Play with Morgan at 3rd/TF in 6th inning.

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First off, morgan approaches 3rd base on a hit. 1st and 3rd, NO OUTS right. First thing that should immediately happen is the 3rd base coach gets a hold of Morgan and tells him that he isnt forced, to shorten his primary and take a small secondary, it is no outs and "runs thru the scenerios" that can happen. Main ones are ball hit in the middle with infield playing deep, we score, if ball is hit to pitcher/3rd base, WE HAVE TO HOLD. If ball is hit to 1st,it depends of he is deep or not. Freeze on line drives and ball hit to outfield deep, we tagging etc. Jay's excuse was they were being "aggressive", thats an excuse to hide his eneptness as a gameday coach, it was a failure in coaching. Being aggressive, is squeezing a run in or seeing something in your running game and steal 2nd base with 1st and 3rd or jump on first pitch strike at the plate. Any good coach will tell you the same! You hold at 3rd in that situation , the 3rd baseman would have checked Morgans decision to hold,and throw to 1st,if he goes to 2nd then Morgan advances. Period. No question. This is fundamental baseball. Yeah yeah nobody is perfect but this is Omaha in the winners bracket and a "simple" fundamental coaching mistake caused us a run/game in a low scoring big game. This is elementary baseball 101. Jay failed. Some say well if we hold there we dont score, well we had two more at bats with Morgan on 3rd. This was the go ahead run in the biggest game of the year and the coach just arbitrarily voided all rules in that situation and "gambled" with a no Brainer decision. Thats what we got.

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clearly they made the decision to go home on any grounder.

Jay Johnson has forgotten more about baseball than you will ever know.

Tre is out no matter what he does unless he was on the bag or just a few feet off the bag on the hit. The ball took the fielder right to third base.

He could have gotten in a run down and allowed runners to get to 2nd and 3rd, but the fact is that he was almost safe at home...

Very often in the game of baseball, the runner is told to go on ground ball contact. Sometimes there are stipulations like, go on the ground ball everywhere except to the pitcher. Those are often times automatic outs. I don’t have issues with the call to go. A lot of the issues I have with this Jay Johnson coached teams is the lack of coaching that appears to be put into base running/leads/secondary leads. So many nuance areas of the game can be improved to affect the outcome. Had Morgan had a better secondary lead off of the base and lack of hesitation to go home, he would have scored. These are things that get ingrained in practice.

You wrote all that shite just to prove how stupid you are.

Odd no mention of Beloso being a dead pull hitter hitting it to third

In spite of all this, Morgan would have scored with a better slide. How does a guy doing a head first slide end up with his knee in that position? Seems like knowing how to slide properly is a fundamental part of baseball.

The problem with your post is the hall was hit too hard and right behind him. 3b was taken to the bag. Morgan had nowhere to go.
The other issue is Beloso has rarely if ever hit a ball down the 3b line. He is played constantly as a pull hitter with a shift. If the ball goes anywhere else other than pitcher, Morgan is safe.
If Morgan does what you say, he is probably tagged out at 3rd with possible throw out double play of a slow Beloso.
In reality, it was an extremely fortunate location of hit for wake. The 1 thing other than striking out or pop out Beloso couldn’t do.

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Main ones are ball hit in the middle with infield playing deep, we score, if ball is hit to pitcher/3rd base, WE HAVE TO HOLD. If ball is hit to 1st,it depends of he is deep or not. Freeze on line drives and ball hit to outfield deep, we tagging etc. Jay's excuse was they were being "aggressive", thats an excuse to hide his eneptness as a gameday coach, it was a failure in coaching.

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We are at the highest level of Division 1 baseball. Do you honestly think the scenario's were not discussed? The ball was hit in the worst possible spot. Morgan goes back he may get tagged out. Im not justifying the play im just saying that it was a split second decision that took a great play by the catcher to complete.

On that exact play to third, I send Morgan 10 out of 10 times. A slightly bettter slide or a non miracle blind scoop by the catcher we go ahead.

We dont take with BJ there at all, we have him on hunt. He is one of the bats we have that can tie it up or hit a double.

We lost, we lost, we lost. LSU, UF, and Wake are the clear top three in the country. Wake won.

Your takes are just not sound.

Two things....

The ball Cade hit was placed exactly where Wake needed it. Almost anywhere else on the field, Tre either scores or retreats safely back to the bag. Wake got exactly what they needed in that situation.

Secondly, that's baseball.

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First off, morgan approaches 3rd base on a hit. 1st and 3rd, NO OUTS right. First thing that should immediately happen is the 3rd base coach gets a hold of Morgan and tells him that he isnt forced, to shorten his primary and take a small secondary, it is no outs and "runs thru the scenerios" that can happen. Main ones are ball hit in the middle with infield playing deep, we score, if ball is hit to pitcher/3rd base, WE HAVE TO HOLD. If ball is hit to 1st,it depends of he is deep or not. Freeze on line drives and ball hit to outfield deep, we tagging etc.

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That’s what a little league coach might tell his players. College players at that level don’t have time for all that shite in a game. You can instill that in practice doing situations, but you’ve got to trust your instincts in the game. There’s no time to think or hesitate, just react. Tell Morgan to shorten his primary and secondary and hug 3rd in a 2-2 game in the 8th with Wake’s pitcher dealing and a couple swings and misses coming up? He needed to be getting the biggest secondary he could without straying far enough that the catcher could pick him, read ball in dirt, and be ready to bust his arse down the line to take the lead back if the ball got far enough away from the catcher. That’s not what wound up happening, obviously, but still.

You can disagree with the call Jay put on for him to go on contact on the ground, but that was maybe only the 2nd time all year Cade hit a ground ball to 3rd, and probably the only time the 3rd baseman was there to field it. It was a low risk/high reward call. He just hit it in the wrong place and their 3rd baseman made a great play and the catcher made a great scoop. Tip your cap. But it wasn’t a bad call. I think Tre’s running and sliding left a lot to be desired, but that doesn’t make it the wrong call to put on there.

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Being aggressive, is squeezing a run in

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With a runner on 1st and 3rd with no outs when a sacrifice fly will give you the lead and you’ve got a guy up with 14 home runs who can obviously get the ball in the air, but may not have laid a bunt down in his life, calling a squeeze is “aggressive?” If you mean aggressive as in dumb as all frick, you’d be right.

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This is elementary baseball

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Well, you’re certainly right about this as we all learn those hard rules when we’re in elementary school and haven’t been in those situations enough to know that there are countless variables that could arise there. You and your little league coach play scared to mitigate risk, but you’re also mitigating reward. And the reward of Tre scoring there—in that situation—was much more likely than the risk of him getting thrown out like that. But shite happens, and he did.

I however, I listened to Jay’s presser and am not 100% convinced he put that on to prevent a 5-4-3 double play that would have left Tre on 3rd with 2 outs. He figured Cade would either lift it or ground into a 4-6-3 DP, allowing the run to score. And I’m not sure I’m buying Tre’s reason for looking over his shoulder to block ol boy’s throwing lane. To think of that so quick in that moment would be some off the charts HWA. However, he showed he wasn’t on top of his HWA with that disgusting “slide” he tried to pull off.

And anyway, who gives a frick? shite happens, and that happened. Gotta quit crying about it and go rape the Vols out of Nebraska.