Pigs @ Texas Series

[chase25 2048]

Caston Peter, Jesus Christ son

[Llano Estacado 1257]

Peter!

 

Edit: I know no S

[Valmy77 13568]

Ok Donny hold them.

[orangeut 215]

CP got all of that

 

Edited March 20, 2019 by orangeut

[Horny Bull 2766]

Holy shit Peter

[Machinator 32102]

11-4 after 4.

[EuroHorn 3287]

36 minutes ago, Valmy77 said:

I know we are getting creamed but it is still only the third inning. I am interested to see how our "lack of hitting" does in this situation.

Well so far it is looking much better.  Still a ways to go but a lot of game left.    

[Machinator 32102]

394 feet for Peter's HR.

[texasstrong12 4668]

Not saying we win tomorrow but we will be in a much better position to win. Arkansas is burning their midweek guy so they will be in a similar position tomorrow like we are tonight.

Bocchi has a better chance of giving us extended innings assuming Pierce starts him tomorrow night. 

Edited March 20, 2019 by texasstrong12

[chase25 2048]

3 minutes ago, Machinator said:

I was told our hitting approach sucked.

It does, I get told not to overreact on this board a lot, how about we not overreact to one inning. Caston put a hell of a swing on that, one of the hardest hit balls I've seen hit at the Disch

2017: .252 avg

2018: .271 avg (.260 with out Kody)

2019: .249 avg coming into tonight

Edited March 20, 2019 by chase25

[Machinator 32102]

1 minute ago, chase25 said:

It does, I get told not to overreact on this board a lot, how about we not overreact to one inning. Caston put a hell of a swing on that, one of the hardest hit balls I've seen hit at the Disch

2017: .252 avg

2018: .271 avg (.260 with out Kody)

2019: .249 avg coming into tonight

Hitting approach is fine except for Zubia, who's not pulling his weight and chasing absolute garbage in his ABs. We're just not a very talented hitting ballclub.

Duke is seeing ghosts as well, that needs to stop.

Edited March 20, 2019 by Machinator

[dcar00 14907]

well this team has shown a propensity to not give up.  another 4 run inning next inning would make this interesting assuming we can hold.  that Ford check swing is pretty bad.  guy is ge, ting hit.the last thing you want to do is check swing

[texasstrong12 4668]

5 minutes ago, chase25 said:

It does, I get told not to overreact on this board a lot, how about we not overreact to one inning. Caston put a hell of a swing on that, one of the hardest hit balls I've seen hit at the Disch

2017: .252 avg

2018: .271 avg (.260 with out Kody)

2019: .249 avg coming into tonight

Everyone knows we aren't that great of a hitting team after losing Hamilton and Petrinsky. 

It's the chicken little bullshit of "we we will be lucky to finish top 3 in conference" after we just beat the Big 12 favorites two days ago. Maybe you end up being right but jesus at least wait until we start stacking losses to Big 12 teams. 

Edited March 20, 2019 by texasstrong12

[Machinator 32102]

11-4 Arkansas M5 after Peter catches the runner from first stealing.

Edited March 20, 2019 by Machinator

[Valmy77 13568]

Alright! We got a shutout inning!

Let's get a few more back and make the pigs sweat a bit.

[chase25 2048]

1 minute ago, Machinator said:

Hitting approach is fine except for Zubia, who's not pulling his weight and chasing absolute garbage in his ABs. We're just not a very talented hitting ballclub.

Duke is seeing ghosts as well, that needs to stop.

Agree to disagree, this team goes into long stretches where they get lulled into looking for walks, and you can tell with the amount of hitters count pitches we take. Baseball giveth and it taketh but I'd much rather see our guys go up hacking like Arkansas in hitters counts as opposed to our approach which is to take take take.

[Valmy77 13568]

Just now, Machinator said:

11-4 Arkansas M5 after McCann catches the runner from first stealing.

Peter did that. McCann is out of the game.

[Machinator 32102]

Just now, Valmy77 said:

Peter did that. McCann is out of the game.

My bad.

Bouncing between basketball and baseball.

[zlavydra 2142]

4 minutes ago, chase25 said:

It does, I get told not to overreact on this board a lot, how about we not overreact to one inning. Caston put a hell of a swing on that, one of the hardest hit balls I've seen hit at the Disch

2017: .252 avg

2018: .271 avg (.260 with out Kody)

2019: .249 avg coming into tonight

So what? Batting average tells you very little.

[Valmy77 13568]

Maybe I am just hit by PTSD of some of Augie's later teams but I think hitting .250 as a team is alright, especially considering our schedule so far.

[NeverMarryAStripper 22242]

Not saying we win tomorrow but we will be in a much better position to win. Arkansas is burning their midweek guy so they will be in a similar position tomorrow like we are tonight.
Bocchi has a better chance of giving us extended innings assuming Pierce starts him tomorrow night. 

Pigs are playing the worst team in the SEC west this weekend so they have a little more flexibility in their rotation for this series

[chase25 2048]

Just now, zlavydra said:

So what? Batting average tells you very little.

I know, just a quick summary to avoid writing a novel about something with very little relevance to the game thread.

[Machinator 32102]

11-4 after 5

[TwiceHorn 31994]

5 minutes ago, chase25 said:

Agree to disagree, this team goes into long stretches where they get lulled into looking for walks, and you can tell with the amount of hitters count pitches we take. Baseball giveth and it taketh but I'd much rather see our guys go up hacking like Arkansas in hitters counts as opposed to our approach which is to take take take.

That is actually an improvement.  For a couple of the last Augie years, we couldn't even get a walk.  We'd have 3-4 pitch Ks with maybe 1 strike actually thrown.

[chase25 2048]

At least it looks like Caston may be getting his feet under him and gaining confidence because he will definitely be needed the rest of the season.

[chase25 2048]

Just now, TwiceHorn said:

That is actually an improvement.  For a couple of the last Augie years, we couldn't even get a walk.  We'd have 3-4 pitch Ks with maybe 1 strike actually thrown.

Which is why at no point in my post did I say go up there hacking at everything.

[Don Johnson 4803]

24 minutes ago, LTtxfan said:

Will Catalon even see the field for Arky baseball?

He isn’t playing baseball at Arkansas. Never was. DVH never even met with him. 

[TwiceHorn 31994]

Just now, chase25 said:

Which is why at no point in my post did I say go up there hacking at everything.

I think Pierce has improved existing/Augie-recruited talent at the plate and after we get a few more classes "through," our hitting may be substantially decent.

[Machinator 32102]

Meaney is pitching, by the way, for anyone just following along in this thread.

[chase25 2048]

1 minute ago, TwiceHorn said:

I think Pierce has improved existing/Augie-recruited talent at the plate and after we get a few more classes "through," our hitting may be substantially decent.

Hopefully, everybody agrees that the team was left pretty thin when Augie left.

[Valmy77 13568]

Come on Owen! Slam the door!

[texasstrong12 4668]

2 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

I think Pierce has improved existing/Augie-recruited talent at the plate and after we get a few more classes "through," our hitting may be substantially decent.

Tough to reach many conclusions on hitting this year. We lost 2 of our best hitters to injury in Hamilton and Petrinsky. 

This team was already short on talent/depth so they couldn't take injury hits like that. 

The good news is it should help next year with Petrinsky returning and all these FR getting experience. 

[Machinator 32102]

Nice sliding catch by Todd to end the half-inning.

11-4 M6

[Cairn Horn88 8500]

12 minutes ago, Valmy77 said:

Alright! We got a shutout inning!

Let's get a few more back and make the pigs sweat squeal a little.

 

[Valmy77 13568]

Ok going bottom of the 6th, still 11-4. Let's see what we can do.

[NeverMarryAStripper 22242]

I think Pierce has improved existing/Augie-recruited talent at the plate and after we get a few more classes "through," our hitting may be substantially decent.

I’m not sure whether substantially decent is a complement or not

[Cairn Horn88 8500]

6 minutes ago, chase25 said:

Hopefully, everybody agrees that the team was left pretty thin when Augie left.

Well, it's still pretty thin.  We really need to add several more pounds, if you know what I mean.

[BERT 4488]

1 minute ago, Cairn Horn88 said:

Well, it's still pretty thin.  We really need to add several more pounds, if you know what I mean.

We should’ve got the live chicken?

[Machinator 32102]

11-4 after 6

[Machinator 32102]

11-4 M7

[Machinator 32102]

Reynolds made a really nice play on the first out.

[texasstrong12 4668]

Meaney is giving us some innings here so we don't have to burn anymore arms. 

[zlavydra 2142]

I'd like to see son of bertel get more ABs

[zlavydra 2142]

Damn. Nice play by pig SS

[Machinator 32102]

11-4 after 7

[Machinator 32102]

Reagan was at SS for that AB.

Edited March 20, 2019 by Machinator

[Valmy77 13568]

Damn. If only we had started Meany.

[TwiceHorn 31994]

Arky looking pretty complete.

[Machinator 32102]

11-4 M8

[Valmy77 13568]

Six outs to get seven runs.