Cornell baseball

[Trotsky]

Whoa.

[djk26]

I'm assuming we missed the extra point after the fourth touchdown?

[Trotsky]

The scores are typically a lot more reasonable, though the 7-innings for many games may have something to do with that.

It looks like an ERA in the low 4's gets you into the top ten among starters league-wide, so presumably pitching develops more slowly than hitting, or anyway good pitching takes its talents to places with 60-game seasons rather than 30.

Cornell actually looks like it does not suck this year.  They have a good NC record and they are over .500 in an underwhelming division.  I have no idea what the playoff structure is but IINM there is an Ivy slot in the hemi-semi-demi round of the NC$$ so, hey, a girl can dream.

Edit: There is an RPI for NCAA baseball because of course there is.  We are 104th, baby!  Beats hoops, I guess.

Edit edit: Oh holy fuck yeah it does.  269.

[dag14]

Three grand slams in the Towson game -- we had two of them.  Trey Baur with 7 hits set a Cornell record for hits.

There are two divisions in Ivy baseball -- our division includes Princeton, Penn and Columbia.  Teams play 4 games with teams in the division, 2 games with non-division Ivy opponents.  Division winners playoff for the Ivy title in a 3 game series.

Last weekend, Cornell split with Harvard and Dartmouth.  Yesterday Cornell took two from Columbia, 8-7 and 12-6.  Cornell had 33 hits.  Playing Columbia now in first game of a double header.

[David Harding]

It looks like an ERA in the low 4's gets you into the top ten among starters league-wide, so presumably pitching develops more slowly than hitting, or anyway good pitching takes its talents to places with 60-game seasons rather than 30.

Or 162-game seasons...

[mountainred]

It looks like an ERA in the low 4's gets you into the top ten among starters league-wide, so presumably pitching develops more slowly than hitting, or anyway good pitching takes its talents to places with 60-game seasons rather than 30.

Or 162-game seasons...

And metal bats are MUCH more forgiving.

[ugarte]

Passed unnoticed but Cornell had three pitchers taken late in the MLB draft.

https://twitter.com/IvyLeague/status/875072702373138432

https://twitter.com/IvyLeague/status/875079488568262656

https://twitter.com/IvyLeague/status/875081114825752577

http://cornellbigred.com/news/2017/6/14/baseball-trio-of-pitchers-selected-at-mlb-draft.aspx

[billhoward]

There's a #OneIvy hashtag? Good thing the Ivies didn't have that when they were accused of colluding on aid packages for athletes to allegedly keep the cost down.