nice go to escape
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.
Our bats did not ROAR last night except when they needed to.
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!
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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