Opening Day Threat: Oak?s Debut

[maroonmania]

That Hofstra sac fly to the track was too close for comfort. A win is a win I guess.

[SaintDawg]

these kids gotta gel, man. gonna be a crazy season. strap in.

[Tater]

One down - 54 to go. Closest game we'll have all regular season probably.

[Skydawg1]

Double header tomorrow per Neil. Two 9 inning games.

[Coursesuper]

Give us some insight for those of us who can?t be at the game and have to watch on tv

Timing up pitches on an 0-3 count, timing pitchers delivery during warm ups and little things like that.

[AlSwearengen]

I?ll be worried about the hitting until i see us swinging it well in SEC play. With that said, when you face top tier pitching in practice everyday where fastballs are 94/95, it is hard to adjust to 87/88 fastballs and just not very good pitching. It’s a strange phenomenon but it is real and it can’t be explained, just experienced. It doesn?t look like the rest of the SEC is killing it tonight either. Hell, florida is in danger of losing to uab.

[Bdawg]

More throwing the ball to the wrong base- got to go 2 there

I was screaming at the tv how dumb that was. Guy would have never got off first if we threw to 2nd instead of being on third.

[Cowbell]

I ain't worried about hitting. Nearly every starter we have hit over .300 last season

[cheewgumm]

One game

Will probably score 20 tomorrow

[Todd4State]

This was a game we might have lost last year.

I don't think any of our guys had their best stuff except for Ben for 2 innings. Nonetheless we didn't walk very many guys and I liked when we used our mound visits much better than last year. We probably let Ryan throw 100 pitches last year and maybe only use two guys. At least we have seen Stone in relief now and maybe we know Ben's limits a little better now. We'll see if they make adjustments to how guys are used going forward.

Not too many mistakes on defense. Errant throw on a pick off and missed the cutoff man late were the only notable mistakes I can remember. Milewski and Frei aren't going to win gold gloves but they did fine. Teel throwing their guy out at third was a big play.

Hitting is hard when they aren't throwing strikes. We had more runs than hits. Bunting needs some work.

Baserunning might be what won is the game. Nunnalee made a bad mistake. The delayed double steal we pulled off was the difference honestly. Great execution by us and that is coaching.

[Coach34]

This was a game we might have lost last year.

I don't think any of our guys had their best stuff except for Ben for 2 innings. Nonetheless we didn't walk very many guys and I liked when we used our mound visits much better than last year. We probably let Ryan throw 100 pitches last year and maybe only use two guys. At least we have seen Stone in relief now and maybe we know Ben's limits a little better now. We'll see if they make adjustments to how guys are used going forward.

Not too many mistakes on defense. Errant throw on a pick off and missed the cutoff man late were the only notable mistakes I can remember. Milewski and Frei aren't going to win gold gloves but they did fine. Teel throwing their guy out at third was a big play.

Hitting is hard when they aren't throwing strikes. We had more runs than hits. Bunting needs some work.

Baserunning might be what won is the game. Nunnalee made a bad mistake. The delayed double steal we pulled off was the difference honestly. Great execution by us and that is coaching.

whattttt?

We in no way would have thrown Mac 100 pitches last year. Lemon was softer on arms than any coach I've seen. No way he was throwing more than 80 pitches
We obviously are going with 2 closers as we let Davis go 3 innings. He has a nasty 2 seam
Defensively Teel threw to 3rd when he should have thown to 2B in the 9th- bad play. Frei and Woodson tried to kill each other on a ball up the middle in the 1st.
Baserunning had good and bad. Couple of things each way.

[Todd4State]

whattttt?

We in no way would have thrown Mac 100 pitches last year. Lemon was softer on arms than any coach I've seen. No way he was throwing more than 80 pitches
We obviously are going with 2 closers as we let Davis go 3 innings. He has a nasty 2 seam
Defensively Teel threw to 3rd when he should have thown to 2B in the 9th- bad play. Frei and Woodson tried to kill each other on a ball up the middle in the 1st.
Baserunning had good and bad. Couple of things each way.

He let Khal Stephen throw 80 in his first start against Air Force two years ago. The point is we didn't use pitches well early in the year. We let JT Schnoor and Gavin Black make their debuts in a competitive game against Troy and it burned us. I mentioned most of the other mistakes you mentioned. Frei colliding into Woodson was an experience/hustle issue IMO. Frei learned that the hard way tonight.

[parabrave]

I was screaming at the tv how dumb that was. Guy would have never got off first if we threw to 2nd instead of being on third.

You should've heard Jay on the radio.

[The Federalist Engineer]

Watched enough Collegiate Baseball to know this was a good victory

The coaches did not mess around with pitchers. Used 3 top arms to avoid an L.

But the coaches knew that Hofstra would have use equivalently valuable arms to snake a massive upset.

Let's acknowledge credit to Goat and Lemonis for scouting Stallman. That was a head scratcher portal signing, if he's a starter on a top-5 team, that's impressive.

[Turfdawg67]

One down - 54 to go. Closest game we'll have all regular season probably.

Will you stop being sarcastic already...

[The Federalist Engineer]

You should've heard Jay on the radio.

What did JP say?

Teel seemed out of control today. He will thrive in the Dude, he'll settle down.

[parabrave]

What did JP say?

Teel seemed out of control today. He will thrive in the Dude, he'll settle down.

That ball should've been to second and that it took away the DP.. Just the tone he said it in.

[Tater]

Will you stop being sarcastic already...

Wait I thought I had stopped.

[maroonmania]

Just thankful to escape a really bad loss right out of the gate. The odds of winning any game where you get outhit 10 to 3 are slim. And their starter from yesterday was no junk baller. He had a 94 mph fastball with a nasty slider. So not buying the excuse we didnt hit because he was so different than what we see in practice. Truth is we didnt really hit any of their pitchers yesterday. Hopefully we break out the sticks today. Having Sullivan back should help as well.

[BrunswickDawg]

Just thankful to escape a really bad loss right out of the gate. The odds of winning any game where you get outhit 10 to 3 are slim. And their starter from yesterday was no junk baller. He had a 94 mph fastball with a nasty slider. So not buying the excuse we didnt hit because he was so different than what we see in practice. Truth is we didnt really hit any of their pitchers yesterday. Hopefully we break out the sticks today. Having Sullivan back should help as well.

Head scratching games like this are the games that good teams that are well coached win. They take advantage of opportunities and find ways to win.