Softball vs. LSU ???mid-week SEC game??? - GAME THREAD, from Starkville

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After one inning, Mississippi State leads 2-0.

Katie Anne Bailey with an RBI. One Tigress error.

Ally Walljasper pitching for LSU.

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Alexis Silkwood pitching

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Leadoff batter on for LSU on an illegal pitch.

No outs, one on 1B

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Fly ball out to LF. One down

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Another illegal pitch. Coach pissed.

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Pop out to Ivy in LF. 2 out.

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Ground out 5-3 for out #3

Moving to Bottom 2nd, State leading 2-0

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Kayla Winkfield with an infield single

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She's 3rd leading hitter for the girls

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What's an illegal pitch? Spit ball? Pump fake?

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Loryn Nichols (30 hits on the year) reaches on a fielder's choice. Winkfield out at 2B.

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What's an illegal pitch? Spit ball? Pump fake?

Something about not dragging your foot.

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Nichols steals. Lady on 2B. One out.

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Julia Echols

K

2 out

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Amanda Ivy with an RBI single

Nichols scores from 2B, throw not in time

MSU 3, LSU 0

Carley Hoover new pitcher for LSU

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Apparently LSU is #1

I still don't know why we're playing a midweek SEC game if indeed it's not just a nonconf game.

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Caroline Seitz (11 HR)

6-3 for 3rd out

After 2 innings, MSU leads 3-0

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Top pf 3rd. Top of the order for LSU.

1 Out on groundball

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5-3 again for out #2

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Bloop single over SS

One lady on for LSU

2 outs

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Strike 3

Silkwood catches LSU's best hitter looking on inside corner

First K of the night for Silkwood

Headed to Bottom 3rd, State still leading 3-0

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Bottom of 3rd inning

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Mackenzie Toler (Leads team with 21 BB)

ground out 6-3

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LSU coaches giving ump hell arguing calls

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1 down

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Katie Anne Bailey (leads team with 6 triples)

Fly out to RF

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2 down

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Alexis Silkwood

Base hit opposite field single to LF

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1 runner on 1B

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Calyn Adams

6-4 fielder's choice for 3rd out

End of 3 innings

MSU 3, LSU 0

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Top of 4th

Lead off single for LSU

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Back to back base hits

2 runners on 1B and 2B

No outs

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Apparently LSU is #1

I still don't know why we're playing a midweek SEC game if indeed it's not just a nonconf game.

Well, whatever. It's a whole lot better than baseball game threads for sure.

[MabenMaroon]

What's an illegal pitch? Spit ball? Pump fake?

Silkwood has been called for this about a half a dozen times this year: the pitcher's trailing foot has to remain in contact with the ground until after she releases the ball. An illegal pitch works like a balk sort of, can nullify a strike out or a put out. Silkwood has a jump in her pitching motion that Vann will need to work on in the off-season. There has probably been at least 2 dozen or more pitches she has thrown that I have seen that haven't been called. It is pretty ticky-tack to say the least.

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LSU #buntfail

3-2 count

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Yes!! Double play

Winkfield catches an infield flare for 1 out and catches LSU runner of base at 2B

2 down, runner at 1B

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Silkwood has been called for this about a half a dozen times this year: the pitcher's trailing foot has to remain in contact with the ground until after she releases the ball. An illegal pitch works like a balk sort of, can nullify a strike out or a put out. Silkwood has a jump in her pitching motion that Vann will need to work on in the off-season. There has probably been at least 2 dozen or more pitches she has thrown that I have seen that haven't been called. It is pretty ticky-tack to say the least.

It seems sometimes they'll call the pitch a ball, but if the runner put the ball in play it will indeed nullify a put out. It did in the 2nd inning of this game at least.

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Base hit for LSU

runners on 1B and 2B

2 out

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3-2 count

long at bat

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foul balls upon foul balls

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Backhanded grab by Seitz who steps on bag at 3rd!!!

LSU still scoreless, mid 4th

Mississippi State 3, Louisiana State 0

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Bottom of 4th

MSU with 6 hits and 0 errors

LSU with 4 hits and 1 error

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Kayla Winkfield

hits one out, just foul

but then singles to LF

0 out, 1 runner at 1B

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Loryn Nichols

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Winkfield steals 2nd

No outs, runner at 2B

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Nichols strikes out

1 out, runner at 2B

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Julia Echols (.660 slugging)

Backwards K

2 outs, runner at 2B

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Silkwood has been called for this about a half a dozen times this year: the pitcher's trailing foot has to remain in contact with the ground until after she releases the ball. An illegal pitch works like a balk sort of, can nullify a strike out or a put out. Silkwood has a jump in her pitching motion that Vann will need to work on in the off-season. There has probably been at least 2 dozen or more pitches she has thrown that I have seen that haven't been called. It is pretty ticky-tack to say the least.

Well I don't know how it's ticky-tack since everybody from 10U knows you can't crow hop. To me the issue is that in softball they let girls get away with IP so much more than boys. Everybody remembers when we had balk games trying to learn in little league and they do the girls a disservice in not enforcing the rules closer in 12U and lower. If boys can learn to pitch legally so can the girls. And I've seen older girls called for it and immediately start pitching legally with no problems. So they knew they were skirting the rules. Now the young girls would mess them up for a while but boys do it and learn quickly. Now the flip side is the true replant is a competitive advantage that should be enforced stronger and the penalty should be changed in softball. Some girls are generating so much power when they leave the rubber it causes that back foot to lift higher than it should but they are not really replanting. Also, the issue that in international competition it's different rule and the lifting is not illegal. That should be a rule that is the same in college. The girl from Baylor?? I think has a big flap on her shoe which I think should have been stopped the first pitch she threw. With Silkwood, I like her and obviously support our team but she gets awful close to replant for me and that needs to be addressed.

ETA. The other big issue I have with IP's is the umps having no clue about what is really and IP, no consistency in calling it, and on the enforcement a lot of them mess up that call as well. Same with slappers who are actually drag bunting with 2 strikes and it goes foul and are sometimes way out of the batters box when they make contact. Softball umps, even at the college level, have some big issues.

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Amanda Ivy

BB

2 outs, Ladies on 1B and 2B

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Caroline Seitz

2 RBI double off the top of the wall!!!!!

2 outs, runner at 2B

5-0 Doggies lead

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Mackenzie Toler

1-3 for out 3

After 4 innings, MSU leads #1 LSU 5-0

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Top of 5th

Another leadoff hit for LSU

0 outs, runner on 2B

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Ground out advances runner to 3B

1 out, runner at 3B

[MabenMaroon]

Appreciate the info. I don't know much about the technical aspects but I do love watching these gals compete. The play by play announcers Monday night didn't really make a big deal out of it but did replay it a couple of times and showed another pitch or two where she was close to being illegal.

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Weird play. Ground foul, but may have been touched by batter before hand. Anyway, call is foul ball down 1B line. Would have been out 2, but scored runner.

Grounder off Silkwood's glove scores runner

Another wierd play. LSU runner at 1B seemed to round 1B toward 2nd. Echols applied tag but called safe.

Now Umps are discussing

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Call stands

1 out, runner at 1B

State leads 5-1

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Another hit

1 out, runners at 1B and 2B

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Time called by MSU. Trying to avoid the big inning here.

C'mon Gals!!!

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Off the wall RBI double

MSU 5, LSU 2

1 out, runners at 2B and 3B

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Fans unhappy with Umpires!!!

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Pop up to short LF

2 outs, runners at 2B and 3B

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3-2 count

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Grounder to Gaul, who steps on 1st. Inning over with no more damage.

Mid 5th, State leading 5-2

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Bottom of 5th

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Katie Anne Bailey

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Base on Balls, Bailey on 1B, no outs

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Alexis Silkwood

K

1 out, runner on 1B

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Just confirmed this is a non-conference game

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Calyn Adams (1st start against an SEC opponent, even though this is not an SEC game)

BB

Doggies on 1B and 2B, 1 out

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Kayla Winkfield

Pop out to SS

2 down, runners on 1B and 2B

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Morgan Bell (PH for Loryn Nichols)

After a long AB, looks at strike 3

After 5 innings, MSU leads top ranked LSU 5-2

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Top of 6th

Had to step away for a second. Don't know what happened.

1 out for LSU

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Wierd (Bad) hop that should have been 6-3 put out. Rolled up Winkfield's arm.

1 out, runner on 1B

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K, 2nd of the night for Silkwood

2 down, runner on 1B

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Bailey (C) throws runner out at 2nd on a steal!!!!

Mid 6th, MSU leads 5-2

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Bottom of the 6th

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Julia Echols

Base hit up the middle (5th leadoff hit of the night for MSU)

No outs, runner on 1B

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Amanda Ivy

BB

No outs, runners on 1B and 2B

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Conference at mound, LSU making a change to Corbello (SP?)

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Wild pitch advances runners to 2B and 3B

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Caroline Seitz

Backwards K

1 out, runners on 2B and 3B

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Mackenzie Toler

RBI single to RF, scores 2!!!

MSU leads 7-2

1 out, runner on 1B

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^ 2 RBI single

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Madison Arroyo will pinch run for Toler at 1B

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Katie Anne Bailey moves runner to 2B

2 outs, runner at 2B

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Alexis Silkwood

Opposite field (LF) 2 run HR!!!!!

Hail State!

2 outs, MSU leading #1 LSU 9-2

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Calyn Adams

reaches on an E-6

2 outs, runner on 1B

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Katie Gentle will pinch run for Calyn Adams

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Kayla Winkfield

Lines out to end the inning

After playing 6, Mississippi State leads LSU 9-2

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Top of the 7th

Here we go!!

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Leadoff single for LSU

No outs, Tigress on 1B

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Deep infield hit to SS. No play.

No outs, runners on 1B and 2B

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Well, something happened and ED went down for a while.

We won 9-4 over #1 LSU (36-4). Bases were loaded at the end.

Girls move to 30-10!!!

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Got the skinny on the schedule. Only 13 SEC schools support softball. Vandy has no team. You rotate through all opponents because there are no protected rivalries nor divisions. Last year we didn't even play Ole Miss for instance. So. Some schedule these little matchups. We don't play LSU in conference play this year.

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Got the skinny on the schedule. Only 13 SEC schools support softball. Vandy has no team. You rotate through all opponents because there are no protected rivalries nor divisions. Last year we didn't even play Ole Miss for instance. So. Some schedule these little matchups. We don't play LSU in conference play this year.

Outstanding play by play! Thank you

[MabenMaroon]

This^

[BulldogBear]

Outstanding play by play! Thank you

Thanks, it's something I really enjoy doing when I actually can sit down and do it right. About half of the portraits don't seem to load right or something though because you end up having to click on about half of them, at least on my computer and phone.

I got a lot more interested in softball when my daughter started playing!! Now, I can get it into it more than I thought I ever would have.