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Originally Posted by I seen it dawg
Also, this team likes to sac bunt with the leadoff man on base. The thing is, they rarely get hits, so unless we put a guy on with a walk, they will not have a lot of leadoff guys on base. It is crucial for our pitchers to focus on the leadoff guy of each inning.
They have only turned 38 double plays as a team as well, so there is no sense in us running ourselves out of innings if we get men on base. They will give up hits, and they walk people, so we can have success as long as we don't run in to outs at 3rd and get runners thrown out at the plate and shit.
In other words..... If we do the little things right, we should win this series.
earlier in the year, this UCLA team would have scared the shit out of me. Just based on our ineptitude to handle quality pitching. Intense Bastard has his team playing lights out in the post season as usual which makes me less worried about their pitching. Hitting is something that baseball teams have the ability to improve on and get hot at the right times. Pitching not so much. With pitching, you either got it or you don't and that just doesn't seem to improve near as much as the ability for hitting to improve. I think our bats can give their pitching enough problems to overcome any error sickness if we catch that particular bug. Getting nervous about what's at stake is the only thing I'm worried about at this point. If we can handle that, which I think we can, we'll get the ring. The only way we lose is if we backslide to the mentality that plagued us earlier. If we bring what we've brought since post season, the ring is ours for the taking. I'm not predicting blowouts. That just ain't gonna happen. Close MSU victories. 2 straight.Quote:
Originally Posted by CadaverDawg
This is simple:
1. Maintain our line drive approach on offense. This is why LSU and North Carolina aren't here- too many lazy fly balls. Their pitchers like to live up in the strike zone.
2. Watch their defensive positioning- they scout teams well. We may have to go against their positioning if they give us some big holes.
3. Play solid defense.
4. Overpower their hitters whenever possible. That means Girodo, Holder, etc. Power arms- in this case meaning striking out a lot of their hitters is not what any small ball team wants to see.
5. Keep having fun out there!
Too lazy to post the pic that Bonner tweeted. CWS stats for us and them.
https://twitter.com/MikeBBonner/stat...01645219766273.
They don't hit for shit, but made a living in pitching and defense.
I think it's going to come down to errors. The team that makes errors will lose.
If we can just keep doing what we've been doing and play solid defense, I think we win this series and a national championship.
I'm with Seen It- we gonna work these ****ers
We are playing so very well right now and are the epitome of "hot at the right time"
We are playing in a Dudy Noble style park with what will be a Dudy Noble style crowd. This is a home game. Hopefully a stadium wide roll call will **** with the young Bruins. They ain't ever had an atmosphere like what will transpire this week. I hope we leave Omaha with a Maroon Flood of we came we saw we conquered. Our teams attitude and hopefully a mass of fans should set themselves at the top of Omaha lore this weeken. 50 years from now if a team has a big turnout it should immediately be met with "Well remember Mississippi State in 2013"
They pitch a little better than us and we hit a hell of a lot better than them.
Monday we win 2-0.
Tuesday we win 3-1.
National ****ing champions!
Just saw on twitter that UCLA has lost 17 games, and of those 17 games the other team scored 4 runs or more in 16 of them. Looks like as always, our magic number needs to be 4-5 runs per game.