San Diego game 1 thread

[confucius say]

Anybody got a lineup?

[preachermatt83]

Preston starts out with 3 up 3 down on 6 pitches. 1 k

[confucius say]

Down in order in top 1. K, f-3, f-1. 6 pitches

[preachermatt83]

Heck
Rynolds
Rea
Hump
Robson
Gridley
Brown
Lovelady
Holland

[preachermatt83]

Heck singles

[oldwave]

Heck-SS
Reynolds-DH
Rea-1B
Humphreys-LF
Robson-CF
Gridley-3B
Brown-RF
Lovelady-C
Holland-2B
P. Brown=P

This is per live stats

[preachermatt83]

Reynolds flies out to center

[confucius say]

Reynolds f-8

[chef dixon]

Do we not have a behind home plate camera?

[preachermatt83]

Rea hits into DP

[confucius say]

Interesting to see rea in three hole. Hasn't been there

[preachermatt83]

0-0 going top 2

[confucius say]

Do we not have a behind home plate camera?

We normally do

[preachermatt83]

Interesting to see rea in three hole. Hasn't been there

Was in one game against Samford.

[chef dixon]

Every ball put in play is being shown from the first base line.

[preachermatt83]

Preston hits first batter of 2nd

[chef dixon]

Preston hits first batter of 2nd

Bastard put his head back but his arms out so it made it look like he tried to get out of the way.

[preachermatt83]

Ha!! Preston just did was I was always tought to do... Guy tries to bunt with 2 strikes... Throw right as his chest and he will either take a FB in the chest or he will bunt it foul. This guy bunted it foul. 1 down.

[preachermatt83]

Bastard put his head back but his arms out so it made it look like he tried to get out of the way.

Sure did.

[preachermatt83]

Runner steals 2nd

[preachermatt83]

Throw was in time... Just high.

[preachermatt83]

Batter walks, lovelady drops ball and other runner goes to 3rd. Playing like we don't give a crap again.

[preachermatt83]

Runner steals second and all of a sudden Preston can't throw a strike. Runners at 2nd and 3rd

[msstate7]

Lovelady getting abused out there

[chef dixon]

The pace of this game is excruciating slow.

[preachermatt83]

anotger freaking passed ball. 1-0 SD

[confucius say]

Wild pitch (which could have been passed ball) 1-0

[preachermatt83]

Tatum would have 5 k's by now.

[confucius say]

Well we spotted them at least one

[preachermatt83]

2 outs with a k. Cohen came out and chewed some butt

[confucius say]

Big k. Two down guy on third

[confucius say]

Hump needs to get it going right here

[preachermatt83]

Ground out to third. Going bottom 2 1-0 SD

[chef dixon]

Is anyone watching getting a behind the plate view on balls in play?

[Five-tool Poster]

Tatum would have 5 k's by now.

Preston hasn't allowed a hit. Give me a break.

[Homedawg]

Wild pitch (which could have been passed ball) 1-0

You can't have a passed ball on a pitch that bounces!!! Now it should have been blocked, but it's not a passed ball.

[preachermatt83]

Hump grounds out to 1st but had a good AB.

[preachermatt83]

Preston hasn't allowed a hit. Give me a break.

Don't be dumb. The score was on him Bc he hit him then he throws a wild pitch to let him score.

[preachermatt83]

Robson walks

[chef dixon]

Gridley just watching fastballs

[preachermatt83]

Gridley grounds into DP

[maroonmania]

Gridley grounds into DP

Terrible play by Robson. Slid way past 2nd base and Gridley was likely going to be safe anyway.

[Homedawg]

Well Gridley hot into a fc that became a dp because Robson slid way thru the bag and got called for interference. It was a good call by rule, but rarely seen

[preachermatt83]

Top 3 1-0 SD.

[preachermatt83]

Terrible play by Robson. Slip way past 2nd base and Gridley was likely going to be safe anyway.

Yup. Grid was easily gonna be safe

[preachermatt83]

2 down

[preachermatt83]

Bottom 3. 1-0 SD

[preachermatt83]

Cody with a single. Guy has to be in line up. Period

[chef dixon]

The elephant in the room right now is we have looked downright pathetic at the plate the last 5-6 games. Not really even getting good contact anywhere in the line up.

As I type, Brown gets a single. Lets snap out of this.

[preachermatt83]

Lovelady sac bunt. One down runner on second.

[preachermatt83]

Holland pops up to 3rd.

[preachermatt83]

Brown takes 3rd on wild pitch.

[preachermatt83]

Heck pops up to 2nd. Going 4th. 1-0 SD. this is pitiful. Our approach at the plate is a joke

[maroonmania]

Teams are catching on that we aren't going to swing at the first pitch I guess. Holland and Heck both got pitches right in the heart of the strike zone on the first pitch with no swing. Hit from behind the rest of the way. I'm starting to rethink the quality of this team. Our offense is regressing quickly.

[maroonmania]

Heck pops up to 2nd. Going 4th. 1-0 SD. this is pitiful. Our approach at the plate is a joke

What's really ridiculous is we gave up a run without the other team even hitting the ball. HBP is killing us lately.

[preachermatt83]

First batter for SD in the 4th singles to right.

[preachermatt83]

Teams are catching on that we aren't going to swing at the first pitch I guess. Holland and Heck both got pitches right in the heart of the strike zone on the first pitch with no swing. Hit from behind the rest of the way. I'm starting to rethink the quality of this team. Our offense is regressing quickly.

Yea. I hate looking at the first pitch strike. I think the talent and pitching is there but our plate approach is going to cost us big time. Diff year, same story

[preachermatt83]

5/4/3 DP

[smootness]

I think it's a combination of our offense just not playing that well right now, and a realization that the new balls won't make as drastic a difference as it appeared early on.

It doesn't look like the game will go from no offense to normal offense; it looks like it's going to go from no offense to a little more offense.

We're definitely not squaring balls up, which is why we're not seeing XBH, but it's still not going to be easy to score runs against quality teams.

[preachermatt83]

2 out single.

[preachermatt83]

Walk. Runners on 1st and 2nd. Get Laster or Hudson loose. (Whichever one won't start midweek)

[preachermatt83]

Another walk. On 4 pitches. Get him out of there.

[smootness]

We're seeing now why ideally someone else will take the Friday job. Preston Brown is a good pitcher and can be very good at times, but he's not the kind of guy who's going to cruise for 4-5 innings just shutting people down. He and Laster are similar in that even when things are going well, they're prone to allow baserunners.

[chef dixon]

When your offense sucks it puts a lot of pressure on your pitchers

[preachermatt83]

And we are just now sending anybody to pen. SMH!!

[preachermatt83]

We're seeing now why ideally someone else will take the Friday job. Preston Brown is a good pitcher and can be very good at times, but he's not the kind of guy who's going to cruise for 4-5 innings just shutting people down. He and Laster are similar in that even when things are going well, they're prone to allow baserunners.

EXACTLY!!! Tatum = FNG

[preachermatt83]

Wild pitch scores another run. Lovelady should have had it but Preston is just wild now

[Coach34]

It's early- have to let these guys have some chances to work out of jams

[Jacksondevildog]

If this is our ****ing Friday night starter, we are in trouble. he has to be absolutely on to be effective. If Brown is average, we will struggle.

[preachermatt83]

Preston gets the K on what would have been ball 4

[preachermatt83]

Going bottom 4 down 2-0. Now hit the freaking ball

[chef dixon]

This camera work is about as big of a joke as our offense today.

[preachermatt83]

Reynolds strikes out looking. Questionable call but can't watch close ones with 2 strikes.

[chef dixon]

Is this the same umpire as Tuesday? He's so slow to make a strike call, needs to see a doctor.

[preachermatt83]

Reynolds hitting right in front of Rea is not good for Rea.

[Saltydog]

nt

[preachermatt83]

Rea strikes out looking

[msstate7]

Nice job of watching strike 3

[cheewgumm]

anything close today boys

[preachermatt83]

nt

Why did we change the stupid lineup up. Rea following Robson was best way to go.

[cheewgumm]

Struck out 3 guys.......................looking.

[chef dixon]

Wow. Its really, really tough to see us being able to pull this game out.

[msstate7]

I wish we could hit good pitching

[preachermatt83]

Hump Reynolds strikes out looking. What a joke our offense is. What coach teaches his kids that walking is most important thing in baseball. I'm starting to get very frustrated.

[preachermatt83]

Struck out 3 guys.......................looking.

Freaking ridiculous. Cohen keeps preaching patience at the plate. We are two freaking patient.

[cheewgumm]

walking sux

[mstatefan91]

We look clueless at the plate

[preachermatt83]

Hump, Rea, Reynolds *

[preachermatt83]

walking sux

My senior yr of high school I batted .508 and only walked twice and one of those was intentional.

[preachermatt83]

We look clueless at the plate

They are so afraid of Cohen chewing them out for swinging at a bad pitch that they are scared to swing at anything close

[preachermatt83]

2 out single for SD

[preachermatt83]

Good play by holland to end the top of the 5th. Going to bottom 5 down 2-0

[cheewgumm]

My senior yr of high school I batted .508 and only walked twice and one of those was intentional.

You must have played Academy ball***


I kid, i kid.

[preachermatt83]

We have 2 stupid hits.

[preachermatt83]

You must have played Academy ball***


I kid, i kid.
Lol!! So did Renfro. But no I actually played public school.

[preachermatt83]

4 strait backwards k's as Robson K's looking. That's on Cohen. Tell them they better not be another looking k this game.

[VandelayIndustries]

Is Randy Johnson throwing for San Diego?

[msstate7]

A HIT!!!! Yay

[cheewgumm]

we take too much

[Smitty]

4 strait backwards k's as Robson K's looking. That's on Cohen. Tell them they better not be another looking k this game.

Shitty approach for sure.

[msstate7]

Is Randy Johnson throwing for San Diego?

Nah... Just not Cinci anymore. Our offense was the product of terrible pitching

[TXDawg]

NVM...just saw update on hailstate.com

Softball lost 6-1

[chef dixon]

Anyone know how softball fared against UGA? I was planning to watch some at 5:30, but didn't realize they moved that game up too.

Lost like 6-1 or 8-1

[msstate7]

How many pitches does this guy have?

[preachermatt83]

Holland k's looking to start the bottom of 6th. No excuse. That's coaching.

[Schultzy]

None of those were wild pitches, Brown should go kick Lovelady right in the ass. Speaking of which he needs to stop moving around so much, the second run was scored because he just wasn't ready tore is e the pitch at release. Give him some damn Ritalin or something.
He certainly isn't giving him a target as well.

[chef dixon]

All our batters stand there and look like the biggest douche bags after the K looking.

[smootness]

Holy crap. We're definitely watching too many pitches, but this guy does have a sick breaking ball.

[MadisonDawg]

All our batters stand there and look like the biggest douche bags after the K looking.

Rea already had his shin guard off when he got rung up.

[smootness]

We ended the inning with 2 non-Ks. Yay**

2-0 San Diego after 6.

[msstate7]

Holy crap. We're definitely watching too many pitches, but this guy does have a sick breaking ball.

So you attack early in the count. If you let him get 2 strikes, we're done. We're helping him

[preachermatt83]

Reynolds grounds out. Going to 7th down 2-0 against a team with a losing record.

[msstate7]

Reynolds grounds out. Going to 7th down 2-0 against a team with a losing record.

We lost 3-2 to a swac team. Why are you surprised an mlb draft pick is shutting us down? If pitchers throw strikes, we'll get shut down a ton this year

[preachermatt83]

SD leads off 7th with a single.

[smootness]

So you attack early in the count. If you let him get 2 strikes, we're done. We're helping him

Not disagreeing. We need to be patient to see a good pitch. If that's the first pitch of the AB, swing.

[chef dixon]

Brown should have been done after 6.

[Schultzy]

Also, Heck needs to receive the throw from catcher closer to the bag. You shouldn't have to run or dive back to the bag to make the tag. The ball was there in plenty of time and he ended up scoring.

[msstate7]

Brown should have been done after 6.

Just don't use Ross. Don't use best while we're behind.

[smootness]

Good call by the ump there. Ball hits the batter while squared away to bunt on a 3-2 pitch, called a strikeout. 1 down.

[smootness]

Single. Runners on 1st and 2nd, still 1 down. Time to get Brown out.

And Mitchell is coming in.

[preachermatt83]

Another base hit. Runners on 1st and 2nd with 1 out.

[TXDawg]

Good call by the ump there. Ball hits the batter while squared away to bunt on a 3-2 pitch, called a strikeout. 1 down.

Yep...once the batter offers and misses, it doesn't matter what happens with the ball after that (in this case it hit him). So, the HBP is nullified because the K happened first.

[msstate7]

Single. Runners on 1st and 2nd, still 1 down. Time to get Brown out.

And Mitchell is coming in.

I hate using Ross here. I'm not sure we could score 2 on this guy if we got 8 more at bats

[TXDawg]

With Ross' "double-pump" pitching motion, does that make it easier for him to have a good pick-off move? Can he go to a base after the "first pump"?

[smootness]

I hate using Ross here. I'm not sure we could score 2 on this guy if we got 8 more at bats

I'm fine with it. He can even pitch the 8th as well and still be fine to use the rest of the weekend.

He's got the rubberiest of rubber arms.

Grounder to 1st, 2 down. Both runners move up one.

[smootness]

With Ross' "double-pump" pitching motion, does that make it easier for him to have a good pick-off move? Can he go to a base after the "first pump"?

I believe he can. His leg matters most; as long as he doesn't move toward the plate, he should be fine.

[smootness]

Mitchell K looking for the 3rd out. Onto B7, still 2-0 SD.

It's really time to hit. If we can't do any better than this, I would bench every single starter for tomorrow if I were Cohen.

Time for a wake up call.

[msstate7]

Mitchell K looking for the 3rd out. Onto B7, still 2-0 SD.

It's really time to hit. If we can't do any better than this, I would bench every single starter for tomorrow if I were Cohen.

Time for a wake up call.

Esp after ark PB

[smootness]

Rea check-swing ground out to 1st. Good start!

[smootness]

Esp after ark PB

Yep, that's my point. 1 game can be overlooked; 2 games is very worrisome.

[preachermatt83]

What kind of pitiful swings were those by Reynolds and Rea.

[Dawg61]

What happened to our offense?

[msstate7]

Not sure I'd let gridley hit here. Might would use Vick here

[smootness]

What happened to our offense?

It went pffffffhfhfhfhfhhhhhht.

[msstate7]

What happened to our offense?

Fire ray*

[TXDawg]

Fire ray*

I laughed...

[msstate7]

Good job gridley. Robson is an idiot

[Smitty]

How Robson doesn't make it to 3rd there I have no clue

[TXDawg]

why do you try do go 1 --> 3 in that situation?

Surely he ran through a stop sign.

[maroonmania]

I am really starting to think offense will NEVER be the strength of a John Cohen coached MSU baseball team. Thought it might change this year but here we are again with the same looking anemic offense depending solely on the other team screwing up. Hit the dab blame ball!

[msstate7]

In Canadian baseball getting 3rd out at 3rd must be ok

[smootness]

Gridley puts together a good AB, single into CF...and awful baserunning by Robson runs us out of the inning.

[TXDawg]

How Robson doesn't make it to 3rd there I have no clue

Weakly hit ball with CF charging hard. He had barely rounded 2nd when the CF fielded the ball.

Gotta be more aware on the base paths.

[maroonmania]

Good job gridley. Robson is an idiot

Robson is absolutely one of the worst fundamental base runners I've ever seen. He has a lot of speed but has no clue on the basepaths.

[Homedawg]

why do you try do go 1 --> 3 in that situation?

Surely he ran through a stop sign.

Balls in front of him. It's on him not nick.

[smootness]

How Robson doesn't make it to 3rd there I have no clue

He must not have gotten a good jump for some reason off the bat...but you can not try to take 3rd there. The CF was picking up the ball as he rounded 2nd.

[Smitty]

why do you try do go 1 --> 3 in that situation?

Surely he ran through a stop sign.

He must have forgot the outs. 2 outs, 2 bases for him should be automatic after a secondary and going on contact.

[State82]

You would be hard pressed to make a more bonehead play than that.

[Smitty]

I am really starting to think offense will NEVER be the strength of a John Cohen coached MSU baseball team. Thought it might change this year but here we are again with the same looking anemic offense depending solely on the other team screwing up. Hit the dab blame ball!

Well Mingione is a dumbass with the hitters, one. Lineups, two. Approach at the plate, three.

[Homedawg]

He must have forgot the outs. 2 outs, 2 bases for him should be automatic after a secondary and going on contact.

I agree he had to have gotten an awful jump- with that said, once he did, what in the world was he thinking?

[smootness]

Ridiculously quick top half of the 8th. We showed a couple of signs of life last inning, time to capitalize here.

[chef dixon]

I'm calling runs here.

[smootness]

San Diego has brought in a RP, time to go to work with the bats.

[maroonmania]

I'm calling runs here.

Any particular reason? Our offense in baseball is now starting to look like our offense in basketball.

[chef dixon]

I can't believe they took that guy out.

[chef dixon]

Any particular reason? Our offense in baseball is now starting to look like our offense in basketball.

Just due at this point. And they took out the starter, lord knows why.

[msstate7]

Any particular reason? Our offense in baseball is now starting to look like our offense in basketball.
Well hopefully sword can get us a basket here

[maroonmania]

Surely we won't bunt here down 2 runs?

[Smitty]

Why are we squaring around!!!!

[smootness]

Cody Brown BB to start the inning. Then a WP moves him to 2nd, which took the potential bunt option away. Whew.

Oh, holy crap, we're bunting him over to 3rd. There's no excuse for this.

And now he's 2 strikes down. Awesome.

Lovelady pops out to SS. Yes, Smitty, those are the scenarios where it is justifiable to go nuts that we're trying to bunt.

[Smitty]

Playing for one down two. Get down into a 2 strike count trying to bunt. ****, Cohen

[msstate7]

Did we seriously let lovelady hit then ph?

[smootness]

Smith is pinch-hitting, and they're bringing in a lefty? Ok, interesting. Hopefully Smith can get Brown in and get us somebody else with speed on.

[engie]

That was a non-bunting, dumb ass situation. Just took the bat out of Lovelady's hands.

[smootness]

Did we seriously let lovelady hit then ph?

Yes, so he could give away one of our 6 remaining outs.

[smootness]

And Smith squared to bunt on an 0-1 count with 1 out. May have been trying to bunt for a hit, but good grief. So stupid.

And another K looking. What a joke.

Our guys have no idea how to hit with 2 strikes. Arguing over a strike call doesn't do you a lot of good while you're walking back to 1st.

[engie]

I'm glad I've missed most of this game, I believe....

[Smitty]

Cohens kind of a dumbass on offense. Saying it for years.

[TXDawg]

Heck of a bounce to score the run.

[smootness]

Heck with an RBI single. Whew. We at least got something out of it.

[TXDawg]

Pun not intended...

[smootness]

Rooker gets one off the end of the bat to end the inning.

2-1 San Diego after 8.

[chef dixon]

It looked like Rooker smoked it and it barely made it out of the infield.

[engie]

I don't think he's a dumb ass -- but I'd love to hear him address the bunting thing in depth. Because it sure doesn't make sense from the distance.

You've already hit Collins once -- if you are going mass substitutions, why not let him hit for Lovelady there and try to get ahold of one?

This team is pressing. Has been for awhile. Blows my mind how all the bats go to shit at once. And guys are getting chances as pinch hitters and not doing crap. If you are going to put the game in these particular guys' hands -- why not do it from the beginning of the game. It took Rooker a few ABs to get going -- and then we benched him. Doesn't seem like the kinda guy that can help us much cold off the bench.

[smootness]

On to B9, still 2-1 SD. Got to get it done here, obviously.

[msstate7]

Atta boy wes

[smootness]

Leadoff single for Rea. Come on!

May be actually somewhat acceptable to bunt here, btw, though I still wouldn't, esp. with Rea running.

Nvm, Vickerson pinch running.

Oh, yea, not with Humphreys. But no GIDP here.

[smootness]

Well, we did bunt. Oh well.

Runner on 2nd, 1 down for.....Collins!

Come on, Gavin.

[msstate7]

This is your pitch. Don't miss it

[smootness]

Oh. my. gosh. Collins missed the GW HR by literally inches.

Dang it, I thought that was gone. He was all over it.

[TXDawg]

Inches...

DAMN!!

[DistrictDawg92]

Collins misses a walk off by a foot, grounds out to short 2 down, man at 3rd Gridley up

[msstate7]

Short stroke collins... Single will work

[smootness]

BTW, I know we've taken advantage of it before, but I think it's crap that you can call time and make pitching changes and such in the middle of ABs.

[msstate7]

How bout a wild pitch

[Political Hack]

man that looked like it wen behind the pole from the right side on that replay.

[TXDawg]

That foul ball is a break for us. Let's take advantage.

[preachermatt83]

I just want Gridley on cause Cody brown is so gritty he will do something good.

[smootness]

Gridley flies out to LF to end it.

Bats started to come to life once they subbed their SP out, but not nearly good enough tonight.

We need to pick it up quite a bit in a hurry.

Collins will make a huge difference once he's fully ready to go.

[GreenheadDawg]

Damnit!

[Bothrops]

We lost. Tough series this weekend

[smootness]

We have to win the next 2. San Diego is a good team, but we're definitely making it extremely difficult on ourselves if we don't at least pull this series out.

Need huge games from Sexton and Tatum.

[Schultzy]

On the bright side, our best two pitchers get six days rest for the SEC opener next Friday. Maybe we won't put a guy in the two hole hitting .188

[Coach34]

On the bright side, our best two pitchers get six days rest for the SEC opener next Friday. Maybe we won't put a guy in the two hole hitting .188

or the 4 hole batting about .220

[Todd4State]

I'll be the first to say it- I don't want Humphreys bunting in that situation. If anyone wants to question it, that's fine- because I do to. If it was Robson, Vickerson- that's fine. But I want the power guys to swing the bat- just like the speed guys don't need to be swinging for the fences.

Robson getting thrown out at third was bad too. I understand it in the sense that you want to try to make something happen- but if you do you better damn well make it.

This type of a game is why I don't want Preston pitching on Friday's. He's a contact guy and he's going to give up some runs- even though he should have had a shutout because he had two wild pitches that scored both of their runs. But when you face up with the other team's aces- you want someone that can shut down the other team completely too- and that's what Tatum gives us. Preston is a good pitcher, he's a SEC quality starter and I love the guy to death- but we need our strike out guy to shut the other team down too.

[Todd4State]

or the 4 hole batting about .220

I do think that Humphreys should be dropped in the order. I also agree with Schultzy too. Actually we should go back to the lineup we had when we were 13-0.

[Smitty]

Bunting/Lineup kills the day. This is one of those I speak of. Every game matters. Tonight shows everyone what I mean when I get so damn frustrated. It's nights like tonight. Bunting Hump, damn.

[Coach34]

Humphreys had to bunt- he sure as **** cant hit it

.227 before SEC play- he shouldnt even be playing

[Todd4State]

Humphreys had to bunt- he sure as **** cant hit it

.227 before SEC play- he shouldnt even be playing

I hate to say it, but that's a good point. At the very least he should be dropped down in the order.

[msstate7]

Why in the world is collins not dh right now? If he can hit once, why not 3-4 times?

[Todd4State]

Why in the world is collins not dh right now? If he can hit once, why not 3-4 times?

He might DH tomorrow. It wouldn't shock me anyway. Originally he wasn't supposed to be back until SEC play so he's actually a little ahead or on schedule as it is.

[mstatefan91]

There's a difference between batting once and batting 4 times...

[Schultzy]

There's also a difference between 25 degrees and 60 degrees farenheit when talking about a a wrist injury. You only put him in there for a walk off, which he almost pulled off.

[msstate7]

There's also a difference between 25 degrees and 60 degrees farenheit when talking about a a wrist injury. You only put him in there for a walk off, which he almost pulled off.
Cohen said there's no risk of re-injuring. If Gavin can deal with pain is only issue

[mstatefan91]

Cohen said there's no risk of re-injuring. If Gavin can deal with pain is only issue

This is also true. I really won't be shocked if he is the DH tomorrow. I kind of hope he is