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Post by fishbeav on May 11, 2018 20:31:39 GMT -8
Against a very good Stanford team with a very good pitcher. Heimlich was lights out. We played good defense and hit the ball in clutch situations!
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Post by mbabeav on May 11, 2018 21:03:55 GMT -8
Against a very good Stanford team with a very good pitcher. Heimlich was lights out. We played good defense and hit the ball in clutch situations! Really liked our approach at the plate, we took every pitch the Stanford pitcher had that made him great and hit it where it was. No chance for the guy to ever get his stride or feel totally comfortable on the mound even during that stretch where he retired a bunch of Beavers in a row. |
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Post by badwack on May 12, 2018 3:42:18 GMT -8
Luke made Furd look very normal. He was the Luke of 2017. Ball Down and toying with the hitters. 1 Garage Hit, 1 Cookie and 1 excuse me hit. At the plate we were drilling that guy. Great effort, Great Game. Now if we get BF in his Magic Mode! We are watching some very talented Beav's. Enjoy!
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Post by sagebrush on May 12, 2018 5:08:16 GMT -8
Madrigal did fall asleep in the pickoff/rundown. SS had to chase the runner down and dive to get him because there was no one covering first. It takes 3 guys to execute a rundown and between 1st and 2nd, the 2B is one of them who has to be covering first as the principle of a rundown is to force the guy back to whence he came.
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Post by Henry Skrimshander on May 12, 2018 6:25:05 GMT -8
Luke had to impress every scout there tonight. Complete command of an outstanding team, except for one pitch. Whether it's enough to make some organizations open up their minds, we'll see.
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Post by Deleted on May 12, 2018 6:45:18 GMT -8
Luke had to impress every scout there tonight. Complete command of an outstanding team, except for one pitch. Whether it's enough to make some organizations open up their minds, we'll see. if the other guy is a first rounder, (he looked it) then Luke did him one better. Someone will draft him just to keep him away from a nemesis. Yeskie says Luke is pitching better now than last year and that is saying something when the ERA was sub 1. |
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Post by abureid on May 12, 2018 6:48:42 GMT -8
Madrigal did fall asleep in the pickoff/rundown. SS had to chase the runner down and dive to get him because there was no one covering first. It takes 3 guys to execute a rundown and between 1st and 2nd, the 2B is one of them who has to be covering first as the principle of a rundown is to force the guy back to whence he came. So I wasn't the only one who saw that. #nickthebumisonlyhitting.500 #benchthatlazyassmadrigal getting the first win is huge. Takes a ton of pressure off the boys. Today it will be a warm afternoon in front of a fired up BeaverNation. Man... I wish I had tickets. Hell, if I didn't have to irrigate pastures I would be there to tailgate just for the electric environment. |
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Post by baseba1111 on May 12, 2018 9:08:57 GMT -8
Luke had to impress every scout there tonight. Complete command of an outstanding team, except for one pitch. Whether it's enough to make some organizations open up their minds, we'll see. if the other guy is a first rounder, (he looked it) then Luke did him one better. Someone will draft him just to keep him away from a nemesis. Yeskie says Luke is pitching better now than last year and that is saying something when the ERA was sub 1. Scouts were impressed, but always have been. MLB is very aware of public perception on certain highly volatile social issues. Luke didn't have to be drafted last year, and I'm not citing "collusion", but teams stayed away for a reason. Luke is not a "hot" property now, he is a very hot prospect... seen by most scouts as top 5-10 college pitchers, top 20 pitcher overall (makes no sense to me as there is NO HS prospect that is better than Luke... NONE). Scouts don't make the decisions, some tried hard to get teams to utilize a late pick last year and "hide" Luke away in Smallsville for a year. Again, scouts don't decide and Luke may not get drafted where his talent deserves, but teams are not passing on him this time. |
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Post by bennysdentist on May 12, 2018 10:35:14 GMT -8
Great scenario would be for the D-backs to draft him and have him spend the summer in Hillsboro. Old news around here.
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Post by seastape on May 12, 2018 10:55:10 GMT -8
Luke had to impress every scout there tonight. Complete command of an outstanding team, except for one pitch. Whether it's enough to make some organizations open up their minds, we'll see. if the other guy is a first rounder, (he looked it) then Luke did him one better. Someone will draft him just to keep him away from a nemesis. Yeskie says Luke is pitching better now than last year and that is saying something when the ERA was sub 1. It's tough for me to believe that someone will draft him...that's a PR nightmare for any team that drafts him. I could see teams thinking that yes, LH might be an excellent pitcher, but there are other excellent pitchers to draft who, fair or unfair, don't have that kind of baggage. |
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Post by 56chevy on May 12, 2018 11:22:45 GMT -8
if the other guy is a first rounder, (he looked it) then Luke did him one better. Someone will draft him just to keep him away from a nemesis. Yeskie says Luke is pitching better now than last year and that is saying something when the ERA was sub 1. It's tough for me to believe that someone will draft him...that's a PR nightmare for any team that drafts him. I could see teams thinking that yes, LH might be an excellent pitcher, but there are other excellent pitchers to draft who, fair or unfair, don't have that kind of baggage. The PR department is not the group in charge of the draft board. The guys who get fired if they don't win are. I'm not going to pretend to know what will happen in the draft. Luke has huge up side, left hander with a fast ball that has touched 96, nasty off speed stuff with good command of it. His conduct as an adult while at Oregon State has been beyond reproach |
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Post by beavadelic on May 12, 2018 11:23:30 GMT -8
if the other guy is a first rounder, (he looked it) then Luke did him one better. Someone will draft him just to keep him away from a nemesis. Yeskie says Luke is pitching better now than last year and that is saying something when the ERA was sub 1. It's tough for me to believe that someone will draft him...that's a PR nightmare for any team that drafts him. I could see teams thinking that yes, LH might be an excellent pitcher, but there are other excellent pitchers to draft who, fair or unfair, don't have that kind of baggage. m. Maybe some enlightened organization will do their due diligence and get the true scoop per Eggers’ recent article, and have the courage to draft Luke. If they are open, they’ll find a quality young man and a tremendous talent. If they get off their high horse in MLB and put to practice the concepts that this kid - according to psychologists and other experts - may very well have been innocent of the alleged crime. If they embrace the not always convenient but nonetheless righteous idea of giving fallen people a second chance even if they have skeletons in their past. If we don’t just blow a bunch of PC smoke in society, then we lay out expectations for alleged violators of our laws, they fulfill them and we give them a legit chance to move on. Not to minimize the serious reality of sexual abuse in any way, but we either need to just admit that life is over for anyone perpetrating any crime that really bugs us, and stop pretending that we believe that people can make things right and contribute in this world. If we fess up to that attitude, there are countless horrible human beings in politics, entertainment and sports who would lose their opportunities and take a number to get any job or break. MLB itself is loaded with people who can’t hold a candle to Luke in the character department. |
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Post by zeroposter on May 12, 2018 12:07:56 GMT -8
Madrigal did fall asleep in the pickoff/rundown. SS had to chase the runner down and dive to get him because there was no one covering first. It takes 3 guys to execute a rundown and between 1st and 2nd, the 2B is one of them who has to be covering first as the principle of a rundown is to force the guy back to whence he came. I say that Madrigal did not fall asleep. There is an obvious explanation just based upon other things since Nick's return. No contact. The one tag I have seen him make on a guy was a very delicate tag. Rundown equals added exposure. Just my observation. |
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Post by Henry Skrimshander on May 12, 2018 16:58:38 GMT -8
There were also some GMs there last night. If one of them wants to pull the trigger on Luke, the trigger will be pulled. The more outs he gets, the more his stock rises.
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Post by mbabeav on May 12, 2018 17:25:02 GMT -8
Getting back to baseball, Bryce was as good as I have seen him all year, and if 8 innings of shutout baseball against Furd doesn't earn him National Pitcher of the Week, then some SEC pitcher has held a Division II school to less than 5 runs, or someone has thrown a no hitter.
Seriously, this looked like an even better version of the team I saw last season, sans a baserunning error and another situation I am chalking up to our guy at first misjudging how far the ball got away from the catcher.
This is the weekend we are seeing the team the coaches have been saying has been there all along, and I like it!
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