Rewatching the 9th inning..

It might be the best game of this CWS.

We’ll see. Selfishly I hope we open up a lead Sat and Sun and it’s not competitive.

I had to rewatch several times today. There was so much I missed in the moment with all the tension and adrenaline. In fact, I watched it several times.

That is what I was watching

Watched it again this am.

I was so shocked by all that was happening especially after the misplay by the Left fielder, I was just more stunned this time than the normally going nuts stage that I go through.
Almost couldn’t believe it.

So many Piggy mistakes;
1) 1B fielding Curiel’s ball, then throwing it away
2) Aloy’s brain fart.
3) Dagavan’s first step on Hernandez’s ball, which led to the slip and carom.
4) 2B not squeezing Bear’s weak liner.
Credit LSU for putting the ball in play, but we got so incredibly lucky! And it still isn’t even Piggy’s biggest 9th inning meltdown in Omaha!

Everyone talks about how Arkansas pissed that game away, and to a large extent they did. However, LSU still hit the ball a lot in the game and did so when they needed them most. Of course throwing the lead off runner at third out instead of the double play was a head scratcher but you know what? Stuff like that is what separates the men from the boys. The missed catch in left field and Bear’s hit bouncing off the glove later, well that shite happens in baseball. Sure those hits could’ve been fielded better but those mistakes could’ve happened to anyone.

The choice to not go for the double play in my opinion is just proof LSU really was the better team. Plus the other three wins we have over them this year.

Verdict: LSU won the game and earned a spot in the finals. Arkansas just wasn’t good enough when it mattered most.

As soon as the game was over I had to rewind it to the beginning of the 8th inning just to see again how incredible that last 2 innings were.

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So....just notice during the on the field interview with Bear Jones when he was asked the generic question...how does it feel, his reply was "God is good".

Great group of young men representing the P&G this year.

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Crazy, an athlete thanking god after something good happens

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It might be the best game of this CWS.

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For excitement and drama? Absolutely. If you like seeing good baseball, not so much. We had three errors and they had one. But it felt like they made a half dozen mistakes in that last half inning.