BB Final: Louisiana 5, Jackson State 0

Cajuns holding on to 2-0 lead, bottom of 8th. Jackson St. pitcher did a good job.

5-0 B8

5-0 Cajuns
Final

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Originally Posted by Dad04

That was painful

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The most upset I’ve been after a Cajuns baseball game. I’m sure many felt the same. The words “are you serious” were mentioned about 100 times on the ride home.

Not the best offensive game by the Cajuns but I will take the win. Pitchers did their job. The other team can't win if they don't score.

Good to see LP with a dominating performance.

Ranked Troy got more empty seats than full tonight for a winnable game at home against Bama

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Originally Posted by jaxmc1023

Ranked Troy got more empty seats than full tonight for a winnable game at home against Bama

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STM Teurlings games have more fans than Troy did this weekend

Cajuns ought to be happy and appreciative of their fans

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Originally Posted by jaxmc1023

Ranked Troy got more empty seats than full tonight for a winnable game at home against Bama

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Troy lost by a run, 6-7. Had runner on 1st with fly ball hit to RCF gap. CF came over to make the grab... then double the pinch runner up at first to end the game. Eesh.

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Originally Posted by RaginScotsman

The most upset I’ve been after a Cajuns baseball game. I’m sure many felt the same. The words “are you serious” were mentioned about 100 times on the ride home.

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What??

That team has SEVEN guys hitting over .330 for the season and a combo of 5 of our guys combined to shut them out on 3 hits with 14 strikeouts

And MANY teams struggle with soft throwing lefties that have good change ups, good curve balls, and throw strikes. That kid for Jackson State pitched his ass off tonight. Do you remember a VERY similar Jackson St pitcher beating the best Cajun team of all time 1-0 in the regional opener in 2014?

Credit to their starter. Dude had thrown 10 innings all year and pitched the game of his life until he completely ran out of gas at 110+ pitches.

Throwing a shut out and winning by 5 runs has you the MOST UPSET you’ve ever been at a Cajuns game??

My God.

The single biggest concern after tonight should be whether or not seeing 65-80 mph for 9 innings will mess up the hitter’s timing going into Friday night.

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Originally Posted by sportsfanatic21

What??

That team has SEVEN guys hitting over .330 for the season and a combo of 5 of our guys combined to shut them out on 3 hits with 14 strikeouts

And MANY teams struggle with soft throwing lefties that have good change ups, good curve balls, and throw strikes. That kid for Jackson State pitched his ass off tonight. Do you remember a VERY similar Jackson St pitcher beating the best Cajun team of all time 1-0 in the regional opener in 2014?

Credit to their starter. Dude had thrown 10 innings all year and pitched the game of his life until he completely ran out of gas at 110+ pitches.

Throwing a shut out and winning by 5 runs has you the MOST UPSET you’ve ever been at a Cajuns game??

My God.

The single biggest concern after tonight should be whether or not seeing 65-80 mph for 9 innings will mess up the hitter’s timing going into Friday night.

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He is talking about the 1-0 loss in the 2014 Regional to Jackson State.

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Originally Posted by sportsfanatic21

What??

That team has SEVEN guys hitting over .330 for the season and a combo of 5 of our guys combined to shut them out on 3 hits with 14 strikeouts

And MANY teams struggle with soft throwing lefties that have good change ups, good curve balls, and throw strikes. That kid for Jackson State pitched his ass off tonight. Do you remember a VERY similar Jackson St pitcher beating the best Cajun team of all time 1-0 in the regional opener in 2014?

Credit to their starter. Dude had thrown 10 innings all year and pitched the game of his life until he completely ran out of gas at 110+ pitches.

Throwing a shut out and winning by 5 runs has you the MOST UPSET you’ve ever been at a Cajuns game??

My God.

The single biggest concern after tonight should be whether or not seeing 65-80 mph for 9 innings will mess up the hitter’s timing going into Friday night.

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No. In 2014. Not today.

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Originally Posted by RaginScotsman

No. In 2014. Not today.

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Oh! My mistake, and apologies!

I was baffled :)

nice go to escape

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Originally Posted by sportsfanatic21

Oh! My mistake, and apologies!

I was baffled :)

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No worries.

this was a nice final midweek win

shutout by our pitching staff

good defensive performance

enough done with the bats to prevail

let’s now go win the last two weekend series

Vic

Cajuns at 48 in the RPI with a couple west coast games still going on. I was looking at the rankings and wondered how Texas could be at 51 with a 15-9 Big 12 record. Then I saw they are 10-8 against Q4. Yikes.

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Originally Posted by sportsfanatic21

Oh! My mistake, and apologies!

I was baffled :)

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That was funny! Have a good day.

I was thinking about that game last night while we were 0-0. We had no answer for their lefty, a lot like last night. But we did grind it out. Not a perfect win, but a WIN.

Let's turn to Ga Southern now, another big series!

Our bats did not ROAR last night except when they needed to.

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Originally Posted by GoneGolfin

We have swung at a lot of ball 4's tonight ... resulting in a number of popups. The last one with the bases loaded.

Take the walks that are given to you. Especially when it is an RBI.

Brian

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I know very little about the art and science of coaching baseball. It seems like there have been situations last night and through the seasons where we should try to 'manufacture' runs, by bunting, etc and we dont do it. At least not as much as when Tony was here. Is the idea of bunting and sacrificing more of a coaches philosophy or is it more personnel? It seems like we want to steal our way to runs. I also do not know if a 50ish% stealing base to caught stealing ratio is good. Doesn't seem good!

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Originally Posted by Big Tyme

I know very little about the art and science of coaching baseball. It seems like there have been situations last night and through the seasons where we should try to 'manufacture' runs, by bunting, etc and we dont do it. At least not as much as when Tony was here. Is the idea of bunting and sacrificing more of a coaches philosophy or is it more personnel? It seems like we want to steal our way to runs. I also do not know if a 50ish% stealing base to caught stealing ratio is good. Doesn't seem good!

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I believe the analytics philosophy says that sacrificing is wasting outs.

Also, the stealing is part of putting pressure on the defense. High risk, high reward. It’s hoping the defense makes mistakes.

I’m not a huge fan of either of those philosophies but it’s the direction baseball has gone.

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Originally Posted by CajunRage

I believe the analytics philosophy says that sacrificing is wasting outs.

Also, the stealing is part of putting pressure on the defense. High risk, high reward. It’s hoping the defense makes mistakes.

I’m not a huge fan of either of those philosophies but it’s the direction baseball has gone.

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posters should listen to this guy

listen, listen, listen dolly llama

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Originally Posted by Big Tyme

I know very little about the art and science of coaching baseball. It seems like there have been situations last night and through the seasons where we should try to 'manufacture' runs, by bunting, etc and we dont do it. At least not as much as when Tony was here. Is the idea of bunting and sacrificing more of a coaches philosophy or is it more personnel? It seems like we want to steal our way to runs. I also do not know if a 50ish% stealing base to caught stealing ratio is good. Doesn't seem good!

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We did a lot of bunting last night and a few very good ones. The pitcher was throwing a lot of slow junk. Some in the low 60’s. Was crazy! LP really smoked em in the last 2 innings. I think he was up to 96 and they couldn’t handle it. LP is a man out there!!

LP and Debo have very real opportunities of nice, long professional careers.

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Originally Posted by Dad04

LP and Debo have very real opportunities of nice, long professional careers.

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LP is dominant. Dude just blows people away. Reminds me a lot of Wyatt Marks in that when Wy was on, he was basically untouchable and batters looked silly.