And I can't tell if it's weapons grade copium or just arrogance.

The sentiment over there is largely "let's get our bats going G2, and G3 is lock." "The longer the series goes on, our baseball wins out." (That last one is funny, because if the series is shorter their chances decrease to zero.)

What strikes me is two things

1) they had 12 hits last night. You can't say their batting wasn't awake. They got 2 homeruns. If you get 12 hits and lose, the issue isn't the bats.

2) they have zero regard for leaning on their pitchers. They gave up 9 runs on 13 hits, 2 homers, and 3 walks. If you can't correct your play on the mound you aren't in a great position to limit the Ags on the scoreboard.

If you were to tell me Friday that game one would be a shootout (10+ hits each) most people wouldn't think the Ags would have been the winner. "The bats favor the Vols" but the pitching kept their hits spread out and unable to stack the runs.

Other than two batters getting a gassed JStew and bad placement from Rudis, this game was a buzzsaw.

It's neither. They are the #1 team in the tournament and have a pretty good pitcher starting today. Plus, their offense is fantastic.

They have every reason to be optimistic about winning today. If they do win today, game 3 could go either way.

That doesn't mean the Ags won't win today (I believe they can and will), but UT isn't being arrogant or coping with their opinion of game 2.

We could have had 13-14 runs easily. Two absolutely miraculous plays by the Tennessee outfield saved a ton of runs. A huge baserunning mistake by Ali cost us big time with runners on first and second and no one out. The safety squeeze by Teddy with runners on first and third and no one out that didn't work. I'm not sure what we did at the plate with RISP, but it wasn't that good.

Evansville roughed up Beam in the Supers. He's certainly not a lockdown Friday night type guy.

The non balk call on their pitcher edit: when Ali tried to steal third helped them. But I digress.

They also had two beautiful outfield catches that saved the game from being more lopsided

Agdad081216 said:

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The non balk call on their pitcher edit: when Ali tried to steal third helped them. But I digress.

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I was watching Ali more than I was the pitcher, so I can't comment on the balk. A lot of times in situations like that you get the balk call from your base coach. In that situation with runners on first and second and a lefty on the mound, Targac should have been staring right at the pitcher and yelled as soon as he saw it. That didn't happen.

Hits and runs only tell part of the story
They also had 3 errors : in College baseball walks , wild pitches HBP & errors are like penalties in Football too many free baserunners will occasionally cost you a game just like it is hard to win a football game with too many penalties

Strikeouts are like the defense getting a sack or forcing a field goal


Schloss has a name this mindset its something like
"The 90 foot game"
A&M has been winning that metric in Omaha

The first error was incorrectly scored. Should have been scored a hit for Schott. BS bc he should have been 3 for 3 to start the game.

Sq 17 said:

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Hits and runs only tell part of the story
They also had 3 errors : in College baseball walks , wild pitches HBP & errors are like penalties in Football too many free baserunners will occasionally cost you a game just like it is hard to win a football game with too many penalties

Strikeouts are like the defense getting a sack or forcing a field goal


Schloss has a name this mindset its something like
"The 90 foot game"
A&M has been winning that metric in Omaha

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Yep

Tennessee errors were pretty costly for them

If it weren't for one of two games vs LSU we would be #1.

I don't think either offense is going to get shut down but imo all of game 2 rides on Cortez

Tennessee will always get hits, as long as we match them and score 7 or more we have a good chance.

If we score less than 7 we probably won't win.

Our hitting is going to be the key in determining whether we win or lose.

If they could field better instead of three costly errors, they might not bump their ass when they hopped. Of course, we only beat FLA because of "the wind". Hillbilly sip lost because of plate umpires strike zone. Haha.

Their 1st error was debatable. Ball took a tough bounce off the mound and the SS had to run up on a short hop to have a chance. Would have been very close had he fielded it clean. The announcers called it a hit at the time.

Their 3rd error didn't end up costing them anything.

The throwing error cost them 1 run. Ali gave that back to them with the base running "error".

To be fair, we would be the same way if we lost game 1.

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Tennessee will always get hits, as long as we match them and score 7 or more we have a good chance.

If we score less than 7 we probably won't win.

Our hitting is going to be the key in determining whether we win or lose.

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Of course we have to have hits. But the fact that we had 17 strikeouts was huge.

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They also had two beautiful outfield catches that saved the game from being more lopsided

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Those catches have been routine for them this CWS.

Being here in Omaha with'm, it's both.

Strikeout a bunch of guys and limit free baserunners is pretty important

rsf0626 said:

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To be fair, we would be the same way if we lost game 1.

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No such thing as fair except the one with ferris wheels. Vols lost. Game 2....

threeanout said:

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We could have had 13-14 runs easily. Two absolutely miraculous plays by the Tennessee outfield saved a ton of runs. A huge baserunning mistake by Ali cost us big time with runners on first and second and no one out. The safety squeeze by Teddy with runners on first and third and no one out that didn't work. I'm not sure what we did at the plate with RISP, but it wasn't that good.

Evansville roughed up Beam in the Supers. He's certainly not a lockdown Friday night type guy.

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Last part of this is good news. Didn't realize he pitched that game. He looked pretty damn good last week.

Beam has a 4.53 era... the way he's being talked about I would have thought he had a sub 2.0

I blame that field for that. Rained so much the field was worse!

S wind today. While light it will be blowing in.

I thought the Vols over 50 around us were OK but the Vols around us in their 40s and younger were obnoxious, condescending, and couldn't handle their booze

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rgag12 said:

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Tennessee will always get hits, as long as we match them and score 7 or more we have a good chance.

If we score less than 7 we probably won't win.

Our hitting is going to be the key in determining whether we win or lose.

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Of course we have to have hits. But the fact that we had 17 strikeouts was huge.

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Great pitching, neutralizes great hitting for the most part.

Once schools have won championships they get that way and expectations rise. If A&M wins this tournament we will see the attitudes of broadcasters, networks and journalists shift in our direction.

they have every right to feel good about their chances

TMartin said:

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Once schools have won championships they get that way and expectations rise. If A&M wins this tournament we will see the attitudes of broadcasters, networks and journalists shift in our direction.

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Um… wut?

rsf0626 said:

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To be fair, we would be the same way if we lost game 1.

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I would like to think so but considering all the bleeders that have shown up en masse every time things have not gone perfectly since the LSU series L I expect we would have seen a lot more of this

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We could have had 13-14 runs easily. Two absolutely miraculous plays by the Tennessee outfield saved a ton of runs. A huge baserunning mistake by Ali cost us big time with runners on first and second and no one out. The safety squeeze by Teddy with runners on first and third and no one out that didn't work. I'm not sure what we did at the plate with RISP, but it wasn't that good.

Evansville roughed up Beam in the Supers. He's certainly not a lockdown Friday night type guy.

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We easily could have had fewer runs too if not for their 3 fielding errors.

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jt16 said:

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They also had two beautiful outfield catches that saved the game from being more lopsided

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Those catches have been routine for them this CWS.

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So have been the EEEEEEEEs. The Vols have had eight in their four games in Omaha with only one clean game.

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Beam has a 4.53 era... the way he's being talked about I would have thought he had a sub 2.0

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They showed his ERA sub 2 on the post game.

Their hotel send off this morning felt more like a funeral than a pep rally

TheBonifaceOption said:

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And I can't tell if it's weapons grade copium or just arrogance.

The sentiment over there is largely "let's get our bats going G2, and G3 is lock." "The longer the series goes on, our baseball wins out." (That last one is funny, because if the series is shorter their chances decrease to zero.)

What strikes me is two things

1) they had 12 hits last night. You can't say their batting wasn't awake. They got 2 homeruns. If you get 12 hits and lose, the issue isn't the bats.

2) they have zero regard for leaning on their pitchers. They gave up 9 runs on 13 hits, 2 homers, and 3 walks. If you can't correct your play on the mound you aren't in a great position to limit the Ags on the scoreboard.

If you were to tell me Friday that game one would be a shootout (10+ hits each) most people wouldn't think the Ags would have been the winner. "The bats favor the Vols" but the pitching kept their hits spread out and unable to stack the runs.

Other than two batters getting a gassed JStew and bad placement from Rudis, this game was a buzzsaw.

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What were you expecting them to say? The aggies are so great, let's forfeit.?