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It really comes down to pitching
Posted on 5/9/26 at 10:19 am
Posted on 5/9/26 at 10:19 am
Or lack thereof. If we have a hammer for Friday nights, (like 23 and 25) we have ten more wins in conference. We had some key injuries obviously, and most of the year with terrible fielding, but as of now- last night as an example- we walked 7 and had two wild pitches and two hit batters. The end. Let’s get some hammers from the portal next year and be better. (Blame whomever you want for the issue. But that IS the issue.)
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Posted on 5/9/26 at 10:21 am to LSU Neil
I gotta be honest with I love LSU baseball as much as anybody here but this shite is hard to watch scoring 89 and 10 runs on a Friday night and getting beat. Are you freaking kidding me how many times this year is this happened to us?
Posted on 5/9/26 at 10:21 am to LSU Neil
As of today
243 walks
68 hit batters
79 wild pitches
13 passed balls
243 walks
68 hit batters
79 wild pitches
13 passed balls
Posted on 5/9/26 at 10:26 am to LSUJML
those stats say it all. 
Posted on 5/9/26 at 10:26 am to LSUJML
And leading the country in strikeouts.
Posted on 5/9/26 at 10:32 am to LSU Neil
quote:
It really comes down to pitching
Ye don’t say
Posted on 5/9/26 at 10:41 am to white beans
That's been the case lately. But early in SEC play, errors were killing us and not hitting the ball. Now that our errors are down and our hitting has improved, we've lost 2 starters and the bad pitching had stayed the same.
Posted on 5/9/26 at 10:47 am to LSU Neil
Being 2nd to last in fielding percentage doesn’t help.
Posted on 5/9/26 at 10:56 am to LSU Neil
Paz - 4.1 innings
Cowan - 4.2
Tigers win
Fontenot - 3.0 innings
Lach - 2.0
Theo - 1.0
Garcia - 2.0
Plog - 1.0
Hope for the best and the lefties give UGA trouble. Have to finish innings so the next reliever can start a fresh inning.
Not looking good Sunday, unless Evans can give you 3, then that completely changes things. I feel good about Fontenot and Lachenmayer giving you 4-5.
Cowan - 4.2
Tigers win
Fontenot - 3.0 innings
Lach - 2.0
Theo - 1.0
Garcia - 2.0
Plog - 1.0
Hope for the best and the lefties give UGA trouble. Have to finish innings so the next reliever can start a fresh inning.
Not looking good Sunday, unless Evans can give you 3, then that completely changes things. I feel good about Fontenot and Lachenmayer giving you 4-5.
Posted on 5/9/26 at 10:57 am to LSU Neil
It really comes down to pitching and hitting and fielding.
Posted on 5/9/26 at 11:08 am to hashtag
quote:Yep. We scored 4 or fewer in several of the early losses to teams that score 6 or fewer.
That's been the case lately. But early in SEC play, errors were killing us and not hitting the ball. Now that our errors are down and our hitting has improved, we've lost 2 starters and the bad pitching had stayed the same.
Posted on 5/9/26 at 11:22 am to LSU Neil
Problem is you can’t find them in the portal because they get paid.
And if they make it to the portal you have to outbid other schools. Many also already have a destination in mind when they hit the portal.
The real answer is to have enough money to pay kids in high school and keep them from signing with MLB and for them to choose college. This is very expensive.
And if they make it to the portal you have to outbid other schools. Many also already have a destination in mind when they hit the portal.
The real answer is to have enough money to pay kids in high school and keep them from signing with MLB and for them to choose college. This is very expensive.
Posted on 5/9/26 at 12:13 pm to ItTakesAThief
It’s also a crap shoot with the high schoolers. The top prospects you’d likely lose to pro ball will cost you a fortune to get on campus. They also very often don’t pan out. So let’s say we give the top 3 guys $4mil each and baseball does what baseball does and they can’t hack it in the sec. What then?
Posted on 5/9/26 at 12:23 pm to LSUJML
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As of today 243 walks 68 hit batters 79 wild pitches 13 passed balls
And any criticism of Yeskie is quickly reprimanded by the pumpers blaming the messenger.
Posted on 5/9/26 at 12:34 pm to Shanks A Lot
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Being 2nd to last in fielding percentage doesn’t help.
It was comical earlier but our fielding has been much better of recent. As has our hitting.
Posted on 5/9/26 at 12:38 pm to LSU Neil
Watching the recap on Wheels, the pitching is just inadequate. We were reasonably fortunate to keep them to 11 runs, based on how Schmidt kept working into jams and how hard they were hitting Sheerin and Guidry. Curiel had an outstanding catch in CF that saved at least two runs.
Having said that, most of their damage came with 2 outs, and in 2-strike counts. It seems like that’s pretty par for the course this season.
Having said that, most of their damage came with 2 outs, and in 2-strike counts. It seems like that’s pretty par for the course this season.
Posted on 5/9/26 at 12:38 pm to white beans
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Ye don’t say
I am trying to be optimistic that we are not looking at a complete rebuild. Unfortunately we blew the last year of Curiel and Milam. Replace those two and get the very best arms available and we should be much better next year.
Posted on 5/9/26 at 12:45 pm to LSU Neil
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I am trying to be optimistic that we are not looking at a complete rebuild.
How would it be anything but a rebuild? The donors are going to need to fork over about $8M if we want to return to Omaha.
Posted on 5/9/26 at 1:33 pm to Dead Mike
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Having said that, most of their damage came with 2 outs, and in 2-strike counts. It seems like that’s pretty par for the course this season.
Twice. This, injuries, poor fielding at the worse times, we are just snake bit this season.
Posted on 5/9/26 at 3:32 pm to LSU Neil
Having the worst fielding defense in the SEC doesn’t help the equation.
This post was edited on 5/9/26 at 6:17 pm
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