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First off, morgan approaches 3rd base on a hit. 1st and 3rd, NO OUTS right. First thing that should immediately happen is the 3rd base coach gets a hold of Morgan and tells him that he isnt forced, to shorten his primary and take a small secondary, it is no outs and "runs thru the scenerios" that can happen. Main ones are ball hit in the middle with infield playing deep, we score, if ball is hit to pitcher/3rd base, WE HAVE TO HOLD. If ball is hit to 1st,it depends of he is deep or not. Freeze on line drives and ball hit to outfield deep, we tagging etc.

That’s what a little league coach might tell his players. College players at that level don’t have time for all that shite in a game. You can instill that in practice doing situations, but you’ve got to trust your instincts in the game. There’s no time to think or hesitate, just react. Tell Morgan to shorten his primary and secondary and hug 3rd in a 2-2 game in the 8th with Wake’s pitcher dealing and a couple swings and misses coming up? He needed to be getting the biggest secondary he could without straying far enough that the catcher could pick him, read ball in dirt, and be ready to bust his arse down the line to take the lead back if the ball got far enough away from the catcher. That’s not what wound up happening, obviously, but still.

You can disagree with the call Jay put on for him to go on contact on the ground, but that was maybe only the 2nd time all year Cade hit a ground ball to 3rd, and probably the only time the 3rd baseman was there to field it. It was a low risk/high reward call. He just hit it in the wrong place and their 3rd baseman made a great play and the catcher made a great scoop. Tip your cap. But it wasn’t a bad call. I think Tre’s running and sliding left a lot to be desired, but that doesn’t make it the wrong call to put on there.

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Being aggressive, is squeezing a run in

With a runner on 1st and 3rd with no outs when a sacrifice fly will give you the lead and you’ve got a guy up with 14 home runs who can obviously get the ball in the air, but may not have laid a bunt down in his life, calling a squeeze is “aggressive?” If you mean aggressive as in dumb as all frick, you’d be right.

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This is elementary baseball

Well, you’re certainly right about this as we all learn those hard rules when we’re in elementary school and haven’t been in those situations enough to know that there are countless variables that could arise there. You and your little league coach play scared to mitigate risk, but you’re also mitigating reward. And the reward of Tre scoring there—in that situation—was much more likely than the risk of him getting thrown out like that. But shite happens, and he did.

I however, I listened to Jay’s presser and am not 100% convinced he put that on to prevent a 5-4-3 double play that would have left Tre on 3rd with 2 outs. He figured Cade would either lift it or ground into a 4-6-3 DP, allowing the run to score. And I’m not sure I’m buying Tre’s reason for looking over his shoulder to block ol boy’s throwing lane. To think of that so quick in that moment would be some off the charts HWA. However, he showed he wasn’t on top of his HWA with that disgusting “slide” he tried to pull off.

And anyway, who gives a frick? shite happens, and that happened. Gotta quit crying about it and go rape the Vols out of Nebraska.