Arkansas Game 1 Thread

[CadaverDawg]

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[CadaverDawg]

I like the changes, personally. Odd timing, but I like them nonetheless

[preachermatt83]

I want badly to beat mini me and his arm destroying techniques!

[I seen it dawg]

Love the lineup. Let's go

[lamont]

I like it. Stay with it a few and see how it plays out

[CadaverDawg]

Anybody know if we're facing a RHP or LHP tonight?

[I seen it dawg]

Grid can't hit 3 hole for us

[I seen it dawg]

1-0 grid bomb then pimps it. Rooker smokes a double

[lamont]

Grid can't hit 3 hole for us

Don't make MsHevesy7 mad

[Bully13]

Don't make MsHevesy7 mad

I laughed. No poke 7, you know I like you dude.

[sandwolf]

MsHevesy7LOL

[msstate7]

Don't make MsHevesy7 mad

Lol... gridley has proven me wrong so far. He hit .360+ OOC last year though and .220s SEC play. I hope he's corrected that and I get reminded of being wrong all season

[sandwolf]

How many home runs does Gridley have this year?

[Goldendawg]

Anyone got a link to watch? Thanks.

[msstate7]

How many home runs does Gridley have this year?
Think 3... may be 2 though

Just noticed he hit one tonight... think that's 4

[Percho]

How did Ark score 2

[lamont]

Walk and Bomb

[CadaverDawg]

Pilk isn't getting the low strike call, so he's having trouble putting guys away and throwing too many pitches. We better hope the pen steps up in a little while, bc at this pace Pilk will be worn out by the 5th.

And of course as I typed that he K'd a guy on 3 pitches, haha. That's a good way to turn it around

[Percho]

thanks

[CadaverDawg]

K's the side!! Well done, Pilk

[CadaverDawg]

Walk and Bomb

Think it was a single and bomb. Not that it matters

[CadaverDawg]

Quit stealing Jake. He clearly isn't a good base stealer. Shit

That strike 2 call on Cody was dog shit

[KOdawg1]

Quit stealing Jake. He clearly isn't a good base stealer. Shit

That strike 2 call on Cody was dog shit

yup. almost hit his elbow

[CadaverDawg]

FILTHYngton with another good inning.

Still 2-1 Pigs

[WSOPdawg]

Sweet, Konor's settled down and has retired 7 in a row. Now time to get some runs.

[CadaverDawg]

**** this ump, that was a ball twice earlier in the ab. Rooker got screwed

[MarketingBully]

That ump is horrible. He is giving that Arkansas pitcher about a foot off the plate strikes.

[CadaverDawg]

Come on Luke, quit pulling your head out.

[CadaverDawg]

What a shitty inning by the heart of our order

[Activated Alpha]

4th inning and we have had 7 strikeouts so far....

[Saltydog]

That's 7 already.

[CadaverDawg]

That's 7 already.

It's pathetic

[MarketingBully]

**** this ump, that was a ball twice earlier in the ab. Rooker got screwed

He called those pitches strikes (which they aren't) all game which is how that Ark pitcher has 6ks right now. It's Tony Walsh who sucks balls and has been an SEC ump at least for 20+ years.

[MarketingBully]

That's 7 already.

Because the ump has given that pitcher a foot off the plate for a strike.

[Saltydog]

NT

[MarketingBully]

It's pathetic

You try to hit a pitch that is basically off the plate a whole plate.

[CadaverDawg]

You try to hit a pitch that is basically off the plate a whole plate.

We've been K'ing too much all year. It ain't just bad umps. This guy does suck though

[CadaverDawg]

NT

Possibly. Suspended right now.

[CadaverDawg]

He called those pitches strikes (which they aren't) all game which is how that Ark pitcher has 6ks right now. It's Tony Walsh who sucks balls and has been an SEC ump at least for 20+ years.

No he didn't. He called them balls earlier in that same at bat. He's inconsistent. I'd rather him call it out there every time than to call it a strike 1 pitch and a ball the next

[Percho]

He's not the best ump I have ever seen.

[MarketingBully]

No he didn't. He called them balls earlier in that same at bat. He's inconsistent. I'd rather him call it out there every time than to call it a strike 1 pitch and a ball the next

He had been giving him that pitch all game long except on Rooker's at bat then didn't give Pilk the strikeout which was actually closer to a strike then anything that Arkansas asshat has thrown.

[CadaverDawg]

This Wichita/Dayton game has been a good basketball game

[Percho]

We've been K'ing too much all year. It ain't just bad umps. This guy does suck though

I agree if the announcer knows what's coming the batter should know.

[WSOPdawg]

No he didn't. He called them balls earlier in that same at bat. He's inconsistent. I'd rather him call it out there every time than to call it a strike 1 pitch and a ball the next

Yep, be consistent both way and I'm fine with these calls. But they're definitely going Arky's way atm.

[MarketingBully]

He's not the best ump I have ever seen.

He's Tony Walsh who absolutely hates MSU. As home plate ump, I bet we have a below .500 record with him.

[I seen it dawg]

It's pathetic

Shit it's not me pitching. This dude is filthy.

[CadaverDawg]

Sad that 2 runs may be enough to beat us. Our offense blows

[CadaverDawg]

Shit it's not me pitching. This dude is filthy.

Not 7 K's thru 4 filthy. This is every game for us. We haven't just faced filth all season

[CadaverDawg]

8 K's

[Percho]

Good at bat.

[CadaverDawg]

Skelton is hitting a buck ten and chasing a 2-1 pitch over his head. Jeez

[Activated Alpha]

He's now matches his career high in strikeouts. He's going to blow that career high by the end of the game

[CadaverDawg]

9 K's thru 5

I'm betting we see more filth tomorrow and Sunday

[WSOPdawg]

He's now matches his career high in strikeouts. He's going to blow that career high by the end of the game

The good thing is their pitcher threw 20 pitches that inning and is pushing 80 thru 5 innings, maybe we can chase him next inning with Tanner and the top of the lineup coming up.

[MarketingBully]

Some of these swinging strikeouts are from shithead Walsh giving him a foot outside.

[Activated Alpha]

When can our pitcher have a career strikeout kind of day?

[CadaverDawg]

Pilk walks the leadoff in the b5. Up to 73 pitches

[CadaverDawg]

When can our pitcher have a career strikeout kind of day?

Intersquad scrimmage?

[CadaverDawg]

Big K, great pitch

[CadaverDawg]

Another K! Pilk trying to win it himself. Give that man a bat!

[CadaverDawg]

Pilk K's the side!!

FILTHYngton

[MarketingBully]

Pilk K's the side!!

FILTHYngton

He probably is pretty close to the amount of K's as the Ark shithead without the aid of Tony Walsh.

[Spiderman]

Just turned game on. 1st time to see Pilk this year.

those three K's were nasty

[CadaverDawg]

Just turned game on. 1st time to see Pilk this year.

those three K's were nasty

Yep, He's gross when he's on.

[CadaverDawg]

Poole with a leadoff K in the t6

That's 10 of 18 batters we've sent to the plate tonight that have struck out

[CadaverDawg]

Mangum flyout

[CadaverDawg]

Cody gets plunked on the 0-2 pitch. Make him pay for it Gridley

[CadaverDawg]

Balk sends Cody to 2nd. Come on Grid!

[CadaverDawg]

Gridley grounds out

2-1

[MarketingBully]

Would be interesting to see if Knight goes down to TJ next year.

[CadaverDawg]

Bomb. 3-1

[ScoobaDawg]

Shit. another bomb. 3-1 pigs
Shoulder high fastball middle of the plate on pitch 89.

[Activated Alpha]

Despite both the homeruns, you couldn't ask anymore out of Pilk. Our offense is anemic against good pitching.

[CadaverDawg]

Despite both the homeruns, you couldn't ask anymore out of Pilk. Our offense is anemic against pitching.

Fixed it

[Activated Alpha]

11 strikeouts now....sigh. You would think our guys would have a better approach multiple times through

[WSOPdawg]

Man I can't understand how we got to the point of not having the ability to make contact at the plate -- our guys gotta at least give themselves a chance and put some balls in play!

[msstate7]

11 strikeouts now....sigh. You would think our guys would have a better approach multiple times through

This is gonna be a problem all year. I think we'll get 1 win this weekend though, which is what I expected.

[starkvegasdawg]

Fixed it

Fixed it again.

Our offense is a cripple slap fight.

[lamont]

We probably end up about 11-19 in the SEC this year. Just need to get guys experience, heal our pitching, and hope Grid and Magnum return another season

[CadaverDawg]

Attaboy Macnamee

[msstate7]

Stovall shouldn't be playing. That play at 1st wasn't even close. He obviously can't run bc of the hamstring. Let em heal

[WSOPdawg]

All right, Macnamee with a hit, see if we can get something going with 1 on, 1 out...

[CadaverDawg]

Poole K's sigh

[WSOPdawg]

Did Macnamee pinch hit for Skelton?

[WSOPdawg]

Stovall shouldn't be playing. That play at 1st wasn't even close. He obviously can't run bc of the hamstring. Let em heal

Stovall was going so slow that you gotta wonder if he re-aggravated his hammy.

[MarketingBully]

Yeah, I love that Mini-me's reward for ****ing up our staff was to get another job in our division. I hate that man.

[msstate7]

OM has now thrown 42 consecutive scoreless innings and only given up 2 runs (12th inning vs Georgia state) in their last 62 innings pitched. Our offense is gonna look so bad vs them

[msstate7]

Stovall was going so slow that you gotta wonder if he re-aggravated his hammy.

There's no way he can't. We won't let him heal... let him sit till he's healthy or he'll be a shell of himself all year

[WSOPdawg]

There's no way he can't. We won't let him heal... let him sit till he's healthy or he'll be a shell of himself all year

Was it against Oregon on that cold, rainy Friday night that he pulled up lame at 3rd or was it injured before that?

[CadaverDawg]

Pilk with career high 13 K's

Deserves a better outcome

[msstate7]

Was it against Oregon on that cold, rainy Friday night that he pulled up lame at 3rd or was it injured before that?

Think you're right. He re-aggravated it last Sunday, but stayed in the game.

[ScoobaDawg]

13k's on the night for Pilk. 125 pitches on the night.

[Activated Alpha]

Pilk with career high 13 K's

Deserves a better outcome

Hey we got our pitcher a career high in Ks!!!

[msstate7]

13k's on the night for Pilk. 125 pitches on the night.

Outstanding... for a team eat with elbow trouble seems we'd more cautious with pitch count though

[MarketingBully]

OM has now thrown 42 consecutive scoreless innings and only given up 2 runs (12th inning vs Georgia state) in their last 62 innings pitched. Our offense is gonna look so bad vs them

If not for 7 freaking TJ surgeries, we would have the best staff in the SEC period. Padget, Small were supposed to be ace pitchers. We lost great depth out of our bullpen too. That 2015 pitching recruiting class was filled with filthy Starting Lefty pitchers. I bet we would have all of them if they don't have to go through Mini-me's insane strength and conditioning program. What he did to the young pitchers was just plain screwed up and it sucks that he was rewarded with it by getting another job in our division.

[WSOPdawg]

Outstanding... for a team eat with elbow trouble seems we'd more cautious with pitch count though

At least we didn't have to burn another arm (unless we rally in the 9th). Got everybody else for tomorrow and sunday now - Pilk's a workhorse.

[ScoobaDawg]

If not for 7 freaking TJ surgeries, we would have the best staff in the SEC period. Padget, Small were supposed to be ace pitchers. We lost great depth out of our bullpen too. That 2015 pitching recruiting class was filled with filthy Starting Lefty pitchers. I bet we would have all of them if they don't have to go through Mini-me's insane strength and conditioning program. What he did to the young pitchers was just plain screwed up and it sucks that he was rewarded with it by getting another job in our division.


You bitch about it tonight but if it truly was Johnson's fault Arkansas will have even more problems next year which will reward us for as long as he is there.

[MarketingBully]

You bitch about it tonight but if it truly was Johnson's fault Arkansas will have even more problems next year which will reward us for as long as he is there.

My guess will be Knight goes down.

[msstate7]

If I were an opposing coach, I'd throw us offspeed the whole game. We couldn't hit it if we got 7 strikes per batter

[raymond21]

Why PH with Gordon for Cody, makes no sense

[msstate7]

Why PH with Gordon for Cody, makes no sense

We PH vansau in place of blaylock Monday vs a lhp. Don't try to make sense of some of these moves

[state66]

Pilk gave us our entire bullpen for the next two days. I feel alot better about the rest of the weekend with pilk going all 9 tonight.

[BHildreth3]

Pilk gave us our entire bullpen for the next two days. I feel alot better about the rest of the weekend with pilk going all 9 tonight.

Yes, but shit, if you can't score 4 runs with Pilk getting 13 ****ing K's that just sucks. We have SEC 3-4 SEC hitters: Mangum, Rooker, maybe on #10. The rest of the lineup has a lot to prove when it comes to dealing with SEC rotation guys. I'm just impatient in my old age of 41. I think, wait no - I know that our new coach is going to recruit is ass off. I just want to be in year 3 of his tenure - and also, i'm pissed that Ole Miss won tonight with a pinch hit from a walk-on.

[hailstate17]

What concerns me most is our approach. As someone who pitched in college baseball, what makes hitters at that level so tough is that they are tough to get out the same way over and over. Well, not this lineup. We didn't even make the pitcher pitch to both sides of the plate. He threw fastballs outside all night, and we were up there hacking like it's the homerun derby. Make an adjustment man. It's so much harder to get outs if you have to do it in different ways. But when you can constantly pitch the same sequence over and over it makes it really easy

[maroonmania]

What concerns me most is our approach. As someone who pitched in college baseball, what makes hitters at that level so tough is that they are tough to get out the same way over and over. Well, not this lineup. We didn't even make the pitcher pitch to both sides of the plate. He threw fastballs outside all night, and we were up there hacking like it's the homerun derby. Make an adjustment man. It's so much harder to get outs if you have to do it in different ways. But when you can constantly pitch the same sequence over and over it makes it really easy

We have to be like last in the SEC in walks right?

[Bully13]

So I guess we lost tonight

Amirite?

[msstate7]

So I guess we lost tonight

Amirite?

3-1 ark

[Cooterpoot]

What concerns me most is our approach. As someone who pitched in college baseball, what makes hitters at that level so tough is that they are tough to get out the same way over and over. Well, not this lineup. We didn't even make the pitcher pitch to both sides of the plate. He threw fastballs outside all night, and we were up there hacking like it's the homerun derby. Make an adjustment man. It's so much harder to get outs if you have to do it in different ways. But when you can constantly pitch the same sequence over and over it makes it really easy

This is hitting now. It's all about the homerun and pulling the ball. Same way in major leagues.

[Bully13]

3-1 ark

Thank you 7. I'm kinda getting burned out on our offense.

[msstate7]

Thank you 7. I'm kinda getting burned out on our offense.

Still early, but it appears we can hit below to average pitching and nothing above average. Knight came in with an era of 3.72 and striking out right at 1 per inning (12 k in 12.1 ip) vs OOC. He struck out 11 in 7.0 ip vs us and gave up 1 er. He came in giving up over a hit an inning (15 hits in 12.1 ip)... we got 3 in 7 ip

[Bully13]

Still early, but it appears we can hit below to average pitching and nothing above average. Knight came in with an era of 3.72 and striking out right at 1 per inning (12 k in 12.1 ip) vs OOC. He struck out 11 in 7.0 ip vs us and gave up 1 er. He came in giving up over a hit an inning (15 hits in 12.1 ip)... we got 3 in 7 ip

Ouch.

[CadaverDawg]

What concerns me most is our approach. As someone who pitched in college baseball, what makes hitters at that level so tough is that they are tough to get out the same way over and over. Well, not this lineup. We didn't even make the pitcher pitch to both sides of the plate. He threw fastballs outside all night, and we were up there hacking like it's the homerun derby. Make an adjustment man. It's so much harder to get outs if you have to do it in different ways. But when you can constantly pitch the same sequence over and over it makes it really easy

Yep. No adjustments, no learning from ab to ab, no learning from game to game. We keep making average pitchers look like Cy Young

[TNDawg35]

Like stated above, it looks like all were trying to do is hit the damn long ball instead of manufactoring runs.. Steadliy pulling off pitches instead of taking them the other way, cant hit off speed to save our sole, and not making any adjustments... I thought from what I had heard about Coach Cann was he was a hitting guru... If he was, why arent we making small adjustments.. Just like last night. Knight was burning the outside corner up. Why not move in on top oft he plate and make him proof he can through inside. It just makes me scratch my head... Now having said that, the K zone last night was a little wild. Pilk would throw a pitch and it would be a ball, then Knight would get the same pitch for a strike. Pilk made 2 mistakeslast night and it cost us 3 runs. We should have been able to score more than one long ball. We have got to figure something out or were in trouble... Lange and Poche liable throw no hitters against us.. Glad we dont have to face dude from Mizzou.... No one on our team would touch that nasty ass slider he has...