Mizzou Baseball Quotes & Notes

■ Falmouth sweeps twinbill (Cape Cod Online)

Missouri’s Conner Mach hit a three-run homer in the fifth inning and the Commodores held off a late rally by the Anglers to win the first game of a doubleheader 7-6, then TCU righty Kyle Winkler shut down Chatham 5-2 to complete a Falmouth sweep at Guv Fuller Field.

Mach’s shot – his second of the summer – bounced off the glove of Chatham left fielder Steven Brooks, who suffered a knee injury on the play but walked off the field.

■ Ryan Gebhart is playing in the Alaska Baseball League (ABL) for the AIA Fire. He has started every game since his arrival at CF and is hitting leadoff for his team. He has played every inning of every game since his arrival in Alaska. He is hitting around .270 which is third on his team. He will be playing in the NBC World Series in Wichita, KS in August for the Anchorage Glacier Pilots as each team can add a limited number of players for this tournament. Ryan will be playing CF and leading off for the Glacier Pilots. The team website for the Athletes in Action (AIA) Fire is http://www.aiabaseball.org/alaska/.

■ More detail on NCAA Proposes Ban on Composite Barrels from Baseball America:

"Because all bat designs must pass this test before mass production, this research indicates that the performance of such bats changed thereafter, mostly likely due to repeated, normal use and/or intentional alteration," the memo said. "Offensive statistics at the Division I level also indicate a significant increase in batting averages and home runs the past two seasons."
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Vanderbilt coach Tim Corbin, a former chair of the Rules Committee and the current president of the American Baseball Coaches Association, began lobbying other coaches and administrators to take action midway through the season after noticing greatly enhanced exit speeds off some composite bats. Typically, Corbin said, balls that are squared up by hitters with good bat speed will come off normal metal bats at 95-99 mph. But this spring, Corbin and his staff noticed a number of exit speeds in excess of 110 mph, topping out at 117. Obviously, that kind of bat performance is a threat not only to the integrity of the game, but also to the safety of the players on the field.