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There were 21 pitching appearances over the 3 games. A list of the effective ones:
Posted on 4/27/26 at 9:06 am
Posted on 4/27/26 at 9:06 am
Friday:
Garcia: 3 IP, 1 ER
Plog: faced 1 batter, got him out
Saturday:
Lachenmayer: 2 IP, 0 runs
Sunday:
Ricken: faced 2 batters in the 8th, got both out
AND THAT IS frickING IT.
17 times out of 21 appearances, the pitcher did not do his job. No clean innings. Runs given up by almost everyone. Tons of walks/HBP.
Schmidt has to give you more than 4 innings/2 ER. With the bullpen being a disaster, you need 6 from him.
I don't need everyone to be Cy Young. But if just a few of these guys had given you 1 scoreless inning, which is not too much to ask, then you probably win 2 of the games.
Garcia: 3 IP, 1 ER
Plog: faced 1 batter, got him out
Saturday:
Lachenmayer: 2 IP, 0 runs
Sunday:
Ricken: faced 2 batters in the 8th, got both out
AND THAT IS frickING IT.
17 times out of 21 appearances, the pitcher did not do his job. No clean innings. Runs given up by almost everyone. Tons of walks/HBP.
Schmidt has to give you more than 4 innings/2 ER. With the bullpen being a disaster, you need 6 from him.
I don't need everyone to be Cy Young. But if just a few of these guys had given you 1 scoreless inning, which is not too much to ask, then you probably win 2 of the games.
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Posted on 4/27/26 at 9:08 am to LSUGrad9295
I will still have it on in the background on weekends but I will no longer be prioritizing/planning weekends around lsu baseball.
Posted on 4/27/26 at 9:13 am to LSUGrad9295
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Lachenmayer: 2 IP, 0 runs
I’ll always celebrate Lach.
But he did walk 2, hit 1 and threw a wild pitch.
Posted on 4/27/26 at 9:15 am to LSUGrad9295
At this point throw everyone that is good in game one to get the monkey off our back.
Posted on 4/27/26 at 9:15 am to LSUGrad9295
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Schmidt has to give you more than 4 innings/2 ER.
He was at 90 pitches and we already have Moore out for the year and Evans out with discomfort. I am pulling him right there as well.
Posted on 4/27/26 at 9:15 am to LSUGrad9295
Still trying to figure out why Lachenmayer got pulled
Posted on 4/27/26 at 9:17 am to mtb010
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He was at 90 pitches and we already have Moore out for the year and Evans out with discomfort. I am pulling him right there as well.
I agree with him being pulled...I am just saying he needed to be better and give you more than 4 innings
Posted on 4/27/26 at 9:17 am to LSUGrad9295
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Schmidt has to give you more than 4 innings/2 ER. With the bullpen being a disaster, you need 6 from him.
Schmidt seems to get frustrated easily when he doesn't get the calls he believes he should get. He needs to learn to let it go.
Posted on 4/27/26 at 9:20 am to LSUGrad9295
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I agree with him being pulled...I am just saying he needed to be better and give you more than 4 innings
This will be the main focal point in the offseason for him. He’s taken a big step up from last year and will hopefully do the same next year. He’s been good for the most part but needs to be more efficient.
Posted on 4/27/26 at 9:21 am to LSUGrad9295
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Schmidt has to give you more than 4 innings/2 ER. With the bullpen being a disaster, you need 6 from him.
Concur with this statement. However, he was still the most effective pitcher over the weekend. If the others had come even close to this we would have won two or three games.
Posted on 4/27/26 at 9:23 am to lsu711
and that pretty much summarizes our pitching staff. the best we have out of the pen don't have control. If we just had MSU's bullpen, we probably sweep MSU.
Posted on 4/27/26 at 9:25 am to Hightower
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Still trying to figure out why Lachenmayer got pulled
Makes 0 sense and gave up the game
Posted on 4/27/26 at 9:27 am to LSUGrad9295
The only way to be an effective pitcher in an aluminum bat league is to have high strikeouts low walks. The contact is always gonna get you.
It’s a cost issue I’m sure but I wish college went to wood bats like the pros. It’s too easy to hit in college and if you can’t hit, you really are terrible and LSU has several guys like that
It’s a cost issue I’m sure but I wish college went to wood bats like the pros. It’s too easy to hit in college and if you can’t hit, you really are terrible and LSU has several guys like that
Posted on 4/27/26 at 9:30 am to Hightower
Jay is probably holding open tryouts for next season in these situations. That's my guess. The season is already lost. just see who might be able to make the roster next season.
Posted on 4/27/26 at 9:32 am to La Place Mike
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Schmidt seems to get frustrated easily when he doesn't get the calls he believes he should get. He needs to learn to let it go.
He did well with it at points this season. A few particularly egregious calls against Ole Miss and Mississippi State messed him up.
He has improved on that since last season, but I agree he still needs to improve on it further. SEC umpiring isn't going to improve, so our pitchers have to be able to overcome that mentally.
Posted on 4/27/26 at 9:40 am to LSUGrad9295
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No clean innings.
I tried to track this from the beginning of the season. I don't recommend it. I stopped pretty early.
Basically, we've had one good pitching weekend. The tournament in Jacksonville.
ETA: We may have had another one (Kentucky?) but I didn't make it far enough to find out.
This post was edited on 4/27/26 at 9:42 am
Posted on 4/27/26 at 9:52 am to ProjectP2294
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I tried to track this from the beginning of the season. I don't recommend it. I stopped pretty early.
Basically, we've had one good pitching weekend. The tournament in Jacksonville.
ETA: We may have had another one (Kentucky?) but I didn't make it far enough to find out.
It just baffles me. You can look at just about all of these guys and their "stuff" looks good. They throw hard and have various different pitches. I just cannot fathom how EVERY DAMNED ONE OF THEM can have issues with command.
Posted on 4/27/26 at 9:55 am to lsu711
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I’ll always celebrate Lach.
But he did walk 2, hit 1 and threw a wild pitch.
You are falling in the same trap as Jay... looking at stats with zero game feel...
Here's what actually happened....
We had just gone up 7-2
Schmidt walks leadoff guy, get's pulled (89 P, no problem with this)
...State fans starting to feel an answer coming
Lach in, walks first guy... fans ramping it up
.
.
then...
Ks his second batter
K's his third batter
Slow roller to 2B that Ruckert makes nice play..... OUT of the inning and States mo shut down...
Then we go 3-out
Next inning...
Walks leadoff guy on 4 pitches, State fans starting to feel it again
463 DP!
2-2 count, hits batter, runner on first
Wild Pitch was a fricking farce bullshite arse attempt by our C (again and again and again, btw) - straight down the middle ball in the dirt that at 10u kid blocks all fricking day, but we swipe at it and the ball bounces away... YES IT PISSES ME OFF TO NO END - aint ashamed to be mad
Then... 3-2 K looking to shut that shite down
Then... next inning, Plog, WTF
Lach was at 38 P for what it's worth.
arse in-game feel from our managers....
This post was edited on 4/27/26 at 9:57 am
Posted on 4/27/26 at 10:01 am to LSUGrad9295
I firmly believe the pitchers have had their heads utterly fricked by Jay's situations, eagerness to make another trip to the mound to change the guy, and pressure they are under to win at all costs.
Benge's anger at being removed during the A&M series when he did his job is evidence of these suspicions. However, they are all getting paid to perform and they are not performing when it matters.
I see this particular team as another travel ball summer team that has no cohesion, relationships, etc despite having been together for 8 months now. It's a snowball effect in real time that has us in the situation we are in now.
Benge's anger at being removed during the A&M series when he did his job is evidence of these suspicions. However, they are all getting paid to perform and they are not performing when it matters.
I see this particular team as another travel ball summer team that has no cohesion, relationships, etc despite having been together for 8 months now. It's a snowball effect in real time that has us in the situation we are in now.
Posted on 4/27/26 at 10:09 am to Meauxjeaux
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Then... next inning, Plog, WTF
So, I can see why they may have been wary of letting Lachenmayer start another inning, but it only brings up other questions. He was over is season high pitch count by about 10-12 pitches by that point and it would have been his second up-and-down, which is also something he hasn't done.
The questions are why not? He barely threw early in the season, but was effective in some of his outings. And then he would get pulled after an out or a single batter. So if he's not conditioned to stretch out, whose fault is that?
As far as Plog, he was just fine on Friday and was pulled prematurely. Trying to get two appearances out of a guy on a weekend is a huge gamble. You pulled Plog after one guy to go to Fontenot who was two days removed from his longest career outing.
There were a lot of "who pitches when" decisions that were questionable this weekend.
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