Opening Day Threat: Oak?s Debut

[preachermatt83]

Line up


JAMES NUNNALLEE
RF


ACE REESE
3B


AIDEN TEEL
CF


BLAKE BEVIS
1B

REED STALLMAN
DH

RYDER WOODSON
SS

GEHRIG FREI
2B


KEVIN MILEWSKI
C


BRYCE CHANCE
LF

McPherson on the bump!!! Let?s go!!!

[Turfdawg67]

Opening day “threat”. Hope that typo isn’t a bad omen.

[Coursesuper]

Who’s here, it’s a glorious day for the middle of February.

[Coursesuper]

We have 3 true freshman that are in backup up spots in RF CF and 3b.

[BrunswickDawg]

Milwaukee up on LSU 5-2 in the 5th

[Tater]

We gave up an infield single??? And then allowed an easy stolen base? Fire him. Bench Everybody. What we get for hiring a bum who blew a 4-0 8th inning no hitter to Lemon. Terrible hire. Bring Back Canninzaro.

There now Oak is officially christened a true State coach.

[Coach34]

And looky there- BOC doesn’t coach baserunning worth a shit either looks like

[DawgFromOxford]

Base running errors continue. Shut the program down***

[Tater]

2 batters into the oak era

Batters making contact with the ball: 0

Balls making contact with the batters: 1

Runners attempting to steal while the pitcher is delivering the pitch: 0

Runners attempting to steal while the pitcher hasn't delivered the pitch and subsequently caught stealing: 1

[mparkerfd20]

Sloppy 1st

[Tater]

We're letting a team that hasn't seen live pitching before today outhit us. Money well spent.

[Coursesuper]

This guy for them has only missed his spot twice so far, he is solid.

[Activated Alpha]

McPherson doesn?t look sharp

[Coursesuper]

McPherson doesn?t look sharp

Fastball is good running into right and away from left, he’s not missing with it but he’s having a problem landing his off speed stuff. He’s not pitching badly at all.

[msstate7]

It's the 3rd inning, and we aren't even losing... breathe deeply, msstate7

[Activated Alpha]

Fastball is good running into right and away from left, he’s not missing with it but he’s having a problem landing his off speed stuff. He’s not pitching badly at all.

I agree he isn?t pitching badly but getting into deep counts and already up to 50 pitches in the 3rd. Compare Hofstra who is at like 30. Just needs better execution

[Coach34]

Fastball is good running into right and away from left, he’s not missing with it but he’s having a problem landing his off speed stuff. He’s not pitching badly at all.

Yeah- FB looks good at 96-98. Change was 89- wish he could get that thing down to around 87

[Coursesuper]

Damn these guys have hit 5 balls with eyes.

[mparkerfd20]

Welp. Can't say I'm totally surprised.

[99jc]

so much for this team being the 27 yankees

[Activated Alpha]

Damn these guys have hit 5 balls with eyes.

Hmm it is almost as if I was correct in my assessment

[msstate7]

If there's a men's sport, we will suck at it

[mparkerfd20]

Boom

[The Federalist Engineer]

Need to pull McP

He's getting hit too much today.

[msstate7]

Hell yeah! Save us, diamond dawgs

[mparkerfd20]

WTF? Pitcher wasn't even on the damn bump.

[Tater]

Attendance is very good for a cold Feb game

[Coursesuper]

Need to pull McP

He's getting hit too much today.

Mac is done, Duke Stone up next.

[Tater]

Well that was both a smart baserunning play by us and an idiotic play on the ball by the 2B.

[Coursesuper]

Well that was both a smart baserunning play by us and an idiotic play on the ball by the 2B.

First double steal I’ve seen around here in a while.

[Coach34]

Stone has alot of movement on his change

[The Federalist Engineer]

Let's see how Duke Stone handles his business. This rotation is not set.

[Tater]

First double steal I’ve seen around here in a while.

Frei stopped and threw off the 2B honestly. Dude stayed on the bag for some reason. Def a "they ain't seen live action on the field" moment. That's how to energize a team with a situational call. Not sure something like that will work later in the year. Just cerebral situational awareness. Haven't seen this in years from State baseball.

[Coursesuper]

Frei stopped and threw off the 2B honestly. Dude stayed on the bag for some reason. Def a "they ain't seen live action on the field" moment. That's how to energize a team with a situational call. Not sure something like that will work later in the year. Just cerebral situational awareness. Haven't seen this in years from State baseball.

You should be here, there are so many little things going on even in between innings and inside at bats that we haven’t seen in years and years.

[Tater]

You should be here, there are so many little things going on even in between innings and inside at bats that we haven’t seen in years and years.

I'm so jealous. I know eventually I'll move back to Stark once I've run my paycheck up enough to coast on remote work in my job - but Lemonis tanking baseball and the state of the football program made it easier to only travel down a few times a year. This might accelerate my timeline.

[parabrave]

Hey look at that we didn't screw up a bases loaded situation. That's an improvement..

[The Federalist Engineer]

Only 2 hits through 7

Lucky for wildness from Hofsta

[Coach34]

Davis is nasty 97mph 2-seamer

[msstate7]

Now that looked like a reliever for a top 5 team

[The Federalist Engineer]

The camera work is 500% better this year. This is good production

[DawgFromOxford]

You should be here, there are so many little things going on even in between innings and inside at bats that we haven’t seen in years and years.

Give us some insight for those of us who can?t be at the game and have to watch on tv

[99jc]

Not impressed with the hitting...At all!

[Coursesuper]

Not impressed with the hitting...At all!

7 walks 2 hbp and 4 wild pitches, that should tell you the story.

[Coach34]

We see why BOC was bragging on Stallman

[Coursesuper]

We see why BOC was bragging on Stallman

Different hitter this year

[maroonmania]

We see why BOC was bragging on Stallman

Yep, we only have 3 lousy hits but he has 2 of them and has the only extra base hit. Amazing we are leading being outhit 9 to 3.

[Tater]

Not sure if someone else said it. But uniforms - while I appreciate the fun alternates - I'm glad we are out there in the timeless class maroon Smississippi State 80s uniforms. I want us to eventually think of these as just the main uniform and not the 80s uniforms.

[Offshore Dawg]

what's happening with the "sticks" some of you said State has.

[Tater]

what's happening with the "sticks" some of you said State has.

It's cold and we've hit some atem balls.

Chance had a homerun in april be a fly out in feb. Frei had a 400 footer die.

Hopefully you were just being sarcastic like I was earlier.

[mparkerfd20]

Extremely disappointing hitting today

[Coursesuper]

what's happening with the "sticks" some of you said State has.

Hasn’t been much to hit, 8 walks 2 hbp and 5 wild pitches should let you know that. We’ve hit what there was hard right at someone, that’s baseball.

[Coach34]

what's happening with the "sticks" some of you said State has.

We have to adjust to these mid-70’s breaking balls and changes. We don’t see that in practice

[maroonmania]

Extremely disappointing hitting today

Not the debut I was hoping for really for the offense or the pitching. And lead off hitter on in the 9th for Hofstra. We aren't out of the woods on this one.

[Offshore Dawg]

tater, earlier in this thread if I lived near you I would of brought you bourbon, Prozac, or some Valium too help you get through the game. Hitting is always slow in February.

[msstate7]

This team will hit. Not worried at all

[maroonmania]

Hofstra now with the tying runs on 2nd and 3rd with one out. Davis leaving his pitches up.

[Coach34]

More throwing the ball to the wrong base- got to go 2 there

[mparkerfd20]

What a shitty opener. At least we won

[BeardoMSU]

Gonna be a loooong season*******

[Tater]

tater, earlier in this thread if I lived near you I would of brought you bourbon, Prozac, or some Valium too help you get through the game. Hitting is always slow in February.

i was being sarcastic. i'm too lazy to add sarcasterisks and leave it up to interpretation if someone wants to take stuff that looks obviously stupid imo as serious.

[maroonmania]

That Hofstra sac fly to the track was too close for comfort. A win is a win I guess.

[SaintDawg]

these kids gotta gel, man. gonna be a crazy season. strap in.

[Tater]

One down - 54 to go. Closest game we'll have all regular season probably.

[Skydawg1]

Double header tomorrow per Neil. Two 9 inning games.

[Coursesuper]

Give us some insight for those of us who can?t be at the game and have to watch on tv

Timing up pitches on an 0-3 count, timing pitchers delivery during warm ups and little things like that.

[AlSwearengen]

I?ll be worried about the hitting until i see us swinging it well in SEC play. With that said, when you face top tier pitching in practice everyday where fastballs are 94/95, it is hard to adjust to 87/88 fastballs and just not very good pitching. It’s a strange phenomenon but it is real and it can’t be explained, just experienced. It doesn?t look like the rest of the SEC is killing it tonight either. Hell, florida is in danger of losing to uab.

[Bdawg]

More throwing the ball to the wrong base- got to go 2 there

I was screaming at the tv how dumb that was. Guy would have never got off first if we threw to 2nd instead of being on third.

[Cowbell]

I ain't worried about hitting. Nearly every starter we have hit over .300 last season

[cheewgumm]

One game

Will probably score 20 tomorrow

[Todd4State]

This was a game we might have lost last year.

I don't think any of our guys had their best stuff except for Ben for 2 innings. Nonetheless we didn't walk very many guys and I liked when we used our mound visits much better than last year. We probably let Ryan throw 100 pitches last year and maybe only use two guys. At least we have seen Stone in relief now and maybe we know Ben's limits a little better now. We'll see if they make adjustments to how guys are used going forward.

Not too many mistakes on defense. Errant throw on a pick off and missed the cutoff man late were the only notable mistakes I can remember. Milewski and Frei aren't going to win gold gloves but they did fine. Teel throwing their guy out at third was a big play.

Hitting is hard when they aren't throwing strikes. We had more runs than hits. Bunting needs some work.

Baserunning might be what won is the game. Nunnalee made a bad mistake. The delayed double steal we pulled off was the difference honestly. Great execution by us and that is coaching.

[Coach34]

This was a game we might have lost last year.

I don't think any of our guys had their best stuff except for Ben for 2 innings. Nonetheless we didn't walk very many guys and I liked when we used our mound visits much better than last year. We probably let Ryan throw 100 pitches last year and maybe only use two guys. At least we have seen Stone in relief now and maybe we know Ben's limits a little better now. We'll see if they make adjustments to how guys are used going forward.

Not too many mistakes on defense. Errant throw on a pick off and missed the cutoff man late were the only notable mistakes I can remember. Milewski and Frei aren't going to win gold gloves but they did fine. Teel throwing their guy out at third was a big play.

Hitting is hard when they aren't throwing strikes. We had more runs than hits. Bunting needs some work.

Baserunning might be what won is the game. Nunnalee made a bad mistake. The delayed double steal we pulled off was the difference honestly. Great execution by us and that is coaching.

whattttt?

We in no way would have thrown Mac 100 pitches last year. Lemon was softer on arms than any coach I've seen. No way he was throwing more than 80 pitches
We obviously are going with 2 closers as we let Davis go 3 innings. He has a nasty 2 seam
Defensively Teel threw to 3rd when he should have thown to 2B in the 9th- bad play. Frei and Woodson tried to kill each other on a ball up the middle in the 1st.
Baserunning had good and bad. Couple of things each way.

[Todd4State]

whattttt?

We in no way would have thrown Mac 100 pitches last year. Lemon was softer on arms than any coach I've seen. No way he was throwing more than 80 pitches
We obviously are going with 2 closers as we let Davis go 3 innings. He has a nasty 2 seam
Defensively Teel threw to 3rd when he should have thown to 2B in the 9th- bad play. Frei and Woodson tried to kill each other on a ball up the middle in the 1st.
Baserunning had good and bad. Couple of things each way.

He let Khal Stephen throw 80 in his first start against Air Force two years ago. The point is we didn't use pitches well early in the year. We let JT Schnoor and Gavin Black make their debuts in a competitive game against Troy and it burned us. I mentioned most of the other mistakes you mentioned. Frei colliding into Woodson was an experience/hustle issue IMO. Frei learned that the hard way tonight.

[parabrave]

I was screaming at the tv how dumb that was. Guy would have never got off first if we threw to 2nd instead of being on third.

You should've heard Jay on the radio.

[The Federalist Engineer]

Watched enough Collegiate Baseball to know this was a good victory

The coaches did not mess around with pitchers. Used 3 top arms to avoid an L.

But the coaches knew that Hofstra would have use equivalently valuable arms to snake a massive upset.

Let's acknowledge credit to Goat and Lemonis for scouting Stallman. That was a head scratcher portal signing, if he's a starter on a top-5 team, that's impressive.

[Turfdawg67]

One down - 54 to go. Closest game we'll have all regular season probably.

Will you stop being sarcastic already...

[The Federalist Engineer]

You should've heard Jay on the radio.

What did JP say?

Teel seemed out of control today. He will thrive in the Dude, he'll settle down.

[parabrave]

What did JP say?

Teel seemed out of control today. He will thrive in the Dude, he'll settle down.

That ball should've been to second and that it took away the DP.. Just the tone he said it in.

[Tater]

Will you stop being sarcastic already...

Wait I thought I had stopped.

[maroonmania]

Just thankful to escape a really bad loss right out of the gate. The odds of winning any game where you get outhit 10 to 3 are slim. And their starter from yesterday was no junk baller. He had a 94 mph fastball with a nasty slider. So not buying the excuse we didnt hit because he was so different than what we see in practice. Truth is we didnt really hit any of their pitchers yesterday. Hopefully we break out the sticks today. Having Sullivan back should help as well.

[BrunswickDawg]

Just thankful to escape a really bad loss right out of the gate. The odds of winning any game where you get outhit 10 to 3 are slim. And their starter from yesterday was no junk baller. He had a 94 mph fastball with a nasty slider. So not buying the excuse we didnt hit because he was so different than what we see in practice. Truth is we didnt really hit any of their pitchers yesterday. Hopefully we break out the sticks today. Having Sullivan back should help as well.

Head scratching games like this are the games that good teams that are well coached win. They take advantage of opportunities and find ways to win.

[somebodyshotmypaw]

Head scratching games like this are the games that good teams that are well coached win. They take advantage of opportunities and find ways to win.

Agreed. Ultimately getting outhit doesn’t matter. Not having your best stuff doesn’t matter. Having your DH suspended doesn’t matter. Bad luck doesn’t matter. You have to put all of the adversity aside and simply find a way to win. We did that.

[Coursesuper]

Just thankful to escape a really bad loss right out of the gate. The odds of winning any game where you get outhit 10 to 3 are slim. And their starter from yesterday was no junk baller. He had a 94 mph fastball with a nasty slider. So not buying the excuse we didnt hit because he was so different than what we see in practice. Truth is we didnt really hit any of their pitchers yesterday. Hopefully we break out the sticks today. Having Sullivan back should help as well.

The first guy they threw was legit, and that was coming off TJ surgery. Dude was low heart rate the first time through the lineup, changed speed really really well. Didn’t use the fast ball much and hit his spot dead on until we sped him up in the fourth. That guy was player of the year in the CAA then missed last year. He could start on Friday for anyone in our league. After him it was pure garbage, 8 walks 4 WP and a HBP. There wasn’t much to hit after the first guy. We smoked some balls right at people all night, only saw a few non competitive at bats for us. That’s baseball and we did the little things pretty well and got a W.

[KOdawg1]

Not worried about the offense. We came out jacked on opening day and pressed a good bit.

Plus, Martinez was really good for 3 innings. I think we'll see a run rule or two today.

[State82]

We smoked some balls right at people all night, only saw a few non competitive at bats for us. That’s baseball and we did the little things pretty well and got a W.

Yeah we tattooed some balls on the screws yesterday and got nothing for it.

[Tripp McNeely]

Yeah we tattooed some balls on the screws yesterday and got nothing for it.

You know if a person didn't know baseball lingo, this would be a very weird sentence to read...is "that what she said?"

[BeardoMSU]

Y'all see what happened to Seton Hall? Yikes...

[preachermatt83]

The first guy they threw was legit, and that was coming off TJ surgery. Dude was low heart rate the first time through the lineup, changed speed really really well. Didn’t use the fast ball much and hit his spot dead on until we sped him up in the fourth. That guy was player of the year in the CAA then missed last year. He could start on Friday for anyone in our league. After him it was pure garbage, 8 walks 4 WP and a HBP. There wasn’t much to hit after the first guy. We smoked some balls right at people all night, only saw a few non competitive at bats for us. That’s baseball and we did the little things pretty well and got a W.

You believe that their Friday night guy last night, could “START on FRIDAYS, for anyone” in the Sec?

[Coursesuper]

You believe that their Friday night guy last night, could “START on FRIDAYS, for anyone” in the Sec?

Yeah, that guy can fill it up and he hit his spots until lost a little. Better be happy he’s coming of TJ and isn’t quite there yet.