Dude had a 6.75 ERA and hadn't gone more than 4 innings all season. And we make him look like Cy 17ing Young for 8-1/3 innings. We couldn't hit for sh*t this year. 12th in SEC in doubles, tied for 12th in triples, and 9th in home runs. Even in the afternoon game yesterday, 19 hits and only 3 extra base hits.
We got RAT'ed again last night.
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Our hitting makes RATs
I think UVA is just a little better than us
They are. The sec was very top heavy this year. It’s showing
I've seen enough RATs now to realize there's nothing random about it and the RAT is us. Only the R stands for Reliable.
Yes and also we just weren’t a good road team this year. Lost 4 of 5 SEC road series and if not for Hines homer at Vandy when we were down to our last out, we would’ve lost every single road series we played.
Good point. Think the thing that most people are frustrated by is that Virginia is solid but beatable.
but we just don’t do enough things well.. and good teams expose our flaws and holes
If things had happened differently in those last two innings, I've got a feeling Virginia fans would've felt the same about Pico.
That's not to defend our hitting, but for most of that game they were underperforming their standard much more than we were. Sometimes pitchers just step up in crunch time. The guy was a walk machine a lot this season, but he was all over the plate yesterday. Jay Powell was pretty damn complementary of his control and location.
And as has been said. We knew coming in they were a little better than us, and they proved it.
The problem is that didn’t happen a lot over the course of the uva season… and they found a way to win…
Us getting shut down by a sub par arm has happened way too often over the last 3 seasons
But both starters threw well yesterday. They both deserve a little credit without question
I don't think anyone had that being a pitchers duel for 8 innings. Especially after it was 3-2 in the top of the 2nd inning.
He also walked a batter per inning, and I think we only had one free pass last night.
13 1-run losses this year. It’s the season of what could’ve been.
The guy we faced was a Team USA pitcher throwing mid-90s with a good breaking ball. The stuff is good. The issue for him this year has been command. Last night his command happened to be good, especially with his breaking ball.
So while, yes, an argument can be made our hitting helped him out, let’s not pretend it was all about our hitting. The way he pitched last night would have given a lot of teams fits. Last night was more about him having a good game than our bats having a bad night.
So while, yes, an argument can be made our hitting helped him out, let’s not pretend it was all about our hitting. The way he pitched last night would have given a lot of teams fits. Last night was more about him having a good game than our bats having a bad night.
wow, didn't realize it was that many. Told my son when I was venting Sunday that this team easily could have won 3-4 more games and been hosting.
If I counted right, we were 6-10 during regular season in 1 run games. If you could flip those it would have put us at 40-15 regular season... which is about as good as it gets.
sweep air force
win 1 vs. austin peay
win 1 of the 2 we blew in the final innings at florida
win the extra inning game at ole miss
It's a completely different season
I'm with you on this, but it's easy in an exercise like this to forget the ones we did win late. A few of those too. Last Ole Miss game and Hunter's winning bomb at Vandy come to mind first.
We were definitely on the short end of close games too often. Early it seemed to be mostly relief pitching, but the lack of offense was a culprit often.
Would it have made a difference in the 7th if the umpire correctly calls a ball and Mershon walks on a 4-0 count like he should have? I say yes, bases loaded with one out. Less pressure on Dakota with Hines on deck. I think that was the real difference in the game.
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