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USC’s Baseball’s Good Run Derailed By ShortSightedness

USC gave it a good run but fell short in a 4-3 loss to Arizona in the Pac-12 Championship game.

It’s too bad USC wasn’t able to capitalize on a great performace by Cade Aoki, who allowed one hit in six-and-a-third innings.

The season is over as the Trojans finished 31-28, winning nine of their final 10 games.

What ruined USC’s chances for an NCAA bid was the 2-9 start to the season.

And let’s be clear: The struggles were in part because of the ridiculous burdens placed on the team, forced to take a bus daily for practices at El Camino College and games in Irvine.

USC was the only team that traveled farther to its home stadium than an opponent (Cal Baptist).

It’s a shame because Andy Stankiewicz demonstrated in his first two years that he is one the best coaches at USC. But he doesn’t coach football, so he has to deal with adversity. Like no home field for two seasons.

20 thoughts on “USC’s Baseball’s Good Run Derailed By ShortSightedness”

  1. Well, that’s what happens when you coach ‘baseball’ at a football school such as SC or as George Goebel used to say, ‘You ever feel like a pair of brown shoes with everybody else wearing a tuxedo?”

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    1. You actually claim to be a USC graduate with that post? You have any idea of the MLB players that played at USC? The list more than rivals the same gor ths NFL who donned the Cardinal and Gold. Unbelievable

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      1. I knew of a man who played for Deaduex back in the 1948 season and won a college world series. he then played fo the yankees. He then became a lawyer. His name is hank workman and had a son that played at my high school and then went to cal. Tradition and names go way back.

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  2. I am feeling a bit sad with SC baseball’s loss but odds are the Trojan team was eventually going to lose somewhere down the line in the National Tournament, so I will just relish 8-wins in a row with a 3-0 lead late in the game to eventually ‘pulling-it-out’ Arizona

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    1. The team won 9 in a row! Used Martinez and Blum too much in relief at the end.

      Aoki should have been left in for one more batter at least only giving up one hit

      to that point of the game.

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  3. The passion-driven Arizona celebration on the field compared to the Wildcat hogging the credit who was a mere ‘pinch-runner’. The focus in baseball’s ‘9th inning wins’ is on the winning hitter as Wildcats mobbed him with one player misjudging and knocking down a fellow player

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  4. In paraphrasing the old joke the exact quote is, “Did you ever get the feeling that the world was a tuxedo and you were a pair of brown shoes?”

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  6. That ‘homelessness’ hurt the Trojan baseball squad early-on but apparently they got used to it because the second half of their season was sterling

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  7. If you were a top high school baseball recruit, would you choose USC knowing that you had to go to Cerritos to practice and Irvine for a home game. The logistics are absurd. I am surprised they have been able to retain their coach and roster given how poorly USC treated the baseball team. Hope the new 100 million dollar football facility is worth it Riley. I still don’t understand why it was a burden for the football team to share facilities with other athletes in the McKay Center which is only 12 years old. An adult should have told Riley No.

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  8. the disrespect for baseball started some time ago. After a storied past Garret so wanted to get rid of Gillespie he hired his son in law Kreuter was probably one of the worst coaches in SC history and that is saying a lot. He pretty much destroyed the program . After he was pushed out with a NCAA investigation pending the program had a series of mediocre coaches hopefully this coach is the real thing and SC will be back

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      1. All chaos and true evil have the common historical denominator of being controlled by ‘enlightened’ ‘progressives ‘Jacobins’ ‘radicals’ ‘ ‘marxists’ ‘national socialists’ ‘demoncrats’ aka Communists…all.

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