re: Biggest two takeaways from last night

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Kid pitching today is a young stud. If he’s on, we are losing. But he has had some bad outings.

If it’s a bad outing, Tigers roll

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Really going out on a limb there.

Shut up. That’s a scoreless inning if he calls the third strike for the second out. And then we’re set up for Fontenot. That completely changed the game.

The ump changed the game. Vitellio intimidated him all night and they got the calls and we didn’t.

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TENN is 4-0 against the Tigers.... Time to just tip your cap.

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Not so fast my friend... UT can be 4-2 against LSU and we are the winners. :)

Then why didn’t they swing the bat????? That’s the problem with this team… they leave it up to the umpire….

Tennessee plays w 9 players, LSU has 7 players, at best. Our pitchers are good enough to win in the SEC.

If Beloso is our best hitter off the bench, we're in deep shite, he rarely makes contact w the ball, if they knew how to bunt, they could try that, but that's another story. Thompson is a mediocre shortstop, at best, and a below average hitter, they should never see the field.
Bianco is the only true baserunner on the team, lead him off.
How many low sliders/curves do they have to swing at before they move up in the box.

Paul is responsible for ALL of that

The ump was definitely influenced by both the crowd and Vitello. He'd wait a second and once the crowd reacted heavily he'd ring up LSU batters. And I've honestly never seen a pitcher get squeezed like Coleman was. He started the inning really well actually and then he couldn't find the umps zone. Wasn't getting the call at the knees, so he located one at the belt, and didn't get that either. Hit the edge of the zone several times that were called balls, meanwhile the cheese wiz was locating pitches in the opposite batters box and getting the call. It was bad. The added pressure by the horrible zone caused the team to crumble in the inning. More base runners in scoring position, one out, it's what caused the stupid mistake by Doughty. He was hoping to get the easy tag on the runner from second and a throw to first double play. Instead he looked stupid and didn't even get an out which allowed two more runs to score. Also, the first run that scored was the walked batter that should've been punched out. Both the 2-2 pitch that swung inside out on the batter hit the outside of the plate thigh high, and the 3-2 pitch was a perfectly placed and framed fastball right above the knee. Hit the glove square and the ump called it a ball. You can say don't blame the umps because that's what losers do, but we wouldn't have to do that if the strike zone didn't change batter to batter, and half inning by half inning. The Tennessee pitcher got the "cheese" while Coleman got the squeeze.

I'm not blaming the home plate ump, but if Tennessee's pitcher wasn't getting every call at the bottom of the zone and a ball off the plate to right handed hitters. Tre Morgan's strike out at his second at bat was just a horrible call below his knees and pretty much set the tone for the rest of his night!!! We needed his bat or Crews's to have success and that wasn't happening with the widened strike zone combined with the already great command of Dallas. I guess good pitchers just get the calls!

LSU had a few favorable calls, but Coleman was getting squeezed in the 6th (those walks hurt!), and still put up fairly good numbers.

LSU made the mistakes to lose the game, so it's definitely not entirely the umps fault, but it also didn't help that Coleman walked 3 in the 6th with a few pitches located where Dallas would've been given the strike.

I know LSU struggled at the plate and that is the reason they lost, but Dallas is hard enough to hit, but combine that with a widened zone and LSU's best hitters looked confused. As hot as Crews has been and with Morgan's consistency making contact, it just seemed like a night where the field was tilted in Tennessee's favor.

That tight cutter Dallas throws is gonna make him a lot of money!!!

Dallas did the same thing all night and we just never adjusted. He threw breaking balls away to righties and in to Morgan. He stayed down in the zone pretty well too

They gave us a run and we gave them two.
Coleman was punished worse than he should have been with the mistake and the ump behind the plate.
Our best hitter had a terrible day as did several others who have been coming up big. At the end no one held the rope and got that big hit when we needed it.