Laf G7: Louisiana vs Arizona

[ManAboutTown]

this right here. i didnt get it. i know rightie leftie matchups and all, but it didnt work to well in game 1 but we stuck with it. i didntly like sensley in, and i didnt like kasuls in there. those two were part of what turned out to be a monumental play.

Playing this way got us 40 wins this year. Sensley was one of the only guys hitting the baseball. No way we could have taken him out of the lineup. The throw to second was on Kasuls. Kasuls had a tough weekend, but the guy was playing well down the stretch. He is going to be good, and the staff trusts him. You play who you trust.

We can second guess for days on end. We had a team that was limited offensively, and we got behind early (in both games). Arizona stepped up, Arizona kept the crowd subdued, Arizona handled the elements, Arizona hit the ball, Arizona made us pay for our mistakes, Arizona pitchers dug deep...

Arizona was the better team and deserved to win.

[cajunhawk]

Exactly. Evan worked too hard to figure out that ump's zone. And he just couldn't find the edge. Wyatt wanted to find that drop ball he's a master with... and it was dropping 5 feet before it's time. One of the runs was on his wild pitch. I felt the ump's zone definitely got in both of their heads. But Arizona figured out how to work that to their advantage.

I know people were down on Kennon for that at-bat. But that was a great pitch. The ball was coming right down main street and ran up into Kennon's hands. It was a great pitch. The pitch caused the soft grounder... not the batter. I'd love to take some of the fans and place them at the plate. They have absolutely no idea what is actually going on.

Coach Johnson has an irritating way about him, no doubt.

Please...second coming of Stan Musial...educate us unwashed masses on the finer points of throwing a round object, and hitting it with a ____ing stick.

[raoul]

Check Zona BAs against ours.

[raoul]

We watched far too many first pitches go by. I'm sure their pitchers were told to burn the first one right up the middle. The notable exception was Robbin's first pitch HR.

[cajunhawk]

We watched far too many first pitches go by. I'm sure their pitchers were told to burn the first one right up the middle. The notable exception was Robbin's first pitch HR.

That could also be because we were trying to get into their pen, so maybe they were told to take a bunch to waste arms. I don't remember them waiting too much on Sunday. I could be wrong.

[GeauxCajuns]

Playing this way got us 40 wins this year. Sensley was one of the only guys hitting the baseball. No way we could have taken him out of the lineup. The throw to second was on Kasuls. Kasuls had a tough weekend, but the guy was playing well down the stretch. He is going to be good, and the staff trusts him. You play who you trust.

he wasnt in the line up on sunday.

[ManAboutTown]

I agree. Arizona pitched themselves into the Supers, I'm not arguing that. It's was the lack of urgency that Tony had the better pitcher, Guillory's SBC tourney appearance not included, in Marks and chose to ride Guillory and hope for the best because he thought we could get into their pen and exhaust their arms. Way too conservative a strategy and putting Marks out there would have possibly yielded a better result, i.e., less than a 6 run deficit to overcome, which odds were very favorable to to. Now losing Game 6, losing the driver seat in the regional, and being flummoxed at the plate by a guy on two game's rest...all that had to get in their heads. All that came from being passive, and thinking we could outlast their pitching, instead of putting the best we had available to put a roadblock on game 6 and not even think about game 7. Pitching in game 6 thinking about game 7 lost us this regional.

While we're playing the "if" game..

If weather doesn't push game 6 back to Monday, Bannister is not available to start Sunday night. Not to mention, everyone knows the Tigue would have been rocking Sat night, much more so than it was mid day Monday. But hey, "if", right?

[ManAboutTown]

he wasnt in the line up on sunday.

I'm talking about Monday, game 6.

[cajunhawk]

While we're playing the "if" game..

If weather doesn't push game 6 back to Monday, Bannister is not available to start Saturday night. Not to mention, everyone knows the Tigue would have been rocking Sat night, much more so than it was mid day Monday. But hey, "if", right?

If wasn't Bannister, it would have been Ginkel. Or the cat who shut us down after Ginkel. If you know the guy has only a few bullets left...you don't give him a free shot.

[GeauxCajuns]

While we're playing the "if" game..

If weather doesn't push game 6 back to Monday, Bannister is not available to start Saturday night. Not to mention, everyone knows the Tigue would have been rocking Sat night, much more so than it was mid day Monday. But hey, "if", right?

we won the sunday game, which would have been the rockin saturday night game, not mid day monday.

[GeauxCajuns]

I'm talking about Monday, game 6.

i know. your saying no way we can take him out the line up, yet he wasnt in the line up the day before to begin with.

[cajunhawk]

we won the sunday game, which would have been the rockin saturday night game, not mid day monday.

Something tells me Johnson would have thrown Bannister Sunday evening just as quick as he did Monday at noon.