Baseball game 2 v Bama

[the_real_MSU_is_us]

If all you want are sunshines and roses comments please LEAVE the game thread. Its ridiculous. I say positive when I see positive and negative when I see negative like a lot of other posters.

For the record I have no problem with you or anyone pointing out flaws. I just disagree that our O doesn't score as much as it should. We see every failed scoring chance we have, but statistically there's still 12/13 SEC teams that are worse than us in SEC play. And for the record it's better to have your runs spread out vs have 1 huge game on the weekend. So if we're #2 in scoring but don't have big games, and a team that's #6ish does have 10+ runs in a game on the weekend, that means they really struggle to score in the other 2 games and we're consistently averaging more runs per series with less variability

[maroonmania]

If we can't discuss reactions to the game AS IT HAPPENS then a game thread is pretty useless. And we had a great offensive 8th inning!

[the_real_MSU_is_us]

Gilbert showing why he's playing vs Halter

[HoopsDawg]

Gilbert showing why he's playing vs Halter

Nice having someone in the 9 hole with some power.

[maroonmania]

We lead the SEC in hitting slugging percentage and second in OBP in SEC only games as well. And we've probably improved those today.

http://a.espncdn.com/sec/baseball/20...Statistics.pdf

We weren't helping it when the discussion started. We have a good offense no doubt, but it does disappear at times in the SEC. Three of our 5 losses we've scored 2 runs or less and the other 2 we've scored 5. It actually just seems worse to me than it is because we haven't won an SEC game all year where we have scored 5 runs or less.

[Todd4State]

If we can't discuss reactions to the game AS IT HAPPENS then a game thread is pretty useless. And we had a great offensive 8th inning!

Here's the thing about offense in baseball that a lot of fans don't realize. You're going to fail more than you succeed even if you are good. And because we closely follow MSU we see the flaws but we don't see others flaws as much. And when you stack it up we're actually better than most.

[maroonmania]

Here's the thing about offense in baseball that a lot of fans don't realize. You're going to fail more than you succeed even if you are good. And because we closely follow MSU we see the flaws but we don't see others flaws as much. And when you stack it up we're actually better than most.

I fully agree with that. I'm not really interested in dissecting things not going well for our opponents.

[Todd4State]

We weren't helping it when the discussion started. We have a good offense no doubt, but it does disappear at times in the SEC. Three of our 5 losses we've scored 2 runs or less and the other 2 we've scored 5. It actually just seems worse to me than it is because we haven't won an SEC game all year where we have scored 5 runs or less.

We're also on the verge of having 9 SEC wins. When you score five runs you should win most of the time. One the of the losses was in part because of a really weird/dumb play by our pitcher. One loss against LSU we hit a lot of balls right at people. The loss against Florida it took a web gem on defense or we win that one too. We've actually been a little but unlucky. But I'm not going to complain because we aren't winning low scoring games when we're scoring a lot of runs in the other 2/3 of them.

[Todd4State]

And we win! 9-1 MSU! Very solid win for us. Going to be interesting to see who we start tomorrow since Keegan pitched today. We hit a ton of bombs and picked up another series win. I know Alabama isn't great but these last two games have been our best all around so far.

[maroonmania]

Nice to have the series wrapped up given I have no clue what our pitching situation is tomorrow. Anyone heard any decisions on Ginn?

[tcdog70]

Shout out to Skelton, huge improvement. And if you throw him a mistake He will rope it

[Todd4State]

Ginn is starting tomorrow.

[MetEdDawg]

RPI up to #10. Got a couple of opponents that we've beaten that could help that out today based on the opponents they are playing.

[chef dixon]

I'd be shocked if we are planning on Ginn going more than 5 or so innings. I guess he must be 100% or there's really no reason to pitch him.

Also he may be transitioning to our Sunday guy just to keep the rest intervals consistent for him.

[MarketingBully]

Ginn is starting tomorrow.

And he said Ginn is 100% with no soreness whatsoever.

[MarketingBully]

I'd be shocked if we are planning on Ginn going more than 5 or so innings. I guess he must be 100% or there's really no reason to pitch him.

Also he may be transitioning to our Sunday guy just to keep the rest intervals consistent for him.

Ginn is 100%. Lemonis said full start. Said no soreness. I think everyone freaked out when they heard what happened last week and stated it worse then what it was.

[MarketingBully]

Oh and best start to a season since 1989. 30-6. Win tomorrow and we could jump to 1 imo.

[Homedawg]

As for lemonis and replay, he waited as long as he could and didn't have a great replay to see before he had to pull the trigger and Westburg told him to review it. He went w what the player thought wo a good look. I knew he was safe had a great angle but I can't blame him. Last night I would have challenged and he did and we were both wrong. Might as well doesn't hurt.

[MarketingBully]

As for lemonis and replay, he waited as long as he could and didn't have a great replay to see before he had to pull the trigger and Westburg told him to review it. He went w what the player thought wo a good look. I knew he was safe had a great angle but I can't blame him. Last night I would have challenged and he did and we were both wrong. Might as well doesn't hurt.

You were both right last night. Cumbest was safe but what can you do when the replay comes back wrong?

[Todd4State]

I'd be shocked if we are planning on Ginn going more than 5 or so innings. I guess he must be 100% or there's really no reason to pitch him.

Also he may be transitioning to our Sunday guy just to keep the rest intervals consistent for him.

We play a Thurs/Fri/Sat series next weekend so I would suspect he will be the Saturday guy next weekend. He may be 100% but we're still going to be pretty careful with him. I'm not worried even if he only goes three innings because we haven't pitched Cole Gordon yet and Leibelt should be available. Both could easily go 4-6 IP knowing that they probably aren't going to be used for Texas Southern anyway. We also have Self and Price and I could see us going back to Barlow for an IP or a LOOGY situation if needed.