Quote Originally Posted by maroonmania View Post
That's my whole take on Holcombe. He had already shown in the 8th that he was struggling in that particular game with control. Maybe his control issues aren't fixed yet or maybe it was just pitching in cold weather or maybe something else. Doesn't mean he shouldn't get more chances down the line but I felt very uneasy when he came back out of the 9th. Not sure why the coaches didn't feel the say way? I personally didn't think he should have come back out in the 9th but why he was allowed to stay in after walking the leadoff hitter is truly beyond me? We currently need to secure every win possible over letting someone work out their issues in a one run ball game.
He was one of our best pitchers in scrimmages as a whole. And he is one of the more veteran guys as far as SEC experience goes. No one has really been able to answer who should have pitched there instead? At this point there are simply no obvious answers. That was Auger's first game coming back from an injury. I don't think that's the situation they wanted him in. Dohm is masquerading as a starting pitcher right now. Gavin Black looked good but was an unknown and his command wasn't super sharp and it looked like he had some nerves. Siary is a veteran but he had a rough outing the day before. We still don't know anything about Will Passeau or Logan Forsythe as far as what they can give us. Guys like Simmons, Loftin, and Kohn are injured so they weren't options.

I can't put it all on pitching or Holcombe though. Our baserunning was awful and we should have had more than two runs to start with.