re: Everybody talking about the decision to start Skenes. Can we talk about epic he was?

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know it was Tulane but Jesus Christ.

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I wish people stop with this bull shite. They think Tulane couldn’t hit or didn’t belong in the same park with LSU. That could have easily been a 1 run game and Skenes gone by the 6-7th. Hobert’s play in right was massive because that is a run and a runner on 2nd minimum likely 3rd with 1 out. That’s probably 2 more batters at least 10 pitches.

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The guy was unbelievable. 123 pitches and he was still throwing 100 mph on his 122nd pitch. The one kid got lucky and barreled up a fastball that happened to fly over the wall, otherwise, he was damn near perfect. What a beast

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While the beast is tossing that hard that late, I don’t think it was remotely close to the best he can be. Tulane barreled up a bunch of balls several nearly took him out. He said as much during his press conference.
His slider was ok, not great. He had no command of his change and that 2 or 4 seamer to lefties didn’t have the usual run.

He has commanded all 4 pitches a couple games this year. Not that many.

He will tell you that. Listen to what he said yesterday versus one of the games from earlier.