Happy Valley Hardball with a sabermetrics twist

DownloadCoach Bell’s postgame remarks

Baseball – Penn State University Official Athletic Site via kwout UncleLar Take: After spending 20 minutes or so over a Rolling Rock last night trying to convince a friend of mine that this team didn’t “suck” as bad as he thought they did, it was nice to see the team come through with a sweep [...]

With a doubleheader sweep of Indiana, PSU made a big jump in the leagues standings in just a little over 24 hours. They were tied for last as they started play Friday night. The win over Indiana last night jumped them into seventh place. And their two wins over Indiana today now has them sitting [...]

Baseball – Penn State University Official Athletic Site via kwout UncleLar Take: The Nits have themselves setup to make a big move in the standings if they can keep playing this well for the rest of the weekend.

Taking the first step via kwout UncleLar Take: The first few sentences of this story are unreadable but I’m hoping that someone at the CDT wakes up and fixes it before long. Hopefully when you link to the story it reads better than what’s captured in the snapshot. As I check this afternoon, I see [...]

Nittany Lions Trip Up Hoosiers 7-3 – <blank> via kwout

Download Coach Bell on Indiana performance UncleLar Take: JB talked about the importance of putting pressure on the other team throughout the game and he was proud of the way that our guys did that. I would add that nothing puts pressure on a team like their ace losing the opening game of the series. [...]

Baseball – Penn State University Official Athletic Site via kwout UncleLar Take: Some of the guys that I was semi-critical of in my post about RBI production on Thursday stepped up to lead PSU to victory Friday evening. Props to Rick Marlin (big time 3 rbi night), Landon Nakata, and Lou Picconi who all drove [...]