Is anyone watching Florida and South Carolina on CSS?

[drt7891]

It's amazing how aggressive South Carolina and Florida are at the plate. Ray Tanner and O'Sullivan has no problem letting their guys swing away instead of laying off everything and playing the waiting game. They attack the freakin' strike zone like their lives depended on it with the bats. Just an observation. I wonder if we would get more base hits if we would attack pitchers in the strike zone more? Or is it our guys just don't know how to read pitches? <div>
</div><div>ETA: I completely forgot this game was last Friday night... Flame away.</div>

 

[HammerOfTheDogs]

Especially when you have runners on base. Even a weakly-hit ground ball makes the defense have to make a play. You could move the runner over, or perhaps the defense makes an error. When you swing at strike three, it shows you tried your best and that it just wasn't your time to get a hit. Called strike threes are a sign of a serious lack of testosterone, and the influence of the feminist movement in the United States the past 40 years.</p>

 

[Bobby Ricigliano]

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[engie]

The amount of called strike 3's for us is ridiculous. The amount of k's overall is very disconcerting.

My issue is... Cohen is "mixing" his style of baseball, and it makes it incredibly hard to find an identity and confidence as a team. We play "attack" baseball in the field, on the mound, and on the base paths. Then we reverse the philosophy at the plate by taking so many pitches and playing so much small ball. That said, the entire philosophy on hitting should change on 2 strikes. Each hitter needs their own identity, no doubt, but a called strike 3 is the worst play in baseball.

That said, we take at least 2 from Auburn. May get all 3 if Routt steps his game up...

 

[drt7891]

Auburn, statistically, and us are right there together. Auburn is the home team, though, and they took 2 of 3 from LSU last weekend. I'll be grateful if we can take 2 of 3 from them because I think that will show me that we can be in the hunt for good position in the West. Lose 2 of 3, it will really make me question if we have taken any steps forward in regards to building on last year.

Also, I completely agree that issue. We play so passively at the plate, we struggle to take advantage of opportunities when they come up. We should be going after pitchers in the strike zone regardless of whether or not we think it is a "good pitch." Good pitchers rarely throw bad pitches, but letting them know that anything they throw in the strike zone will be put in play forces them to pitch around us more and puts more pressure on them to execute. Watching everything go by and fouling everything off waiting on the "perfect pitch" really does more harm than good in regards tho the psyche of pitchers (confidence) and batters (losing confidence... and makes them scared to hit). Can't be scared to be thrown out because the ball was put in play.