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OneLegUpAlex Media's Call of St. John's Winning the 2026 Big East Baseball Title · OneLegUpAlex Sports

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  Speaker 1: All right, fresh off the Cooper's Town trip, taking it
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  Speaker 1: down to Presco Park in the Big East Tournament where
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  Speaker 1: Saint John's in the bottom of seventh is looking to
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  Speaker 1: take a lead against Creighton, and I realize there's no
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  Speaker 1: broadcast in New York covering this game. Saint John's baseball
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  Speaker 1: deserved the same respect as Saint John's basketball. Let's be honest.
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  Speaker 1: Mike Hampton metam earlier in the year and their coaching staff,
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  Speaker 1: coaching staff for the Big East, they're making waves. They've
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  Speaker 1: already won this thing a couple of years ago, and
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  Speaker 1: they're a local product, and in Saint John's baseball is
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  Speaker 1: a local product. They have even alumni. And guess who's
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  Speaker 1: up right now? Those are versus second Will Cohen. Now,
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  Speaker 1: when I was at the ballpark a couple of weeks
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  Speaker 1: ago at Jack Kaiser Stadium, Will Cohen has had monster day.
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  Speaker 1: Let's see what you can do year with runner the
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  Speaker 1: first and second two out, it's well going to miss
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  Speaker 1: in the Count's OH one. Cohen also featured on the
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  Speaker 1: Big East Flyer for today's promo of the championship game
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  Speaker 1: between Craig and Saint John's. Interesting enough, the game I
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  Speaker 1: met coachat today was the Saint John's Creton game just
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  Speaker 1: two weeks ago. So here they are in the Biggiesst
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  Speaker 1: Championship at Presco Park. Here's the pitch. It Swollna missed
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  Speaker 1: and the count is on two. Craton is one of
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  Speaker 1: those teams that's always in it. They do tend to
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  Speaker 1: win this thing a lot. That's why I went Saint
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  Speaker 1: John's up into the system a couple of years ago
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  Speaker 1: and won it. It drew my attention in for sure.
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  Speaker 1: And that was, of course, as Cohen steps in, here's
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  Speaker 1: the pitch, it's well gone and fouled off his foot,
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  Speaker 1: oh and two soon. And the interesting thing to me,
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  Speaker 1: of course, was that a year earlier in Queen's College
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  Speaker 1: baseball won their Big East tournament. I've won their East
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  Speaker 1: Coast Conference tournament. And as I said on this podcast,
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  Speaker 1: baseball in Queen's is alive and well. And I still
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  Speaker 1: believe that, especially now as Saint john is already co
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  Speaker 1: Champion of the Year and as ESPN pleasant reporting, whoever
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  Speaker 1: wins today does make it to the tournament, the NCAA Tournament.
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  Speaker 1: So of course all I should be honest. If you're
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  Speaker 1: a New York City baseball fan, it's Queen's baseball right here.
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  Speaker 1: St John's. Here's the one who to Cohen. There's a
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  Speaker 1: round ball, a short and throw, a second overthrow into
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  Speaker 1: as first base, and a run scores, and Saint John's
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  Speaker 1: is up by one. Greeted to Will Cohen with a
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  Speaker 1: smoke shot through the whole shortstop could not handle it.
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  Speaker 1: Probably try to get the four s out and second
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  Speaker 1: and stakes a lead in this very pivotal Game one
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  Speaker 1: of the Big East Championship. If they do win, there
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  Speaker 1: will not be a game two. But Cohen with that
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  Speaker 1: typical swing deep into the hole at short and but
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  Speaker 1: Rundi scores. Cohen's fired up as always everywhere you see him,
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  Speaker 1: whatever base He's always fired up. I love that energy
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  Speaker 1: for that kid. Here's the pitch that one's looped into
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  Speaker 1: center field and through for a base head another run scores.
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  Speaker 1: It's an RBI for Saint John's is eight and five
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  Speaker 1: and just like that, five to three, Saint John's with
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  Speaker 1: the lead. All right, it's the top of the ninth
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  Speaker 1: and Saint John's up five to three and outs away
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  Speaker 1: from clinching their second Big East Tournament in three years.
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  Speaker 1: We'll see what happens. ESPN Plus is our soundtrack today.
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  Speaker 2: And I'll tell you if he were to do this
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  Speaker 2: two times out of three years, that would be special.
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  Speaker 1: Here's the first picture that top of the night strike
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  Speaker 1: Nope fall in the accounts one to know to Cooper
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  Speaker 1: who she know? The dh or Creighton Presco Park is
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  Speaker 1: the site of to this year's Big East tournament. That's
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  Speaker 1: a strike on the inside, coining the counts one and one.
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  Speaker 1: I've seen guys pitching this year like Evan Chaffie a
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  Speaker 1: couple of times. And boyl boy, you talk about the
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  Speaker 1: rotation when you talk about the depth of this bullpen
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  Speaker 1: as well. It's a solid combination for John's team that
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  Speaker 1: is looking for their second biggest tournament in as many years.
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  Speaker 1: And here's the picture right in account is two and two.
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  Speaker 1: Evan Hacerley is the picture today, a picture right now
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  Speaker 1: in for the Johnnies Green two m Fuccino, Johnny's coming
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  Speaker 1: in the one seed creating four. Here's the three to
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  Speaker 1: two rounded to third play. I won't throw it the
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  Speaker 1: first in time. I want to scoop it first. I
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  Speaker 1: want to scoop by the first baseman on that throw.
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  Speaker 1: Jean McMillan, and there's one away as Puccina was hustling down,
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  Speaker 1: but Gray played at the hot corner. And then I
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  Speaker 1: throw it first in time, and there's one away. Look,
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  Speaker 1: if you're Saint John's, you do not want to go
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  Speaker 1: to a game two. You just don't. Here's the first
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  Speaker 1: pitch of the next at bat, oh to one, and
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  Speaker 1: it's Nick van Tiger. Now again, I'm only doing this
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  Speaker 1: because I don't think anybody locally is calling these games
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  Speaker 1: for Saint John, So as much as I can, I'd
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  Speaker 1: love to do it. Here's the one that one's lifted
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  Speaker 1: into left field, playable out there and left, and the
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  Speaker 1: Johnnies are one out of way as leftfielder makes the catch.
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  Speaker 1: Look at these kids on the edge of the dugout banister,
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  Speaker 1: ready to jump, ready to hoot and holler for the
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  Speaker 1: second time in three years. You believe that Acoles first
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  Speaker 1: pitch of the next I bet in their first striking
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  Speaker 1: accounts only one. Chris Balaragan. Balargan is their last hope
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  Speaker 1: in Creighton. Here's the pitch that one's grounded a third
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  Speaker 1: field that fires to first, and that is it.
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  Speaker 3: The Johnnies are Big East champions for the second time
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  Speaker 3: in three years and for twenty twenty six. Congratulations as
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  Speaker 3: they're mobbing each other, Mike Hampton, second time in three years,
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  Speaker 3: second time in three years, eleventh title all time, and
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  Speaker 3: now they wait to see.
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  Speaker 1: Where they go next. But congrats to the Saint John's
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  Speaker 1: Red Storm. The Johnny's are going to the NC Double
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  Speaker 1: A Tournament.
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  Speaker 2: Eleventh Big East title.
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  Speaker 1: It is and that is the final words from ESPN Plus.
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  Speaker 1: I'm Alex Garrett. Congrats to the Saint John's Red Storm
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  Speaker 1: baseball team and the coaching staff of the Year.