Baseball Game Thread - Game 2 Arizona State

[Lord McBuckethead]

Here we go.

[somebodyshotmypaw]

Ledbetter’s catch in the first was huge!

[somebodyshotmypaw]

Forsythe needs to get his head in the game.

[Lord McBuckethead]

Lane. Error on not covering the bag at second. Then give him another error by not fielding a slow ass grounder to short allowing the runner to score.

Why the F do we play him?

[BuckyIsAB****]

We dont do anything right

[Mjoelner34]

Forsythe needs to get his head in the game.

No way he throws out that guy at first but the run would not have scored if he would have just stopped the ball.

[KOdawg1]

Remember when Forsythe was elite defensively? Yeah, me either.

[Lord McBuckethead]

Alright, pitcher is making pitches. Two runners on and two stolen bases allowed. They even waited for Hancock to catch that one before taking off. Still made it safe and it wasn?t close.

If I were the pitcher I would be all up in Lane Forsythe?s face.

[662dawg]

Lane. Error on not covering the bag at second. Then give him another error by not fielding a slow ass grounder to short allowing the runner to score.

Why the F do we play him?

Not sure he threw the runner out at first but it has to be an error bc it allowed a run to score. Ynetma struck out the very next batter for the third out. Lane has to come off the field. No way Hujsak can't make up for his glove with his bat when Forsyth may have 40 errors this year.

[The Federalist Engineer]

Ytema looks like Greame Lloyd with that sweeping curve on Lefties. A nightmare for LH hitters.

[somebodyshotmypaw]

No way he throws out that guy at first but the run would not have scored if he would have just stopped the ball.

Agreed. Keep on the infield.

[Lord McBuckethead]

No way he throws out that guy at first but the run would not have scored if he would have just stopped the ball.

He was shifted. He only had to take two steps to field it. He should have made the play.

[R2Dawg]

Hines in soph slump

[662dawg]

Remember when Forsythe was elite defensively? Yeah, me either.

I've never seen it either. He normally makes the routines but very rarely does he make a special play.

[The Federalist Engineer]

Remember when Forsythe was elite defensively? Yeah, me either.

He's like Kamren James with Noodle Bat, is Mershon Hurt?

FYI- Hujsack was a SS at VCU, not great defense, but with a 900 fielding percentage ... is better than Forsythe's 800 fielding percentage these days.

[Lord McBuckethead]

Not sure he threw the runner out at first but it has to be an error bc it allowed a run to score. Ynetma struck out the very next batter for the third out. Lane has to come off the field. No way Hujsak can't make up for his glove with his bat when Forsyth may have 40 errors this year.

I had him with two errors that inning. I don?t give a shit what the MSU scorer says.

[KOdawg1]

He's like Kamren James with Noodle Bat, is Mershon Hurt?

FYI- Hujsack was a SS at VCU, not great defense, but with a 900 fielding percentage ... is better than Forsythe's 800 fielding percentage these days.
Yep might as well play Hujsak if we're okay with our SS making errors.

[The Federalist Engineer]

Alright, pitcher is making pitches. Two runners on and two stolen bases allowed. They even waited for Hancock to catch that one before taking off. Still made it safe and it wasn?t close.

If I were the pitcher I would be all up in Lane Forsythe?s face.

Arizona State are being good sports to give Hancock a chance. They are going to be more aggressive now.

[Lord McBuckethead]

Do we have any pitchers that can get easy outs? Seems like everyone throws 8-10 pitches per batter.

[DawgFromOxford]

AZ state with the leadoff man on in all 3 innings so far

[ScooterDog]

This is Jr. High baseball at shortstop. Most embarrassing for MSU.

[Lord McBuckethead]

Alright, we have Chance coming up. We need to get something started here. Wake them the 17 up Lemonis.

[Lord McBuckethead]

Some people charge a slow roller hit to SS. Not our guy.

[Lord McBuckethead]

Alright, we have Chance coming up. We need to get something started here. Wake them the 17 up Lemonis.

Never mind. It was Lane up first.

[Lord McBuckethead]

Hit and run on the second pitch. Let?s go.

[BankerDog]

He's like Kamren James with Noodle Bat, is Mershon Hurt?

FYI- Hujsack was a SS at VCU, not great defense, but with a 900 fielding percentage ... is better than Forsythe's 800 fielding percentage these days.

We brought in Chester and Hoyle as well and none of those guys can beat this clown out? What does that say about our evals? Lane must have pictures on Lemonis.

[Lord McBuckethead]

Got to put the hit and run back on here on the second pitch.

[Lord McBuckethead]

Dakota Jordan needs to learn how to relax. Dude is swinging at everything.

[Saltydog]

Here we go.

Ok, here's what I don't understand. We now have all these rules changes in order to speed up the game, right? However, the announcers keep saying how they've tightened up the strike zone. That's just going to lead to more walks, more offense and offset any gains you may have made putting the rules into effect to begin with. What am I missing here?

[Lord McBuckethead]

Hancock needs to be ready, they first pitch strike him every time and just watches it.

[Lord McBuckethead]

Hancock watches strike 3 down the pipe. Damn, I wish our guys weren?t guessing up there.

[Saltydog]

Jordan needs to sit. Hes now under .200. He's going to struggle in league play. Insert Hujsak.

[KOdawg1]

Yntema has done well through 4

[somebodyshotmypaw]

Jordan needs to sit. Hes now under .200. He's going to struggle in league play. Insert Hujsak.

Dakota has had two bad at-bats in this game. Huge potential, but he’s got work to do.

[Lord McBuckethead]

Damn. Lane is coming up. Can we not pitch hit.

[Lord McBuckethead]

Jordan needs to sit. Hes now under .200. He's going to struggle in league play. Insert Hujsak.

Disagree. He needs at bats to become who he will be.

[Lord McBuckethead]

Best at bat I have seen Lane ever have. Well done young man.

[KOdawg1]

There ya go Lane. Made up for the error

[starkvegasdawg]

There ya go Lane. Made up for the error

And then gets thrown out at third.

[Lord McBuckethead]

Alright batters. This next guy is probably not going to throw as many balls. Jump on the first pitch.

[Saltydog]

Here we go.

Lane just told some of ya'll to suck it..........His average is higher than both Jordan and Hines and he's got more RBI's than the two of them combined......Yeah, that's bad.....

[Lord McBuckethead]

And then gets thrown out at third.
I like being aggressive there.

[Lord McBuckethead]

Lane just told some of ya'll to suck it..........His average is higher than both Jordan and Hines and he's got more RBI's than the two of them combined......Yeah, that's bad.....

That is a short term trend, don?t get confused.

[StarkVegasSteve]

The Freshman and the transfers. Thank god they play for our team.

[somebodyshotmypaw]

Great outing by Yntema

[The Federalist Engineer]

Great outing by Yntema

Best start outing of the year - against a good team too

[DawgFromOxford]

Great outing by Yntema

Don't recall him giving up a single walk. He did hit a couple of guys tho

[somebodyshotmypaw]

Don't recall him giving up a single walk. Hopefully our other guys take notes

No walks. He did hit two batters.

[DawgFromOxford]

No walks. He did hit two batters.

Forgot about those. One was on a 3-2 count so would've been a walk

[KOdawg1]

Our new pitchers are head and shoulders above our returning pitchers

[magrooder]

That was a great play all around by forsythe and hines

[Lord McBuckethead]

Looks like all of our hitters are once again getting out front and rolling on every pitch.

[somebodyshotmypaw]

Siary gives us 3 scoreless innings so far. Only throwing 33 pitches.

[Lord McBuckethead]

We should score this inning with these batters and this pitcher.

[Lord McBuckethead]

Alford should look opp field, but he won?t.

[Lord McBuckethead]

They are scared to let that guy throw fastballs to Kellem. As they should be.

[Lord McBuckethead]

Come on Clark, you are this kids first batter in his career.

[magrooder]

Come on Clark, you are this kids first batter in his career.

He made him proud

[PMDawg]

Shouldn't this be Nixon time?

[662dawg]

Dohm with a 99 MPH fastball that paints the corner for a strikeout my lord

[BuckyIsAB****]

Good win. Had to have it just about. Now can we not be an embarrassment tomorrow

[magrooder]

I'm liking the young guns tonight. Hopefully, it's a sign of things to come.

[Lord McBuckethead]

Well fellas, I wore a formally unlucky shirt all day today. Last year we lost every single game I wore this shirt. I wore it and our basketball team won a game against a ranked SEC opponent on our court coming back from down 9 inside 10 minutes and now our baseball team winning with solid pitching.

I am taking full credit.

[Tater]

The most jekyll and hyde team possible this year.

Lights out

Shitshow

Meh

Shitshow

Lights out

Shitshow

Lights out



Good needed win today but can we play two games in a row this way.

[cheewgumm]

REally news to win tomorrow.

Build on it.

Consistency.

[Lord McBuckethead]

Good win. Had to have it just about. Now can we not be an embarrassment tomorrow

It is 50-50.

[Homedawg]

4 pages thread. Would have been 20 full of intelligent takes after a loss

[KOdawg1]

Good bounce back win. We've dug ourselves in a hole, so now we have to dig ourselves out of it one game at a time.

I think we just need to ride the new guys as long as we can. The veterans have had their chances and have just about blown them all. Embrace the youth movement and we'll be better off for it down the line. Think TA, Rowdey, Foscue, Westburg in 2018

[maroonmania]

Only got to watch the last 2 inimgs today but congrats to the guys for getting a good win after that mess yesterday. Will say though that in the 2 innings I watched that the strike zone was significantly more generous tonight than the bozo behind the plate yesterday that wouldn't call hardly anything a strike. Some of the umpires we've had over the prior 6 games have definitely made a major contribution to our base on ball issues.

[CaptainObvious]

I like what I heard as I drove home from the basketball game. Except for the scratchiness of Jim?s broadcast on my IHeart streaming. The commercials came through perfect but the game broadcast was all scratchy. Anybody else stream the game and notice??

[Activated Alpha]

Look I am about as an emotional baseball fan as they come and get really down on the team when they **** up or when they continue to **** up. I liked what I saw from our pitchers tonight. The ability to throw strikes. That's what we need on the mound. Good bounce back from last night's embarrassment and hopefully we can scratch out another win tomorrow.

[the_real_MSU_is_us]

Didn't get to watch. Looking at stats it seems we have a new weekend starter and a new solid reliever.

Need Gartman to stay good, and a Fr to enter the rotation and I think we have something. Dohm and Nixon should be bale to lock down those close late games too. If we can find starters that don't shit the bed immediately and give us 5+ we may be OK on the mound. That would be insane though, considering basically every inning would be thrown by a Fr or transfer. Not sure anyone else is so dependent on new faces, and it's hard to believe we can actually pull that off

[Homedawg]

We brought in Chester and Hoyle as well and none of those guys can beat this clown out? What does that say about our evals? Lane must have pictures on Lemonis.

They were brought in to be serviceable backups that cost no scholarship money. Mershon was the backup or hope to be.

[Mjoelner34]

On the way home I heard Jim say last night we threw 48% strikes. Tonight we were at 65%.

[StarkVegasSteve]

Our freshman have the opportunity to be pretty special. We just need to keep Foxhall away from them. Maybe send them to Starkville Academy and let Oswalt run their bullpens.

[R2Dawg]

4 pages thread. Would have been 20 full of intelligent takes after a loss

Fact is our pitching and fielding has sucked this year. I think we got too much talent to be that bad in those areas. We'll see.

[The Federalist Engineer]

Very good win, great resilience. Especially by Yntema.

He had to settle-in.

Ledbetter's outfield play was game changing. Especially the robbed HR.

[BuckyIsAB****]

Im not really encouraged by the hitting. I get that it is extremely hard to do and I am in no position to say what we need to do but we need to be better

[Tater]

Very good win, great resilience. Especially by Yntema.

He had to settle-in.

Ledbetter's outfield play was game changing. Especially the robbed HR.

Ledbetter's snag saved the crowd. The air left the building off the bat and he brought it back in.

The pickoff was huge too. Baseball is a contagious sport. Lots of quicksand yesterday for us. Today we had lots of "we're not ****ing this up" going around. Need to see it consistently.

[CaptainObvious]

We need consistency. Win a few close games and likely lose a few close games. Problem so far is our losses have essentially been blown out losses. Really good pitching can give us more consistency even when we have a weak hitting game like today.

Inconsistency? Cade Smith having a reasonably good start with a few walks in his first start, and then getting shell shocked with a tight strike zone and blowing up last night.

Consistency? KC Hunt being awful in both games he pitched. Slate Alford never seeing a pitch he didn?t like in the first 7 games, even if it was down the middle??- Of the other batters box

[yjnkdawg]

4 pages thread. Would have been 20 full of intelligent takes after a loss

Dern you deserve more reps than one for this and I can't even give one rep. :( You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to Homedawg again.

[Cowbell]

Our freshman have the opportunity to be pretty special. We just need to keep Foxhall away from them. Maybe send them to Starkville Academy and let Oswalt run their bullpens.

Maybe you need to stay away from making emotional posts

[Cowbell]

Again I will stand by Lemonis - he didn't luck into a national championship - be frustrated when we are frustrating to watch but let this season play out - we got a lot of new and young faces that need to learn to play together. It's hard to really know what you have as a coach until the lights come on. Being the best to to start the year has never won anybody a national championship.

[Homedawg]

Ledbetter's snag saved the crowd. The air left the building off the bat and he brought it back in.

The pickoff was huge too. Baseball is a contagious sport. Lots of quicksand yesterday for us. Today we had lots of "we're not ****ing this up" going around. Need to see it consistently.

Good take

[Homedawg]

Our freshman have the opportunity to be pretty special. We just need to keep Foxhall away from them. Maybe send them to Starkville Academy and let Oswalt run their bullpens.

This take is just off the wall. And oswalt isn't at sa and siary wasn't good last year. I've pointed that out. Now, he was supposedly injured but he was a a d1 pitcher.

[Commercecomet24]

Again I will stand by Lemonis - he didn't luck into a national championship - be frustrated when we are frustrating to watch but let this season play out - we got a lot of new and young faces that need to learn to play together. It's hard to really know what you have as a coach until the lights come on. Being the best to to start the year has never won anybody a national championship.

Great post, my man!

[Homedawg]

Fact is our pitching and fielding has sucked this year. I think we got too much talent to be that bad in those areas. We'll see.

Won't argue w this. I'll say this, when I left the scrimmages this spring - remember split squad- I would have told you we would be elite defensively. We were that good. I'm serious. I don't think we are bad defensively. I think we have played poorly to this point. I just can't see it lasting.

[StarkVegasSteve]

Maybe you need to stay away from making emotional posts

Nah I am fine. Every time I make one we win the next day. Thanks for the advice though.

[StarkVegasSteve]

This take is just off the wall. And oswalt isn't at sa and siary wasn't good last year. I've pointed that out. Now, he was supposedly injured but he was a a d1 pitcher.

He was injured last year. And the stuff with Roy was a joke. I do want Foxhall to be kept at bay with those guys though.

[The Federalist Engineer]

This take is just off the wall. And oswalt isn't at sa and siary wasn't good last year. I've pointed that out. Now, he was supposedly injured but he was a a d1 pitcher.

Maybe this is a blessing, that he did not have a big senior season.

Jack Walker was the Gatorade Louisiana POY, then became a Canadian for MSU. Jackson Fristoe was Mr Kentucky Baseball, then became Canadian for MSU. Then Owen Lovell was Gatorade Alabama, then quit baseball. Cale Breaux was a Louisiana POY.

MSU is owed a great dark horse player. All these Gatorade kids probably pitch their arms-to-death trying to win a plastic "district" trophy for a HS glass case. Maybe we tell our recruits to only pitch 50 innings, max, before MSU.

Jack Walker pitched 110 something innings for his HS as a senior. He is still not pitching to his potential at SE Louisiana State. Breaux pitched 280 innings (career) for his HS, we don't know what he added in travel ball.

[basedog]

Maybe this is a blessing, that he did not have a big senior season.

Jack Walker was the Gatorade Louisiana POY, then became a Canadian for MSU. Jackson Fristoe was Mr Kentucky Baseball, then became Canadian for MSU. Then Owen Lovell was Gatorade Alabama, then quit baseball. Cale Breaux was a Louisiana POY.

MSU is owed a great dark horse player. All these Gatorade kids probably pitch their arms-to-death trying to win a plastic "district" trophy for a HS glass case. Maybe we tell our recruits to only pitch 50 innings, max, before MSU.

Jack Walker pitched 110 something innings for his HS as a senior. He is still not pitching to his potential at SE Louisiana State. Breaux pitched 280 innings (career) for his HS, we don't know what he added in travel ball.

Interesting stuff but sad.