re: Lost the game on a dropped third strike!

Was that pitch ruled a wild pitch or a passed ball? In other words was the catcher at fault or the pitcher. I felt it was 100% not a dropped 3rd strike. Milazzo did about the best he could. He blocked the pitch and leaned slightly forward with the top of his body the way catchers are taught. He tried to keep it in front of the plate, but sometimes a ball that far out front has a mind of its own. It looked like a wild pitch and that was on Ack.

Milazzo is our best defensive catcher. He blocks that 9 times out of 10. That was just a weird bounce

It's baseball, it happens. Tulane lost the series to UL that way in the bottom of the 9th

Agreed Milazo costs us that game.

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I’m not sure if you are being sarcastic or not but we waste way too many 2 strike pitches, especially with runners on base.

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Trying to get a K instead of a batted ball is definitely the goal when runners are on. In the majors 12.3% of the time on an 0-2 count is a swinging strikeout recorded outside the zone. The batting average from 0-2 to 1-2 is minimal.

Do you think pitchers should throw more in the zone? If you start doing that then other teams will catch on due to everything being data driven.

Shitty coaching lost the game

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It’s the dumbest rule in sports. And especially dumb in the lower levels of baseball. Little league kids that can barely throw strikes, manage a strikeout and then the catcher whiffs it and little Johnny gets a free base . Meanwhile the pitcher has to throw another 25 pitches to get out of the inning. All while leagues are trying to keep pitch counts down.

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I don’t mind it at upper levels. I’m not sure why it was originally implemented, though. But you’re right about it being ridiculous in Little League. I don’t think we started it until high school.

But my daughter’s 10-year-old team had it. 1st year after coaches pitch and the girls can barely throw strikes. Probably half the runs were from dropped strikeouts that the catcher missed. Then usually proceeded to throw to 1st after the hitter was already there, where the ball would inevitably wind up in right field and the girl who struck out would wind up on 3rd or a lot of times even scoring. At a level where just getting an out of any kind is a huge deal, talking one away on a dropped/missed 3rd strike is just fricking retarded.

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We have to stop throwing the ball in the dirt on two strike counts especially with a runner on 3rd. We’ve been doing it for 25 years.

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That is a terrible take, man. We probably strike out 20 guys like that for every run that sneaks home.

Unless it allows a run to score and you can’t throw out the runner at 1st base. You never see that in the majors. It’s bad odds with a runner on 3rd IMHO. Of course it’s been done in College Baseball forever. Doesn’t mean it’s a good idea.

Just seems to me that we waste way too many pitches thus running up the pitch count and then you leave the guy in too long and bingo. You get beat.

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Just seems to me that we waste way too many pitches thus running up the pitch count and then you leave the guy in too long and bingo. You get beat.

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or you catch too much of the plate and they hit it out at 111

You mentioned odds. All numbers say you are better off w the strikeout there. And percentage of runners getting to first in dropped third is low