AZ Longhorn

Need A-Rod and Doza to be the guys they're supposed to be here

Wow, what a weekend of run prevention. 2, 1, 2 runs given up. That'll play!

Good outing from Crossland. Jim seemed unhappy as he pulled him yesterday after the walk. Don't love the 2 out walk today either, but a nice inning and hopefully he's back on track!

More than you can ask of Harrison. Gutsy against those top lefties. That run should be unearned — it doesn't score without Robbins' base error — right?

aaand he's gone. Well done. We get 11 outs against their weakass bullpen, gotta like our odds.

Wow! Harrison had more traffic than I'd expected against this Bama lineup, but he made the RIGHT pitches! Just like timely hitting, he came up big at the most critical times!

Second straight day our offense gets blanked by their starter through at least 5. But just like yesterday, the pitch count is high enough that guy won't make it past the 6th. One more inning max, then the light at the end of the tunnel (their weak bullpen). People like to complain about us taking pitches, but leading the country in pitches/AB does pay off in later innings and against opponents who have top-heavy staffs

Pack is a good base stealer who doesn't need to gamble like that against upchurch-neal. You wanna guess, ok, but if he doesn't go after your step and a half, shut it down and live another pitch

Great response by Harrison to stall any tide momentum. 2-3-4 easy peasy

Sucks for Pendergrass and for us. Hopefully it's just 2-3 weeks til he's healthy and he gets another chance to contribute. I liked what we'd seen

Thanks @82horn for the posts today! 🤘

One of my favorite wins this year. Ruger gets punched in the mouth, battles to only give up 1. Offense couldn't cash in early, then couldn't get anything on Adams, but were competitive enough to limit him to only 6 innings — then we capitalized. Leffew threw strikes, Walker and Burns threw strikes, and Cozart was absolutely dominant the day after 35-some pitches. Wow!

Volantis for 6 --> Cozart for 3 is pretty nasty. 17 total Ks.

@Jeff Howe in all the SEC standings graphics I've seen this week (like this one) we're listed before aggy. But don't they have the tiebreaker over us, given the head-to-head series win? (If the SEC tournament started today, we would be the #3 seed, not the #2 seed as this graphic implies.) If so, then these visuals are... misleading if not downright wrong.

Ah, that would explain it. Thanks

Schloss talked a lot about lefty freshman Jack McKernan in the fall and preseason. So much that I expected he'd contribute this year. But nary a pitch thrown and I haven't heard anything on him

Yeah the bullpen has been thin and painful at times. But can't disagree harder about "complete redo." Our freshman pitching class of Cozart, Crossland, Winter, and even Walls is second to absolutely no one; and that's after Volantis in Jim and Max's first year last year. We're a top 5 pitching staff right now, with the best freshman pitching class in the nation, so that's only going to become more of a strength as the Pierce holdovers turn over and we don't have to throw portal darts at hit-or-miss guys like Burns and Higgins. Complete redo is... an overreaction.

Thanks for the response. Interesting. I didn't know SOS (and therefore RPI) was not standardized.

Ignorant question, but shouldn't RPI be the same regardless of the publication? Like, I think it's a rote formula. Just like someone's OPS should be the same regardless of who's calculating it. But I'd be more interested if I'm wrong!

@Jeff Howe do you know the mechanics of these decisions? How much, if any, input do we have into whether this game gets played? And then, if the game doesn't happen today, does it get rescheduled for later in the season or just fully cancelled? Because I'm thinking through whether I want us to play today. On the one hand, we have a massive advantage on paper: Volantis + fresh Cozart + bullets left in Crossland, Leffew, Burns if we want them ... vs. Weston Moss and max 2 innings from freshcorn. BUT that advantage on paper might not matter right now and it might be more strategic to just cut bait at 2 losses and move on.

YUUUGE to knock sdao out of the game only getting 12 outs. Puts us in prime position for a series win (regardless of today specifically). Good luck finding 69 more outs from that pitching staff...

The name of the game is containment. You're not gonna blank this aggies lineup. Keep it to solo homeruns and cheapies (like last inning), try and get through 5+ innings, and keep the team in it. The longer the game is close, the more the advantage shifts our way (in this single game, an in terms of winning the overall weekend)

Elite execution from a true freshman in the hostile-est of environments! LFG pack man!!

Let's goooo!! A lot of pitches, but a 0 on the board!

Baseball is a funny game. Just gotta laugh and shake your head! We absolutely still have a chance in this game. We can score in bunches, we can come back, and SC is opening with their closer for an expected bullpen game (and their bullpen is... not great). In addition, it will be important for the overall series for Ruger to find his command and give us some length today. Our trusted bullpen is very thin, and two of the three pitched two days ago. He's only at 32ish pitches, so if he improves his execution, he can absolutely give us great length still.