I can live with a runner being thrown out at 2b or 3b...I really dislike being picked off by a pitcher on his move. Just kills the momentum...Originally Posted by maddawg
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I can live with a runner being thrown out at 2b or 3b...I really dislike being picked off by a pitcher on his move. Just kills the momentum...
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Our runner was picked off by a catcher, not thrown out. He went to sleep. Same guy got picked off on 1st. Not his day on the bases.
I love a good move to first by a pitcher...absolutely love that part of the game. Again, we stole many bases this year because of big leads. Our % had to be way on the positive side. I only remember a few pick offs.
I think we had 2 against FAU and 1 against Charlotte...just seems like a lot, guess that's part of being aggressive.
“Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.”
Lou Holtz - Football Coach
"A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have." - Thomas Jefferson
"Bring back the rotary phone so we don't have to press 1 for English."
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Two on the same guy in the same game. Asleep on both. Thrown out on first by the pitcher...leaning too far. Then thrown out by the catcher after taking too much lead on 2nd and dragging around getting back to 2nd. Both were base running errors not great plays by the defense.
The Big West Conference has 3 teams in the NCAA tournament. In addition to the Cal State Fullerton Titans who won the regular season title and the auto-bid, the Dirtbags of Long Beach State and the UC Santa Barbara Gauchos were selected as at-large teams. The 12 team C-USA had 4 selections (33%). The 9 team Big West had 3 selections (33%).
Boxer, here's some more help in analyzing the regional matchup. According to Yogi Berra - It's tough to make predictions, especially about the future.
Although I agree with Yogi, I predict that the team not losing their last game will win the regional. That could be the Louisiana Tech Bulldogs.
In other news, I am not able to make it to Starkville. If our DAWGS win and USL wins, I will try to make one game in the super-regionals.
Yes, they have a stud left hander that will be on the mound against MSU. They also swing the bats very, very well.
Goff said yesterday they would take a look at the Fullerton lineup to determine who starts. If it is lefty dominant they will go with Diehl and if its righty dominant they will go with Sutton. I'd like to go with Diehl game one against a weaker offensive team. I feel like Sutton can go in and beat MSU. He isn't over powering, but flat out knows how to pitch.
Can't have many of these at this time of the year. Can't "give" the defense outs. I hope we worked on that the last few days. I'm so pumped that we are in a regional.
“Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.”
Lou Holtz - Football Coach
"A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have." - Thomas Jefferson
"Bring back the rotary phone so we don't have to press 1 for English."
www.casadice.com
That makes things more interesting. It would be nice for Miss State to lose game one and be on their heels the rest of the tournament. Even nicer if we could win the first one and be matched up with SEMO in the second game. If that's the scenario, would we save Sutton for game 3?
Have you considered those Dogs?
I wouldn't try to save anyone in any game. If you win the first two you're in the championship, and have to be beat twice. In Game 1 if we can hand the ball to Harris in the 6th with a lead, I will be rather joyous.
There would be some serious meltdown going on in the crowd if that happened. It would be hilarious!
I'm thinking about State's pitching depth verses ours. To me, if we can win game 1 and game 2 is against SEMO, I'm saving my best pitcher for game 3. That's unless SEMO has more than one stud pitcher.
Have you considered those Dogs?
This might be the best Ms. State team since the Clark/Palmero teams according to the Starkville beat writer. (and may be better than those teams).
Top of the order looked like this last weekend
L
R
L
R
L
R
it's a regional - our first in 29 years
You go ALL IN on every game
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