I guarantee Mainieri wants to go:

Fri: Gausman
Sat: Eades
Sun: Nola

Think back to 2009 CWS when we had Ross go Saturday and Ranaudo Sunday after winning game 1 with Coleman starting. You don't wanna go all out with your second starter for the small chance that you lose the game, you put the pressure on your third starter in winner take all.

But Paul said on Wed. that he doesn't know if it's gonna go Gausman or Nola on Friday considering last week that Nola pitched Friday while Gausman pitched 130 pitches on Saturday. That one day makes a little difference.

If that is the case, Mainieri's ideal rotation would look like this:

Fri: Nola
Sat: Eades
Sun: Gausman

Now should LSU by some chance lose game 1, then everything changes. Instead of pitching Eades on Saturday, you have to go with whoever did not pitch Friday between Gausman/Nola to make sure you stave off elimination. Win that game and give the ball to Eades on Sunday and hope for the best.

Fri: Gausman/Nola
Sat: Gausman/Nola
Sun: Eades

This post was edited on 6/7/12 at 11:03 am

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Posted by AP83

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Posted on 6/7/12 at 11:07 am to Broski

hopefully:

Gausman

Nola

Eades on a very short leash, doubt he gets past the 3rd inning. Then bring in McCune for 1 time through the lineup and hopefully Bonvillan can come in a chew up a few innings. Lets just hope there is no need for Sunday.

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Posted by geauxruston

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Posted on 6/7/12 at 11:32 am to Broski

Why not do the same thing he did last weekend?

Friday: Nola
Saturday: Gausman
Sunday: Eades

Tigers win game one, who else would you want closing out the SR other than Gausman?