Kumar having a rough start

[SteelCurtain74]

Georgia. 3-0 Georgia top of 1st no outs. Leadoff batter got a hit, he walked the 2nd batter. 3rd batter hit a bomb out of Vandy's stadium. 4th batter hit a double. Game on SEC network.

[Saltydog]

He probably shouldn't have went to White Castle with Harold.........(Some here will understand).......

[BeardoMSU]

Just gave up 2 bombs and 3 runs to start the 6th and he's done. Damn....

Let's hope to have this type of game when we play him, lol.

[Saltydog]

He's good, dang good but I don't think his stuff is as good as Leiter. Leiter is just filthy.

[R2Dawg]

He's good, dang good but I don't think his stuff is as good as Leiter. Leiter is just filthy.

Vandy is good but dang UGA sticking it to them tonight. Vandy isn't unbeatable like so many seem to think. Any team can be beat.

[BrunswickDawg]

Rocker chased in the 6th after giving up 9 runs to an 18-10 UGA team. Guess he is human.

[TNDawg35]

Rocker looked off. His fastball was flat and he couldn’t throw his slider for a strike most of the night. UGA did a good job being selective. He has some strike outs, but they worked his pitch count up. Hell he had 33 in the first inning...

[The Federalist Engineer]

Count down to “Opt Out” has possibly started

[TNDawg35]

Count down to “Opt Out” has possibly started

Didn’t he get sidelined some last year with arm trouble? If I was him and had ANY form of discomfort, I’m DONE! He has already won a CWS, SEC Crown, and been MVP/All American. Next thing is the money for the draft...

Corbin will try and ride him and Lieter to Omaha of course.

[StarkVegasSteve]

Didn’t he get sidelined some last year with arm trouble? If I was him and had ANY form of discomfort, I’m DONE! He has already won a CWS, SEC Crown, and been MVP/All American. Next thing is the money for the draft...

Corbin will try and ride him and Lieter to Omaha of course.

This is why I'll never understand why pitchers choose to go to Vandy. Corbin continuously throws his starters well in excess of 100 pitches and when they get into the postseason he'll ride them til their arm falls off. I understand doing it once or twice if a guy is really feeling it, but hell Corbin does it weekly with Rocker and Leiter with the game well in hand most of the time.

[The Federalist Engineer]

This is why I'll never understand why pitchers choose to go to Vandy. Corbin continuously throws his starters well in excess of 100 pitches and when they get into the postseason he'll ride them til their arm falls off. I understand doing it once or twice if a guy is really feeling it, but hell Corbin does it weekly with Rocker and Leiter with the game well in hand most of the time.

Actually, Vandy has a great history of #1 pick pitchers with great success as professionals. David Price is a huge alumn for them.

I cannot recall Vandy having a Karsten Whitson disaster like UF.

But yeah, Kumar Rocker and Al Leiter have no business in College Baseball, way too good. They should be private COVID bubbles, throwing monitored bullpens. They can't do better than #1 and #2 in the draft.

Is playing for Vandy that thrilling? No huge base and the damn whistlers going nuts at every home game. Unless the whistlers died of COVID or the Nashville mask-requirements prevent whistling.

[basedog]

Actually, Vandy has a great history of #1 pick pitchers with great success as professionals. David Price is a huge alumn for them.

I cannot recall Vandy having a Karsten Whitson disaster like UF.

But yeah, Kumar Rocker and Al Leiter have no business in College Baseball, way too good. They should be private COVID bubbles, throwing monitored bullpens. They can't do better than #1 and #2 in the draft.

Is playing for Vandy that thrilling? No huge base and the damn whistlers going nuts at every home game. Unless the whistlers died of COVID or the Nashville mask-requirements prevent whistling.

He was whistling last night, but he didn't have much to whistle for.

[SteelCurtain74]

Actually, Vandy has a great history of #1 pick pitchers with great success as professionals. David Price is a huge alumn for them.

I cannot recall Vandy having a Karsten Whitson disaster like UF.

But yeah, Kumar Rocker and Al Leiter have no business in College Baseball, way too good. They should be private COVID bubbles, throwing monitored bullpens. They can't do better than #1 and #2 in the draft.

Is playing for Vandy that thrilling? No huge base and the damn whistlers going nuts at every home game. Unless the whistlers died of COVID or the Nashville mask-requirements prevent whistling.

Sonny Gray is another of their first round successes. I said after Leiter's no hitter against USC that the number of pitches he had thrown would come back to bite them. I believe he threw something like 126 pitches in that game and around 100 pitches in his previous start. I hope I'm wrong but I don't see anything in Vandy's philosophy that would indicate that Corbin is going to reduce the workload on either Leiter or Rocker anytime soon. We can talk all day about advances in training, conditioning, blah blah blah but the arm only has so many throws in it. These guys have been playing year round since middle school. It will eventually catch up to them and for their sake I hope it's later rather than sooner.

I would also imagine they probably have some type of insurance policy on their arm like Peyton had one on him when he was at Tennessee.

[SaintDawg]

UGA just hit back to back to back HRs. 12-2 UGA, Top of 9th. ooof!

[State82]

Holy shit! Back to back to back dingers! 6 on the night for UGA.

[SaintDawg]

14-2 UGA

[SaintDawg]

Another UGA HR. That's 4 bombs in Top of 9.

[State82]

This is the most insane shit I have ever seen in an SEC baseball game.

[BrunswickDawg]

This is the most insane shit I have ever seen in an SEC baseball game.

It's like Gorilla Ball from the 90s

[State82]

It's like Gorilla Ball from the 90s

That is exactly what it looked like. Gorilla ball on steroids.