BB G3 Final: Louisiana 7, Litte Rock 9

[Tell The Truth]

....Just a note on the runs scored against Burk....wind took the HR over the fence and thus could have been a pop fly....grounder over the 3rd baseman's head......pop up between 3 guys......baby bounce off of mound.....slow hit grounder up the middle....hit batsman with 2 strikes....somebaseball gods stuff!!!

The wind ...the wind...3 guys couldn't catch a fly ball...2 hit batters...did they hit themselves????excuses are like robisms...all just excuses and BS...hope your team doesn't get toooo tired driving to RUSTON so you can't use that as another excuse for getting it handed to you again...remember tony used the trip home from Boone as last weeks main reason for that loss!!!!

[Tell The Truth]

Nick did not appear to have his best stuff and perhaps should have been pulled. No argument there. However, had Stoelke been available he probably would have been the one called on.

Stokele isn't available because his coach pitched him in back to back games following an injury....that's abuse of another pitcher in my book for personal glory by the coach just like using gunner last year for 3 weeks when he was hurt!!!

[cajun_lannister]

We are 6th place right now in the belt winning the west is the most important thing going forward would put us as the #2 seed in the tourney

[Boomer]

That same wind helped Windham hit a HR, and I can’t count on two hands how many games we’ve won this year with in-field bounders and bloops.

LR gifted us two runs as well.

From coaches to players, we gave the game away. Again.

.......My post dealt with Burk's performance only!!!

[ManAboutTown]

.......My post dealt with Burk's performance only!!!

I agree he had some bad luck (and said as much during the game thread), but after the 2nd inning, he did not have his good stuff.

[MetryCajun]

That same wind helped Windham hit a HR, and I can’t count on two hands how many games we’ve won this year with in-field bounders and bloops.

LR gifted us two runs as well.

From coaches to players, we gave the game away. Again.

Good teams do not give away many games. Average teams do. We are who we are. Everything related to hitting needs to be evaluated this offseason. A new hitting coach and a heavy emphasis on juco hitters who can drive the ball to the gaps needs to be brought in. Only our 1-3 hitters in the batting order are safe in my opinion. I love Windham in the field, but you cannot have a corner infielder hitting .180.

[LifeTimeCajun]

You can if he plays defense the way he does. But you can’t have the three other infielders hitting the way they are especially the other corner infielder that’s a senior

[sportsfanatic21]

Good teams do not give away many games. Average teams do. We are who we are. Everything related to hitting needs to be evaluated this offseason. A new hitting coach and a heavy emphasis on juco hitters who can drive the ball to the gaps needs to be brought in. Only our 1-3 hitters in the batting order are safe in my opinion. I love Windham in the field, but you cannot have a corner infielder hitting .180.

I'm willing to bet that Windham becomes a viable offensive threat before he's done here.

[ManAboutTown]

I'm willing to bet that Windham becomes a viable offensive threat before he's done here.

Watch what he does in the wooden bat league.

[CajunProud]

I'm willing to bet that Windham becomes a viable offensive threat before he's done here.

I would agree, but only if he has a new hitting coach.

[CajunRage]

Watch what he does in the wooden bat league.

Over/Under set at .290

[Dad04]

I'm willing to bet that Windham becomes a viable offensive threat before he's done here.

He is too athletic to not adjust.

[ManAboutTown]

Over/Under set at .290

OVER

[wcd35]

Not buying that Mike. Not today. He had the entire bullpen, including Leaumont, available. There was no reason to leave Nick out there. He left Jack out on the mound too long as well, but Jack got some stellar defensive help. And battled his ___ off.

Just to follow up on this. I am in agreement on your point. I probably keep Perrin in a few more guys to start. Once it was tied or there were issues in the 9th, I consider making a move because you are right, Lee was getting shelled. None of the options were spectacular but neither was seeing multiple line drive doubles.

But I think the list of available guys is shorter than most knew.

I don't believe he throws Leaumont after 3.0 innings/47 pitches on 18 hrs rest
Batty was shut down this weekend for tightness

Options were:
Leave Perrin in longer ahead of Lee (still planning on starting him Tues/Wed)
Keep Lee in
Cox
DMo
Williams

The bullpen still scares me, even though some would make you believe we are 11 deep. Yes, we have thrown a lot of guys, but we also only have 4 pitchers with a sub-4.0 ERA on the staff. A lot of guys have innings but get hit. Stoelke coming back this weekend is a big boost and Leaumont has been huge. We'll need Batty back soon and pray our pen guys are on when it's their turn to throw

[ULvictory]

As of today, who wants to guess what our team batting average is?
-A whopping .224

Where does that rank in the nation?
-A fantastic 290 out of 297.