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Post by grackle on Jun 13, 2022 18:49:48 GMT -8
....and the next pitcher gives up two runs the next time Auburn bats.
Sorry....I'm still not sold that Canham/Dorman are ready for prime time.
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Post by badwack on Jun 13, 2022 18:59:48 GMT -8
I think they are fine. However who is working with the Hitters needs to get these guys to make contact with runners on. We out hit Auburn but couldn't get a hit with runners in scoring positions. No excuse of taking 3rd strikes with runners on. Our Pitching on the whole got better as the season went on. Our hitting got worse. Why was that?
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Post by joecool on Jun 13, 2022 19:15:00 GMT -8
....and the next pitcher gives up two runs the next time Auburn bats. Sorry....I'm still not sold that Canham/Dorman are ready for prime time. . I think they did a great job managing the pitching staff, yeah, they could have left Hunter in for another inning, but who knows what would have happened. This message board killed the relievers early in the season, they figured out who the go to guys were and it worked. We got to game 3 of a Super Regional with basically only 5 or 6 solid hitters in the lineup. |
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Post by elwood on Jun 13, 2022 19:18:24 GMT -8
....and the next pitcher gives up two runs the next time Auburn bats. Sorry....I'm still not sold that Canham/Dorman are ready for prime time. . Pitching was not the problem. Auburn had only 3 hits the entire game. I don’t think they got anything out of the infield other than those 3 hits. You don’t want to wait until your pitcher tires out before relieving him. Getting tired is just asking for trouble in a game like this. The only thing I would say, they should have put Sharief (sp?) on or unintentionally/intentionally walked him with a runner on first. |
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Post by Henry Skrimshander on Jun 13, 2022 19:40:12 GMT -8
....and the next pitcher gives up two runs the next time Auburn bats. Sorry....I'm still not sold that Canham/Dorman are ready for prime time. . JFC a regional final in his first full year and a Super Regional final in his second. Final 32 and final 16 with teams that still don't have top-to-bottom talent or much pitching depth. Hunter has been a 5-inning pitcher all season. No need for him to go through the lineup a third time. Sebby was fresh and had been very effective. He got burned by an opposite-field double on an excuse-me swing, and a couple of questionable plays by his infield defense. |
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Post by avidbeaver on Jun 13, 2022 19:41:03 GMT -8
I thought Kmatz should have started. That being said, Hunter was money except the one pitch he left over the heart to the plate. Too bad the wind was blowing out(according to the announcers), otherwise it would have been an out. But it wasn't caught. That is the bottom line. I thought they should have rode Hunter longer but I don't get paid the big bucks to make that decision. Maybe analytics had something to do with it. Another reason to hate analytics. The days of gut feelings from Casey is gone.
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Post by avidbeaver on Jun 13, 2022 19:44:09 GMT -8
....and the next pitcher gives up two runs the next time Auburn bats. Sorry....I'm still not sold that Canham/Dorman are ready for prime time. . JFC a regional final in his first full year and a Super Regional final in his second. Final 32 and final 16 with teams that still don't have top-to-bottom talent or much pitching depth. Hunter has been a 5-inning pitcher all season. No need for him to go through the lineup a third time. Sebby was fresh and had been very effective. He got burned by an opposite-field double on an excuse-me swing, and a couple of questionable plays by his infield defense. Speaking of defense. That sure was a dumpster fire from the end of the regular season forward. From the best fielding percentage in the nation to god knows where at the point. |
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Post by Judge Smails on Jun 13, 2022 19:47:14 GMT -8
....and the next pitcher gives up two runs the next time Auburn bats. Sorry....I'm still not sold that Canham/Dorman are ready for prime time. . Yea, we put in another guy that gave up all of 1 hit. What a mistake.. |
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Post by Henry Skrimshander on Jun 13, 2022 20:00:06 GMT -8
I thought Kmatz should have started. That being said, Hunter was money except the one pitch he left over the heart to the plate. Too bad the wind was blowing out(according to the announcers), otherwise it would have been an out. But it wasn't caught. That is the bottom line. I thought they should have rode Hunter longer but I don't get paid the big bucks to make that decision. Maybe analytics had something to do with it. Another reason to hate analytics. The days of gut feelings from Casey is gone. Word is Kmatz has a tired arm. He got lit up by Vandy in his last start. The pitchers the coaches chose gave up three hits: A wind-aided HR, an opposite-field excuse-me double and a single. Seems like a pretty solid guy feeling to me. Pitching didn't lose this game. |
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Post by joecool on Jun 13, 2022 20:38:19 GMT -8
JFC a regional final in his first full year and a Super Regional final in his second. Final 32 and final 16 with teams that still don't have top-to-bottom talent or much pitching depth. Hunter has been a 5-inning pitcher all season. No need for him to go through the lineup a third time. Sebby was fresh and had been very effective. He got burned by an opposite-field double on an excuse-me swing, and a couple of questionable plays by his infield defense. Speaking of defense. That sure was a dumpster fire from the end of the regular season forward. From the best fielding percentage in the nation to god knows where at the point. 6th in the nation |
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Post by chinmusic on Jun 13, 2022 23:23:14 GMT -8
Jaren pitched a whale of a game. He was down, his heater was running and Auburn couldn't do anything with the sinker. He mixed, hit his spots and was ahead on the counts through 5 innings. Jaren is young, a mid-week starter that was thrown into the fire today and responded with a Friday night effort.
So, what happened on the home run pitch? This is what I saw - First the guy hit a "mistake"-fastball intended to be low and in that was middle and up. You might question the pitch call on a 2-2 count. Consider, Sonny DiChiara has a short, quick stroke with easy power that will pulverize a fastball "up", that he can extend on. We had been having success feeding him a diet of breaking stuff and change ups. Jaren had him set up for the breaking ball low and away - weak contact or a punch out. When he saw fastball up in the zone, right in his wheelhouse, I'll bet he p'd his pants before unloading on the pitch.
Jaren could have made that one mistake 20 times without any damage being done. It was the wrong pitch to the wrong hitter in the wrong location. Tough luck for sure and it marred an otherwise masterful pitching performance. I mentioned in another post, "when he's down, Jaren is a ground ball machine" and man, did we see that today. He was filling up the bottom of the zone and our infielders were busy.
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Post by Judge Smails on Jun 14, 2022 4:13:01 GMT -8
Jaren pitched a whale of a game. He was down, his heater was running and Auburn couldn't do anything with the sinker. He mixed, hit his spots and was ahead on the counts through 5 innings. Jaren is young, a mid-week starter that was thrown into the fire today and responded with a Friday night effort. So, what happened on the home run pitch? This is what I saw - First the guy hit a "mistake"-fastball intended to be low and in that was middle and up. You might question the pitch call on a 2-2 count. Consider, Sonny DiChiara has a short, quick stroke with easy power that will pulverize a fastball "up", that he can extend on. We had been having success feeding him a diet of breaking stuff and change ups. Jaren had him set up for the breaking ball low and away - weak contact or a punch out. When he saw fastball up in the zone, right in his wheelhouse, I'll bet he p'd his pants before unloading on the pitch. Jaren could have made that one mistake 20 times without any damage being done. It was the wrong pitch to the wrong hitter in the wrong location. Tough luck for sure and it marred an otherwise masterful pitching performance. I mentioned in another post, "when he's down, Jaren is a ground ball machine" and man, did we see that today. He was filling up the bottom of the zone and our infielders were busy. That mistake was also only a HR yesterday. We had a nice jet stream blowing out to left. The ball would have been caught in either of the first two games, but he got just enough of it yesterday. Unfortunate. |
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Post by seastape on Jun 14, 2022 6:02:12 GMT -8
JFC a regional final in his first full year and a Super Regional final in his second. Final 32 and final 16 with teams that still don't have top-to-bottom talent or much pitching depth. Hunter has been a 5-inning pitcher all season. No need for him to go through the lineup a third time. Sebby was fresh and had been very effective. He got burned by an opposite-field double on an excuse-me swing, and a couple of questionable plays by his infield defense. Speaking of defense. That sure was a dumpster fire from the end of the regular season forward. From the best fielding percentage in the nation to god knows where at the point. Agreed. If people insist on piling on the coaches and losing their minds over a loss to a good team, that's where I would look. A few too many crucial errors at the end of the season. |
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Post by william44 on Jun 14, 2022 6:24:51 GMT -8
I am fine with Coaches. We can blame first pitcher for the walk that made it 2 run Homer. We could not get guys in when on base. They had a top relief pitcher and he was lights out. Kudos to them. They earned it.
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Post by irimi on Jun 14, 2022 6:45:43 GMT -8
....and the next pitcher gives up two runs the next time Auburn bats. Sorry....I'm still not sold that Canham/Dorman are ready for prime time. . I think they did a great job managing the pitching staff, yeah, they could have left Hunter in for another inning, but who knows what would have happened. This message board killed the relievers early in the season, they figured out who the go to guys were and it worked. We got to game 3 of a Super Regional with basically only 5 or 6 solid hitters in the lineup. For comparison, Dernedde hit .333 yesterday. Meckler, .200. Bazzana .000. Duke .250. I think if we had had 5 or 6 solid hitters yesterday we would have been fine. We just didn't. We sent up the top of the order in the ninth, and couldn't even scratch out a base hit. |
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