Baseball: Louisiana vs. McNeese State

[deepsouth]

After watching all 8 games this season IMO this team will be good. Last nights game was just one of those games. Last years team did not have many obviously, but they did have some. Lost UNO at home, Jackson State in Regional 1 to 0, Last to UT Arlington late had a comfortable lead. It's baseball, it happens! Now concerning the squeeze play, assuming that was the call. The runner is taught to break on Pitcher front foot land, so runner is watching pitcher. Coach should be watching catcher. Remember suicide squeeze, not safety squeeze. Runner is gone. Not much he could have done. I agree bad call in that situation.

[Big Silly]

I like to think the reason we lost this game was the conditioning the McNeese athletes receive is so much better than ours. Baling Hay, birthing cows, spreading fertilizer, etc. We can't beat a team full of farm hands.

and the diet, corn fed.

[duggie85]

Guys, they threw their Friday and Saturday starters while we threw our weekday arms. We'll be fine.

[CrazyCajun]

Guys, they threw their Friday and Saturday starters while we threw our weekday arms. We'll be fine.

Our pitchers weren't the problem at all... 2 earned runs in 17 innings
And I'll add to that, we threw our Sunday starter in my opinion

[Cajunjeb]

I looked just at errors.

The Cajuns through 8 games have 15 errors (1.875 errors/game). Combined, opponents have scored six runs off of errors. Only in the McNeese game did the runs off of Cajun errors "cost" the victory. In the other games, the runs off of errors would not have changed the winner/loser (this analysis does not take into account if an error left runners on who would have scored later in the inning)

Last year, the Cajuns, in 68 games, had 56 total errors (0.823 errors/game). The Cajuns didn't get 15 errors total until the 20th game of the season, against Nicholls St.

The Cajuns, based on the remaining schedule, are on pace for 103.13 errors for the regular season.

[Mr. Big Shot]

Guys, they threw their Friday and Saturday starters while we threw our weekday arms. We'll be fine.

No weekend starters were used.

[CrazyCajun]

No weekend starters were used.

Doesn't matter either way, this team doesn't make excuses like that... Like other programs do.

[Ragin' Caleb]

Doesn't matter either way, this team doesn't make excuses like that... Like other programs do.

Correct. We came out sloopy and not focused and they made us pay. End of story. Looking forward to how they react this weekend

[duggie85]

Damnit guys, if we're gonna be a big time program, we need to do our part and act like big time fans!!

[Big Buds]

Guys, they threw their Friday and Saturday starters while we threw our weekday arms. We'll be fine.

Please tell me you are poking fun at those to the east?!?! This is a tigerdroppings at it's finest.

[CAJUNJUDO]

I see a lot of promise in our young pitching staff and am definitely not saying that they didn't perform well; however, lets also remember that McNeese didn't score one single run last weekend in 3 games against the powerhouse known as Bradley.

[CajunRed]

They scored only two earned runs last night...if I'm not mistaken. If we don't have as many errors as runs...and remember that two bad fielding mishaps didn't show up as errors...and we don't have two inexcusable base running errors, we're not having this discussion. Our pitching staff did fine.