Night At The Ballpark

UH's Brad Sullivan has been one of the most dominating pitchers in college baseball this year, and going into the evening had yet to have less than a stellar outing.

Tonight, he didn't have good stuff at all and got rocked in the first inning.

It's always a little devastating for a good team when their ace gets pounded that way. The Cougars got way behind over the first 3 innings, and didn't manage to rally until the 7th inning, when they got it back to a one-run game. But they couldn't score any more, and a South Florida team that burned through over a half dozen pitchers and only hit the ball really hard a couple of times stole one on the road.

And the umpiring crew was the worst I have seen in a couple of years. They didn't cost either team the game, but they consistently blew calls and were just awful. All of the games I've been to previously this season were well officiated, but not this one.

But now the bad one's out of the way, so the #9 Coogs can just go out and take care of business the rest of the weekend.

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Meanwhile, the Astros continue to look like a BAD college team.

If this continues, this city is going to turn on Drayton McLane (who declined to spend the money to keep the pitcher that kicked his team's ass tonight) in a big way. And with the debut of the Houston Texans just a few months away, this town isn't really in the mood for the underachieving Astros.

[Posted at 23:19 CST on 05/03/02] [Link]