re: Is anyone a bit concerned about our hitting?

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You needed a double, a bunt single, a sac fly and a single and a walk to scratch one run in the eighth to win the game

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No. We only needed the double, but single and sac fly to score a run. The other single and walk loaded up the bases and we couldn't get a 2 out hit to score more runs.

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If you get 17 hits, you need to have double-digit runs.

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I love the BS arbitrary rules that people make up to try and act like they know what they are talking about.

on the road, in the sec, against a NCAA bubble team, that also has one of the top 5 pitchers in the sec, and defensively, they are pretty good.

That's WHY

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Hitting against above-average pitching - yes, concerning.

Hitting against below-average pitching has accounted for the BA being a little exaggerated imo.

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Sit back and soak in what you have just stated here.

You are saying that we don't hit as well against good pitching as we do bad pitching? SHOCKING. We are probably the only team in America that has its average inflated due to hitting below average pitching.

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LSU has a big problem getting runners home from 3rd with less than 2 outs. That's a fact. They're just so good it hasn't hurt them very much.

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I've always been of the opinion that, in the college game, you need to score at least a run for every two hits you get (and that would be mediocre), otherwise you aren't being efficient enough with your hit production.

This weekend, LSU had 10 runs on 30 hits. That's plenty of hits, but with that, they should score at least five more runs on the weekend. Really, with 30 hits, they should be producing at least 16 runs on the weekend.

When they have runners in scoring position, sometimes it looks like their hitters' mentality is where they are caught between being all-in on situational hitting or all-in in trying to drive the ball and deliver the big hit.

As a result, they don't deliver either consistently enough.

The runs in relation to hits have gone down significantly since Katz quit hitting home runs at an absurd clip.

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Please don't overreact to my question. I went to the game Saturday and the hitting was shaky against a 11-14, 26-22 team and their Friday pitcher only gave up 5 hits against us.

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heard several players and coaches talk about the "low balls" and "curve balls" They're aware of it and are constantly working on specific batting situations. I did not know they have pitching machines that can be set to throw curve balls and other pitches....we will be fine.

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I've always been of the opinion that, in the college game, you need to score at least a run for every two hits you get (and that would be mediocre), otherwise you aren't being efficient enough with your hit production.

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Barring walks/hpb that doesn't happen in today's games, even with decent speed on a roster. A team would have to put up ~ 6+ extra base hits per game to do what you are asking and most teams don't come close to doing that. Just think if Jones hadn't been on a rip the past few weeks displaying some power, rain or no rain. It wouldn't have killed Bregman to take a few first pitches with men on base this weekend, either, even when hitting .400+ at the time.

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Need more timely hits and a few more balls hit into gaps with runners on base.

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Since that is so easy to address. Baseball is baseball and the jackasses on this site seem to think entirely too much into it. Sometimes with baseball things go your way and other times they don't. We had a couple innings this weekend that ended on balls that were very well struck that either had a great catch made on them or it was a shift that just perfectly payed off. One of them was the pitcher that pulled a rabbit out of the hat on an inning that should have produced a few. Just let them play and if they are the better team that day they will win.

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Fwiw we have 6 players over 300 with at least 40 ABs. Vandy has 8 hitters over 300 with at least 39* ABs

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JaCoby is coming. His turn around is just beyond impressive.

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Barring walks/hpb that doesn't happen in today's games, even with decent speed on a roster. A team would have to put up ~ 6+ extra base hits per game to do what you are asking and most teams don't come close to doing that.

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According to the NCAA's 2012 stats, the average runs per game was about 5.4 runs per game. The average team batting average was .277, which, over the course of a 27-out game, equals between 10 and 11 hits a game.

That means the AVERAGE relationship between hits and runs is roughly 2:1, exactly what I opined.

So to do better than average -- say runs equaling about 60 percent of hits -- is far from asking too much.

NCAA trends

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No. We only needed the double, but single and sac fly to score a run. The other single and walk loaded up the bases and we couldn't get a 2 out hit to score more runs.

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Take the production of the inning: 3 hits (including an extra base hit), a walk and a sac fly. All adds up to one run. You'd look at that production and expect at least 2-3 runs.

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I love the BS arbitrary rules that people make up to try and act like they know what they are talking about.

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It's not arbitrary. The NCAA average of runs per game is roughly 5.4. Hits per game are roughly 10 (slightly more). Roughly a 2-1 ratio.

You'd like to be better than average, right? So if you are better than average -- would would be 9 runs off your 17 hits -- you'd score at least 10.