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Anything else would be dumb
Crap. This regional is now over.
So dumb. Oh well.
offense needs to show up early so we can get him out early, i'm talking like 12-0 early. But UIC is no slouch and we have our work cut out for us
This makes sense. You are now in the elimination round where you play every game like it is your last. You start the guy who gives you the best chance to win.
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Pilk has to start game 2. Bats need to show up tomorrow too. 3 runs vs that trash USA pitcher is all kinds of embarrassing.
Starting him tomorrow seems like an admission that not starting him today was a mistake. The reason you save him is you think you need to win a game without him. We still need to win the same number of games now as we did this morning. True, we'll get to go against somebody's number three if we win tomorrow, but that would have been the case if we had won the first and lost the second, so if that's the logic you go all out to stay on the winners bracket.
Starting Pilk against a 4-seed's #2 basically ends your chances of winning the Regional. It's a no-brainer to start Denver against UIC.
Totally disagree with this move. So what you win Game 2 but lose Game 3? You have accomplished nothing
The whole strategy behind holding him back is if your Gordon screws up the first game you almost guarantee yourself a chance to get through the first round of the loser's bracket and at that point you're throwing your three against someone else's three. So, it's almost a wash. You're basically gambling at getting a big advantage because if our guys hadn't screwed up tonight we almost guarantee ourselves a spot in the regional final. If it gets screwed up, it's almost like you threw your number one and lost game two anyway.