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    Baseball Tech Continues Early Road Trip at McNeese

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    RUSTON - The Louisiana Tech Bulldogs will look to continue their strong start to the 2020 season when they travel to Lake Charles, La. to take on McNeese in a midweek contest.

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    Hopefully that blown call at the plate doesn’t come back to haunt us.

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    Quote Originally Posted by rlirette View Post
    Hopefully that blown call at the plate doesn’t come back to haunt us.
    Only our 3B coach would have sent the runner. He continues to be horrible at base running

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    Re: Tech Continues Early Road Trip at McNeese

    Tech wins 7-4.

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    Re: Tech Continues Early Road Trip at McNeese

    If the Dawgs are on a roll these next few games, we need to bring in additional bleachers for the home opener at Ruston High on Feb 28-March 1 against Maine.

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    We gave up 4 frickin' runs!? I knew it was all too good to be true. Another mediocre season in the making...







    But...it is baseball. So, who really knows at this point? Maybe there's still hope...

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    Quote Originally Posted by dawg80 View Post
    We gave up 4 frickin' runs!? I knew it was all too good to be true. Another mediocre season in the making...







    But...it is baseball. So, who really knows at this point? Maybe there's still hope...
    Lol and don’t forget the two errors! If we’d have scored 4 less runs in this game, we would have lost... Crazy 😜

    Really though, it’ll be interesting to see how the pitching holds up this weekend against Troy who put up 67 runs last weekend against little sisters of the poor.

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    Quote Originally Posted by rlirette View Post
    Lol and don’t forget the two errors! If we’d have scored 4 less runs in this game, we would have lost... Crazy 

    Really though, it’ll be interesting to see how the pitching holds up this weekend against Troy who put up 67 runs last weekend against little sisters of the poor.
    I don't mind the fielding errors so much. That's baseball. It's the base running errors that can bite us in the butt. Making the 1st or 2nd out at third or home has been KILLING us for three years now. Apparently it will continue. He calls it "aggressive play". No need for aggressive play in the early innings of a low or no score game.

    Pitching has been amazing so far. Notice who he had warming up last night? THAT is the guy who was making ULL batters look bad last weekend.

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    Pitching and defense wins championships....and timely hitting. Most good teams have a fielding % of 95 or higher, so making errors is not a common factor. BUT! there are great defenses and good defenses and that can be the difference between advancing to Omaha, or not. It's a razor thin factor. It's not so much an occasional error during regular season games as it is in crunch time...the conference tourney, then hopefully in a regional. I will caution about bad habits and loss of focus, and it is way better for players to get into the mode of any fielding error is unacceptable.

    As for base-running errors that is mostly, if not totally, mental mistakes. So, yeah, I agree that such errors can be/should be rectified.

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    Quote Originally Posted by PawDawg View Post
    I don't mind the fielding errors so much. That's baseball. It's the base running errors that can bite us in the butt. Making the 1st or 2nd out at third or home has been KILLING us for three years now. Apparently it will continue. He calls it "aggressive play". No need for aggressive play in the early innings of a low or no score game.

    Pitching has been amazing so far. Notice who he had warming up last night? THAT is the guy who was making ULL batters look bad last weekend.
    Those baserunning errors were frustrating last night for sure even though Wells was clearly safe at home.

    Crigger was great against ull, hopefully he can keep it up.

    Another thing that will be interesting to see as this season progresses is where the power will come from. Brantley and Corona appear to have power but it hasn’t manifested itself yet.

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    Quote Originally Posted by rlirette View Post
    Those baserunning errors were frustrating last night
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    Those base running errors have been so bad that our HC has pulled himself as the 3rd base coach in the past. He has made 3 errors so far with less than 2 outs (in four games). Just play the game! Stop doing stupid crap!

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    Quote Originally Posted by PawDawg View Post
    Those base running errors have been so bad that our HC has pulled himself as the 3rd base coach in the past. He has made 3 errors so far with less than 2 outs (in four games). Just play the game! Stop doing stupid crap!
    Well I’d like to see you get out there and do it!... is what some people would say.. but not me, I agree with you. Caught stealing twice last night as well that I can remember.

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    Being aggressive on the base paths, or not, depends on the make-up of the team. And, it also depends on the opposition. Thru good scouting you should know that the leftfielder has a cannon for an arm, so don't press running on balls hit to left. By contrast the centerfielder is fast and gets to a lot of fly balls, but his arm is weak etc... But first you have to know your own team. Are your guys truly fast or not? And who is coming up in our batting order. It's better to play "station to station" if you have some big RBIs hitters coming up next.

    Hall of Fame manager Earl Weaver did very well playing it conservatively. He said "why give the other side another chance to get your guy out?" Your man gets a base hit, he's on base, so, I know, let's send him to second in a steal attempt just to give their catcher a chance to throw him out. Of course, Weaver built his team with a ton of power hitters and extra-base hits and HRs were the norm. Get on base and then wait to trot home on a 3-run homer!

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    Quote Originally Posted by dawg80 View Post
    Being aggressive on the base paths, or not, depends on the make-up of the team. And, it also depends on the opposition. Thru good scouting you should know that the leftfielder has a cannon for an arm, so don't press running on balls hit to left. By contrast the centerfielder is fast and gets to a lot of fly balls, but his arm is weak etc... But first you have to know your own team. Are your guys truly fast or not? And who is coming up in our batting order. It's better to play "station to station" if you have some big RBIs hitters coming up next.

    Hall of Fame manager Earl Weaver did very well playing it conservatively. He said "why give the other side another chance to get your guy out?" Your man gets a base hit, he's on base, so, I know, let's send him to second in a steal attempt just to give their catcher a chance to throw him out. Of course, Weaver built his team with a ton of power hitters and extra-base hits and HRs were the norm. Get on base and then wait to trot home on a 3-run homer!
    So how do you think Tech should play? The players they had trying to steal against McNeese weren’t particularly fast and the catcher didn’t seem to have a cannon, he was just accurate.

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    Quote Originally Posted by rlirette View Post
    So how do you think Tech should play? The players they had trying to steal against McNeese weren’t particularly fast and the catcher didn’t seem to have a cannon, he was just accurate.
    I don't know the players well enough to offer an opinion on exactly how...but the Tech coaches and the players themselves should know.

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