The Killer
New member
Good point
Game 2 @ SHSU
- Thread starter Chairman of the Board
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Wow, great performance by the pitcher out of Florida today! I hate it when we waste these types of performances!
SanditeCowboy
Ranger
Just awful bullpen pitching. Walk in the first run to tie it up. Then walk the lead off batter in the bottom of 9. Then they have the opportunity to get the lead off walk (the potential and eventual game winning runner!) in a run down between second and third and decide, naa - I’m good. Let’s throw it to first. Don’t even make them get the ball out of the infield in the bottom of the 9th. Literally gave them the game with poor pitching and poor game awareness.
I know it is only the second game of the year but these were bad first two games. The team had no intensity and did not appear to be ready for the challenge.
The bright spot today was the starting pitching.
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I know it is only the second game of the year but these were bad first two games. The team had no intensity and did not appear to be ready for the challenge.
The bright spot today was the starting pitching.
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Chairman of the Board
Marshall
Chief is a great dude but he doesn't think OSU baseball should ever be criticized.
He's probably right. They will eventually hit. But to have ALL of them but one start so bad is an eyebrow raiser.
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Agreed. It’s a concern for me. I get the weather was not “conducive” for great offense but good teams find ways to generate offense.
The issue has always been strikeouts and the inability to execute situational baseball. Hollidays offenses have always been built on the long ball. That’s fine if you can also execute to move runners and put the bat on the ball to score runs, but that has not been the case in his tenure.
Poke Skywalker
Ranger
I agree with him and not really worried about the lineup. There’s proven bats in there and they’ll get going. This is why you schedule a McNeese or Southern or somebody like that out of the gate, not someone who is going to challenge you like a SHSU or Grand Canyon.
That's a blessing in disguise. After the last 2 years, do we really want to host another regional in O'Brate that we'll piss away?
Okstatekerr
Sheriff
If it wasn’t the same issue they’ve have for years I would maybe cut them some slack. Plate discipline issues have been a major for OSU baseball for a while now.
Chairman of the Board
Marshall
Exactly. I think some are overreacting, BUT, when you immediately see the same problem(s) that has been around for quite some time, you get frustrated. It shows, or seems to, that there hasn't been much effort to correct it.
BUT, there have been 16 strikeouts in two games. That's not good, but its been much much worse than that. Many of us have seen OSU baseball teams strike out that many times in ONE game. To me, it's just an overall lack of quality ABs, especially getting themselves out early in the count. The approach at the plate just doesn't seem very focused or intense, especially for a program that says "win the next pitch." It's kind of like valuing possessions in basketball, which we're also all aware of how frustrating that is.
MustangPokeFan
Deputy
Holliday ball……big tall athletic guys swinging for the fences and striking out, wouldn’t know a base hit if it bit ‘em’ in the butt. Coupled with abysmal pitching……every…..flipping…….year. Someone tell me how this is any better than Frank Anderson ball?
DiamondDog
Deputy
Looks like another year not getting past regionals. Hopefully this year we won’t host to save the embarrassment
MustangPokeFan
Deputy
So far this doesn’t look like a team that’s even going to sniff a regional.
Edmondcowboy
Ranger
They will get embarrassed next week playing like this. Not that losing this series isn’t embarrassing.
DiamondDog
Deputy
Was the theme last few games of the season wasn’t it?
