Sooo, after all the bitching, we won 2/3, and lost the other in extras
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There are a few posters on here post the entire games about baseball and I swear I am not sure they could identify a baseball. You would think they were brought up as Ole Miss fans. How they don't spend the rest of the day feeling like a massive douch, I will never understand. But they will show up here next weekend complaining about this same team and our coach.
And then we lost two more by one run in nine innings. That's five that didn't go our way- and again most of that is because of inexperience and injuries.
Heck- even one of the games we lost to Auburn by four runs, we had the bases loaded with two outs and Hunter Renfroe at the plate. And that was the game that Routt spotted the War Eagles 6 runs in the first three.
The only SEC game that I'm legitimately "embarassed" about so far- and bad games happen to everyone at some point in time- was the Sunday game at Auburn where we lost 8-2 and played like crap.
So, at the very least we're putting a respectable team out there on the field. Considering where we started under Cohen- that's a step in the right direction for sure.
Heck- even one of the games we lost to Auburn by four runs, we had the bases loaded with two outs and Hunter Renfroe at the plate. And that was the game that Routt spotted the War Eagles 6 runs in the first three.
The only SEC game that I'm legitimately "embarassed" about so far- and bad games happen to everyone at some point in time- was the Sunday game at Auburn where we lost 8-2 and played like crap.
So, at the very least we're putting a respectable team out there on the field. Considering where we started under Cohen- that's a step in the right direction for sure.
like yesterday's dropped fly ball or today being picked off of first when we had runners at 1st and 3rd with one out that is so infuriating at times. Those are just 2 examples but THOSE are the type things that have us more times than not losing the close games. Nobody expects any baseball team to play perfectly but you DO expect a major college team to make basic plays in the field AND not continually make stupid outs on the bases. We help our opponents out WAY too often.
The first part of our Schedule was the easy half.
@SC, @UF, OM, and UK.
Good win today though. Glad starting Reed didn't turn out worse than it did.
@SC, @UF, OM, and UK.
Good win today though. Glad starting Reed didn't turn out worse than it did.
I thought we did a better job of baserunning than Vandy this weekend. We threw out several of their runners out at home and we picked off a few of their baserunners.
To me, it seems like most of our problems on the basepaths come when we try a hit and run and we don't make contact. That's an execution issue, and in some cases it's an experience issue- like when you have Philip Casey trying to do the hit and run and he screws it up.
I do agree that we've lost most of our games because we make a mistake and it just absolutely kills us- but when you have as many key players hurt like we do/did- your margin for error is a lot smaller. Like today- we don't have Daryl Norris, we lose. And we lost two SEC games because our guy in CF filling in for CT didn't make plays that CT probably does.
To me, it seems like most of our problems on the basepaths come when we try a hit and run and we don't make contact. That's an execution issue, and in some cases it's an experience issue- like when you have Philip Casey trying to do the hit and run and he screws it up.
I do agree that we've lost most of our games because we make a mistake and it just absolutely kills us- but when you have as many key players hurt like we do/did- your margin for error is a lot smaller. Like today- we don't have Daryl Norris, we lose. And we lost two SEC games because our guy in CF filling in for CT didn't make plays that CT probably does.
of an SEC baseball schedule. None whatsoever. You can divide the slate up however you would like, halves, quarters, whatever, and no part will be any more difficult than the other. Especially this year when the middle 8 teams in the league are separated by two games right now.
South Carolina has won back to back NCs, Florida is probably the most talented team in the country, UK has the best record in the SEC right now, and OM has more experience, talent, and fans support than we do right now.
Maybe UK turns out to be a flash in the pan and we get two from them. We'll be doing good to go 1-3 in those 4 series.
Maybe UK turns out to be a flash in the pan and we get two from them. We'll be doing good to go 1-3 in those 4 series.