Softball Saturday in Clearwater: FSU softball vs. Georgia (9 a.m. on ESPN2)

[Bob Ferrante]

Saturday's game between top-5 teams has been bumped up to 9 a.m.

We'll have updates below in the thread:

 

[Bob Ferrante]

Georgia jumps on FSU early

Kearney two-run home run and now Mosley's two-run double

 

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Digby with an RBI double and Georgia extends the lead to 5-0

And mercifully a pop out to end the inning

Middle 1st, Georgia 5-0

 

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Kerr flies out
Torres grounds out

Harding solo home run. A no-doubter

Beachum grounds out

End 1st, 5-1 Georgia

 

[Bob Ferrante]

Danley in to pitch

She gets a strikeout to start the second
Kearney walks
Davila strikes out
Kuma singles, Kearney to second
Chambley walks, bases loaded

 

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Mosley worked a 3-0 count, then on a 3-1 clears the bases with a double

Georgia 8-1

 

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Mosley to third on a wild pitch
Gordon walks

Digby two-run double

Georgia 10-1

 

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Reid in to pitch

 

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Burnett two-run home run and that was a monster shot to CF

 

[jesusfreak132]

This is insanely hard to watch…..

 

[Bob Ferrante]

Kearney two-run homer

14-1 Georgia

 

[Bob Ferrante]

Davilla walks
Reid gets a strikeout to mercifully end the inning

Middle 2nd, 14-1

 

[JonScott]

Is there a mercy rule?.

 

[jesusfreak132]

Is there a mercy rule?.

Yeah…..we may wanna throw in the towel. 9 runs this inning with 2 outs.

 

[Bob Ferrante]

Flaherty lines out
Edenfield doubles
Wacaser grounds out, PR advances to third base
Ross walks

 

[Bob Ferrante]

Think there's a mercy rule but Georgia would need to be up eight runs after five innings

 

[Boca]

Wow flipping through channels..forgot we had early game...what a disaster

 

[Bob Ferrante]

Throwing error by Georgia pitcher, Dack gets to first and a run scores

14-2

 

[Bob Ferrante]

Kerr reaches on an error and the ball sails over 1B

Two FSU runs score and Kerr is at second

Georgia 14-4

 

[Bob Ferrante]

If the Georgia pitcher can't field and throw to first, this could get interesting

 

[Bob Ferrante]

Torres strikes out but FSU gets three runs across

14-4 Georgia

 

[Boca]

interesting like 33-24... game will end as FSU-Duke hoops starts

 

[Bob Ferrante]

Mosley grounds out
Gordon solo home run, 15-4

 

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Castorini singles
Armistead walks
Goodwin fouls out
Kearney walks

And the bases are loaded with two down

 

[Bob Ferrante]

And Madi Balk issues a walk

16-4

 

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Balk gets a strikeout to end the inning

Middle 3rd, 16-4

 

[Bob Ferrante]

Harding walks
Beachum reaches on a fielder's choice
Hartley singles
Two on with one out for Madi Frey (she has taken over at C for Edenfield)

Frey RBI single to CF

Runners on the corners
Harp walks
Ross pops out

Dack bloop single, RBI

But out at home as FSU tried to add another run

Georgia 16-6

 

[Bob Ferrante]

Fields pops out
Mosley walks
Gordon walks
Digby RBI double, 17-6
Armistead pops out
Goodnight grounds out

Georgia 17-6, middle 4th

 

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Kerr doubles to lead off the fourth
Torres two-run HR, elevated pitch and a pretty swing

17-8

 

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Harding grounds out
Potter with a well-hit grounder, reaches on an error
Hartley grounds out
Frey grounds out

End 4th, 17-8 Georgia

 

[Bob Ferrante]

Kearney walks
Davilla singles
Kuma singles, bases loaded
Fields bloop single, 18-8 Georgia

 

[Bob Ferrante]

And now the rain is really coming down. Delay has begun

 

[Bob Ferrante]

To wrap up the top 5th

Mosley had a two-run double, 20-8 Georgia

Gooden gets the final two outs in the inning

 

[Bob Ferrante]

Harp double
Bueno ground out
Dack single
Kerr sac fly, run scores, 20-9

Torres singles, runners on corners

Harding RBI single, 20-10

Potter grounds into a fielder's choice, flip to 3B

Georgia wins 20-10 (five innings, mercy rule)

 

[Bob Ferrante]

FSU loses on back-to-back days despite scoring 10 runs in each game. Wild

 

[waternole]

FSU loses on back-to-back days despite scoring 10 runs in each game. Wild

34 runs given up in 12 innings.
Holy smokes.

 

[waternole]

FSU loses on back-to-back days despite scoring 10 runs in each game. Wild

Finishing Clearwater with a win against #2 Tennessee would do a lot to make up for the last 2 games.
But, that seems like a tough ask with the questions in the circle currently.

 

[NoleLizards]

To be fair, the defense hasn't exactly helped the pitchers so far.

 

[kcnole63]

To be fair, the defense hasn't exactly helped the pitchers so far.

The defense hasn't been that bad. It is mostly just bad pitching. Reid is struggling after having a good year last season as a freshman. Danley shows potential but she is too inconsistent at this point. Royalty is pitching fairly well but she is not a dominating type pitcher. It looks like we will be involved in a lot of high-scoring games.

 

[waternole]

To be fair, the defense hasn't exactly helped the pitchers so far.

We had 1 recorded error. Not saying we played great defensively but giving up 30 hits and 23 walks was likely the problem in the 2 games.