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fruithi's avatar

Thank you for the write up. Your headline was a bit deceiving regarding the Bruins struggling to put runners on base. The women obviously struggled to score runs but they had plenty of opportunities to score with runners left on base. UCLA’s top 3 hitters went 0-10 with runners on base in this game. Who would have thought Maya Brady would go 0-4 with three strikeouts? Pitchers duel but the Bruins were in this game to win with great pitching and defense. All they needed was one hit for base runners to score. It was that close.

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gbruin's avatar

LFG Bruins!!

Gonna need the bats to wake up against another top pitcher tonight.

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gbruin's avatar

But they aren't there yet. Bruins down 1-2-3 with 2 Ks in their top half. Grr.

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gbruin's avatar

And Terry matches it with a 1-2-3 inning with 2 Ks in the bottom of the first. Nice!

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gbruin's avatar

YES!! Megan Grant goes deep to lead off the second! Bruins up 1-0!!

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gbruin's avatar

Stanford first ball swinging on every at bat gets a single and nothing else.

Bruins up 1-0 after 2.

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gbruin's avatar

Meoño and Allchin get singles in the top of the 3rd, but the Bruins can't get them home.

Brady is in a bit of a slump, 0 for her last 6 with 5 Ks.

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gbruin's avatar

stupid Furd doubles home a run to tie it and Coach Inoue-Perez makes a pitching change, bringing in Taylor Tinsley

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gbruin's avatar

Grr. After Tinsely gets a K, a single brings home another run. A groundout closes the inning.

Stupid tree 2, Bruins 1 after 3.

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Joe Piechowski's avatar

And there it is! KIP overmanaging the Bruins into a deficit.

You knew it was coming. It was just a question as to when.

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Gen2Bruin1987's avatar

Makes you wonder if she skipped the mental training that she had all players take.

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Joe Piechowski's avatar

Except she has been doing this sort of thing for YEARS.

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Gen2Bruin1987's avatar

Not seeing a weakness in herself that's been there for years.

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GauchoBruin's avatar

I hate to agree with you but absolutely over managing. I think you either start Tinsley or stick with your starter. I’m sure she was thinking well Tinsley did well against Stanford let’s put her in right away. But she should have done what she did yesterday and let Terry finish. Sigh.

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gbruin's avatar

3 up and 3 down for the Bruins in their half of the 4th.

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gbruin's avatar

And Tinsley goes 1-2-3 in the bottom of the 4th.

Dumb Furd 2, Bruins 1 after 4.

We really need those bats to wake up now...

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gbruin's avatar

Another meek inning at the plate by the Bruins in the 5th. 2 soft grounders and a K.

If they don't advance past tonight, they have only their bats to blame.

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gbruin's avatar

2 bunt singles and a sac fly get Furd another run

Furd 3, Bruins 1 after 5.

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gbruin's avatar

Top of the order coming up for the Bruins in the 6th. Brady needs to get things going.

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gbruin's avatar

Geez. Nothing happening at all. Brady with her 3rd K and the Bruins go 3 up and 3 down again.

Gonna have to rely on the middle part of the order to come back in the 7th as the lower third haven't contributed much at all in this CWS.

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Gen2Bruin1987's avatar

Unfortunately, the first three haven't produced much during the CWS. Let's see if the middle can contribute again.

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gbruin's avatar

Yup. The top 3 really provided tons of punch in the regionals and supers, but they've been pretty quiet in OKC.

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gbruin's avatar

Another defensive gem tonight by Meoño in center field as she runs down a ball on the track and hangs on as she crashes into the wall.

Tinsley gets a 3 up and 3 down inning in the top of the 6th.

Tree 3, Bruins 1. Last chance for UCLA coming up.

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gbruin's avatar

There's life, Pola has a great at bat and gets HBP and Malau'alu singles to center.

Ramsey Suarez will PH with runners at 1st and 2nd.

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gbruin's avatar

And that's all she wrote. Ramsey grounds softly to short to end the game.

Final: Furd 3, Bruins 1

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