That's a serious question. Also, how does a team have a runner on base every inning of a 3 game series and lose the series?</p>
How does a team leave 14 runners on base?
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There was a clinic on how to perform all of these to perfection in Tuscaloosa today. We seem to have it down pat
I don't know, I actually thought we had some good at bats for the most part, but today, I think a lot of it was our failure to get bunts down. We were horrible at that today. We would TRY to bunt and we would either screw it up and get a 1-2 count and fail to move the runner or get the bunt down, but we would bunt it WAY too hard and they would be able to get the lead runner.
The problem is we "poke" at the ball with the bat (at least today). When you bunt, you want to "catch the ball with your bat". When you poke at it is when you pop it up or you push right at the pitcher or an infielder and they have an easy play to get the lead runner a lot of times.
The problem is we "poke" at the ball with the bat (at least today). When you bunt, you want to "catch the ball with your bat". When you poke at it is when you pop it up or you push right at the pitcher or an infielder and they have an easy play to get the lead runner a lot of times.
Every stick in this lineup, or any college lineup for that matter, has decent pop. I remember when I went thru the camps at State that they tried to teach us the barrel of the bat above your hands thru the hitting zone. All I did was beat balls into the ground. Coach Smith from Caledonia told me to screw that **** and just see it and hit it. These must be some real coachable boys we have here. They follow instruction well. We lead the world in DP's hit into.
Oh and to add, we probably win if Pigott wasn't on a pitch count. This is another thing that bothers me about the team lately. Instead of pulling Pigott after 60-65 like he was supposed to, he goes for 80 something I think.
That's how you get pitchers hurt in the first place. We've managed to ruin practically our entire staff, and it cost us the season.
That's how you get pitchers hurt in the first place. We've managed to ruin practically our entire staff, and it cost us the season.
MSU baseball '08 did a clinic today on that.
Glad I decided not to drive down to Tuscahell to experience it in person.
RCD
Glad I decided not to drive down to Tuscahell to experience it in person.
RCD
saddawg said:
</p>I know at one time he favored hitting the ball on the ground because he had some percentage that showed x-amount go through for base hits.
How he didn't screw up Clark and Palmeiro is beyond me. But you think about it, we haven't really produced a lot of Major League hitters through the years. We have our share of pitchers, though.
went to camp at State you learned those percentages by heart. 1 out of every 10 flyballs go for a hit. 3 out of 10 ground balls go for a hit. 7 out of 10 line drives goes for a hit. Bad thing about it is Johnson worked the **** out of us learning to bunt. I was decent at it so it wasn't bad for me. However watching people who suck at it doing it for long periods of time was pure hell. Funny now, but they really drilled us on bunting.
saw them on base & pissed their pants at the plate. Ron Polk : "That's Baseball"...but we have some fine young kids & I know they'll be ready to go down to Southern Miss & compete . ( notice he did'nt say : go down there & try to win.
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