I watched most of the game on ESPN3 while polishing marble floors (a 30 hour job that is almost done).
First, good announcers on ESPN3 including Brian Gaudin and another good annoucer whose name I didn't catch.
http://www.ramblinwreck.com/genrel/080513aab.html It'll be interesting to see if he is always our home ESPN3 announcer.
Second, our in-field is really good. Smith, Justus and Bailey made some really nice plays that took away hits. Our out field looked slower than last year, but that could be the temperature or wind preventing as good a read. FWIW, the ND outfield looked about the same. Justus hurt his ankle and hopefully will be able to play today - he played the rest of the game but sprains can tighten up over night.
Third, the ND in field took away some hits and the wind easily took away some home runs. I think we were swinging too hard (hind sight is 20/20 and even better the day after at a keyboard). I agree that we didn't wait a few pitches to let the ND starter walk us and get his pitch count up. He had control problems but we helped him out a lot - we love to chase high fast balls. Kel's HR was on the first pitch.
Fourth, King fought with his control and won. He walked three in the first three innings but then settled in. Give one to Hall, I would have pulled King in the second. The second inning started off with a walk which scored. King threw 96 pitches with 60 strikes - 63%. Gorst in relief was better - 46 pitches and 34 strikes or 74%. Each gave up a run for about every 50 pitches. That will win most games when we start getting the timely hits.
Fifth, Beesball always seems to make it hard. I expect the team will play well again today and just hope some more hits find holes for us. Overall, the team played much better against ND than Ohio. But ND is a better team than Ohio and just a bit better than we were last night.