re: This entire pitching staff tonight reeks of Jay leaving his best for tomorrow

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Starting Noot was a reasonable decision

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Agree.

And I thought Shores was absolutely going to shove it up their arse the way he looked in the 2nd, but when he came out for the 3rd he quit throwing strikes and that began the death spiral

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Can down vote all you want but I’d be interested to hear an opinion otherwise

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Noot and Sbores held an Ole Miss offense that is going insane in their regional and has been very good all year to 3 runs on 4 hits. I have a feeling Jay was expecting that or better vs a weaker opponent in the Box. He obviously didn’t get anything close to it and it’s on the pitchers for not being mentally tougher, especially Shores. Noot gave up the HR, but it was Shores who lost it and walked the bases loaded and killed us.

Now his decisions after that- Yes, Jay was definitely trying to save arms for tomorrow pitching Williams, Mayers and Rizy after them.

Hopefully tonight was a combo of weak pitching from us and really good batting from LR. Equalizer tomorrow? Dear god I hope so…

We just lack consistency at the plate. We have too many holes to hide in this lineup, they just keep killing any opportunity to score. Jones needs HR’s more than he needs a win.

Have you not watched Evans and Cowan over the last few weeks? Shores and Noot have been the better pitchers. Posting this tells me you haven't watched many games just looking at stats.

That is pretty spot on, We stand a better chance in a Super where it is head up with our normal rotation. I just cannot get a feel for what Omaha would look like for the LSU team but I remain hopeful.

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That is pretty spot on, We stand a better chance in a Super where it is head up with our normal rotation. I just cannot get a feel for what Omaha would look like for the LSU team but I remain hopeful.

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If we get there, they HAVE to win the first two and stay out of the Loser’s Bracket. If they can manage that, then who knows.

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I think Jay was hoping he could get through tonight and save Evans and Cowan if he needed. Unfortunately he’s going to need it.

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That's exactly what he thought

There's nothing cryptic about what he did yesterday, it was not a win or go home game for us, Jay didnt need to start or play our best arms available so we he tried to win it with our mid-tier arms. The offense never showed up beyond the 1st inning so it gave him zero reason to pitch Evans or Cowan knowing there was still 1 more game to go.

If we're up 5-1 in the 5th or 6th inning, you would have seen both Evans and Cowan probably.

The problem was we were down, and theres no reason to waste either of them when the offense hasnt showed up and we're down.

We now have evans and cowan against essentially their worst arms available none of which have any real long distance experience this season and if they decide to throw someone who has, it'll be someone who has thrown a lot of pitches the last few days. I would bet we see their friday night starter for at least an inning or two, despite him throwing 90 some pitches 3 days ago. This is UALR's season at this point and will pull out every stop imaginable even if it means potentially hurting someone's arm and pulling them way out of their normal rest. Teams like this can do that because they have no future beyond this level of baseball.

On the flip side I dont think you see Jay use Eyanson or Anderson tonight even in a short scenario because he knows the future those guys have ahead of them via MLB. I can MAYBE see Eyanson but I think it would have to be a pretty desperate situation for Jay to do that.