re: Cole Green vs Anthony Ranaudo Tomorrow Piching Match-Up

Well being this guy is a pitcher who pitches to contact and lets his defense make the plays behind him. I am hoping the fact heat, plus stadium has a few balls that are just long flies in texas stadium become home runs in Omaha. 6 of his 11 home runs have come outside of UT Stadium

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since Bradshaw was already burned out tonight

i wouldn't say Bradhsaw is quite burned out if needed he could give an inning does anyone know what his pitch count was

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LSU Tigers
Pitchers IP H R ER BB SO HR PC-ST ERA
A Ross (L, 6-8) 2.0 4 2 2 1 0 1 41-23 5.18
R Byrd 0.2 3 3 3 0 0 1 15-7 5.81
N Cain 3.1 3 0 0 3 4 0 60-35 4.01
D Bradshaw 3.0 2 0 0 0 0 0 34-22 3.04

I figure Ranaudo will start, Ross will come in if he falters early, Coleman may pitch 1-2 innings, Jones/Bertucci may pitch inning, and Ott can close it out.

So if Ranaudo goes 6 then we may see, 7th Coleman, 8th Jones, 9th Ott

Coleman's gotta be pissed. He'll want to go some tomorrow.

Hopefully the ump calls strikes at the knees unlike game 1. Ranaudo and Coleman will both have to rely on keeping the fastball down there.

Also hopefully the three innings didn't take too much out of Ott. He'll be the one to go in the 9th, and it'll most likely be a save situation. (hopefully not) but it probably will be.

Best case scenario: Ranaudo 7, Coleman 8th, Ott 9th.

Tigers go .

ETA: Oh yeah, the bats better wake up, because if we only get one run, it probably won't matter how our pitchers throw.

Why not? Ranaudo hasn't pitched that much (relatively speaking) in the CWS. Only about 80 pitches vs. UVA and he went 6 vs. Arkansas. I don't remember his pitch count.

He can make it through 7 on four days rest from a not too strenuous last start.

ETA: He threw 77 vs. Arky. With four days rest, it's almost, almost like he's fully rested.

You could argue he has had 5 days rest

In all serious it will have been 110 hours since his last pitch. His arm is as fresh as it can be during the season. I would expect at least 6 out of him and I hope to see him pound Texas inside and not leave it out of the plate.

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How do you see it playing out?

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AR goes 5 at best
6,7, & 8 - couldnt say for sure, but some mix of Bertuccini, Jones, et al
9th with Ott


I cant see where Coleman sees the mound unless it's the 8th, both teams have been beat around and we're up by 1 or 2 runs, and it's situational

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Do you see Ranaudo being shaky? If he's on, he's going for a while.

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That's what i'm thinking.

If he pitching well, he'll get up to 100 pitches, or a few more, I would think.

Hell all I know is Coleman is probably going to pitch at some point tomorrow/today. He is too much a warrior and game means alot to him and so does LSU.

Which arm does Green use to get the ball across?