Quote Originally Posted by StarkVegasSteve View Post
The errors are not good. But people are having some extreme overreactions on this one. We lost to USM last year and were fine. Losses to USM in February in the midweek on the road do not kill you. Losses to Central Arkansas in the midweek, or Austin Peay in the midweek, or Ga Southern on the weekend, or multiple blown late innings leads in conference play kill you and cause you to play on the road in a regional.
Errors are not good but in total we had four tonight. Reeves committed two and he was pulled from the game. Our pitcher who is a freshman had one and then Highfill had the other. This loss won't kill us but I do wish that we hadn't started a freshman in his first start on the road. Especially with Siary and Pruitt on the roster and knowing that Pruitt pitched really well against USM last year. That said, no matter who we pitch zero runs is never going to win games. We struck out 10 times and only had 1 walk. To me, that is as bad as the errors. Even though two players had 5 of the ten K's between the two of them. We have to do a better job of getting guys to adjust sooner and we have to do a better job of getting guys to focus on our hitting philosophy of hitting line drives and going gap to gap and not worry about doing too much at the plate.

That said, we only allowed 1 earned run tonight and if we can find a way to get even a few runs we're going to win a lot of games if we keep pitching it like we did tonight.