2008 Woodie Awards
Offense Does It Many Ways
Baseball
Mike Northup
Issue date: 3/27/08 Section: Sports
On Monday, the UConn baseball team used small ball to manufacture enough runs to come away with a 4-2 home victory over UMass. Tuesday's 10-3 win over Holy Cross featured some timely power-hitting from the Huskies' bats to get the job done.
In Wednesday's 4-3 home victory over Yale, the Huskies got a little of both on the offensive end behind strong play from centerfielder Elliot Glynn and second baseman Pierre LePage to help extend their current win streak to four-straight.
After cruising through the first four innings, Yale starter Joe Castaldi ran into trouble with the UConn bats in the fifth.
After a single by designated hitter Matt Karl and a walk to rightfielder Matt Burnett, second baseman LePage attempted a sacrifice bunt, but wound up reaching after Yale catcher Davis Stanley threw to third to get Karl out.
The very next pitch from Castaldi was hammered for a home run by centerfielder Elliot Glynn into the fan area in right field to put the Huskies up 3-0.
"We're kind of a scrappy team, so whenever we can get a long ball it helps out," Glynn said.
Glynn's three-run shot came a day after he hit a grand slam against Holy Cross. The recent fortune at the plate has come as a surprise to Glynn, who admitted to struggling at the plate as of recent.
"Usually I'm not a first-ball-swing kind of guy, but today on that home run I just kind of went out there and said 'I'll swing at the first pitch this time if it's there,'" Glynn said. "And it was there and I got a lot of it."
Head coach Jim Penders is very impressed with the freshman Glynn's approach at the plate this season.
"The reason that he's in the lineup is he has quality at-bats," Penders said. "That's something that we've been talking about over and over again. You look at how often he's been on base in that two-hole and it's fun watching him play."
While Penders is impressed with Glynn's plate discipline, he doesn't want Glynn, who came into the game with five extra-base hits all year, going up to try to hit it out of the park every at-bat regardless of the recent power-surge.
In Wednesday's 4-3 home victory over Yale, the Huskies got a little of both on the offensive end behind strong play from centerfielder Elliot Glynn and second baseman Pierre LePage to help extend their current win streak to four-straight.
After cruising through the first four innings, Yale starter Joe Castaldi ran into trouble with the UConn bats in the fifth.
After a single by designated hitter Matt Karl and a walk to rightfielder Matt Burnett, second baseman LePage attempted a sacrifice bunt, but wound up reaching after Yale catcher Davis Stanley threw to third to get Karl out.
The very next pitch from Castaldi was hammered for a home run by centerfielder Elliot Glynn into the fan area in right field to put the Huskies up 3-0.
"We're kind of a scrappy team, so whenever we can get a long ball it helps out," Glynn said.
Glynn's three-run shot came a day after he hit a grand slam against Holy Cross. The recent fortune at the plate has come as a surprise to Glynn, who admitted to struggling at the plate as of recent.
"Usually I'm not a first-ball-swing kind of guy, but today on that home run I just kind of went out there and said 'I'll swing at the first pitch this time if it's there,'" Glynn said. "And it was there and I got a lot of it."
Head coach Jim Penders is very impressed with the freshman Glynn's approach at the plate this season.
"The reason that he's in the lineup is he has quality at-bats," Penders said. "That's something that we've been talking about over and over again. You look at how often he's been on base in that two-hole and it's fun watching him play."
While Penders is impressed with Glynn's plate discipline, he doesn't want Glynn, who came into the game with five extra-base hits all year, going up to try to hit it out of the park every at-bat regardless of the recent power-surge.
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