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Should be a great game in Baton Rouge.
Who’s on the bump for the Dawgs?
I fully expect the umps to decide this game.
It certainly won't be like the games in Frisco. I attended them all and was amazed at how fairly officiated those games were called vs when we play at Miss St, etc.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bone_afide_Dawg
Leal?Quote:
Originally Posted by Dixonfor6
Gotta say I don't have high hopes. But we could well be the better team and still get the L.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bone_afide_Dawg
SELa beat them so we can as well!
Damn....some of you guys are making excuses for losing before the game even starts. :laugh:Quote:
Originally Posted by Blue Dawg
Years of our fine coaches have trained me perfectly.Quote:
Originally Posted by HogDawg
This game won’t be won by Tech’s pitching, the home plate ump will be sure of that. Tech’s pitching strike zone will be at least an inch narrower inside, outside, high and low.
Tech will have to win the game by hitting the ball and playing defense. Running the bases goes without saying.
A new article has been posted on www.latechsports.com:
The No. 25 Louisiana Tech baseball team will head south to Baton Rouge, La. for a chance at another win over a ranked opponent, this time taking on No. 19 LSU from Alex Box Stadium on Tuesday at 6:30 p.m.
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Discuss it here.
We are in trouble then...Quote:
Originally Posted by Bone_afide_Dawg
We need to start placing bets on how many times we get picked off each game.
GO, DAWGS !!!!!! Y'all jus can't imagine how much I'd LOVE for us to win this one !!!!!
What are the stats on that? How many times per game are we getting picked off now (what's our average?)? And how do we compare nationally? I just can't imagine that anyone is worse at running the bases than we are. :laugh:Quote:
Originally Posted by SicemDawgz
I think we can guess how much....Quote:
Originally Posted by nadB
GO TECH! beat state!
You are a day or two late and a couple of dollars short -Quote:
Originally Posted by SicemDawgz
Section C sets an over/under before every game... :)
BTW - hearing that LSU is returning the trip to Ruston next spring -
First time since about 1995? that they have made a trip to the Love Shack
Will be listening via Alexa and hopeing for the "W" for the Diamond Dogs this evening!
I bet Alexa is a godsend for you. That's awesome!Quote:
Originally Posted by BlindDog
Too bad the SEC Network looks like it is airing Texas vs Texas A&M.
it will be on SEC Network Plus http://www.espn.com/watch/schedule/?...&type=upcomingQuote:
Originally Posted by techman05
Hopefully C-USA goes 3-0 today vs. SEC
6:00 PM UAB vs. Alabama (Baseball) https://secure.espncdn.com/prod/asse...secplus_2x.png
6:30 PM Western Kentucky vs. #16 Vanderbilt (Baseball) https://secure.espncdn.com/prod/asse...secplus_2x.png
6:30 PM Louisiana Tech vs. #24 LSU (Baseball) https://secure.espncdn.com/prod/asse...secplus_2x.png
You mean 6:30 PM #25 Louisiana Tech vs. #24 LSU (Baseball) https://secure.espncdn.com/prod/asse...secplus_2x.pngQuote:
Originally Posted by sportdawg
Tech has been caught stealing (including pick-offs) 24 times so far. So about 0.7 a game. That's fifth worst in Division 1 baseball.Quote:
Originally Posted by HogDawg
Have you checked with Pawdawg to see if that #25 ranking is indeed, a #25 ranking?Quote:
Originally Posted by TYLERTECHSAS
From the LSU press release...
"LSU leads the overall series, which began in 1902, 41-18. Tuesday’s game will mark just the second meeting between the schools in the last 20 seasons. LSU and Louisiana Tech last met on March 8, 2016, when the Tigers posted a 6-3 win over the Bulldogs in Alex Box Stadium, Skip Bertman field. That 2016 contest marked the first meeting between LSU and Louisiana Tech since March 10, 1998, when the Tigers posted an 8-1 win over the Bulldogs in the original Alex Box Stadium."
From the Tech press release...
"All-time, Tech is 5-14 against the Tigers, with LSU taking the most recent meeting, 6-3, in 2016."
Somebody is missing quite a bit of history.
Nobody had any books pre-Huey Long. Thus, history could not be recorded. Same reason why USL did not have University of Louisiana properly documented. Why are you being so obtuse?Quote:
Originally Posted by Dawg06
Much better than trying to stream over the internet for sure! Just say Alexa play KNBB97.7FM.. and the games on!Quote:
Originally Posted by Dawg06
no argument, well this is a bad sign
Called Rotolos and Walk Ons. Neither has the game on.
Sad
Does the offense just refuse to show up when Leal is pitching?
Why we pitched to the best players when there is base open with 2 outs?
We prefer "fashionably late". Look for some hits around the 8th inning.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tech52
I’ll be surprised if we score a run. Gilbert’s opponents are hitting .338 against him, well, except us.Quote:
Originally Posted by DogsWin
Yeah this game feels over.
Doesnt mean it is over...
But it just feels over.
It ain't over.
But, heck, we don't have to win this game. Just playing it helps us Dance.
Score?
LSU 2-0 mid 8th
Still wish we'd show up against LSU with our best teams in decades against their worst team in decades (idk).Quote:
Originally Posted by dawg80
Our bats are pitiful.
Not as much as you might think.Quote:
Originally Posted by dawg80
+39 RPI points (+2 positions) for a win, -27 points (-8 positions) for a loss.
Put your rally caps on.
What!? I'm confused...Quote:
Originally Posted by FriscoDawg
http://warrennolan.com/baseball/2018/team-impact?team=Louisiana-TechQuote:
Originally Posted by dawg80
With the loss Tech loses 27 RPI points. Make it a drop of 7 RPI positions from #57 to #64 with just the impact of this one game.
2-0 LSU Top of the 9th
Frick lsu
Another gem by Leal. Another dud by the offense.
Can you give a loss to the offense instead of the pitcher because our pitchers dont deserve this.
I guess it is baseball when your team can forget to show up for the game!
See:
sometimes when playing a really strong opponent a win or a loss will increase RPI Rank and when playing a much weaker opponent a win or a loss will decrease RPI Rank.
Final 2-0 LSU.
Depends on how closely bunched teams are in RPI above and below.Quote:
Originally Posted by dawg80
Today the loss has the possibility to drop Tech more RPI positions than a win could have improved Tech's RPI position.
But a win always helps and a loss always hurts the RPI calculation just because of the 25% for a team's own weighted W-L pct.
Would have been nice! Good game, just came up on the short end of the score board!
I was never excited about the "ranking" because I know (like I did with Navy in after two losses in a row) that we are not a top 25 team.Quote:
Originally Posted by dawg80
I agree.Quote:
Originally Posted by PawDawg
So disappointing that Tech seemingly never wins the big game. In this case just a matter of not hitting the ball.
Can't have baserunning errors with no baserunners!
Maybe that was our strategy tonight?Quote:
Originally Posted by Tech52
We always seem to have a good excuse, don't we?Quote:
Originally Posted by Bone_afide_Dawg
This is the only game I've watched us this season. Can our catcher make throws to 2nd ??
I think Labas will take a weekend spot before the season’s over. I think he’s better than Gilbert.
LSU’s hitting is not much better than ours, but our bats just weren’t working tonight.
It happens. It’s baseball.
Yeah. "Problem" tonight was Leal is a soft-throwing pitcher with what appears to be a long delivery. If he's throwing 90+ mph fastballs instead of 70 mph junk, then those guys are probably out at 2B. Clayton may have double-clutched on one or had to re-grip or something. He's usually solid behind the plate.Quote:
Originally Posted by nadB
That's what I was thinking! :laugh:Quote:
Originally Posted by Tech52
First game all season we didn't give away any outs, and we only struck out 3 times. Yet we got shut out. That's baseball.
I wanted to win, but it's not like we'd earn some kind of "bragging rights" had we won. Like '06 said, they stole bases on our pitcher, not on our catcher. It would be great if we had a coach who could teach our guys how to read a pitcher w/out getting picked off.
Other results were not favorable for Tech last night, so its RPI dropped from 57 to 68, more than the expected drop of 7 positions simply by losing.
Tech's predicted pre-conference tournament RPI is now 54, and that gives Tech only three conference losses (all to Southern Miss). Tech needs to do no worse than that to be in the at-large discussion.
Are you factoring another W at Grambling. They played Arkansas a great game last night. The unthinkable could happen…
The bolded shows how lazy our research is -Quote:
Originally Posted by Dawg06
I'm holding a 2008 baseball media guide and it has our record against LSU as 18-40 - EXACTLY what LSU's record indicated prior to the 2015 game
Damn we can't get out of our own way
That's not laziness it's BSQuote:
Originally Posted by Dwayne From Minden
It's both. Our research is lazy, and then we lie about it.Quote:
Originally Posted by PawDawg
Our baseball SID should never use "all-time" because it's inaccurate, unless they are getting the info from other schools' media guides that actually have all-time records. Just admit that our media guide only goes back to 1970. "Since 1970..."
our SID is doing what our AD tells him to doQuote:
Originally Posted by Dawg06
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Originally Posted by PawDawg
Hey, why stop at fudging the attendance?
WarrenNolan added the May 9 game with Grambling to Tech's schedule as soon as the date became official.Quote:
Originally Posted by PawDawg
Tech is predicted 18-3 in its last 21 games to finish 42-14 (24-6). All wins predicted except the three games at Southern Miss.
I would sign up for that today...that's a big order. 14-7 is more likely. Not sure we have the bats to pull it off...Quote:
Originally Posted by FriscoDawg
I agree that it is a very tall order. Almost must win at least 8 of the 9 remaining home conference games to have a legitimate shot.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rooster
And even with 18-3, Tech's predicted RPI is still only at 53. 14-7 would likely put that RPI into the 60s and well on the outside of the at-large bid discussion.
Weren't we 57ish last year?
Tech's final 2017 RPI was 47 with an SOS of 87. That includes all NCAA Tournament games in the calculations, so I believe it was worse on Selection Monday. But the conference regular season record was only 17-13.Quote:
Originally Posted by PawDawg
I think its fair to say the only way we are going post season is to win the tournament. I doubt our conference will get an at large bid.
Cusa will have both FAU and USM in even if they don't win the tournament. Cusa will have three in if a team other than one of those two wins the tournament.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rooster
YepQuote:
Originally Posted by PawDawg
And if Rice keeps winning - it helps everyone's RPI
Just like last yearQuote:
Originally Posted by Dwayne From Minden
Win the tournament or go home. Let’s hope after this past weekend that we make the tournament.