwhile Mississippi State&#8217;s &#8220;rotation&#8221; has been a patchwork the entire post-season; their #1\/friday starter\u00a0<strong>Luis Pollorena<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdispatch.com\/msusports\/article.asp?aid=25030\">hurt himself<\/a> in the regionals and has only thrown a handful of innings in the CWS. \u00a0We havn&#8217;t seen their #3\/sunday starter <strong>Jacob Lindgren<\/strong> the entire post-season.\u00a0\u00a0The team has leaned heavily on #2\/Saturday starter\u00a0<strong>Kendal Graveman<\/strong>, who has now started four of their post season games (including two games in the Bracket) and on a couple of bullpen guys in <b>Trevor Fitts<\/b> and\u00a0<strong>Chad Girodo<\/strong> to make up the innings (the Fitts\/Girodo combo likely starts tonight). \u00a0Graveman\u00a0would be on 4-days rest for the 2nd game, 5 days rest for a 3rd game in the CWS final but likely will not pitch the opener.<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Is this a compelling CWS final?\u00a0 The 3rd place PAC-12 team and a team that finished a distant 3rd in its division (and was barely over .500 in conference play) in the SEC?\u00a0\u00a0 I would have loved to see a Vanderbilt-UNC or a Vanderbilt-LSU SEC grudge match in the final.\u00a0 I would have liked to see an ACC team at least challenge for the title to try to break their big winless streak. \u00a0That being said, both teams were very good; Mississippi State was a 50 win team, UCLA a 47-win team.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Prediction: I think UCLA&#8217;s pitching staff is setup and rested while Mississippi State&#8217;s staff is in disarray and will be tired. \u00a0I think this will make the difference as UCLA takes it in 3.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s an update of where we are in the 2013 College World Series (CWS). \u00a0We&#8217;re to the CWS final, having had the 8 competitors whittled to just two. To recap the entire NCAA post-season tournament with links to previous posts: Here&#8217;s my look at the\u00a0Field of 64. Here&#8217;s a review of the First round and [&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":[1842,1847,1845,1835,1852,1846,1843,1794,1849,1850,1844,1848,1841,1838,1851],"class_list":["post-7018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-college","tag-aaron-sledgers","tag-adam-plutko","tag-andrew-moore","tag-carlos-rodon","tag-chad-girodo","tag-grant-watson","tag-hobbs-johnson","tag-hunter-renfroe","tag-jacob-lindgren","tag-kendal-graveman","tag-kent-emanuel","tag-luis-pollorena","tag-matt-boyd","tag-trent-thornton","tag-trevor-fitts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7018","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=7018"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7018\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7066,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7018\/revisions\/7066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}