relief pitching was great

Mormann seemed to have excellent control. I'm very excited to see him do well.

who plays 3rd.maybe didier

I didn't think Delatte was that bad. He wasn't hitting, but he made most of the plays.

I hate how Mainieri mails it in when we get down 4+ runs. If he had gone to some of our front line relievers early, we could have easily won the game. It always works out that way.

I wonder why PM didn't get Bourgeois out when it was 3-1? It seemed like at that point that guy couldn't close out counts well at all and there seemed to be no end at sight.

That was a very frustrating game to watch. 4-5 hit batsmen, couple of walks, 4 errors-I know they only listed 2, but there were 4. LSU handed that game to Kansas. Kansas had 2 MAYBE 3 balls that were hit hard the entire night and none of them got out of the yard. No reason for them to put up 11 runs in that game whatsoever. The pitching wasn't stellar, but they weren't getting a lot of help behind them either. The 2 HORRIBLE throws from 3rd on a 12 hopper and a SAC BUNT along with Mahtook's drop on that line drive were the difference in the game.

Yeah, not sure how they didn't rule the Mahtook play an error. Not making the running catch is one thing, but then he kicked it 30 feet under the bullpen bench. It should have been at least a hit and error allowing him to move to second.

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Dozar played tonight. Hit well, had 2 BAD throws on easy plays.

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Dozar is probably kicking himself right now. Throwing from third to first is not easy, especially when you have some quick runners. Dozar can make that play 98 out of 100 times. It was just a bad day. If he plays tomorrow, you won't see him making those mistakes again. He tried to make up for it with his bat, but we weren't able to get those timely outs when runners were on. I say put Dozar in there again, he can do it. He knows what he needs to do to fix it.

After thinking about the team last night, it is concerning that without Renaudo there is no pitcher this year or next year who will jump out at you as an ace on Friday night or Saturday starter. The 2 or 3 signees who opted for pro ball would have been that pitcher. Now coach will have to look at JC and hope to sign one.

LSU scores runs in the late innings. Down 5-1 in the 2nd inning isn't the time to let a game go against Kansas. Even with Ranaudo out, we still have Bertuccini, Bradshaw, Matulis, Moremann, Ott and supposedly Ross last night. Instead we go with Cotton, Garrett and LaSuzzo, giving up 6 more runs.

Bertuccini never pitches because Mainieri is always trying to save him. The guy has thrown more bullpen pitches than game pitches the last 2 years. He has thrown 3 garbage innings this year and last year Byrd, Alsup and Cain threw more innings than him (with worse numbers). We'll route KU these next 2 games and Mainieri will throw Bertuccini into the Sunday game in the 7th or 8th inning for an inning of work in a 15-1 game. Although, Grewe is going to have to come up with something different than a fastball down the pipe at 1-2 or 2-2 if we want to hold KU under 10 runs.

The biggest disappointment last nite was Bourgiose's performance. He's projected as of now to be our Fri nite starter & in 4 starts he's had two good ones, one so so & last nite's disaster. Arkansas is next Fri & he needs to step it up.