*****MSU vs Louisville CWS Game Thread*****

[dantheman4248]

What about the call at 2b on Jake's throw? Skelton dropped the ball to cut down the tying run. Home plate ump was terribly inconsistent, but I hate crying over officiating

My point was that we didn’t leave it up to anyone. Cole pitched a badass 9th inning leaving nothing to chance. The ump didn’t do his job plain and simple. Can’t blame us for “leaving it up to an ump” to when the ump seemed to refuse to call strike 3 in the ninth. If not blaming our players is blaming the umpires then fine.

[HoopsDawg]

Didn't we willingly make it worse by putting foscue at 2b and Gilbert at 3b?

nah, foscue made us better at 2B. Gilbert and Halter were about equal and Gilbert clearly had a better bat.

[BayouDawg]

Didn't we willingly make it worse by putting foscue at 2b and Gilbert at 3b?

In theory you may be correct but the fielding did seem to improve after the move. Again I say seem because I havent checked the fielding %

[MetEdDawg]

Didn't we willingly make it worse by putting foscue at 2b and Gilbert at 3b?

That was the right move to me. Halter wasn't ready to play defense in the SEC and wasn't ready to hit consistently in the SEC.

That was our biggest hole and it has hurt. Gilbert has some very bad ABs but he was our best overall option there.

[Activated Alpha]

Does anyone honestly believe Lemonis will be able to recruit at a high enough level consistently to get us the edge talent wise? Not being sarcastic just don't know outside of Ginn

[NCDawg]

We lost this game at the plate.... you aren?t going to beat average teams scoring 3 runs a game....we have had a poor approach for about a month... we have taken a lot of swings at pitches that were not even borderline strikes.

I tend to agree. We have looked terrible at the plate lately.

[HoopsDawg]

Does anyone honestly believe Lemonis will be able to recruit at a high enough level consistently to get us the edge talent wise? Not being sarcastic just don't know outside of Ginn

He's known as a recruiter. We don't have many "dudes" coming in next year that are going to be able to help offensively. Not really his fault though.

[Lord McBuckethead]

Look, for the 2nd time in two years, we were the 5th team or better left standing. Not too shabby. Retool and lets get back next year.

[Bdawg]

Umps strike zone always tightens later in the game if it?s a wide zone or loosens if it?s a tight zone. The pitcher has to adjust. With that said, I agree with Shotgun. Where was Colby White? He could have come in in the ninth and shut them down. Now, he?s going to start his pro career without having much of an effect at all in the CWS. But I digress. Tonight was meaningless. We lost when we lost the game yesterday. We had no chance at a championship so what?s the point if we finish fifth or fourth. Lemonis didn?t go all in yesterday and we got ****ed. That Self 3 run bomb will always go down in my mind as one of the biggest coaching ****ups I?ve ever seen at State.

I was begging for Colby to come in and try to put up some Ks when we really needed him. It's really unexplainable. But I also agree we gave away the natty when we didn't throw our studs in the pen to win game 2.