I heard on the broadcast that your coach is also a college basketball referee and that he does SEC games. I was just wondering what his schedule was this time of year. With baseball teams playing 5 games a lot of weeks that seems almost impossible to handle. I'm also curious to know the last time he called a Razorback basketball game!
jetz, I agree with what you said. You guys missed a couple double plays that eventually led to runs, and a couple singles into left looked more like fly balls that the fielder just let drop in front of him. You're also right on about our starting pitcher. He was on a 70 pitch count last week and a little higher today, and he definitely started to labor as the game went on. He's one of the best in the SEC, and I was impressed with how you guys got to him. I'm just hoping that's early season rust that will go away before conference starts! By the way, that homer from Manning was the first run scored on our starting pitcher in 17 2/3 innings dating back to last year. It seemed like we had runners on in about every inning, but you guys managed to avoid the big inning that would blow it open. Lots of smaller schools eventually fold in that position, so that impressed me.
I hope your left/center fielders have a good sense of humor. The students out there can be pretty vicious hecklers, but it's all in fun. You guys definitely have a much more all around solid team than Villanova last weekend.Just FYI, here's a link to today's game thread on an Arkansas message board if anybody wanted to see the play by play- Well, that didn't work. Wouldn't let me post an external link. Just go to woopig.net if you want to see it.
jetz, I agree with what you said. You guys missed a couple double plays that eventually led to runs, and a couple singles into left looked more like fly balls that the fielder just let drop in front of him. You're also right on about our starting pitcher. He was on a 70 pitch count last week and a little higher today, and he definitely started to labor as the game went on. He's one of the best in the SEC, and I was impressed with how you guys got to him. I'm just hoping that's early season rust that will go away before conference starts! By the way, that homer from Manning was the first run scored on our starting pitcher in 17 2/3 innings dating back to last year. It seemed like we had runners on in about every inning, but you guys managed to avoid the big inning that would blow it open. Lots of smaller schools eventually fold in that position, so that impressed me.
I hope your left/center fielders have a good sense of humor. The students out there can be pretty vicious hecklers, but it's all in fun. You guys definitely have a much more all around solid team than Villanova last weekend.