Season Review and Week 6 Preview

[JMV JustMyView]

I will share my "coaching" thoughts as to the way I would have played it given a couple different scenarios should I have been in that moment. Be it there is NO right or wrong way but just as some reading material from a volunteer Coach that knows very little about the game.

6th inning vs OU and we get to Vasquez with Hart on 3B and 1 out (as ULL did in that game). With the swings Vazquez has put on Guachino in her previous 2 ABs, more so the previous fly out to LF. I let her swing away with the hopes of a hit to score 1 (or best case 2 runs) but I would also feel good about a deep fly ball to score Hart from 3B from her previous AB's and the way we have hit the ball to start that inning. Worst case is a ball in the infield that doesn't score Hart or a K. But in that scenario I give her the green light.


With all of that said, I am not Patty Gasso but it's probably a pretty good guess that she (and any other successful coach) saw it the exact same way and the reason she went to her ACE!! Now, once she trumps me there by going to her ace, I realize my chances have just diminished greatly (new look on the day, stats from the previous day against her and just her numbers thus far on the season tell me my odds are not in my favor) and I have the tie run 60' away, I play it EXACTLY the way Coach Aly did.

And IF she executes, this discussion here never happens. LOL

A four year starter batting clean up. I am riding on that chance versus a suicide squeeze, but that's just me. I did agree on Otto sacrificing Hart to third for an out. Plenty of folks told me I was wrong and they would have let Otto hit away. Also the OU ace is a rise ball pitcher which makes bunting even more difficult. What is done is done, but most would say the suicide squeeze wasn't the correct call.

[RoarMan]

I actually agree with most of this. Except my conclusion is different. The OU ace is a riseball pitcher, who threw a riseball up in the zone in a situation which coach Gasso had no doubt determined that Habetz would have Vasquez bunting. I would still swing away with Vasquez, as in my opinion her chances of hitting a deep SF are much better than her chances of successfully bunting a shoulder high riseball against OU's ace.

When I see a player try to bunt a rise ball, it makes me want to throw up. I would estimate 70% of the time it is popped up.

[ragin50]

I will share my "coaching" thoughts as to the way I would have played it given a couple different scenarios should I have been in that moment. Be it there is NO right or wrong way but just as some reading material from a volunteer Coach that knows very little about the game.

6th inning vs OU and we get to Vasquez with Hart on 3B and 1 out (as ULL did in that game). With the swings Vazquez has put on Guachino in her previous 2 ABs, more so the previous fly out to LF. I let her swing away with the hopes of a hit to score 1 (or best case 2 runs) but I would also feel good about a deep fly ball to score Hart from 3B from her previous AB's and the way we have hit the ball to start that inning. Worst case is a ball in the infield that doesn't score Hart or a K. But in that scenario I give her the green light.


With all of that said, I am not Patty Gasso but it's probably a pretty good guess that she (and any other successful coach) saw it the exact same way and the reason she went to her ACE!! Now, once she trumps me there by going to her ace, I realize my chances have just diminished greatly (new look on the day, stats from the previous day against her and just her numbers thus far on the season tell me my odds are not in my favor) and I have the tie run 60' away, I play it EXACTLY the way Coach Aly did.

And IF she executes, this discussion here never happens. LOL

Really, ULL?

[ridinsuicide]

Y’all are so easy and predictable!! LOL

JMV, I could go back to one of the original “bunting ban” posts and find it but it’s truly not that important. I promise I didn’t make it up.


PS, the “ULL” was put in there on purpose to see how many would call it out and I could get a reaction from!! I can not STAND when someone refers to the Cajuns as ULL!!! Hahahahaha. Hook, line and sinker!!

[Turbine]

I would hope the ULL reaction was predictable, I prefer to call the reaction "perfect execution"

[JMV JustMyView]

Y’all are so easy and predictable!! LOL

JMV, I could go back to one of the original “bunting ban” posts and find it but it’s truly not that important. I promise I didn’t make it up.


PS, the “ULL” was put in there on purpose to see how many would call it out and I could get a reaction from!! I can not STAND when someone refers to the Cajuns as ULL!!! Hahahahaha. Hook, line and sinker!!

All good. The suicide squeeze was still the wrong call. I promise you Coach was kicking herself after they got doubled off. And I promise you if she had the opportunity again she would have let Cissy hit away. That was a great opportunity for a four year starter to get an opportunity if you know what I mean.