St. Louis game

rebangel · Wed May 01, 2013 6:45 pm

Already 4 zip St Louis. How in the world could the coaches who warmed Laxer up nit see that he did not have it tonight? He should have been scratched a d another pitcher inserted into the line-up.

Titles 'R Us · Wed May 01, 2013 7:18 pm

Bianco is famous for his stubborn mismanagement of the bullpen. Same ole song. Same ole Bianco. Leave them in until the damage is done. Then play from behind the rest of the game.

rebangel · Wed May 01, 2013 8:35 pm

4-3 St Louis.....7th inning stretch time....

rebangel · Wed May 01, 2013 8:54 pm

6-3 St Louis.....errors are killing us....again!

jrebel87 · Wed May 01, 2013 9:46 pm

Error's aren't the only thing thats killing us. A lack of proper leadership is killing us.

Titles 'R Us · Wed May 01, 2013 9:53 pm

Our guys are out there staying in the game on their own. We're paying Bianco a helluva lot not to make it this hard. Saint Louis has RPI of 114.

rebelbear · Thu May 02, 2013 6:52 am

Titles 'R Us wrote:Our guys are out there staying in the game on their own. We're paying Bianco a helluva lot not to make it this hard. Saint Louis has RPI of 114.

Some of the blame has to fall on the players...they're the ones not getting the timely hits, they're the ones standing there taking called third strikes with 2 outs in the 9th inning. I know everything goes back to the head coach, but at some point we have just start hitting the ball.

With all that said we did finally pull it out in the 11th by a final of 8-7.

rebangel · Thu May 02, 2013 7:17 am

Happy we pulled it out! When you did a hole by being down 4 runs in top of 1st....it is often hard to win. We continue to have both poor pitching (with a couple of exceptions) and poor hitting (with a couple of exceptions). The Auburn series should be interesting!

JustBlues · Thu May 02, 2013 7:30 am

rebangel wrote: When you di(g) a hole by being down 4 runs in top of 1st....it is often hard to win.

The master of understatement

Titles 'R Us · Thu May 02, 2013 9:05 am

I can think of six games that we have lost mainly due to bullpen mismanagement and lack of fundamentals. Those are strictly on the head coach and staff, not the players. We are paying Bianco as if he had accomplished everything Ray Tanner accomplished. I've heard some Bianco lovers refer to him as 'our Ray Tanner.' What a joke!

The six games I'm referring to are: two A & M games; two Kentucky games; two Memphis State games. Yes, we should have swept A & M. We should have swept Kentucky; we should have swept Memphis State. We gave away all six of those games. We'd have 38 wins at this point by taking care of business, which Bianco teams often fail to do when it matters. We'd also be 15-6 in the SEC and contending for the overall.

No matter what happens in these last ten games, the team has underachieved so far, and that is on Bianco. Again.

rebelbear · Thu May 02, 2013 10:50 am

rebangel wrote:Happy we pulled it out! When you did a hole by being down 4 runs in top of 1st....it is often hard to win. We continue to have both poor pitching (with a couple of exceptions) and poor hitting (with a couple of exceptions). The Auburn series should be interesting!

If you're going to give up 4 runs in an inning, it may as well be the 1st inning because it gives you more time to come back. If you say we "continue to have poor pitching", you obviously haven't been paying attention. We have the second best ERA as a team in the SEC. Pitching has NOT been our problem.

rebangel · Thu May 02, 2013 11:21 am

We may have a good ERA but, we have mismanaged the pitching in way too many games. Combine that with less than stellar hitting and we are where we are now....nit a very good, consistent team!