Melton flies out.

LaTech 5
A&M 1
Top 9th

LaTech leads in total runs for the weekend 13 to 12

Ugh

Schlottmann into pitch

Why has RC struggled to get good relief pitching?

this is scary:

the two innings in which A&M's opponents have scored the most runs:

8th and 9th

yikes

For the most part, our pitching has been good. Check out our stats before today. Hitting has let us down.

the starting pitching has been very good. But not the relief pitching

We got issues!

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For the most part, our pitching has been good. Check out our stats before today. Hitting has let us down.

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And base running

Is Hinsley hurt? I thought he had a lot of hype coming into the season. He can't be much worse than the guys we're sending up to the plate.

Corey Ray into pitch.

bulldog on 2nd w/2 away

K - rally time

LaTech 5
A&M 1
Middle 9th

5-6-7 due

Don't think I could say that W. before today we had 6 relievers with sub 2 era, 5 of those sub 1 or 0. Parker ray has 4.15 era. Can't. Win games scoring 1 run.

LaTech starter only at 91 pitches entering the 9th. Looking for a sub-100 complete game.

Nottebrok obligies with a quick fly out

Another sport we're inept at. Our league games could get ugly. Childress continues to disappoint. This is about as maddening as our basketball program...

Stein walks

almost to 100

Entering the series, La Tech had allowed 11 or more runs in 5 out of 12 games played.

The Ags have 12 runs in the 3 game series with 2 outs to go.

Taylor to the plate

F-8 for out #2

Not much more that can be said that hasn't... we are playing some ugly baseball right now.

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This is about as maddening as our basketball program...

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This is much more maddening than basketball. The Ags, with a few exceptions have been a top 25 type baseball team for over 50 years.

We have had limited success in basketball over that time.

McLendon singles -- runners on 1st & 2nd w/2 away

13th baserunner today. 10 hits, 2 walks, and 1 reached on error

Pop up, pop up, pop up...

10 hits and 1 run

the definition of "scattering" hits

Statum flies out to end the game.

Louisiana Tech 5
Texas A&M 1
Final

Ags drop to 11-5

a mind-numbing 13 baserunners today equaled just 1 run

And end on a pop up.

who is the softball hitting coach?

EM - I'm quite aware of our history in both sports....one thing's for sure, there is no excuse of sucking at both.

Seely calling out the baserunning on the postgame interview. Says "out of control"

Relief pitching hasn't been bad. Minter gave up some long balls and Jester had his issues but apparently had elbow tendinitis. Not shut-down, but beyond decent. Team ERA going into today is 2.10.

The problem, again, is why are we scoring 1 run on a Sunday against La Tech.

You have some guys that produced before with another year under the belt. Melton, Stein, Lankford, Bratsen should be very productive.

You got some guys from JUCOs that have had college ABs before. One has an average that tanked, one sat the bench for weeks before getting back in and raising his average, and a few more never see the field.

When I posted that our team average was dropping year by year, it was at .259. After 2 games against La Tech and one at UTA and one vs Texas Southern....it went up 2 points to .261.

It used to be that you padded averages before conference and then people came back a little to reality over the course of conference games. So what happens now that your team average is .261 and then you're headed into SEC play?

The bats squandered an amazing 2012 staff, a huge handful of games in 2013, and have had a least one no-show per week in a young 2014.


2011-2012-2013-(2014 so far)
AVG: .291-.288-.270 (.259)
OBP: .364-.369-.339 (.359)
SLG: .402-.385-.370 (.353)
OPS: .766-.754-.709 (.712)
Runs: 405-354-278
BB: 228-227-176

Since I posted that, average is up 2 points, OBP is down 2, and Slugging is up ONE POINT.

RC has put together pitching staffs that either keep us in games or win us a ton of low scoring ones. The other side of the equation has been letting us down for years, and some kind of change needs to be made.

[This message has been edited by Lance Uppercut (edited 3/9/2014 3:59p).]

The fact that we didn't sweep and the fact that our wins were a 2 run and 1 run victory say a lot considering how bad LaTech has been.
Their pitching staff had allowed 97 runs in their first 12 games before coming to Olsen And leaves Olsen only giving up 12 in the 3 games.
Exactly half their average


[This message has been edited by Kevmiller (edited 3/9/2014 4:00p).]