re: Lost in the win: one of the best CWS games I've seen LSU play in

They didn't make the key plays when the game was on the line and we did. I'm sorry, but that doesn't amount to "lucky" to me. Calling it luck cheapens it IMHO. But whatever you want to call it, we're in the winners' bracket

Exciting- yes
Good game - no

I don't think it was a good outing for us. However, if we can grind our way through some exciting games on the way to the title, then who will remember if we played great ball or not. Just keep winning. MLSUGA!!!

I always hate when some POS says we were lucky to win and trashes the team, yet they never made the sacrifice to actually be part of the team.

Just noticed the beachball... Excellent touch Chicken..............

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quote: They were LUCKY to win. scored from first on a ridiculous error by FSU. 3 errors in what? The 7th or 8th inning by FSU? That isn't luck. That's playing better baseball than your opponent.

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Sure man I know that part of baseball is making less errors than ur opponent. How often do you see I guy score from first on an error? You think we can rely on our runs from those types of errors??How often are there three errors on one play. We won by a run. I understand baseball so when I say luck I mean they are very fortunate that fsu made those mistakes. Those are not normal mistakes. Those are self inflicted extra rare mistakes. Hope you realize that FSU was not great this year. I will take wins like that all the way to the finish but you can be a fan without ignoring the glaring weaknesses. This team has trouble manufacturing runs. I think it was the 6th inning when we were down a run or two and the FSU kid got out of the inning on 9 pitches(felt like 3 pitches). lol three tigers stepped up and swung at the first pitch. I understand that the decision to swing away was probably based on what that pitcher showed them earlier but that's my point. They were wrong. Diechman Took a cut at two curves and watched the changeup. The next two batters were just as impatient. I think this is a very talented team that underperforms. Why? Who knows? Maybe I overestimate the talent level. How many players were just drafted from this squad? 10? 11?

One home run, rest of runs where gifts by bad defense from FSU. If LSU played a good team last night they would haven lost. 1-5 in lineup only duplantis hit the ball.

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What? You do realize that that's usually the difference between winning and losing a baseball game right? Which team plays well in critical situations.

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Lol so everyone wants to ignore the obvious huh? Lol alrighty. I'd love to know the age differences between the people worried about the glaring issues and the people here who think everything is grand and they are going to beat Oregon state with a performance like last night. Naive. All I'm saying is that they need to play better. How is that debateable. I grew up around baseball. Under the same roof as a pretty good coach. It's impossible not to see each game as a realist. Maybe that's just a coaches perspective ya know...to let the positives go and immediately worry about the problems because there is another game to be played against a very good team. I was very relieved to see them pull it out. Just thought they got some real breaks.

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One home run, rest of runs where gifts by bad defense from FSU. If LSU played a good team last night they would haven lost. 1-5 in lineup only duplantis hit the ball.

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Someone that saw the game for what it was. Nice to see. Doesn't mean we hope they lose. Just not very impressive. The base running was fantastic. There's a positive.

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I'd love to know the age differences between the people worried about the glaring issues and the people here who think everything is grand 

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No one said everything was grand.
A team making errors isnt luck. It's called not making plays in critical situations. A 1 run lead is a critical situation. If you claim last night as luck then just about every baseball win can be argues as luck.

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No one is saying we played a perfect game. We need a better outing from Walker than we got from Lange. Need a couple more hits in key situations (for the record, junk throwing lefties like FSU's starter have given us trouble all year). But I'm just not of the opinion that playing better defense in clutch situations than your opponent is luck. It's called being a better all-around team. FSU isn't a good fielding team and we put pressure on them to make plays and they didn't.

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What are you talking about? Our runs were off of their errors. What outstanding defense did we really play. It was a pretty vanilla game. I didn't see any defensive stand out plays. I thought from that perspective it was a pretty routine game. We kept it close and pulled it out in the end. I'm not rooting against them. I'm just not sure how anyone else that knows baseball can watch the game I watched and still chalk it all up to LSU just being better. They were fortunate. That's part of it. They need to play better. That's all I'm saying for the 3rd time.