ULM vs. UL Friday

[leeman]

Coach seems to pull the trigger too early on our pitchers... Hubell was pitching great and coach pulled him for no reason.. other than the fact that he was at his max pitch count, which I think is ridiculous... If the guy is pitching consistently.... keep him in.. when you take a pitcher out, inevitably, the other team capitalizes on this.. It happens ALL the time..!..........

[DieHard1280]

_ Coach seems to pull the trigger too early on our pitchers... Hubell was pitching great and coach pulled him for no reason.. other than the fact that he was at his max pitch count, which I think is ridiculous... If the guy is pitching consistently.... keep him in.. when you take a pitcher out, inevitably, the other team capitalizes on this.. It happens ALL the time..!.......... _

I think Coach Robe knows more about pitching management than most of us combined. The reason we lost this game was not about ULM capitalizing on the pitching change. It was about us not swinging the bat with any kind of confidence whatsoever, and not capitalizing on the opportunities we did have to manufacture some runs.

[BGlass29]

Coach seems to pull the trigger too early on our pitchers... Hubell was pitching great and coach pulled him for no reason.. other than the fact that he was at his max pitch count, which I think is ridiculous... If the guy is pitching consistently.... keep him in.. when you take a pitcher out, inevitably, the other team capitalizes on this.. It happens ALL the time..!..........

Ride him till he falls apart! Just kidding. He was over his pitch count and gave up a lead off double. I'm
Ok with him being pulled. We have the best bullpen in the belt.

Guess we aren't out of our hitting funk...
igeaux.mobi

[CajunRed]

Nope...we're back to hitting like a "bad 5 year old T-ball team". We shouldn't be surprised, though. This is what we are known for.

Scouting report: they can pitch...play pretty good defense...oh,yeah, and they stand at the plate a lot and don't swing. Will make our pitching look great.


igeaux.mobi

[CajunRed]

I would have preferred a WIN in the cold and rain.

Not a good outcome to say the least, but a night at the Tigue in good weather sure trumps a lot of other Fridays. Geaux Cajuns!

igeaux.mobi

[RedBug58]

_ A couple of comments on your post... As I understand it, their guy is pretty good and WAS throwing a lot of strikes.... So our response?? Sit there and look at them??? Someone said no confidence... That seems accurate.. It looks like we are begging for walks....

Hubbel was indeed making them look silly.... The only difference in looking silly and what we are doing is that they were swinging... and thus often looked silly....

Finally how many strike 3's must we look at before a decision is made to have them sit for a few games?

In golf, it is a truism that you will NEVER make a put that you leave short.... similarly, you will almost NEVER hit a ball that you don't swing at... _

Our lack of hitting at this point is not a "slump", it's a "trend". It hasn't been one or two games, it's been since day one (except against really weak teams with poor pitching). We continue to make average pitchers look like great pitchers. If it were my decision, for the game today I'd change out the entire team. Let all of the so-called backups have a chance. We've got to do something to really shake things up or this "trend" is what the rest of our season will look like.

[CajunRed]

I agree. The only thing, though, is that our back-ups...when used...aren't hitting either.

This is every year.

Our lack of hitting at this point is not a "slump", it's a "trend". It hasn't been one or two games, it's been since day one (except against really weak teams with poor pitching). We continue to make average pitchers look like great pitchers. If it were my decision, for the game today I'd change out the entire team. Let all of the so-called backups have a chance. We've got to do something to really shake things up or this "trend" is what the rest of our season will look like.

igeaux.mobi

[Dad04]

_ A couple of comments on your post... As I understand it, their guy is pretty good and WAS throwing a lot of strikes.... So our response?? Sit there and look at them??? Someone said no confidence... That seems accurate.. It looks like we are begging for walks....

Hubbel was indeed making them look silly.... The only difference in looking silly and what we are doing is that they were swinging... and thus often looked silly....

Finally how many strike 3's must we look at before a decision is made to have them sit for a few games?

In golf, it is a truism that you will NEVER make a put that you leave short.... similarly, you will almost NEVER hit a ball that you don't swing at... _

Lots of these last night, last week..........