She made about three really bad pitches.  The two run homer and the two HBPs.  The solo shot wasn't a good pitch but not terrible.  Most days that's a fly out to left.

Once she started getting that call on the outside corner against righties it was almost impossible to hit her.

Major progress this year with a super young team.  Seems like every major contributor except Tholl should be back, give or take transfer portal shenanigans.

Apparently have to get her early. Jeez.

OkSU goes 1-2-3 in the sixth.  Need a baserunner before we can do anything...

I think Kilfoyl has throw 41 pitches the last four innings after 32 in the first?

When we're bounced, it's usually because of defense.  At least it feels like.

Lose a ball in the sun then a 2 run homer, down 4-1.

That drop/change combination is deadly right now.

More shaky infield defense but Derkowski gets out of it and leaves the bases loaded.  Need some good ABs to give her a rest if nothing else.

Kilfoyl definitely settled in after that shaky first.  Unfortunate.

Tholl stays in, but guessing she's removed after her at bat in the bottom half and re-enters her next time up?

1-2-3 in the second

BTW ESPN says we host if we win and Nova wins, but we'd go to Tucson if we won and Arizona wins.

Good ABs, but leave the bases loaded.  Their starter had a rough first inning yesterday then shut down Kentucky afterwards.

Texas game final, so we're now on ESPN.

Tholl singles to get Sieler home after fouling one off her shin that had to have hurt.  Trend of injured Wolverines with clutch hits the last two days.

Tholl doesn't get down on a ball she should have and a run scores.  Derkowski recovers and limits the damage, but 1-0 after the top half of the first.

That is not an ideal start.

It's 7-0 and Northwestern just got their first hit, so they kinda did.

Texas doesn't score in the 6th, so that game is going the full distance.  We're starting on ESPN News at 3:05.

Cats going to make it to the sixth.  Down 7-0 without a hit entering bottom 5 though.

Northwestern is having a bad time early against Texas.  5-0 in the second.  If that game gets run ruled more likely our game starts on time/starts airing on time.

Double elimination.  We get the loser of Northern Colorado/Oklahoma State tomorrow.  If we win that we get the loser of Kentucky and the winner of the other game.  If we win that, would have to beat the 2-0 team twice on Sunday.

Gonna first guess that IBB.

I think Langford was bunting for a hit, based on body language.

They clearly reviewed the time, ruled it a good goal and then yeah probably technically should have been a pro forma faceoff but /shrug

Gotta say, kind of a point in their favor.  McKinsey suuuuuuuuuuucks.

Actual teams also have different evaluations than draft dudes.  Sometimes better sometimes worse.

JJ was the only guy projected early.  Should be a run of Wolverines later this evening.  Jenkins, Colson, Sainristil, Wilson probably.

We're on a run of guys worse than Kris Jenkins at DT right now (and Newton, who's legit)

Hockey's Keith Jackson.

Not a ton of takes from that performance.  Marlon Klein looked pretty plausible as a receiver.  Zeke Berry looked like he can be good in run support.  The guys we know are good are good.

Orji take: solid on his first read, second read should be to run right now.

Was super annoyed by the DTE ads inside the stadium.  GTFO, ads.  Especially for a shit company that struggles to keep the power on.

He sexually harassed Caitlin Clark at her introductory press conference.  And he felt so comfortable doing it he did it in public.  So what's he doing behind closed doors?

Needs to be suspended at the very least.

The real what if is what if Grant Newsome's leg isn't destroyed.  We beat Iowa and OSU in 2016, make the playoff (lose, because we weren't elite yet) and how does that impact recruiting?  And how much does Newsome help the 2017 team?

(Also he's still in the NFL)

173k day one from Michigan alone.

Brindley signs with CBJ, waiting on McGroarty and Casey mostly.

They were the 4th, 8th, and 23rd picks in last year's draft.

BC's better than us, no shame in losing to them.  Mostly frustrating that we didn't win either of the last two years when we were them, but don't teach defense as well.

And that's bad for Barzo and the door slamming shut for good.  Was mostly closed already.

Pretty good push to start the period.

We were only a third period team two weeks ago, the rest of the year we suuuuuuuuuuucked in the third.

BC burying their chances, we're not.

Nation's leading goal scorer in a one on zero isn't really Barzo's fault.  Need some of those saves, but you can't expect them.

Casey out of gas there?  Been a rough night for him.

That call is awful.

Minnesota should be embarrassed by this surface.

Frank's gotta bury that.

One real bad pinch against this elite transition team and two dumb penalties.  Otherwise we were better in a moment to moment basis, but no absolute grade A's.

Good kill.

They got it right, Estapa should be scratched Saturday if we win this.