Season gets ready to go as the number six Vandy boys try and win their second series of the year they take on the and they were swept by UCLA UCLA number 22 so Gago got a start 32 pitch swung on a Miss strike three fast ball blew it by
Him at 93 sort of up in the zone there as a team you you’re better with Carter Holton check swing he went around says home played umpire Derek Malika back to it’s 0 and one Tas very transferred in from Cal State Dominguez Hills this is Bounce vastine
Ranging to his right tough play fires over in the turf picked over at first by Maldonado and it’s a in the pregame the sophomore batting 333 6 for 18 with a double and five runs as they’re you know who can give you the best uh offense production well that’s a good start for
Paddock he’ll take that first pitch swinging was buer right back to the box one pitch but much like we talked about the other day with Synergy and all these two two laced and in the sun losing it over there was the second baseman in Mees so that’s going to be
See his fourth start of the season did not start taking a look it’s got him picked off throw to second is in time Austin tried to dive around the tag 3-2 pitch misses outside ball four so Austin gets the single then gets picked off back stop today dhed on
Wednesday went two for four with there he goes it’s foul tipped into the mid a strikeout for Paddock to end the frame Austin just the fact that he’s he’s like a 70s player these guys are are able to do that RJ Austin in particular Holton gets his third punch
Really gets on you it’s 93 it’s got some good V but but koop’s four for n so far on the season foul tips it into the mid of Espin all backto back punch outs for Holton he’s got here’s Donovan ratfield senior backs Bullpen just wasn’t quite ready to throw that many pitches as
Ratfield tattoos one into center that is the first six up six down right it’s a little bit shaky we’re talking about before deck BR field at second 3-2 pitch sweeper misses away so two out Knock wild henkins has looked pretty solid at the plate so far this
Season he’s halted in danger of walking back to- back hitters and he does so four straight fast balls three were fast ball so let’s try a different pitch try and get something else Bulldogs Runners will go 3-2 pitch grounded it’s going to get through the three four hole two runs
Are going to score how about the nine hole hitter and pton Miller in motion so you put the ball in play it finds a hole you’re going to score some guys and that’s exactly what happens you kind of saw Davis was cheating up the middle and that’s another ball that’s
Spiked Miller’s going to go espanol’s got a cannon throw down the second is in time what a play coming try and get a shutdown inning and for the commodor got to find a way lunch kind of experienced All The Honky Tonks I said you’re here you got to Davis scorches one to Center
This is way back it is gone a solo shot Hur yeah I think we’ll see a lot of that from Jaden Davis this year an absolute blast to straight Center his first home run as a Vandy boy and yeah he’s going to stop you put a
Little extra juice on it again that Back Spin that really little wind helped a little bit too lenie fisted off the hands it’s going to drop in left field Len’s got some good speed but he’s going to be contan really likes his chances even against southpaws len over at first
After the the single bounced over to short could be 643 trying to turn it are the Bulldogs and they do what a big time pitch there from Paddock good pitches so much time and energy is focused on Pitch so focusing on that plate discipline has been um super important for Tim Corbin
Boy Paddock can’t catch a break here on I’ll tell you what the center fielder out there in Coupe he wh yeah I was hoping it was going to be like maybe malalo over at second fast L takes low I’ll tell you what he’s seen it well right he he went
All for three on Wednesday but he lined to to fill up the Zone they did not do that 34 free passes against two away here one run in after the home run by Davis and that change up again to the back stop throw on to second vasin can scoot he’s in there
Safely 3-2 pitch goes back to the change up and struck him out boy he made the adjustment there of course as he goes a little bit further down there it’s bounced over to third Diaz as short-handed as anybody at third base makes the play one away struck out his first time up out
Right field looks like a sweeper coming here and it is and stem for the second time check swung and went around that’s jut down inning here in the top of the third bounced up the middle Davis was ranged up the middle he had to range
To his right to make the play to end the original Vandy boy Tyler Rhoden on his businesses around Nashville Austin smokes one but it’s caught by the short stop and Miller who makes the play well that thing would the locker room um when they come in during the fall having that
Mindset I think that’s why Tim Corbin is so good at developing young men Ball’s carrying a little bit today but not going to be enough for coal was you know get all of the alumni together spin from you know New Jersey just for that and so the the brother Hood and the the
Fraternity that is Vanderbilt baseball is very much alive and well decision there was an intervention that somehow LED at Gonzaga she said Gonzaga means more to our family than anything else as Holton gets his six Kelly and his his two kids story and Mark mov talked about on the phone with
Me earlier this week as Colton gets another punch out yeah I think it just just goes to show the the Brotherhood 02 Fly ball to right again carrying here but the play is going to be made on the warning track missed it 407 ft to dead center 3-2 pitch another change up
Misses away that’s a great at bat there by Davis so he got that two- fast ball that he hammered foul just grounded three four hole and it’s through Davis was thinking third now Slams on the brakes he’s content moving up you know philosophies on he got no
Outs NE at first crucial 3-1 pitch upstairs ball four and that’s what we were talking about before just statistical returning hitter 32 Ball Four inside it’s a heck of an AB hean went down to 02 and is able to work the count and force Paddock to he’s a little bit
Unlucky so far his hard hit rate has been great and speaking of hard hit that’s hard off the foot there and vas’s going to feel that a one hit off the knob and it’s bobbled the tag it’s off the glove everybody’s safe hustling here their Friday Night
Guying of the way commodor are able to manufacture Innings buer Skies one to right carrying the warning track to get the job done though Diaz going to come in and score it’s a productive first out running thin so try and extend your start 1-1 out to right slicing away from
The right fielder but stem is going to make the play in Fair ter going to second is vasin not a great decision there by vasin trying to catch maybe try and let that ball go because no to give that to a fan in that spot and that’s just a another ridiculous slider from
Holton so he here’s Josh henkins delivered a two-run single through the three four hole as henkins Skies one to Center RJ Austin will make the play box six of his 11 starts last year five innings allowing two runs or less as Miller shoots one out to right and the play is
Made by Len nice piece there by milleris this early in the year to see him back out here for the fifth Vanderbilt would give the doors a lot of credit last inning as kosal takes ball four so a walk to lead off the bottom of the fifth
Year all the way up to now you think about the hours in the wing and and you know you spent a lot of time with those guys down the pitching lab Espen all draws pitches there’s a slider there tough play five six hole good diving play
There by Miller try and get a double play O2 swung on and missed makes quick work of lenie just a power fast ball up in the zone the catcher kind of gave him the what was it looks like it’s traditional signs for the Bulldogs and that’s in the turf gets by ratfield and
A run will score Kil comes in it’s now six to to block it up but if he thought it might have just been a fast B he’s going to try and pick it 2 Diaz could be a play at the plate running on contact was espanol and a nice play there by
Henkins the third baseman on the ground if it’s a green light the thought process behind that is so now Mal Maldonado here these guys are playing at the division one level for the very first time as malano Skies one into the Nashville KN Miller calls it
And makes the play but the issue you can talk about you’re on the call of Kevin for the two two grounded over to First malado good play to pick that on the short hop and takes it himself to the back Carter triple digits eyes wise angle I mean
It’s a tough comparison bounced over to Second Davis will make the play and couple of batters couple of ground outs and the ball’s moving that looked like it onew swinging a Miss 102 upstairs high heat Carter a run did score at the bottom of the fifth
But that run was get to paddock’s final line after this pitch vast time off the end of the bat play is going to be made out there in right field by STEM for the first out we’re on Central time um so Kayla you may have to call a homer here it’s gone
Buer if buer is going to piece one up like that it’s 72 there’s a heck of a swing there by Jack bu you see the excitement with Vanderbilt but then they’re going to travel up to Clarksville and they’re going to go ahead and take on Austin P on Monday
So yeah I think they’re doing Austin they’re going all right so you get some of the waterfalls over there and we got to go see up and I’ll tell you guys uh well maybe I should just start talking throw to third gets by the year and Gonzaga was hoping that they’d get
Him in the last game of the year just here last week from Spokane and and a base hit to left I cannot this is hilarious it’s great throw to the plate was not cut off does a fantastic job of just putting the ball in play and
A pitch that he can handle kind of surprised the infield was playing back there is first he did not a second out of the inning but they concede a run there I’m a little so and great food everywhere guys you know that as resident grew up here I have a lot of
Opinions but it’s always good to get somebody else’s opinion as well Fly ball to right boy that was way into the N he’s pumping it up there a consistent triple digit stick it in here onew pitch swung on and missed slider at 85 nastiness from number 90 100 mph fast
Ball right to the face mask of the hum plate um it was it was a sight to behold as that’s bounce Fair ball so that was an interesting little shift they had on there despite how fast Carter that was a a nice piece of hitting not trying to do too much with
100 miles hour Outfield 3-2 grounded over to Second Davis shifting to his left over to Maldonado another shut out Inn struggling and so the biggest thing for them was to have some early successes tough play by the third baseman there and henin we see Ray Velasquez the sophomore out of L
Massachusetts who bangs one in left and The Dugout is fired up about that Velasquez last year but made in back-to-back years in 2021 and 2022 as vasin hits one out to left it’s going to be a big time Collision in left Center and coup who goes down and he took and these two
Guys going hard throughout the day and I’ll walk in and say oh I know that guy lot of Andy boys throughout that have have reached the show I mean that is pretty Casey weathers and a lot of other guys that you probably have heard of playing in
The Major League still diving play by feeling feeling at that’s confirmed from Carter had a sequence where he didn’t banged in right base hit maybe trying to spark something here as henkins second time he’s been aboard he’s now winesday but losing a plethora of arms right
Hunter own and and so Carter is a guy they’re so excited about as this is bounced someone’s got to cover first here and nobody did go out of their way to make I mean that was a line drive caught it bare hand counts two and one here head out towards Right Center
Len go back to get it and tagging over there at 100 in this inning mind you 90 plays a great right field good outfielder as he takes a called strike three it’s the third time he’s gone down today I had some some some down Angle action I mean that is one
Two spikes it in the turf espanol could be a play at the plate trying to make it himself he applies the tag so first time we’re seeing Colin bar played baseball at Northwestern bounced up the middle and how about that really nice approach there by barcy
His first so it’s good to have the depth that these commodor do have it’s been good at the plate buer of course started behind the plate on Wednesday is a wicked slider there gets espanol on three and two for the first his swing is not you know just maxing out he’s really
Just putting the ball in play and as you see right there just slapping all over the park scorches one down the line and right just takes it slaps it the other way says this is where he hits one out to Center this is pretty deep off the bat of Hulk it’s way
Back it is gone the first curve and by the way it looks like I thought the run rule was in effect might not be leaving the field looks like all right well nobody was sure and and made the most of his appearance unbelievable a commodor did a fantastic job strung a
Lot of s off the bat of hul 412 ft that’s a Vandy boy
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