Arkansas Pine Bluff - Tuesday Baseball Thread

[Homedawg]

A loss to Maine in football by an SEC team will always be worse than any single baseball loss. It's far easier to lose any single baseball game than a football game to a team with tons less talent than you.

Please tell me you didn't just explain it to him! This doesn't even rank in the top 5 and I haven't even looked back.

[Bothrops]

Tough opponent coming up for the weekend. Need to put this past us tonight

[smootness]

Please tell me you didn't just explain it to him! This doesn't even rank in the top 5 and I haven't even looked back.

He wasn't joking. He actually believed that crap.

[MabenMaroon]

How many games in a row would we have to win to equalize that hit in the RPI gut?

[Todd4State]

Yeah, I just disagree there. If you go out and win 40 games, including 18+ in the SEC, you're going to host a regional.

And I'm sorry, this just isn't the same as losing to a team like Jackson State in football.

It is about as bad a loss as you can have in college baseball, yes.

Maybe a bad analogy with the football thing, but this is an RPI killer. Especially with our SOS. The thing about playing SWAC teams is YOU CAN NOT LOSE TO THEM. By all means I hope I'm wrong, but losing to them is what kills you- not so much that you play them.

[I seen it dawg]

Sleepwalking on offense by an inexperienced lineup. Then the lefty who wasn't bad rammed it in us late. We will see if it's an anomaly or a wake up call.

[Homedawg]

He wasn't joking. He actually believed that crap.

Oh I know. I was saying if it took explanation then you were wasting your breath, that's all

[Todd4State]

How many games in a row would we have to win to equalize that hit in the RPI gut?

My guess is we have to win out in OOC games. Western Kentucky just got a hell of a lot more important, as did South Alabama and the Governor's Cup. We don't have much- if any margin for error.

[DudyDawg]

One loss like this is a hurdle. More than one is a habit. Not worried too much about not hosting. At least not yet. Better wake up for this weekend.

[smootness]

Maybe a bad analogy with the football thing, but this is an RPI killer. Especially with our SOS. The thing about playing SWAC teams is YOU CAN NOT LOSE TO THEM. By all means I hope I'm wrong, but losing to them is what kills you- not so much that you play them.

Yeah, it will hurt, but it can be overcome. If we sweep San Diego and WKU, I don't think our RPI will be hurt that much.

[Todd4State]

Sleepwalking on offense by an inexperienced lineup. Then the lefty who wasn't bad rammed it in us late. We will see if it's an anomaly or a wake up call.

Actually we're pretty experienced. We just had our heads up our ass. We gave away too many at bats. Just like last year. Obviously, this was the worst we played this year, but the second worst was against Alabama A&M. We just don't respect teams out of the SWAC and it cost us- and it has almost cost us a couple of times before. We would have lost to Alcorn in 2013 had Renfroe not bailed us out.

[Irondawg]

The thing that bothers me is that working the counts and stuff is great but when you have runners in scoring position you have to be looking for a pitch you can hit. We didn't have that attitude and got two strikes on us and struck out on a lot of balls out of the zone. We had some really terrible at bats those first 4 innings

[War Machine Dawg]

One loss like this is a hurdle. More than one is a habit. Not worried too much about not hosting. At least not yet. Better wake up for this weekend.

How much would you hate showing up for practice with the Intense Bastard tomorrow and Thursday? I'd imagine it will be hell.

[DudyDawg]

1-4 w bases loaded. That 1 was a single RBI base knock. Gotta capitalize on those against these kinds of teams. Bases loaded w one out should be a 6 run inning

[Todd4State]

Yeah, it will hurt, but it can be overcome. If we sweep San Diego and WKU, I don't think our RPI will be hurt that much.

I really think it will be tough. Probably not impossible, I'm sure. Like I said there is little to no margin for error going forward in OOC play. Sweeping San Diego and Western Kentucky is going to be tough.

[maroonmania]

Actually, so far, our 2 toughest games of the year have been against SWAC schools. We could have easily lost the 2-1 game we played against AL A&M.

[smootness]

Actually we're pretty experienced. We just had our heads up our ass. We gave away too many at bats. Just like last year. Obviously, this was the worst we played this year, but the second worst was against Alabama A&M. We just don't respect teams out of the SWAC and it cost us- and it has almost cost us a couple of times before. We would have lost to Alcorn in 2013 had Renfroe not bailed us out.

That's a pretty good summation. And another notch for the argument that we shouldn't even schedule these teams.

[DudyDawg]

How much would you hate showing up for practice with the Intense Bastard tomorrow and Thursday? I'd imagine it will be hell.

I'm probably going out and standing in this rain and then sitting in my refrigerator in hopes of catching the flu. Maybe that would get you out of practice.....

[Quaoarsking]

Step off the ledge everyone. We're 13-1.

Our final RPI will be the same losing this 1 game as it would if we'd been 12-1 through the first 13 and then won tonight. Obviously 13-1 would have been acceptable to everyone on this board if we'd known that before the season started.

[smootness]

I really think it will be tough. Probably not impossible, I'm sure. Like I said there is little to no margin for error going forward in OOC play. Sweeping San Diego and Western Kentucky is going to be tough.

Agreed. We just went from 13-0 to having a ton of pressure to basically win out going into SEC play.