This right here. Can’t be said enough. I was furious.
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It was a gamble by Butch but the pitcher gave them the outs to win that game. Defense let him and Butch down. And we just don’t quit
Swinging at junk on first pitches. Swinging at bad balls when your in positive counts. Just working the pitch count a little bit to make the opposing pitcher work a little harder. Trust me, we took way more bad swings at crap pitches than hitting hard balls at someone. Also, I don't mind a first pitch swinging approach in most situations, but it better be a damn good pitch and something you were looking for.
When Jake Mangum says you wear the Nickelblacks on Sunday, you wear the Nickelblacks on Sunday.
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So what you're saying is... if we make finals we should mive them up and play a DH on Sunday
It just took eight innings for us to settle into the tournament. Now we're ready.
Or we could pitch Small again Friday and have whoever we don't pitch tomorrow fully fresh for the championship series...and still bring back the guy we do pitch tomorrow for that series. It makes too much sense. I think Small can do it. He did throw 102 pitches last night, but I think he could at least give us 70-80 on Friday. If he can get us through 4-5 in good shape, that is a huge boon, especially since we'll have a rested pen no matter what if we can win tomorrow.
The game was different in that we kept getting runners on with 0 or 1 out and failing to get them in while they didn't get runners on until 2 outs and they got them in. But I guess "that's baseball".