Georgia Southern series ...

Georgia Southern mercy rules Jacksonville on the road tonight 13-2. The Eagles struck early and often ... and with the game never in doubt, was able to rest their arms in advance of their conference series opener Friday vs. the Cajuns.

Regarding the Georgia Southern pitching staff, it will be interesting to see if #1 (Friday) starter Thomas Higgins gets the start on Friday. For whatever reason, he skipped last weekend's ULM series. His last outing was a 103 pitch effort on Friday 4/26 in a win over Marshall. Higgins sat out 2023 due to injury.

Additionally, recent weekend starter Porter Buursema was pulled after only facing one batter (5 pitch walk) in last weekend's Saturday start vs. ULM. He has not thrown much this season ... and was a solid high school recruit ... but started the last three conference weekend series (JMU, Marshall, and ULM).

Brian

CMD will have us pitching, batting and pressing the defense to take this series.

Last Sunday’s marathon was just what Louisiana needed to bring this team through the home stretch.

We are healthy and ready to go.

LOUISIANA RAGIN CAJUNS

southern getting hot at the right time.

Marshall, ULM and Jackonsonville not exactly baseball powerhouses

Avoid pitching and fielding freebies and make Georgia Southern earn every hit and every run. If we do that, I think we take the series.

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Originally Posted by Des for Pres

southern getting hot at the right time.

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Coastal was hot when we played them.
Troy was hot when we played them and still is.
Ga Southern getting hot right as we head to Statesboro.

Is this just dumb luck or something we say in here?

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Originally Posted by MountainDew

Coastal was hot when we played them.
Troy was hot when we played them and still is.
Ga Southern getting hot right as we head to Statesboro.

Is this just dumb luck or something we say in here?

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I don’t know that Ga. Southern is necessarily “getting hot” right now. It’s more of who they’ve been playing recently. They’ve swept ULM and Marshall the last two weekends. Prior to that they got swept by JMU and lost 2/3 to coastal the week before that one.

They are a good team, playing at home. The Cajuns will need to play well to win the series. And I expect that to happen.


Common conference opponents:

USM - both Ga S and UL won 2/3
Coastal - both lost 2/3
ULM - both swept
Marshall - both swept
ODU - Cajuns swept; Ga Southern lost 2/3

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Originally Posted by MountainDew

Coastal was hot when we played them.
Troy was hot when we played them and still is.
Ga Southern getting hot right as we head to Statesboro.

Is this just dumb luck or something we say in here?

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Sweeping anyone in baseball is something that is challenging to do.

When we swept Marshall and ULM everyone said the Cajuns were hot, but when another team does the same thing they arent?

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Originally Posted by Des for Pres

Sweeping anyone in baseball is something that is challenging to do.

When we swept Marshall and ULM everyone said the Cajuns were hot, but when another team does the same thing they arent?

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not sure exactly what the definition of hot would be, but we were 20-1 in the stretch where we played Marshall and ULM while GaSo is 13-8 in the 21 games surrounding their series against the same teams.

G. Southern is playing good ball, no doubt. ULM has only been swept twice all year, by the Cajuns on the road and at home last week by G. Southern. And they have played series against Coastal, Troy and S. Miss without being swept in any of those 3.

I don’t know if it means G. Southern is “hot” or “getting hot” or whatever else. What it tells me, along with the rest of their results, is that they are a good team, playing in a big series this weekend, at home, still having a chance to win the SBC regular season title.

UL will need to play good baseball this weekend to win the series. And that taking 2 of 3 this weekend would be a great result.

Hot or not, here come the LOUISIANA RAGIN CAJUNS . . .

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not sure exactly what the definition of hot would be, but we were 20-1 in the stretch where we played Marshall and ULM while GaSo is 13-8 in the 21 games surrounding their series against the same teams.

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They have scored 101 runs in their last 10 games and thats including 4 of the 10 shortened by run rule, their bats are hot.

Get ready to roll. Ready to roll. Like at the plaza back in the day

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They have scored 101 runs in their last 10 games and thats including 4 of the 10 shortened by run rule, their bats are hot.

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we will leave that to Coach Deggs for his scouting report . . .

Its gonna be a SWEEP fellas!

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Its gonna be a SWEEP fellas!

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Diamond prediction

Interesting that Blake Marshall is getting the start tonight.

BM is going to pitch this weekend all the innings he can remain effective.

Face it, we back to pitching by committee.

It worked well a couple years ago and it will work well now.

Trust in our coaching staff.

Furthermore, there are pitchers whose skill set is more effective when they can start an inning as opposed to coming into a game with trouble on the base paths.

We all know that it is very seldom that we pull a pitcher who has managed to complete the previous inning.

In order the maximize the effectiveness of each pitcher in your arsenal, sometimes it may be the best path to employ a rotation that fans may find interesting but if one digs a little deeper, very understandable.

I would say that Marshall is one who will tend to have a better chance of being effective and giving us longer outings if he enters the game at the start of an inning as opposed to entering the game with trouble on the base paths.

Oh boy. This just tells me that our coaching staff doesn’t know what they have on the mound. Today is game 51. Unless there is some sort of injury we’re working around or Deggs is trying to mess with Ga Southern, I am hitting the panic button.

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Originally Posted by CajunVic

Furthermore, there are pitchers whose skill set is more effective when they can start an inning as opposed to coming into a game with trouble on the base paths.

We all know that it is very seldom that we pull a pitcher who has managed to complete the previous inning.

In order the maximize the effectiveness of each pitcher in your arsenal, sometimes it may be the best path to employ a rotation that fans may find interesting but if one digs a little deeper, very understandable.

I would say that Marshall is one who will tend to have a better chance of being effective and giving us longer outings if he enters the game at the start of an inning as opposed to entering the game with trouble on the base paths.

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I get what you’re saying and I agree with most of it. I also trust this staff, and they obviously have a reason for starting Marshall tonight (assuming that it’s not misinformation, as the Jackson St preview article said Holzhammer was starting and Etheridge actually made the start). And Herrmann hasn’t been the same guy on the road this season as he has been at home.

BUT…Marshall has started 3 games in the last 2 seasons. One last year, in the season finale loss against Miami, and two this season, the home loss to La. Tech and the Saturday game at Texas State when the Cajuns scored 5 in the 8th for a comeback win.

None of those starts has gone well…at all. He hasn’t gotten out of the 2nd inning in any of them and has pitched to a 7.20 ERA and 2.80 WHIP as a starting pitcher.

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I get what you’re saying and I agree with most of it. I also trust this staff, and they obviously have a reason for starting Marshall tonight (assuming that it’s not misinformation, as the Jackson St preview article said Holzhammer was starting and Etheridge actually made the start). And Herrmann hasn’t been the same guy on the road this season as he has been at home.

BUT…Marshall has started 3 games in the last 2 seasons. One last year, in the season finale loss against Miami, and two this season, the home loss to La. Tech and the Saturday game at Texas State when the Cajuns scored 5 in the 8th for a comeback win.

None of those starts has gone well…at all. He hasn’t gotten out of the 2nd inning in any of them and has pitched to a 7.20 ERA and 2.80 WHIP as a starting pitcher.

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you are letting these minimal stats get in the way of a well rationed decision

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Originally Posted by MountainDew

Oh boy. This just tells me that our coaching staff doesn’t know what they have on the mound. Today is game 51. Unless there is some sort of injury we’re working around or Deggs is trying to mess with Ga Southern, I am hitting the panic button.

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I agree it’s a concern, but unfortunately Herrmann has really struggled last couple road outings, and this game is a must.

Likely have to win this series to win the league, so happy to see coaching staff is not accepting status quo.

Feel like the Cajuns match up well, and I’m sure Herrmann will get a chance to right the ship. LET’S GEAUX!!

It feels like it's a start the senior who has shown to be mentally tough to get you off to a decent start (and I'm sure there's scouting that show he may be more effective vs GS.) And hopefully he's one who does better from a start bc he's had his struggles at times this year. Prior to the Jackson St game he was sporting a WHIP over 2 with about 1 walk and 1 hit per inning. He's down to a 1.86 WHIP now but if he can just cut walks then it'll be fine. The problem on these big road games the last few weeks is the free passes and Herrmann hasn't shown he can be the same guy in those outings as he is at home.

I can see where the decision is coming from and can only hope it's effective. You can't keep doing the same thing and expect different results, but the problem is that can go both ways, good and bad.

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Originally Posted by CajunVic

you are letting these minimal stats get in the way of a well rationed decision

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First, it’s quite possible this is misinformation. The very last game played, the preview article had the starting pitcher listed wrong, so we don’t know yet that this is even a decision…much less a well rationed one.

Second, outside of one LEGENDARY day last year in the conference tourney and a pair of outings this season against SWAC teams, there is 50 innings of data over the last few seasons that give anyone who pays close attention pause when seeing that Marshall is the listed starter in (like most recent ones have been) the biggest game of the year to this point.

If this information is correct, hopefully it’s a repeat of the 2000 Super Regional when Coach Robe went with Andy Gros out of nowhere and came up smelling like roses.

The coaches are certainly more in tune with the dynamics of the team than we fans are, so we have to trust that they know what they’re doing.