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Post by avidbeaver on Apr 22, 2023 20:57:20 GMT -8
The bullpen leaks like a sieve the last few games. Won't get very far with the bullpen giving up leads and runs like they have the first two games. Have to do better than they have, especially against the better teams. Got lucky last night but marginal pitching caught up with them tonight
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Post by irimi on Apr 22, 2023 20:58:12 GMT -8
Donkey 0-4 Macias 0-5 Weber 1-5 Two of those are bottom of the order, but Forrester's 0-fer just can't happen when you're batting 2nd in the order. You're in that spot for a reason. Forrester was in his draw-a-walk mode, which works until he's behind in the count. Then it's strikeout city. |
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Post by rilesinnewberg on Apr 22, 2023 21:04:07 GMT -8
The bullpen leaks like a sieve the last few games. Won't get very far with the bullpen giving up leads and runs like they have the first two games. Have to do better than they have, especially against the better teams. Got lucky last night but marginal pitching caught up with them tonight Those two freshman relievers need to grow up fast. They were not good this weekend. |
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Post by wilkyisdashiznit on Apr 22, 2023 21:04:08 GMT -8
To be fair, that was a beautiful home run. Hope Donkey was taking notes. Donkey hit two yesterday? It looks like Jackson was taking notes from Donkey? |
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Post by messi on Apr 22, 2023 21:05:26 GMT -8
How the hell do you throw a high pitch to Jackson. Amazing. We deserved that loss. Getting to 2-ball counts is a disaster. Start with strike 1, then waste 2 pitches way outside the zone puts you in a must-strike count. Bringing in Brown for Ben dealing like he was, and without a lead - horrible idea. When that 1-1 pitch sailed up and outside, I knew it was done. Although I was thinking more of a walk off walk instead. |
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Post by cake on Apr 22, 2023 21:07:04 GMT -8
Going to lose the series tomorrow. Already used Ferrer and Brown and both won’t be available tomorrow. Hunter is out. Lattery only can last 40 or 50 pitches. Hate baseball right now. their bullpen is pretty thin too. Not sure why anybody would assume we're the only ones whose bullpen is in deep trouble. Come out, get a quality start, get some hits, we'll be fine. |
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Post by wilkyisdashiznit on Apr 22, 2023 21:07:25 GMT -8
Two of those are bottom of the order, but Forrester's 0-fer just can't happen when you're batting 2nd in the order. You're in that spot for a reason. Forrester was in his draw-a-walk mode, which works until he's behind in the count. Then it's strikeout city. Forrester reached three times and scored the third and seventh runs. Otherwise, two strikeouts and a groundball to first. But not a terrible outing. He and Kane scored more than half the runs between them. |
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Post by irimi on Apr 22, 2023 21:11:36 GMT -8
Forrester was in his draw-a-walk mode, which works until he's behind in the count. Then it's strikeout city. Forrester reached three times. Two strikeouts and a groundball to first. Two walks and reaching by an error. Helluva night. He failed to deliver twice with bases loaded. No one will remember his three times on base. |
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Post by irimi on Apr 22, 2023 21:13:13 GMT -8
To be fair, that was a beautiful home run. Hope Donkey was taking notes. Donkey hit two yesterday? It looks like Jackson was taking notes from Donkey? There's home runs and then there are clutch situation home runs. |
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Post by wilkyisdashiznit on Apr 22, 2023 21:15:51 GMT -8
Forrester reached three times. Two strikeouts and a groundball to first. Two walks and reaching by an error. Helluva night. He failed to deliver twice with bases loaded. No one will remember his three times on base. I remember the strikeout against a fresh reliever. But there was not a second time. McDowell led the team with six men left on base. Forrester scored the third and should have been game-winning seventh runs. You can't fault the offense. This was on the bullpen. Seven runs should be a win almost every single time. |
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Post by rgeorge on Apr 22, 2023 21:19:46 GMT -8
Anyone else ever chuckle a bit on the mercurial state of this board?
Could have sworn I read here recently how incredibly awesome our pen was?!
ASU is a great hitting team with poor pitching & D. OSU is a great pitching team, and an overall poor hitting team (that strikes out far too much!).
After two games this series has accentuated both teams positive and negatives. s%#te happens in baseball... all too often. But, back to a post I made earlier today... just don't see any real solid postseason teams from the Pac12. Really strange this late in the season that everyone seems to trending to the middle.
Tomorrow a FG wins it!
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Post by irimi on Apr 22, 2023 21:19:49 GMT -8
Two walks and reaching by an error. Helluva night. He failed to deliver twice with bases loaded. No one will remember his three times on base. I remember the strikeout against a fresh reliever. But there was not a second time. McDowell led the team with six men left on base. Forrester scored the third and should have been game-winning seventh runs. You can't fault the offense. This was on the bullpen. Seven runs should be a win almost every single time. There wasn't a second time what? Top of the 7th. Bases loaded. Forrester strikes out. Top of the 9th. Bases loaded. Forrester hits a dribbler to 1b. Unassisted. Two clutch situations. Two goose eggs. |
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Post by chicagobeav on Apr 22, 2023 21:22:10 GMT -8
Dumb move to have Macias in DH role tonight- really can’t believe that this coaching staff did not get a bat in the transfer portal this year - given how bad the DH was last year - ASU seems to have found some freshmen who can hit - our freshman all below 200 in conference hitting
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Post by wilkyisdashiznit on Apr 22, 2023 21:22:51 GMT -8
I remember the strikeout against a fresh reliever. But there was not a second time. McDowell led the team with six men left on base. Forrester scored the third and should have been game-winning seventh runs. You can't fault the offense. This was on the bullpen. Seven runs should be a win almost every single time. There wasn't a second time what? Top of the 7th. Bases loaded. Forrester strikes out. Top of the 9th. Bases loaded. Forrester hits a dribbler to 1b. Unassisted. Two clutch situations. Two goose eggs. Bases were not loaded in the ninth. Ok good. I am afraid that I had missed something........... |
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Post by wilkyisdashiznit on Apr 22, 2023 21:27:34 GMT -8
Donkey hit two yesterday? It looks like Jackson was taking notes from Donkey? There's home runs and then there are clutch situation home runs. Because Forrester has never hit a clutch home run in his life! Forrester and I had a great laugh at this one. |
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