D1’s website is shit right now! Trying to watch this stream, and I can’t get it to load on my phone or laptop.
Wish ESPN would get into streaming these early season tournaments not outfits better suited to a local high school game of the week.
Help computer. Looking for some assistance here before calling customer service. i haven't been able to watch LSU baseball on my tv this last week. I have youtube tv which has the espns and sec network channels. I also pay for espn + which allowed me to watch just about every lsu baseball game last year on the espn app on my tv. My problem is any game on secn + comes up as “unable to play”. If the game has espn + in the top left corner of the icon, i can watch it.
Log out of your ESPN app (or delete it and re-add it to your apps) then log back in with your YTTV login. I think the app might only be recognizing your ESPN+ login, which doesn’t include the SECN+ games.
Thanks. Trying this now. i got off work a little early Thursday and was looking to put the game on and got blocked. Slightly frustrating
We weathered the Brody Brecht storm last night and didn’t get in a big hole and were able to jump Iowa’s bullpen for 5 runs in the 7th and 8th last night.
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Hagen Smith’s jaw-dropping performance highlights magical Friday at Globe Life AT THE BALLPARK Aaron Fitt - February 24, 2024 ARLINGTON, Texas — Very rarely does an early-season college baseball game deliver the kind of compelling theater we witnessed Friday night at Globe Life Field. The matchup between No. 2 Arkansas and No. 7 Oregon State was the most highly anticipated game on the entire preconference calendar in 2024, a rematch of the 2018 CWS Finals featuring two hugely talented starting pitchers in Arkansas lefty Hagen Smith and OSU righty Aiden May. The Beavers have a premier offense led by perhaps the most talented pure hitter in the nation in Travis Bazzana, and the college baseball world was eager to see how Smith — a first-team preseason All-American with top-of-the-draft talent — would bounce back from a rough one-inning start last week and match up against Bazzana and the dangerous Beaver lineup. On top of all those storylines, the action would unfold at a big league stadium in a highly charged atmosphere in front of more than 15,000 fans. The stage was set for something special — but what we saw transcended special. It was pure magic. Spoiler The box score will show that Arkansas prevailed 5-4 and that Smith received a no-decision — and watching these two clubs trade blows and walk the tightrope in the late innings was plenty compelling on its own. But the biggest source of magic Friday night was Smith, who turned in one of the most dominant, jaw-dropping pitching performances you will ever see. In fact, Arkansas pitching coach Matt Hobbs said after the game that he had never seen anything like it in his 20-year coaching career. Smith tied an Arkansas record with 17 strikeouts over six innings of three-hit, shutout ball, walking just one. Remarkably, despite that high strikeout total, he threw just 78 pitches (59 for strikes). Each of the first 15 outs he recorded through five innings came via strikeouts, until Oregon State finally grounded out to open the sixth. Smith then proceeded to strike out the next two batters to end his outing, handing his bullpen a 4-0 lead. Arkansas coach Dave Van Horn said he has repeatedly lamented playing last Friday’s season opener in 36 degree weather, with a wind chill in the low 20s — and Smith was simply not sharp in those conditions, exiting after laboring through a 42-pitch first inning, allowing three runs to James Madison. But it would have been foolhardy to place any stock in that outing, given the circumstances, and the Hogs were confident he would rebound with a vengeance in Week Two. “Obviously it didn’t go good last week. We knew he was going to pitch good tonight,” Van Horn said. “We didn’t know if we were going to win the game or what, but he’s really good. That’s the way he pitched in the fall, his bullpens look like that, he holds his stuff. We play with a lot of confidence when he’s on the mound. Everything was working. He even started flashing two changeups there late. I don’t know, we’ll see how he does next week, but it’d be hard to ever top that one.” Hobbs said before the game that Smith’s fastball spin rate was way down in the cold weather last week, but his heater had its typical giddy-up in the first inning, when he pumped 97-99 gas with high spin rates in the 2400 rpm range. After freezing Bazzana on a nasty 87 mph slider for strike three to lead off the game (the first of three Smith strikeouts of Bazzana), Smith used his heater to record his next two strikeouts in the first. From that point on, he used his ridiculous 84-87 mph slider as the putaway pitch on every one of his other 14 strikeouts. It reminded me of a vintage Carlos Rodon performance during his days at NC State; when Rodon was at his peak, his fastball might be 94-97, but everyone knew the slider was his out pitch, and they still couldn’t hit it. That was Smith on Friday night — as good as the fastball velocity and command were, the slider was simply unhittable. Even against a lineup stuffed with good righthanded hitters, Smith could locate that slider wherever he wanted, in or out of the zone, and he repeatedly got those righties to chase it down out of the zone, or froze the lefties by painting the outside corner with the slider. “His fastball was good, but his slider was like, he could go to it at any time, behind in the count. He had them thinking they were going to get a fastball and it was a slider again,” Van Horn said. “They had the perfect bunt, and the ground ball up the middle — they really didn’t get the ball to the outfield on him. Whenever he felt like he was in a little bit of trouble, he threw a couple of those secondary pitches to get them out front and got them out.” Smith said the only other time in his career he had such good feel for his slider was his freshman year in Omaha, but he has worked hard on his strength and conditioning to also improve his fastball velocity, which he held deep into this outing, still sitting at 94-96 in his final inning of work. He also has worked hard on fine-tuning his command, and Friday he showed a combination of elite stuff and elite command that we’ve seen from only a handful of college pitchers over the last two decades — from guys with last names like Strasburg and Skenes. Like those two college baseball legends, Smith looked like a No. 1 overall draft pick on Friday night. There’s a long way to go before draft day, but this outing provided serious validation that all the hype Smith generated during his tour de force fall was warranted. And the hordes of scouts assembled at Globe Life surely took notice. So did the rowdy Arkansas faithful, who recognized that they were watching greatness. For his part, Smith relished the experience. “It was incredible fun,” he said. “I knew coming down here that our fans were going to show up. It’s always fun playing behind them.” The fun was only magnified by the excellence of Smith’s counterpart, Aiden May, whose electric stuff rivaled Smith’s in the early going. The Oregon State righthander pumped 94-96 mph heaters with elite spin in the 2500-2600rpm range, and his 84-88 slider was downright filthy, with tight spin into the 2900-3000 rpm range. He and Smith traded zeroes for four innings, and May racked up six strikeouts of his own. But he exited with an apparent injury to his elbow or forearm with two men aboard in the fifth, putting a damper on what was an otherwise supremely fun evening. Oregon State righty Aiden May (Aaron Fitt) And after May’s exit, Arkansas quickly broke the scoreless tie on Ben McLaughlin’s three-run double to center field later in the fifth. The Hogs tacked on another run in the sixth to take a 4-0 lead — but Oregon State fought back once Smith exited the game. The Beavers got two in the seventh, highlighted by a Dallas Macias pinch-hit RBI double, then tied the game on Mason Guerra’smammoth 446-foot two-run homer in the eighth, setting the stage for some late-innings drama. But Arkansas responded, as Peyton Holt — who had grounded into two double plays earlier in the night — delivered a clutch RBI double off the center-field wall in the bottom of the eighth. Then the Hogs held off another OSU comeback bid in the ninth, as reliever Jake Faherty struck out the final two batters of the game on 96 mph heaters, stranding the tying run at third base. “I thought he did an incredible job. He didn’t seem sped up, he looked normal to me,” Van Horn said of Faherty, who has always tantalized with his stuff but struggled to harness it over previously in his Arkansas career, seeing the mound just twice over the last two seasons. “The runner at third was working him a little bit and he didn’t let it bother him. He was throwing the ball 96 miles an hour with some serious sink and run on it. He’s got an outstanding slider that’s 90 miles an hour or more, but he said, ‘Heck with that, we’re going with that fastball.’ That thing was dipping and diving, and he got them out.” It was a scintillating finish to an instant classic. February baseball doesn’t get any better than that. Oklahoma State takes down Michigan In the early game Friday at Globe Life, Oklahoma State broke open a 2-1 game with five runs in the sixth inning en route to a 9-3 win against Michigan. Nolan Schubart got the Cowboys on the board in the second inning with a towering 433-foot home run over the bullpen in right-center, and OSU never looked back. “I was just attacking first-pitch heater [against Michigan starter Mitch Voit],” Schubart said. “The scouting report, we knew he liked to work off his fastball, so I was just looking at it. Brueggy [Colin Brueggemann] getting the heater right before [and lining it to left for a single], I had my timing on deck and I was looking for it, and I ended up getting it. I was able to get my barrel on the ball and was able to get us an early lead.” Nolan Schubart celebrates his second-inning homer with the Cowboy hat treatment (Eddie Kelly/ProLook Photos) Brueggemann and Schubart each reached safely and scored runs in the sixth and seventh innings as well, helping Oklahoma State pull away. The other big hero for the Cowboys on Friday was starting pitcher Sam Garcia, who turned in 5.1 innings of three-hit, one-run ball, striking out six. Garcia showed good command throughout with his lively 90-92 mph sinker, and he escaped a bases-loaded jam in the second with back-to-back strikeouts. He didn’t have his best feel for his changeup on this night, but he found his feel for his 77-82 mph slider starting around the second inning, and he had great success using that pitch for repeated swing-and-misses against righties or lefties alike. The pitch showed good sharp tilt, and he commanded it. A transfer from High Point, Garcia was very good in 2022, when he posted a 1.94 ERA in 60.1 innings for the Panthers, but he battled some control problems in 2023, when he finished 1-8, 7.57 with 49 strikeouts and 35 walks in 44 innings of work. But Oklahoma State’s coaches like what they saw from Garcia once they began scouting him after he entered the transfer portal, and Friday he showed a glimpse of why the Pokes thought he had Friday night potential in the fall. “Rob [Walton] went and saw him pitch and said, ‘I like this kid. He’s a lefthander that can sink it and he’s got a change and a slider. And he’s got some poise and he’s got some know-how, and he’s got a strong desire to learn,’” Oklahoma State coach Josh Holliday said. “So there were three or four ingredients there: some maturity, some experience, some desire to learn. This is a guy we thought we could help get better, despite the numbers, which last year for him were ugly, this is a good pitcher, and his Cape coach said the same thing. So we just saw a guy that we thought, the college game with lefties like him with a good slider and the sinker and change, plus he holds runners, could be an effective pitcher. And we’ve been real impressed with his maturity once we got him on campus.”
If you’re arkansas, you have to come away from last night wildly uncomfortable for the rest of the season thinking about how they almost blew a record performance
I logged out and back in. Didnt work. One of my TCL tvs i can watch the game on now. But two new Samsung tvs it still isn’t working. Luckily i was able to use airplay to cast the game to the tv i wanted to watch on. Hopefully i will resolve the issue soon.