**Tennessee Game 2 Thread**

[the_real_MSU_is_us]

Top left of the screen is a State fan with his 2 kids, that boy is a delight to watch between pitches

[The Federalist Engineer]

Man this announcer on SEC+ is terrible.

The video work is probably is two cell phones on FaceTime

[RougeDawg]

This umpires zone is all over the place. Can someone check and see if he has any connections to TN? Call strike on Hatcher and now this inning is a questionable. Given you have to expand the zone as a hitter, it was not a strike.

[CadaverDawg]

STOP POPPING UP

[MarketingBully]

How many lazy fly balls are we going to hit off this ****er?

[99jc]

The ump is not the problem today just saying.

[MarketingBully]

STOP POPPING UP

I’d say at least 10-11 of our 14 outs are lazy fly balls.

[99jc]

We're gonna 17 around and lose this if we're not careful.

[CadaverDawg]

Unreal. Wtf is going on?

[maroonmania]

Our offense is anemic with all the fly balls and pop outs.

[MarketingBully]

12 of our 15 outs are pop ups.

[RougeDawg]

How many lazy fly balls are we going to hit off this ****er?

A whole lot more if we do not start sitting offspeed early in the count. Every LH hitter is getting offspeed first pitch. Most RH hitters are too. At some point you?d think we would realize that and start hammering this guy. But hey, I?m not the coach.

[CadaverDawg]

Going to waste a great outing by Plumlee bc we can't stop popping up

[MarketingBully]

Unreal. Wtf is going on?

They look distracted/unfocused. Like they have no plan at the plate.

[RougeDawg]

The ump is not the problem today just saying.

Never said he was but if the zone is not consistent, it?s difficult to eliminate pitches as a hitter when the ball comes out of the pitchers hand. You can tell ball/strike almost every pitch by release point, if the umpires zone is consistent. If it?s nit consistent it throws off what a hitter has been trained to do and makes you less productive. That?s why this game has 3 runs right now.

Eta. The release point from top of the zone to bottom of the zone, when it reaches the plate, is only a few inches. As a hitter you should be picking this up as other hitters are batting. Then when you hit you can know ball/strike almost before the ball is released based on release point. Then all you have to do if release point says strike is determine pitch

[the_real_MSU_is_us]

Seriously though we're very slow to adjust in games. If the approach we have going in works and we score a lot, then the O takes the foot off the gas and they catch up late. If the opening approach doesn't work we take 5+ innings to adjust, usually we don't adjust at all and if we eventually score it's because the approach happens to work in the reliever

[maroonmania]

Pathetic. 2 runs in regulation yesterday and now 1 run through 5 today. LSU's Sunday guy had us shutout until the 9th. Our offense is really struggling right now.

[I seen it dawg]

**** lead off walk

[CadaverDawg]

That was strike 3!

[CadaverDawg]

This is where we lose the lead bc we can't score runs