No when they slowed it down it clearly showed it was foul absolutely 100% foul. The ball passed in front of the pole. I thought it was fair at first to but it wasn't. Foul ball
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I just feel like USM is in over their head right now. They had a great season and now they have everyone patting their backs and I think their players "realize" how big this is. As a result they're taking bad at bats and are just trying to do too much. I see it happen all the time to teams who "take a step" but don't win a championship and aren't really quite ready to "take the next step". Essentially what happened to MSU when we played UCLA in 2013 for the National Championship.
It's why team in baseball that win the World Series, National Championships, heck... high school championships...they're usually teams that have experience in the postseason and have been there before. And yes, I know USM went to Omaha in 2009. But what I mean is with this current group of players. It's not a coincidence that we won the National Championship after being in Omaha three times in a row.
USM is a team that dog piled after winning a regional. And this is their first Super Regional that they have ever hosted in their history. I should have taken that into account when making my predictions for this series.
Add in their air out of the balloon moment with the foul ball grand slam even though it was the right call it was absolutely deflating for them. Same thing happened to them when they completely fell apart against us when we played them and they dropped Rooker's pop up. Had that ball been fair it would have given USM a 1 run lead and then who knows what happens? It wasn't fair so they weren't able to get any momentum and they folded.
OM has beaten USM two of three games this year. Twice in H'burg. USM starting pitching is all they've got. I never thought they'd win, but hoped they would. They can't hit at all. OM will need a wheels fall off moment, like they normally do in supers, for USM to have a shot.