and we shouldn't sleep on it. We've got a tough stretch coming up and that was obviously important to put one in the W column. In the league, if you can stay out of sweeps and win a couple of series, you can get to 13 or 14 wins and be in the regional conversation. We've done the former so far, and I think the latter will come.
Looking at the standings two weeks in, we are tied for 7th place with Miss State and Texas A&M (obviously A&M owns the tie breaker against us).
There are certainly some surprises. Tennessee and Kentucky both being 5-1. LSU being 1-5. MIss State is 2-4... I know they've got to be disappointed in how they played at home against Arkansas this weekend. And Auburn is 0-6... very surprising there, though they've had a number of close losses. Alabama beat Arkansas in Fayetteville 16-1 in the SEC opener. Since then, then Tide is 0-5 and has been outscored by 20 runs. Florida getting swept last weekend at South Carolina was a big surprise too.
I guess that result from Columbia begs the question - would you rather be playing South Carolina or Florida this weekend? I'd rather be playing the Gamecocks, personally.
Lot of baseball left of course, but I don't think we're in that bad of a position right now. Moving Josh McAllister to the lead off spot has been a good move. We didn't get much out of Corey Collins this weekend but still fared pretty well offensively. I think Ben Harris needs a bigger role at the end of games... maybe that's the guy who should be closing. I think too that for the rotation, you go ahead and put Webb on Friday night and Cannon on Saturday, and go with Jaden Woods on Sunday.
In years past, yesterday is a game that we wouldn't win. Not after Saturday and not after getting down by 3 runs. There's a lot to be said for the fight of this team. I recognize the limitations here. I said yesterday that it's no guarantee that we finish +.500 this year and I still believe that. It could go that way. But it could go the right way and we could end up being a pretty good baseball team. If I told you on Friday afternoon that over the course of the weekend, our hitters would strike out 34 times, that we wouldn't win Ryan Webb's start, that we'd finish the series with the most errors through six SEC games, that Corey Collins would go 1-12 with 6 strikeouts, that we'd leave 30 men on base over the series, and that we wouldn't have a starter pitch past the 6th inning all weekend, that would have screamed "swept"... well, we stayed out that.
It MAY not be as a bad as it seemed on Saturday evening...
Looking at the standings two weeks in, we are tied for 7th place with Miss State and Texas A&M (obviously A&M owns the tie breaker against us).
There are certainly some surprises. Tennessee and Kentucky both being 5-1. LSU being 1-5. MIss State is 2-4... I know they've got to be disappointed in how they played at home against Arkansas this weekend. And Auburn is 0-6... very surprising there, though they've had a number of close losses. Alabama beat Arkansas in Fayetteville 16-1 in the SEC opener. Since then, then Tide is 0-5 and has been outscored by 20 runs. Florida getting swept last weekend at South Carolina was a big surprise too.
I guess that result from Columbia begs the question - would you rather be playing South Carolina or Florida this weekend? I'd rather be playing the Gamecocks, personally.
Lot of baseball left of course, but I don't think we're in that bad of a position right now. Moving Josh McAllister to the lead off spot has been a good move. We didn't get much out of Corey Collins this weekend but still fared pretty well offensively. I think Ben Harris needs a bigger role at the end of games... maybe that's the guy who should be closing. I think too that for the rotation, you go ahead and put Webb on Friday night and Cannon on Saturday, and go with Jaden Woods on Sunday.
In years past, yesterday is a game that we wouldn't win. Not after Saturday and not after getting down by 3 runs. There's a lot to be said for the fight of this team. I recognize the limitations here. I said yesterday that it's no guarantee that we finish +.500 this year and I still believe that. It could go that way. But it could go the right way and we could end up being a pretty good baseball team. If I told you on Friday afternoon that over the course of the weekend, our hitters would strike out 34 times, that we wouldn't win Ryan Webb's start, that we'd finish the series with the most errors through six SEC games, that Corey Collins would go 1-12 with 6 strikeouts, that we'd leave 30 men on base over the series, and that we wouldn't have a starter pitch past the 6th inning all weekend, that would have screamed "swept"... well, we stayed out that.
It MAY not be as a bad as it seemed on Saturday evening...
