Blaming the pitching

It’s easier to blame pitching because up to this point, the hitting has been stellar and the pitch has been average. It is what it is. They’ll get better and half the guys you saw won’t pitch meaningful innings this year

When you walk and hit as many batters as we did it is 100% on pitching. If they just got up there and hit everything we threw at them it's a different story, but that's not what happened. You score 6 runs, you should win games.

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Don’t give 11 free passes.

This one is on everybody

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the pitch has been average

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We are last or tied for last in era, hit batters, walks and wild pitches in the sec. I think people are understating how bad the pitching has been. And outside of Sherrin, Guidry nobody in relief, has pitched up to expectations thus far. It will most definitely improve but but how much is the question.

Pitching gave 11 free passes last night

This is a 99% pitching defeat, you cant expect the batters to put up 10+ every game, 6 runs is pretty solid

They didnt have many base hits but seemed to come with runners on base a lot which happens when you give 11 free passes away

We should expect better out of the pitchers to not give up more than a free pass an inning in an game, and Jay would say the same thing. It's hard to win games like that

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It’s easier to blame pitching because up to this point, the hitting has been stellar and the pitch has been average. It is what it is. They’ll get better and half the guys you saw won’t pitch meaningful innings this year

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This is audition part of the season for pitchers. Fans on here expect Jay to roll out Bob Gipson every day and then magically in the latter part of the season bring in relief pitching with little to no work and expect them to do the job...

When you score 6 runs and you have above average pitching, you should normally win. Therefore, I put more blame on the pitching ( especially in the first 4 innings ), than I do on the hitting.