Game 2 thread..

[HoopsDawg]

We load the bases with 1 out and don't score.

[HoopsDawg]

Wearing Camo hats again. Embarrassing

[smootness]

Wearing Camo hats again. Embarrassing

So stupid

[Leroy Jenkins]

Good Khal or bad Khal?

[Coach34]

We had to stick Trout back in there vs a Righty. So stupid

[HoopsDawg]

We had to stick Trout back in there vs a Righty. So stupid

Especially when we have a stud lefty on the bench.

[HoopsDawg]

Good Khal or bad Khal?

Stephen not fooling anyone

[HoopsDawg]

There's no way I would let him go thru this order twice

[Skydawg1]

I'm feeling a sweep.

[magrooder]

We had to score a run to win, anyway. Just gotta score 2 now.

[Leroy Jenkins]

This strike zone is interesting.

[CaptainObvious]

Downs brought his bad bat to the ball park tonight. In two ABs he has left a small village on the base paths!

[HoopsDawg]

Stephen lives in the zone which is great. But wind keeping the ball in the yard.

[Coach34]

2 on- no outs in the 5th. Here is our shot

[EdwardDrayton]

BOOM!!!

[EdwardDrayton]

HAMMERIN' HUNTER HINES!!

[Coach34]

Somebody has woken up

[HoopsDawg]

Let's go. keep adding

[CaptainObvious]

And an example of why grounders are better than pop ups and of course better than K's.

Line drives and ground balls make things happen.

[magrooder]

Mershon traveled to make that third out catch

[BeardoMSU]

M is so good, lol.

[Coach34]

Pound. The. Zone.

headed Top 6 up 5-1

[CaptainObvious]

Mershon traveled to make that third out catch

He will have a nice strawberry on that leg tomorrow morning.

[magrooder]

He will have a nice strawberry on that leg tomorrow morning.

the way he plays, he's probably used to it

[the_real_MSU_is_us]

C34 you better get the grill warming up... it ain't time to start cooking just yet, but it looks like you've got some crow to serve me here in another weekend or 2 and ILL HAPPILY EAT EVERY BITE

HAISTATE

[CaptainObvious]

C34 you better get the grill warming up... it ain't time to start cooking just yet, but it looks like you've got some crow to serve me here in another weekend or 2 and ILL HAPPILY EAT EVERY BITE

HAISTATE

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!

TOO SOON!!! Them bones can start rattling quick in that there burial ground

[bigbub50]

This umpire has struggled. The strike 3 call on downs was rediculous

[Coach34]

Trout 0-3 with a lucky Sac pop. Him having pink bat tape is so fitting

[magrooder]

This umpire has struggled. The strike 3 call on downs was rediculous

He's called that inside pitch a strike several times.

[Coach34]

He's called that inside pitch a strike several times.

Umpire has been consistent. Thats all we can ask

[somebodyshotmypaw]

We need to be thinking bullpen here

[Coach34]

Purdue is done. Let's go. Make a move

[R2Dawg]

This umpire has struggled. The strike 3 call on downs was rediculous

It was at his shoulder. Bad

[somebodyshotmypaw]

Stephen gave us a heckuva game.

[EdwardDrayton]

Khal cooked with hot grease tonight!!

[Coach34]

Stephen gave us a heckuva game.

great outing

[Commercecomet24]

Khal shoved tonight. Our pitchers are getting better and better and in season too!

[PGHBulldogBG]

Khal shoved tonight. Our pitchers are getting better and better and in season too!

Lemonis hiring Parker was about the best hire he could’ve made

[somebodyshotmypaw]

To the 8th. Let’s get some more runs

[R2Dawg]

6 more outs, lets go.

[R2Dawg]

Lemonis hiring Parker was about the best hire he could’ve made

Looks like it. Our pitching is legit. This team is a contender.

[Coach34]

Opener gets his guy. Headed to the 8th.

We have to win this

[R2Dawg]

First man on, top of order. Time to put this game away.

[Coach34]

Looks like it. Our pitching is legit. This team is a contender.

Seems like there was a guy around here who said this team was talented

[Commercecomet24]

Lemonis hiring Parker was about the best hire he could’ve made

Amen to that! This staff looks so different than last 2 years! And improving as we go!

[somebodyshotmypaw]

Two runners on!

[Commercecomet24]

Looks like it. Our pitching is legit. This team is a contender.

100% and with the excellent defense and some scrappy hitters we looking good.

[Commercecomet24]

6 more outs, lets go.

Counting outs is bad juju lol

[bigbub50]

I was tough on Khal after last week. He pitched a heck of a game.

[somebodyshotmypaw]

Crap. No runs.

[R2Dawg]

Hope that inning don't cost us.

[somebodyshotmypaw]

Hope that inning don't cost us.

Yep. We needed some runs. Dakota needs to get the ball to the outfield.

[the_real_MSU_is_us]

I was tough on Khal after last week. He pitched a heck of a game.

And he deserved it, he sucked. And he was great tonight. The "benefit of the doubt" has to be earned

[R2Dawg]

Do we stay with Cam or change?

[somebodyshotmypaw]

Davis on the mound

[R2Dawg]

I like Davis to finish this.

[CaptainObvious]

Yep. We needed some runs. Dakota needs to get the ball to the outfield.

Dakota was indifferent in thst at bat. He didn't look like he was interested in hitting there. Then the free pass to Hines and Huge Sack decides it is a good time to be a free swinger. To be up 5-1, the Dawgs have left a large metropolitan census area on base.

[EdwardDrayton]

Counting outs is bad juju lol

Word

[the_real_MSU_is_us]

Counting outs is bad juju lol

3 OUTS

[R2Dawg]

3 OUTS

Everybody is counting outs, just scared to say it. You make your own juju.

[Commercecomet24]

Hope you know I'm messing with y'all on the outs. Although my old coach would've made you run if he heard you counting outs lol

[EdwardDrayton]

Hope you know I'm messing with y'all on the outs. Although my old coach would've made you run if he heard you counting outs lol

Some of us are old school baseball folks and we don't mess with Jobu!

[Commercecomet24]

Some of us are old school baseball folks and we don't mess with Jobu!

Right there with ya! I'm a dinosaur!

[CaptainObvious]

14 LOBs. Dang! Sure hope the pitching holds up in the 9th!

[CaptainObvious]

Ah yes. The leadoff walk in the 9th.

[magrooder]

I hate walks especially lead off walks with a lead

[msudawg1200]

Good W. Keep it rolling. Win a road series tomorrow.

[Commercecomet24]

Another good win! Let's win the series tomorrow!

[magrooder]

Pitching bailed us out tonight! Good win for the DAWGS!!

[the_real_MSU_is_us]

We've got a good shot tomorrow. We've already held par this weekend, the series would be amazing

[Commercecomet24]

Did what we needed tonight. AM has one of the best pitching staffs in the country and looks like we may have one as well!

[R2Dawg]

Our pitching is real good. We are just solid in all phases. This might be a pretty good year and boy we need it after last two.

[CaptainObvious]

I feel good about everything tomorrow except the caps! It is quite apparent our AD sold us out to Mossy Oak.

[basedog]

Another good win! Let's win the series tomorrow!

Lemonis did good! LOL. Nothing like winning!

[SaintDawg]

Some of us are old school baseball folks and we don't mess with Jobu!

Is very bad to mess with Jobu Rum... is very bad.

[mparkerfd20]

I was wrong. Our pitching is borderline elite and defense is immensely improved. We are back to MSU standards I think.

[State82]

That had some wow factor in it!

[R2Dawg]

I was wrong. Our pitching is borderline elite and defense is immensely improved. We are back to MSU standards I think.

We need to get Dohm back. Only thing we missing is an elite closer but we have some different guys to get the closer done - Cam and Davis provide a good one two punch.

[BeardoMSU]

Lem is a good coach. He just had a "phase"...

We're back.

[EdwardDrayton]

Aggie sweep? Nah. Split on the road against #7!! Keep the faith brethren. I'll keep preachin'. This team is real! See y'all tomorrow! Baseball is fun again!!!

[DownwardDawg]

Is very bad to mess with Jobu Rum... is very bad.

Best post of the thread!!!!!!

[DownwardDawg]

Our pitching is outstanding.

[Commercecomet24]

Aggie sweep? Nah. Split on the road against #7!! Keep the faith brethren. I'll keep preachin'. This team is real! See y'all tomorrow! Baseball is fun again!!!

You're a good man! Love your posts!

[Commercecomet24]

We have shutdown aggies big bats. They had the one big hit last night and that's pretty much it.

[basedog]

I can’t recall a pitching Coach making a huge difference with our staff ever. We’ve had some good pitching Coaches, Parker is da man!

Clutch hitting tonight also.

[somebodyshotmypaw]

Think about this. We are 3-2 versus LSU and Texas A&M and have yet to pitch Dohm, Holcombe, Loftin, or Auger in SEC play.

[Commercecomet24]

I can’t recall a pitching Coach making a huge difference with our staff ever. We’ve had some good pitching Coaches, Parker is da man!

Clutch hitting tonight also.

Yep the difference is absolutely amazing! And we're making clutch plays on defense and getting clutch hits, too! Scrap team with some stones!

[Dawgface]

Looking good. Keep it up.

[Cowbell]

It can not be overstated the importance of our defensive improvement. Our defense made our pitching look even worse in every series last year. Great defense makes pitching and offense better. I do not miss our SS or our 3B.

[somebodyshotmypaw]

It can not be overstated the importance of our defensive improvement. Our defense made our pitching look even worse in every series last year. Great defense makes pitching and offense better. I do not miss our SS or our 3B.

Yep. Our pitchers threw too many pitches last year. Walks, hit batters, and defensive errors just prolonged innings. Bad pitching and bad defense. This year, we are throwing strikes, and turning batted balls into outs.

[basedog]

Yep the difference is absolutely amazing! And we're making clutch plays on defense and getting clutch hits, too! Scrap team with some stones!

Parker obviously understands our pitchers strengths and weakness. The thing about pitching is not walking folks and make the batter beat you with his best pitch. Walks killed us the last two years, but so did our defense. I’m impressed watching this team starting to jell.
Baseball at MSU is fun again.

[basedog]

Yep. Our pitchers threw too many pitches last year. Walks, hit batters, and defensive errors just prolonged innings. Bad pitching and bad defense. This year, we are throwing strikes, and turning batted balls into outs.

Totally agree.

[parabrave]

Think about this. We are 3-2 versus LSU and Texas A&M and have yet to pitch Dohm, Holcombe, Loftin, or Auger in SEC play.

And LSU just runruled OM.

[msstate7]

Alright, I'm buying this team. Lemonis will save his job

[somebodyshotmypaw]

And LSU just runruled OM.

Tennessee run ruled Ole Miss

[msstate7]

And LSU just runruled OM.

It was Tenn that beat OM. LSU did beat Florida

[bigbub50]

Holman and lsu bout to take down Florida. He went 6 innings tonight, only gave up 1 hit and struck out 13.

[parabrave]

OK I thought I heard LSU.

[Commercecomet24]

Parker obviously understands our pitchers strengths and weakness. The thing about pitching is not walking folks and make the batter beat you with his best pitch. Walks killed us the last two years, but so did our defense. I’m impressed watching this team starting to jell.
Baseball at MSU is fun again.

100% accurate! And we are fun again!

[Coach34]

Lol- loving this season after all the haters the last 10 months

[ZedFedder]

If it continues to trend this way, then Lemonis can truly place all of the last two years at the feet of Foxhall.

[Todd4State]

If it continues to trend this way, then Lemonis can truly place all of the last two years at the feet of Foxhall.

Well offense was never really the issue. And when the team ERA is 9+ it's hard for the 1927 Yankees to overcome that. And no- we weren't the 1927 Yankees but we were middle of the pack in the league which is certainly good enough to win games.

Bad pitching and walking people affects defense negatively. Although some of that was Forsythe getting the yips and Alford not being able to focus. That's been taken care of.

Losing like we were also affects swag. Hard to be confident and talk smack when there is a better than average chance that the pitchers aren't going to hold whatever lead we got.

I'm still impressed we somehow had a winning season last year somehow with everything going on.

Lemonis's biggest mistake IMO was not firing Foxhall after 2022.

[Todd4State]

I can?t recall a pitching Coach making a huge difference with our staff ever. We?ve had some good pitching Coaches, Parker is da man!

Clutch hitting tonight also.

I don't think a lot of fans realize just how bad Foxhall was. Absolute trainwreck. Then again- even if he got our pitching staff ERA to 5 which isn't that great that would be a huge improvement over last year. I think Landon Sims covered A LOT for him in 2021. What would 2021 have been like with Parker? Cerentola probably gets developed. Fristoe probably doesn't crash and burn. We know MacLeoud got hurt.

Here's how bad we were- coming into this weekend our team ERA wasn't even in the top half of the league and right now- and we have fans wanting to give Parker assistant of the year. And he has done a good job.

[Todd4State]

Lol- loving this season after all the haters the last 10 months

Yep! LOL. Maybe they'll learn a lesson. Or probably not. Lemonis needs to steal this series. If he does we're going to be in really good shape.

It's been funny.

Pre-season- "We all know what's going to happen- this is Lemonis's last year. Don't know why Selmon kept him. Lazy AD."

Austin Peay- "I told you so! Lemonis isn't coming back! We all saw this coming!"

Team gets better once Mershon and Kohler come back- "Yeah we look better but look at who we have played. Our schedule is so weak! We should be beating these teams. Once we get to SEC play we're going to fire Lemonis midseason. Get back to me after we have played three SEC series."

LSU- "OK but we beat LSU last year too."

A&M- "OK I'm starting to believe."

[Ranchdawg]

What are Tam fans chanting? Couldn?t make it out what they were attempting to chant. It was so annoying. Like Vandy whistler or softball continually chanting from the dugout annoying. Shut up and enjoy the game. They are some weird ass people over there.

[DownwardDawg]

What are Tam fans chanting? Couldn?t make it out what they were attempting to chant. It was so annoying. Like Vandy whistler or softball continually chanting from the dugout annoying. Shut up and enjoy the game. They are some weird ass people over there.

I'm growing to hate aTm as much as anyone other than ole miss. They are so cringe.

[PGHBulldogBG]

If you all think aTm fans are bad, just wait until Texas joins. OU has good fans though I just wish SEC had taken Okie State with OU instead of Texas

[Bdawg]

Couldn’t watch the game so just catching up. Major props to Parker with this staff and for Lemonis to hire him. He is making a major difference, along with our defense. Credit Lemonis for getting the D improved too. I was definitely await and see guy but I was pulling for Lemonis because constant coaching turnover is never a good thing for a program( even though we pulled it off before Lemonis somehow). It was still a bit of a rocky start with our weak schedule and I wanted to see us in SEC play. But it seems the guys are mostly healthy, gelling and playing hard, which is awesome. Great job to get the split. Now let’s go get the gravy today!!!

[WinningIsRelentless]

If you all think aTm fans are bad, just wait until Texas joins. OU has good fans though I just wish SEC had taken Okie State with OU instead of Texas

The sec probably missed more revenue by doing this. I?m sure the A&M alumni would have paid easily 50 million a year to have made that happen.

[Santiago]

Parker has brought swag to the team.
Lemonis made the hire, after tanking our team 2 years not seeing the issue with pitching early enough.
No brainer to me who needs to be running this program.

[Santiago]

I can?t recall a pitching Coach making a huge difference with our staff ever. We?ve had some good pitching Coaches, Parker is da man!

Clutch hitting tonight also.

Cade coached by Parker would have been great.

[basedog]

Cade coached by Parker would have been great.

Oh, I have thought about this, I can say he has and is receiving some good Coaching now.

[Thick]

If you all think aTm fans are bad, just wait until Texas joins. OU has good fans though I just wish SEC had taken Okie State with OU instead of Texas

Texas fans suck! Snooty, arrogant assholes?.like another school that we hate.

[Santiago]

Oh, I have thought about this, I can say he has and is receiving some good Coaching now.

Parker needs to be a HC and soon. Wish it was here. Lemonis let things drag too long.