Thriller

The UH-LSU game today was the most exciting baseball game I've been to in quite some time. I won't say it was the best played necessarily, because UH made a couple of (uncharacteristic) errors, and LSU was terrible on defense. But it was exciting because UH got behind early, then staked a large lead, gave up 8 runs in one inning to fall behind, and kept chipping away until they won the game dramatically, with two outs in the ninth. And all of this against the #3 team in the country, and without much of a home field advantage because the LSU fans probably outnumbered the good guys (and were more vocal).

Taking two of three from a top five team ought to be good enough to boost UH into the top 30 at least, given the number of top 20 teams they've already played. If this team gels by the time conference play starts, I think they could do some damage. They're certainly better than last year's team, which had great defense, very good pitching, and mediocre hitting, and they have a higher ceiling than that team. It will be interesting to see how much they improve.

I got much needed sun today as well -- so much so that I'm nice and Cougar red in spots.

[Posted at 21:42 CST on 02/24/02] [Link]