re: How many of UCLA's CWS runs have been unearned?

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Not making mistakes that beat you, timely hitting, and great pitching has nothing to do with luck.

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Lucky in the sense that this park with these bats and balls is to the BENEFIT of them. UCLA fans would be bitching if we played in a small park with the 2009 bats because we would have won that first game 10-2 and they wouldnt be in the finals. They are lucky that they are in a situation that accentuates their strengths and hides their flaws and suppresses the team's like LSU of their advantages. Nola outpitched Plutko the other night and pitches more true to the game. He didnt reach back and throw BP fastballs down the heart of the plate and dare the other team to hit them out because he knew they couldnt. Plutko pitched SMART and they took advantage of the situation, which was the right thing to do. LSU should have adapated and they didnt so we got beat, and you cant take that away from UCLA. With all that being said, that wasnt true baseball and it put a flawed game on the grand stage. A pitcher should be intimidated to throw a belt high 89 mph fastball down the middle, not encouraged. Anyone who thinks THIS is the way the game is played or should be played has lost all credibility and knows jack shite about the game.