FIU game 1

[msstate7]

Nice play, brown

[msstate7]

Rooker is pretty good

[dawgoneyall]

Just damn. Rooker is undescribable.

[ScoobaDawg]

Rooker with a 2 run bomb. Dawgs up 2-0 after 1.

Again y'all suck at posting scores or any real detail at what is happening in the game.

[DownwardDawg]

Rooker with a 2 run bomb. Dawgs up 2-0 after 1.

Again y'all such at posting scores or any real detail at what is happening in the game.

Agreed. Thanks for the game update!

[msstate7]

Welp... 2-run hr to answer us. 2-2 t2

[WeWonItAll(Most)]

Was just about to say that Ashcraft seems to be doing alright..

2 run bomb..2-2

[msstate7]

Rooker with a 2 run bomb. Dawgs up 2-0 after 1.

Again y'all such at posting scores or any real detail at what is happening in the game.

I picture the audience here more like a chat room than an actual place to check the score. I'm assuming everyone is watching. On the rare occasion I can't watch, d1baseball is where I get scores, so I can see a box with it. I'll try to follow the rules of game threads better I guess

[msstate7]

Barring a disaster, I'd make ashcraft pitch 5. He needs work and we need to rest our bullpen.

[msstate7]

Tanner Poole just had a big time assist from RF to throw a guy out at 3rd. Huge play

[msstate7]

3 Ks thru 1.1 for us as macnamee goes down

[msstate7]

Lovelady Ks... that's 4 thru 1.2. Come on dawgs

[WeWonItAll(Most)]

Lovelady Ks... that's 4 thru 1.2. Come on dawgs

I know someone said they pitched their top 2 pitchers against Miami. Is this their top guy?

[msstate7]

Blaylock Ks... since rooker HR, FIU pitcher has struck 5 of next 6

[Activated Alpha]

Good Lord guys. It's like y'all haven't seen breaking pitches before

[msstate7]

I know someone said they pitched their top 2 pitchers against Miami. Is this their top guy?

No idea, but he's mowing us down right now

[msstate7]

One of those nights?

Stetson 8
Florida 1

Louisville 5
Kentucky 0

Mid tenn st 6
Tenn 3

Furman 1
South Carolina 1

Alabama 3
Troy 3

Auburn 0
GT 5

Illinois 2
Missouri 0

Grambling 2
Lsu 0

aTm 0
DBU 1

[WeWonItAll(Most)]

No idea, but he's mowing us down right now
Yea it would just make me feel a little better if their ace was mowing us down and not their number 4 guy

[msstate7]

Ashcraft with big K to stand runners at corners

2-2 b3

[msstate7]

Alexander Ks... 6 of last 7 batters have K'd

[msstate7]

Jake flys out to LF

[msstate7]

Rooker Ks on 3 pitches. This is all-the-sudden really awful

[HoopsDawg]

Our approach is terrible. Make an adjustment and hit the ball oppo.

[msstate7]

Jollly in game

[WeWonItAll(Most)]

One of those nights?

Stetson 8
Florida 1

Louisville 5
Kentucky 0

Mid tenn st 6
Tenn 3

Furman 1
South Carolina 1

Alabama 3
Troy 3

Auburn 0
GT 5

Illinois 2
Missouri 0

Grambling 2
Lsu 0

aTm 0
DBU 1

I think the SEC may just be down this season. No one seems elite.

[msstate7]

Jolly 92 on first pitch. I didn't think he had that much velocity

[VandelayIndustries]

We may SO 20 times tonight

[msstate7]

Jolly got hosed there. Fairly certain that was a swing. Lead off walk

[msstate7]

Jolly pitches around leadoff walk...

2-2 b4

[msstate7]

Cody Ks... that's 8 thru 3.2

[BulldogtheMS]

Poole pops out... its bad when Mat is giving hitting advise

[msstate7]

FIU only has a 2-out single to show for it, but they've tatooed jolly this inning

[msstate7]

Another single... 2 on, 2 out

[msstate7]

Another single 3-2 FIU

Jolly is done. He was ripped this inning

[msstate7]

Plumlee in

[msstate7]

Plumlee k's em to end inning on 91 mph fastball

3-2 FIU b5

[msstate7]

Gordon PH for macnamee and pops out

[msstate7]

LOVelady pop up

[msstate7]

Vansau ph for blaylock

[WeWonItAll(Most)]

Bats are ice cold right now

[msstate7]

We have 1 hit

[msstate7]

Bats are ice cold right now

SBW almost here. Don't we always play our worst this time of the season?

[msstate7]

Vansau Ks

[CadaverDawg]

1 hit thru 5 innings vs FIU?

http://i.imgur.com/fkrCCfd.png

[MaroonFlounder]

Jolly has had few to none outings when he could get an out. Are there other midweek options? What happened to Mahoney?

[msstate7]

The only close thing about this game is the actual score. FIU has dominated and we just blew it with an error by plumlee

4-2, runner on 3rd no outs

[CadaverDawg]

4-2, that ought to be enough for Sandy Koufax out there.

[VandelayIndustries]

This one might be done, they way the other guy is throwing

[msstate7]

Plumlee with k 1 out

[msstate7]

Plumlee with another k 2 down

[msstate7]

Outstanding, plumlee.

4-2 b6

[msstate7]

77 mph
75
76
87 outside

Offspeed galore

[msstate7]

Alexander hr

Where ya at, random?

[msstate7]

Nothing but offspeed

[msstate7]

Rooker single

[msstate7]

Gridley fly out. He's struggling some lately 1 for last 13... need to get him going before weekend

[GTHOM]

We're gonna dick around and lose to FIU aren't we

[CadaverDawg]

Alexander hr

Where ya at, random?

Ha, THAT is why LA will remain in the lineup, and should. That plus defense. He's talented, and I think he could end up .300 or so by year end

[CadaverDawg]

We're gonna dick around and lose to FIU aren't we

Yep. We are incapable of sitting back and driving a curve ball into the right center gap. We just try to pull, pull, pull

[msstate7]

We're gonna dick around and lose to FIU aren't we

NOt too worried yet

[GTHOM]

NOt too worried yet

When do you start to worry

[msstate7]

Now I'm worried... 5-3 hr FIU

[msstate7]

Single... scalding the ball now

[CadaverDawg]

It's over. Bad loss

[GTHOM]

It would be so MSU to sweep OM then lose to FIU

[Activated Alpha]

Don't we always lose to some type of FIU/FAU every year?

[msstate7]

6-3 better team appears to be winning. They've had better approach and dominanted on mound

[VandelayIndustries]

It would be so MSU to sweep OM then lose to FIU

Mf'ing this. So frustrating

[msstate7]

The bad part is ashcraft and plumlee have been weekend starters for us this season. Not like we getting beat bc we threw our worst

[msstate7]

Total ass kicking

[Mjoelner34]

Plum awful!

[WeWonItAll(Most)]

6-3 better team appears to be winning. They've had better approach and dominanted on mound
Their pitcher has thrown a lot of strikes. Hasn't walked anyone since Mangum's first at bat.

We're melting now. I was afraid this was going to happen

[msstate7]

Their pitcher has thrown a lot of strikes. Hasn't walked anyone since Mangum's first at bat.

We're melting now. I was afraid this was going to happen

Mangum was hbp

[CadaverDawg]

May get another dose tomorrow night. Dumbass scheduling

[msstate7]

Their pitcher has thrown 85% pitches at 76-8 mph. We still haven't adjusted. Why anyone throws us fastballs is a mystery.

[CadaverDawg]

Plumlee serving em up like a pitching machine. Make sure they deposit a quarter, Plum

[WeWonItAll(Most)]

The looming question is who the hell do we throw tomorrow?

[CadaverDawg]

The looming question is who the hell do we throw tomorrow?

The towel. Pay these ****ers to get out of town

[Skydawg1]

The towel. Pay these ****ers to get out of townHa! Good idea! 'Cause we sure have no midweek answer for them. Then UK coming to town, fuggedaboudit.

[WeWonItAll(Most)]

It would be so MSU to sweep OM then lose to FIU

Shouldn't be shocking we're struggling pitching wise..we hardly have enough pitching for a 3 game series. How are we supposed to pitch 2 midweek games? We barely have enough arms, let alone quality pitchers.

[WeWonItAll(Most)]

The towel. Pay these ****ers to get out of town

Lol sounds good to me.

[Activated Alpha]

I'm more pissed at our lineup tonight then our pitching. I knew our midweek rotation is bad, but I expect our hitters to adjust better than this.

[diamonddawg17]

My biggest concern is who do you start this weekend besides Pilk?

[WeWonItAll(Most)]

I'm more pissed at our lineup tonight then our pitching. I knew our midweek rotation is bad, but I expect our hitters to adjust better than this.

Let's hope it's just an off night. FIU certainly deserves credit for not helping us out any with walks and giving us some momentum, but 3 hits is putrid.

[raymond21]

With Ashcraft going out hurt, we have zero pitching depth. Pumlee looked awful tonight and probably threw to many pitches to be any factor this weekend. I honestly don't think we want this team in the tournament, we don't have the pitching to survive 3 games

[diamonddawg17]

What happened to Ashcraft?

[WeWonItAll(Most)]

With Ashcraft going out hurt, we have zero pitching depth. Pumlee looked awful tonight and probably threw to many pitches to be any factor this weekend. I honestly don't think we want this team in the tournament, we don't have the pitching to survive 3 games
Ashcraft went out hurt?? I missed that

And Jesus chris Vansau.

[preachermatt83]

Canny Is furious over our approach at the plate

[MarketingBully]

Let's hope it's just an off night. FIU certainly deserves credit for not helping us out any with walks and giving us some momentum, but 3 hits is putrid.

They basically wanted to win this series over winning the USM series this weekend. The guy they started is their Friday night starter and the one that dominated Miami. We were facing their best against our C pitcher. Apples and oranges.

[MaroonFlounder]

Parker Ford. Oh my. He's not ready for this.

[msstate7]

They basically sacrificed winning this series over winning the USM series this weekend. The guy they started is their Friday night starter and the one that dominated Miami. We were facing their best against our C pitcher. Apples and oranges.

Their starter tonight had an era over 4 coming in. We used ashcraft and plumlee who have both started weekends for us.

[MaroonFlounder]

This team will be a disaster as a tournament team. SEC or Regional. Pitching staff is depleted.

[MarketingBully]

Their starter tonight had an era over 4 coming in. We used ashcraft and plumlee who have both started weekends for us.

He's their ace that shut Miami down.

[WeWonItAll(Most)]

This team will be a disaster as a tournament team. SEC or Regional. Pitching staff is depleted.

Yep

[msstate7]

Hope our winning streak isn't a mirage. OM is about to lose their 7th in 9 games with 1 win being Little Rock. Tennessse lost their 9th of last 12 games with the wins being Tn tech, Marshall, and Georgia

[WeWonItAll(Most)]

Hope our winning streak isn't a mirage. OM is about to lose their 7th in 9 games with 1 win being Little Rock. Tennessse lost their 9th of last 12 games with the wins being Tn tech, Marshall, and Georgia

We'll certainly find out over the next two weekends. I was hoping for .500 in SEC play at the start of the season, and still feel like that's my goal for this team. Winning 6 SEC games in a row is impressive regardless of who we play, but we've been ridiculously clutch during those 6 games and I'm not sure if that can continue. And our pitching staff is barely adequate for a 3 game series assuming we get good innings from 2 or 3 guys, I feel like that will surely bite us a few times before the season is over.

[msstate7]

We'll certainly find out over the next two weekends. I was hoping for .500 in SEC play at the start of the season, and still feel like that's my goal for this team. Winning 6 SEC games in a row is impressive regardless of who we play, but we've been ridiculously clutch during those 6 games and I'm not sure if that can continue. And our pitching staff is barely adequate for a 3 game series assuming we get good innings from 2 or 3 guys, I feel like that will surely bite us a few times before the season is over.

I agree with everything you said

[MarketingBully]

Hope our winning streak isn't a mirage. OM is about to lose their 7th in 9 games with 1 win being Little Rock. Tennessse lost their 9th of last 12 games with the wins being Tn tech, Marshall, and Georgia

The pitcher tonight for FIU was throwing pure junk for strikes while throwing very few fastballs (which two of his fastballs were hit out of the park btw). I think we will be okay.

[msstate7]

The pitcher tonight for FIU was throwing pure junk for strikes while throwing very few fastballs (which two of his fastballs were hit out of the park btw). I think we will be okay.

I think so too, but we have to start hitting offspeed or it's all we'll see... or all I'd throw us anyway

[maroonmania]

With Ashcraft going out hurt, we have zero pitching depth. Pumlee looked awful tonight and probably threw to many pitches to be any factor this weekend. I honestly don't think we want this team in the tournament, we don't have the pitching to survive 3 games

Our pitching staff has to be cursed.

[MarketingBully]

I think so too, but we have to start hitting offspeed or it's all we'll see... or all I'd throw us anyway

Yeah but there is a big difference between pitchers throwing those pitches and avoiding throwing fastballs vs throwing those junk pitches for strikes. Most of the time the junk stuff isn't designed to be thrown over for strikes but rather are more chaser pitches. This guy was throwing 77 mph curve balls and changups for pitcher strikes down in the zone where it's hard to make contact with the pitch. I think he would have shut most teams down tonight. They got the win tonight but IMO they will lose in the long run because they will lose their series this weekend. It's stupid to pitch your best in non-conference when your league should mean a heck of a lot more.

[Todd4State]

They basically wanted to win this series over winning the USM series this weekend. The guy they started is their Friday night starter and the one that dominated Miami. We were facing their best against our C pitcher. Apples and oranges.

Well, I hope USM sweeps their ass then.

[MarketingBully]

Well, I hope USM sweeps their ass then.

Yeah, they at least will lose the series. Very dumb IMO.

[msstate7]

Well, I hope USM sweeps their ass then.

He'll probably throw Sunday. That an MLB starter's rest. Not like he's got a pro career anyway throwing 85% of pitches in the mid-70s

[Todd4State]

Yeah but there is a big difference between pitchers throwing those pitches and avoiding throwing fastballs vs throwing those junk pitches for strikes. Most of the time the junk stuff isn't designed to be thrown over for strikes but rather are more chaser pitches. This guy was throwing 77 mph curve balls and changups for pitcher strikes down in the zone where it's hard to make contact with the pitch. I think he would have shut most teams down tonight. They got the win tonight but IMO they will lose in the long run because they will lose their series this weekend. It's stupid to pitch your best in non-conference when your league should mean a heck of a lot more.

I agree 100% with this. Especially since their only path to the postseason is to win their tournament more than likely.

The only good news for us is that we didn't pitch Barton, Self, or Price. And we found out that Plumlee isn't getting the job done before I drove my white ass up for Super Bulldog Weekend.

Ashcraft has a groin "they think". With us that means he probably completely tore it and will now get gangrene and have to have his leg amputated.

As far as who starts- assuming Billingsley isn't healthy and no guarantee that he will perform even if he is- I honestly think we start Pilkington, Cole Gordon or Jacob Barton, and then go Mangum on Sunday.

[Todd4State]

He'll probably throw Sunday. That an MLB starter's rest. Not like he's got a pro career anyway throwing 85% of pitches in the mid-70s

Well, these aren't MLB players. They're only used to throwing once a week- not to mention they're not as physically mature as MLB players. Bottom line is- I hope it royally blows up in their face.

[Todd4State]

We'll certainly find out over the next two weekends. I was hoping for .500 in SEC play at the start of the season, and still feel like that's my goal for this team. Winning 6 SEC games in a row is impressive regardless of who we play, but we've been ridiculously clutch during those 6 games and I'm not sure if that can continue. And our pitching staff is barely adequate for a 3 game series assuming we get good innings from 2 or 3 guys, I feel like that will surely bite us a few times before the season is over.

We can't play a five game week with this pitching staff. We can do four probably. Henderson has to keep piecing it together like he has during this run. At least we know who can and can't perform and at least we don't have to play Florida, Vanderbilt, or Mizzou.

[msstate7]

Well, these aren't MLB players. They're only used to throwing once a week- not to mention they're not as physically mature as MLB players. Bottom line is- I hope it royally blows up in their face.

Who knows how it will turn out and I didn't like them tonight so i hope they lose too. That said, if he threw Friday night, he was 3 days rest tonight

[Todd4State]

Who knows how it will turn out and I didn't like them tonight so i hope they lose too. That said, if he threw Friday night, he was 3 days rest tonight

Well then their coach is an idiot. I'll say this- we beat them if Plumlee pitches like a #2 SEC starter. Mahoney pitched well and Ashcraft did what he usually does- inconsistent between dominating and giving up a bomb which is like most freshmen. Jolley was good for an inning and then we overextended him because some dumbass decided to schedule two games with these clowns. Parker Ford is hard to assess because we threw the runner out after an infield hit but at least it was an out recorded.

[msstate7]

Well then their coach is an idiot. I'll say this- we beat them if Plumlee pitches like a #2 SEC starter. Mahoney pitched well and Ashcraft did what he usually does- inconsistent between dominating and giving up a bomb which is like most freshmen. Jolley was good for an inning and then we overextended him because some dumbass decided to schedule two games with these clowns. Parker Ford is hard to assess because we threw the runner out after an infield hit but at least it was an out recorded.

He threw vs Uab Friday...
2.1 ip 6 h 4 er 0 bb 3 k

[msstate7]

Spoke too soon... om beat usm. This is a good thing for our RPI though

[CadaverDawg]

I was tied up after the 7th...how did Parker Ford do?

I'm going to guess the rotation will be Pilk, McQuary, Mangum this weekend. We may get swept.

[msstate7]

I was tied up after the 7th...how did Parker Ford do?

I'm going to guess the rotation will be Pilk, McQuary, Mangum this weekend. We may get swept.

Well it wouldn't be SBW without us getting our butt handed to us

I left after vansau got picked off so missed ford

[MarketingBully]

He threw vs Uab Friday...
2.1 ip 6 h 4 er 0 bb 3 k

If he pitched like he did tonight against UAB, that's a different stat line. He was on tonight. Wasn't on last Friday.

[Todd4State]

I was tied up after the 7th...how did Parker Ford do?

I'm going to guess the rotation will be Pilk, McQuary, Mangum this weekend. We may get swept.

Ford have up an infield hit but we threw one of their runners out on the play.

[bulldogcountry1]

Cannizaro said he would probably do away with the early 4-game weekends, but this is the trade-off. Either you play more games early and have less mid-week games or you play the standard 3 on the early weekend and end up with more weeks like this later in the season.

I have always liked the front loaded schedule. It forces more guys to play and get experience early. You get more rest in the second half when you inevitably have more injuries.

[maroonmania]

I agree 100% with this. Especially since their only path to the postseason is to win their tournament more than likely.

The only good news for us is that we didn't pitch Barton, Self, or Price. And we found out that Plumlee isn't getting the job done before I drove my white ass up for Super Bulldog Weekend.

Ashcraft has a groin "they think". With us that means he probably completely tore it and will now get gangrene and have to have his leg amputated.

As far as who starts- assuming Billingsley isn't healthy and no guarantee that he will perform even if he is- I honestly think we start Pilkington, Cole Gordon or Jacob Barton, and then go Mangum on Sunday.

Kind of glad they used up their better guy last night. Heck, we gave up 8 runs and double digit hits to them so I don't know if we could have scored 9 to win last night even if they had thrown a lesser pitcher.

[maroonmania]

Cannizaro said he would probably do away with the early 4-game weekends, but this is the trade-off. Either you play more games early and have less mid-week games or you play the standard 3 on the early weekend and end up with more weeks like this later in the season.

I have always liked the front loaded schedule. It forces more guys to play and get experience early. You get more rest in the second half when you inevitably have more injuries.

I have no issue with 4 game weekends the first couple of weekends of the season. At that point everyone is fresh and your team is usually about as healthy as its going to be. The problem I had with this year's schedule was coming back home from Oregon to play a 4 game weekend right before the conference schedule started. That is something we should not be doing. Not necessarily blaming that for getting swept at Arkansas but it sure didn't help.

[Cooterpoot]

Time to have walkon tryouts for pitchers. If they can't throw it across the plate, sign them up.

[tcdog70]

He'll probably throw Sunday. That an MLB starter's rest. Not like he's got a pro career anyway throwing 85% of pitches in the mid-70s

you are correct -they will pitch him Sunday-no biggie. They want to win. Good for them. he was very Jon hardin like

[Todd4State]

Cannizaro said he would probably do away with the early 4-game weekends, but this is the trade-off. Either you play more games early and have less mid-week games or you play the standard 3 on the early weekend and end up with more weeks like this later in the season.

I have always liked the front loaded schedule. It forces more guys to play and get experience early. You get more rest in the second half when you inevitably have more injuries.

I agree. It's either front load the schedule or play more on Weds. And if we do more Weds that needs to be done more in the first four weeks of the season. Whoever scheduled this series with FIU this late in the season should be flogged.

And I'm with you on front loading the schedule. I prefer that over a bunch of Weds. If he does away with the four game weekends we need to do a home/home with Memphis every year, a home/home with either Tulane or New Orleans, move a Sun Belt midweek game to Biloxi, and then do a home/home with UAB or Samford where we play the road game at Regions Park.

[Todd4State]

Time to have walkon tryouts for pitchers. If they can't throw it across the plate, sign them up.

Here's the problem- we still couldn't use them because the NCAA wouldn't allow us to put them on the 35 man roster.

[Todd4State]

I have no issue with 4 game weekends the first couple of weekends of the season. At that point everyone is fresh and your team is usually about as healthy as its going to be. The problem I had with this year's schedule was coming back home from Oregon to play a 4 game weekend right before the conference schedule started. That is something we should not be doing. Not necessarily blaming that for getting swept at Arkansas but it sure didn't help.

I also agree with this about the four game weekends. We need to either do two four game weekends and then two three game series after that or three four game series and then either a three game series against a power five or a tournament or four three game series with as many Tuesday/Weds games the first four weeks as possible.