GW 10-0 victors today. Fourth straight win for GW

With the win Coach Ritchie becomes the winningest manager in GW history

6  straight wins for GW now

Last edited by The Dude (3/05/2024 1:58 am)

After getting swept over the weekend at Richmond, RevsBall is now 21-15 (4-5 A10). URI comes to town this weekend for three games.

Nice! Didn't the softball team lose in similar fashion last week? Good to know that things even out eventually. It seems like the pitching is better than in past seasons which from what I can tell is the big differentiator between good and bad teams for college baseball. It looks like the UMass series is going to pivotal (as was the case for softball) and hopefully GW can take at least two.

As for softball, it looks like the season is going to end with GW coming up just short in their quest for a conference playoff spot but the young talent on the team seems promising. Unfortunate, because had Schoonmaker brought in a veteran arm they may have qualified. Since Lange graduated, Schoonmaker seems to have a tendency to run down pitchers, maybe due to lack of trust. Are the majority of pitchers hurt? Smith and Torreso are good players, but they are also still freshmen and could use a break here and there.
 

GW 17 UMASS 8
https://gwsports.com/news/2024/5/10/baseball-topples-umass-lavey-records-historic-day 
Senior Day on Saturday.

With that sweep, GW stands in 4th in the A10 heading in to the final series (at St Joes). Not sure how the tiebreakers work (thanks to Mother Nature GW has played a few fewer games than other teams), but second place and a bye in the A10 Tourney is possible with a series win and some help, otherwise a single win (if even that) would clinch a spot in the A10 Tourney.

Looks like we've got Richmond on Tuesday at 11 AM EST.
Capital One Park
Tysons, VA
https://atlantic10.com/documents/2023/10/9//2024_BSB_Bracket_blank.pdf?id=7872
Ballpark info: https://www.potomacleague.org/about.html

The Dude wrote:

So as to not cause any further confusion, The graphic is quite misleading. We finished fifth in conference and qualified for the 10 championships. On first glance, the graphic implies we should be celebrating great accomplishment. Not saying it’s not awesome that the team made it to the A-10s, but there’s definitely still work to do.

I doubt I’ll be able to make it out to any of the games, but the entire championship is being played out in Tysons Corner.

Wasn’t misleading if you were following GW baseball at all. They were fighting down the stretch to qualify for the playoffs and discussed in articles.  After winning the first game of the DH against St. Joe’s they assured themselves a spot in the A10 tourney. Followers have been tracking games around the conference for weeks and calculating GW’s chances in various tie-breaker scenarios. That it ended in a 4 way tie for the final 4 spots meant that any calculations we were doing was mere folly. Finishing 5th and playing 4th seed Richmond puts GW in the same 11:00 game as if they had come in 4th and really only affects the next game if they lose and the 2 or 3 seeds are upset in their games. BTW, one doesn’t clinch a championship, they win it.

After dropping their first game, GW came back and beat Dayton 9-1.  Lots of working the count and timely hits for the Revs.

We will play the winner of SLU/St. Joe's at 7 pm tonight.  SLU is the #1 seed.  They also lost to Richmond.  St. Joe's is the #7 seed.

Game will be on ESPN+

GW up 10-5. Benny proceeds to give up 5 runs by wild pitches and other errors. Coach will not pull him. Sad.