That today was a really bad day.
I don't have a ton to say about it. It looked to me like Conner Jones was probably done after the 4th inning ( or whenever he misplayed that ground ball, and then allowed two more runs to score after that). He was pretty clearly shaken at that point, and I was very surprised to see him run back out for the next inning. And then what happened was very predictable... Just burn the steak a little more. It's been going on for two and a half seasons.
Then our 2b misplays (at best) a tailor made double play ball, and the response is to move him to 3b and pull Mitchell Webb. How can you have any credibility in the dugout with the decision like that?
We are probably the only team in the conference to hit a 1b out of the 8 hole. We have to lead the conference in balks. I'm sure we lead it again in strike outs offensively. You can't spin this as "progress"... You simply cannot.
Bad losses are going to happen over the course of the season. Some days things are just not going well for you and going well for the other guy. That is why they put so many baseball games over the course of the season. But what I think should be understood about today was that this cannot or should not be dismissed as a "bad day"... The difference between our program and theirs is the difference between a ribeye and a hamburger. From coaching, to facilities, to game management/presentation, to recruiting, to development, and to mentality.
All of those differences manifested themselves on the form of a 14 run game today (which could have been worse, believe it or not. A&M really was trying not to score late). This wasn't just a bad day. This was demonstrative of the difference between us and them. Not our 2016 team versus their 2016 team, or program versus their program.
We will start Bo Tucker tomorrow for the first time this season, on April 10. He has really been our best pitcher this whole year. And just like David Sosebee in 2014, it took us until April, until things were slipping away, to get him into the rotation.
What else can you really say? This almost borders on malpractice at this point.
I don't have a ton to say about it. It looked to me like Conner Jones was probably done after the 4th inning ( or whenever he misplayed that ground ball, and then allowed two more runs to score after that). He was pretty clearly shaken at that point, and I was very surprised to see him run back out for the next inning. And then what happened was very predictable... Just burn the steak a little more. It's been going on for two and a half seasons.
Then our 2b misplays (at best) a tailor made double play ball, and the response is to move him to 3b and pull Mitchell Webb. How can you have any credibility in the dugout with the decision like that?
We are probably the only team in the conference to hit a 1b out of the 8 hole. We have to lead the conference in balks. I'm sure we lead it again in strike outs offensively. You can't spin this as "progress"... You simply cannot.
Bad losses are going to happen over the course of the season. Some days things are just not going well for you and going well for the other guy. That is why they put so many baseball games over the course of the season. But what I think should be understood about today was that this cannot or should not be dismissed as a "bad day"... The difference between our program and theirs is the difference between a ribeye and a hamburger. From coaching, to facilities, to game management/presentation, to recruiting, to development, and to mentality.
All of those differences manifested themselves on the form of a 14 run game today (which could have been worse, believe it or not. A&M really was trying not to score late). This wasn't just a bad day. This was demonstrative of the difference between us and them. Not our 2016 team versus their 2016 team, or program versus their program.
We will start Bo Tucker tomorrow for the first time this season, on April 10. He has really been our best pitcher this whole year. And just like David Sosebee in 2014, it took us until April, until things were slipping away, to get him into the rotation.
What else can you really say? This almost borders on malpractice at this point.
