KOdawg1
05-04-2019, 07:20 PM
What a weird weekend. With the rain, the games getting moved back, and the 7 inning double header, we still managed to win a series against a pretty good team on the road. It wasn't pretty, but we got it done, much like the Tennessee series a few weeks back. A few thoughts:
-We have three good starting pitchers. Small and Ginn are studs like we know they are, but Plumlee has stepped up and competed the last few weeks, and we really needed that. Granted, it's been against two of the weaker hitting teams in the SEC, but he's built up some confidence.
-Wasn't a great weekend at the plate. 8 runs total, and we just looked uninspired at times. WAY too many strikeouts from the middle of our lineup. Westburg and MacNamee specifically are slumping pretty bad. I wouldn't be opposed to shifting the lineup around to let some guys who are hitting better hit in better spots while others work through their slumps, but I think Lemonis is just going to leave the lineup as it is, which may not be the worst thing either. Regardless, we've got to do a better job of battling at the plate and cut the strikeouts down. The bats are what kept us from a road sweep today.
-Next weekend in Oxford will be our last away series of the year. Really only have to win one to keep us in good shape as far as a national seed goes, but I fully expect to win that series. OM doesn't have the pitchers we've seen the last 2 weeks, and we own them. As of right now, our RPI is up to 3. We're sitting pretty.
We've got Memphis in the midweek this week. Need to win that so we can stay undefeated in midweek games and avoid a bad loss, which we currently don't have. Then let's go kick some RebelShark ass in their crappy stadium.
-We have three good starting pitchers. Small and Ginn are studs like we know they are, but Plumlee has stepped up and competed the last few weeks, and we really needed that. Granted, it's been against two of the weaker hitting teams in the SEC, but he's built up some confidence.
-Wasn't a great weekend at the plate. 8 runs total, and we just looked uninspired at times. WAY too many strikeouts from the middle of our lineup. Westburg and MacNamee specifically are slumping pretty bad. I wouldn't be opposed to shifting the lineup around to let some guys who are hitting better hit in better spots while others work through their slumps, but I think Lemonis is just going to leave the lineup as it is, which may not be the worst thing either. Regardless, we've got to do a better job of battling at the plate and cut the strikeouts down. The bats are what kept us from a road sweep today.
-Next weekend in Oxford will be our last away series of the year. Really only have to win one to keep us in good shape as far as a national seed goes, but I fully expect to win that series. OM doesn't have the pitchers we've seen the last 2 weeks, and we own them. As of right now, our RPI is up to 3. We're sitting pretty.
We've got Memphis in the midweek this week. Need to win that so we can stay undefeated in midweek games and avoid a bad loss, which we currently don't have. Then let's go kick some RebelShark ass in their crappy stadium.