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Tom Shatel: Shorter dimensions could bring balance to TDA Park
Posted on 6/20/13 at 4:33 pm
Posted on 6/20/13 at 4:33 pm
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Wow... great article... this guy has been following college baseball for a looooong time and he thinks there is certainly some problems...
he goes on...
Wow... great article... this guy has been following college baseball for a looooong time and he thinks there is certainly some problems...
quote:
“The Tigers are down to their last out. Here's Warren Morris, second baseman. Has no home runs this year, but he's capable of getting one up in the air.
“Here's Robbie Morrison's pitch. Swing and a long drive! Back goes the right fielder. Back, back. And it's ...
“Just short. That's your ballgame. Miami players are dogpiling on the mound. The Hurricanes are national champs.
“Man, alive. How did that ball stay in?”
That didn't happen and thank goodness. No offense to Miami. But that was a classic College World Series moment, a story you never get tired of telling, the type of iconic play that gives this event definition and color.
If that 1996 CWS championship game was played in TD Ameritrade Park, Morris is the last out, a footnote in history, not one of the legends of June.
And nobody outside of Coral Gables, Fla., remembers anything about that CWS.
I'm a sports columnist. I live for those moments. And I believe those plays, and the legends they create, should always live at the CWS.
he goes on...
quote:
What's happening is the warning track is getting a workout.
And I'm learning to embrace the romance of the long flyout. It's not easy.
Some tweaking is in order. Don't do it for the poets. Do it for the players and fans and the game. They all deserve balance.
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Posted on 6/20/13 at 4:35 pm to TheDoc
There is no way in hell the RF would have caught that ball regardless of field dimensions, so at the very least it would have been a game tying double.
Posted on 6/20/13 at 6:16 pm to TheDoc
Lower seams = more carry = more home runs. It's actually a very simple fix.
Posted on 6/21/13 at 8:15 am to TheDoc
Maybe they can pump in less dense air or put gigantic fans behind home plate to ensure that the air is flowing out, thus carrying the ball farther.
What % of LSU's total runs scored during the season stemmed from homeruns?
What % of LSU's total runs scored during the season stemmed from homeruns?
Posted on 6/21/13 at 8:21 am to TheDoc
You could add 2000 to this list as well.
Blair Barbier hits a deep flyball to left field it gets down on the warning track a double.
Wally Pontif Walks to put guys on 1 and 2nd
than Jeremy Witten comes up to bat squares a ball up hits it on the screws but is caught at the warning track. Inning over Stunford still up 5-2
LSU does get 1 in the ninth but its not enough to come back stunford dogs piles on the mound after their dominating pitcher finally snuffs the LSU rally
one of the greatest comebacks in LSU and maybe CWS history doesn't happen because the ball just doesn't carry in TDA park.
Blair Barbier hits a deep flyball to left field it gets down on the warning track a double.
Wally Pontif Walks to put guys on 1 and 2nd
than Jeremy Witten comes up to bat squares a ball up hits it on the screws but is caught at the warning track. Inning over Stunford still up 5-2
LSU does get 1 in the ninth but its not enough to come back stunford dogs piles on the mound after their dominating pitcher finally snuffs the LSU rally
one of the greatest comebacks in LSU and maybe CWS history doesn't happen because the ball just doesn't carry in TDA park.
Posted on 6/21/13 at 8:25 am to TheDoc
question
if the 90s were played in TDA park does LSU win 5 titles. I know 91 93 and 97 weren't close and LSU would probably win those games anyway but do we have enough offense in those years to make it to the championship.
I think there is a chance LSU doesn't win 5 titles maybe not even 3 maybe only 1 or 2, if the CWS was played in TDA in the 90s LSU wouldn't have become the greatest college baseball program in the country, we would be just like UGA, CSF, etc. teams who have won a couple of championships but never had a magic run like LSU.
if the 90s were played in TDA park does LSU win 5 titles. I know 91 93 and 97 weren't close and LSU would probably win those games anyway but do we have enough offense in those years to make it to the championship.
I think there is a chance LSU doesn't win 5 titles maybe not even 3 maybe only 1 or 2, if the CWS was played in TDA in the 90s LSU wouldn't have become the greatest college baseball program in the country, we would be just like UGA, CSF, etc. teams who have won a couple of championships but never had a magic run like LSU.
Posted on 6/21/13 at 8:43 am to TheDoc
Just go back to the bats from a few years ago
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