Baseball vs UCLA

[Todd4State]

Today showed without a doubt- we are one of the best teams in the country

I'd hate to be the team that plays us next.

[AlSwearengen]

My attempt at arm chair coaching: I was calling for Nunnalee to pinch hit for Parker with 2nd and 3rd no outs (my wife will testify). Nunnalee is known for not striking out (even though he did later) and being able to handle the bat. Parker is a true freshman and will swing and miss; granted, he hits fly balls.

Why Billingsly? He is just out of juco. What about Webb?

I would have liked to have seen guys with some college experience in those spots, especially this early in the season.

[maroonmania]

I'd hate to be the team that plays us next.

Well, that would be USM. I'm hoping today's game doesn't hurt us having to play on the road in Hattiesburg on Tuesday night. We really let one get away against UCLA. Outhit them 14-8 and overall outplayed them. A lot of things had to go wrong (especially in the 9th) for us to lose today. But now, if we mess around and lose to USM, we would only be 2-2 in this 4 game stretch with losses to both ranked teams we've played so Tuesday's game is important. Would definitely feel much better to end the stretch 3-1. But right now I'm not very confident in Foster and we burned a lot of our best bullpen arms today.

[HoopsDawg]

My attempt at arm chair coaching: I was calling for Nunnalee to pinch hit for Parker with 2nd and 3rd no outs (my wife will testify). Nunnalee is known for not striking out (even though he did later) and being able to handle the bat. Parker is a true freshman and will swing and miss; granted, he hits fly balls.

Why Billingsly? He is just out of juco. What about Webb?

I would have liked to have seen guys with some college experience in those spots, especially this early in the season.

Webb was burned.

[HoopsDawg]

Well, that would be USM. I'm hoping today's game doesn't hurt us having to play on the road in Hattiesburg on Tuesday night. We really let one get away against UCLA. Outhit them 14-8 and overall outplayed them. A lot of things had to go wrong (especially in the 9th) for us to lose today. But now, if we mess around and lose to USM, we would only be 2-2 in this 4 game stretch with losses to both ranked teams we've played so Tuesday's game is important. Would definitely feel much better to end the stretch 3-1. But right now I'm not very confident in Foster and we burned a lot of our best bullpen arms today.

If you are USM, this is the perfect time to play us.

On the flip side, if we return from Texas after that 9th inning collapse and go into Hattisburg and win, that would show a lot.

[The Federalist Engineer]

I dont know why BOC threw to Tanner Allen and I dont know he threw to Cholowsky. Glad about one of those.

Yep, in 2021 threw to Tanner Allen with a busted right-handed side winder. Everyone in the stadium knew TA was going to mash. Good reminder.

Parker should have intervened and intentionally walked the golden spikes leader and 1st overall MLB pick.

My meltdown is about the basics. I expect to lose about 14 SEC games this season, because the competition is great in the SEC. But if you can make this kind of mistake, you might lose 15 or 16.

Also, if you rifle through 6 good arms on one tight game and the arms are unavailable the next day, after a 0.2 inning stint. You might routinely see Billingsley and Booth on SEC Sundays. I hope this game was aberrational.

[Todd4State]

Well, that would be USM. I'm hoping today's game doesn't hurt us having to play on the road in Hattiesburg on Tuesday night. We really let one get away against UCLA. Outhit them 14-8 and overall outplayed them. A lot of things had to go wrong (especially in the 9th) for us to lose today. But now, if we mess around and lose to USM, we would only be 2-2 in this 4 game stretch with losses to both ranked teams we've played so Tuesday's game is important. Would definitely feel much better to end the stretch 3-1. But right now I'm not very confident in Foster and we burned a lot of our best bullpen arms today.

If we lose to USM it's probably because we started Foster and he shit the bed. We should have our entire bullpen available for USM with an off day tomorrow. Especially Sweeney and Gleason. Davis is probably burned though.

[Todd4State]

Yep, in 2021 threw to Tanner Allen with a busted right-handed side winder. Everyone in the stadium knew TA was going to mash. Good reminder.

Parker should have intervened and intentionally walked the golden spikes leader and 1st overall MLB pick.

My meltdown is about the basics. I expect to lose about 14 SEC games this season, because the competition is great in the SEC. But if you can make this kind of mistake, you might lose 15 or 16.

Also, if you rifle through 6 good arms on one tight game and the arms are unavailable the next day, after a 0.2 inning stint. You might routinely see Billingsley and Booth on SEC Sundays. I hope this game was aberrational.

I wouldn't be surprised if Booth and Billingsley aren't even on the SEC roster TBH. Booth is pretty much a lock to not be on it. Billingsley might be the last guy on the roster.

[Dawgology]

It's on my TV

Really? ESPN, ESPN2, SECN, CBS, or ABC? I never found it....

[StarkVegasSteve]

My attempt at arm chair coaching: I was calling for Nunnalee to pinch hit for Parker with 2nd and 3rd no outs (my wife will testify). Nunnalee is known for not striking out (even though he did later) and being able to handle the bat. Parker is a true freshman and will swing and miss; granted, he hits fly balls.

Why Billingsly? He is just out of juco. What about Webb?

I would have liked to have seen guys with some college experience in those spots, especially this early in the season.

Billingsley is very well liked by this staff. For what reasons? I have not figured that out yet. He's not looked overly impressive any time he has been in but we keep running him out there.

Do agree that we should've PH with Nunnallee for Parker in that situation. Parker was trying to hit it to Texas Live and Nunnallee probably could've just lifted it to the outfield.

[Homedawg]

Billingsley is very well liked by this staff. For what reasons? I have not figured that out yet. He's not looked overly impressive any time he has been in but we keep running him out there.

Do agree that we should've PH with Nunnallee for Parker in that situation. Parker was trying to hit it to Texas Live and Nunnallee probably could've just lifted it to the outfield.

Parker had already hit a sac fly earlier. Stick w him. Nunnallee I'd next inning so much for backseat qb on that one.

[Todd4State]

Billingsley is very well liked by this staff. For what reasons? I have not figured that out yet. He's not looked overly impressive any time he has been in but we keep running him out there.

Do agree that we should've PH with Nunnallee for Parker in that situation. Parker was trying to hit it to Texas Live and Nunnallee probably could've just lifted it to the outfield.

Billingsley throws hard. But his fastball is straight. His control is REALLY bad. He looks like someone Foxhall would bring in.

To be fair, I don't think they intended to use him in this game.

[Todd4State]

We played pretty well for game 12, made some mistakes and should have beaten one of the best teams in the country. A team that has been playing together for 3 years. They needed extras to get us. Big time learning moments from this one. Move on get ready for the real season in 2 weeks.

UCLA being together for three years is a really good point. Our team has been put together for three weeks. Our team cohesion is going to get better.