craziest game i have ever seen was the 2013 regional final between unc and fau. fucking mike fox threw kent emmanuel 124 pitches and then brought him back the next for 51 more. glad he finally made it to the big leagues
Eh he's one of a handful of diehard fans in the program and drives all over the shitty south to watch games. What's he really gonna say?
"we appreciate the enthusiasm you have supporting the team but to be kind and accommodating of our other fans, please find a new way to show your support"
why isn't tech throwing one of their normal starters? my friend is friends with the dad of kid that did start and he was even confused
Acting like there’s any difference between OSU and tech fans except a few of yours are from Oklahoma and a few of ours are from New Mexico is a stretch to say the least.
got home, popped 60 MG, boiling water for some tea and fixing to smoke a couple bowls of Sour Kush and get really fucking weird tonight Scouting report (anonymous coach breaks down the Longhorns) Spoiler “I think the cohesiveness that they have—you look at Zach Zubia to Trey Faltine to Cam Williams to Eric Kennedy there’s a lot of experience. Even Mike Antico, it’s his first year at Texas, but he’s older. The only inexperienced guy is Mitchell Daly and he’s played for them nonstop this year. The pitching is as experienced as anyone in the country. They’re so experienced at the top and then you get to the back end of the bullpen and it’s the freshmen, the two prized recruits of Aaron Nixon and Tanner Witt. There’s not a lot of holes, but when you look on paper outside of Madden there’s not a lot of star power. Not in a bad way, they just have guys that can really do it. “To me, if you look at a lot of what Madden does, he doesn’t pitch inside a lot. His comfort level is to throw 95-97 mph away. He wants to elevate the fastball and he’s going to throw the slider when he’s ahead. It’s like 95-97 but plays up a tick because he’s so competitive. You’ve got to try to take away his fastball if you can. You’ve got to make him work a little bit. To me, you’ve got to make him work. You can’t let him go three fastballs away and get to the next hitter. You can’t give him 8-10 pitch innings. You’ve got to make him work because he is one of those typical Texas fireballers who’s going to give you 120 pitches. You have to make him work and hope he’s at 100 pitches by the fifth inning, not 120 pitches after eight. You’d almost rather wait him out because his stuff is that good. “They have a true combination of guys in the lineup. They’ve got speed with Kennedy, Antico and Douglas Hodo. They’ve got power with Ivan Melendez, Zubia and Williams. You’ve got the steadiness of Daly, Faltine and Ardoin. It’s a really good combination of those type of guys. It’s not like it’s all power or all speed. It’s a true combination of all of the above. I think that’s what makes them good. All those guys know their roles. They’ve got guys that are run producers, they’ve got guys that set the table for those guys. They know their roles and they do them well. Three power, three speed, three gritty ballplayer-type guys. There’s no real weakness because they can exploit those three areas. “Defensively, Faltine is good. Williams at times can stray, he’s the only guy that does a little bit. To me he’s still a plus defender. Hodo is plus. Zubia is a nice piece at first base. Especially at their park, their turf plays real slow and they know how to play on that turf. They’re always in (the) right position. They’re as fundamentally sound as it gets.” Scouting report (anonymous coach breaks down the Bulls) Spoiler “They can really pitch. They have four legit starters. They’ve really developed the pitching staff over the course of the year. Offensively, the top few guys are really good players, they’ve just gotten guys hot through the lineup. Jarrett Eaton was great this weekend, Jake Sullivan got hot in the tournament. Carmine Lane is a really good hitter, Riley Hogan is a really good hitter. When Daniel Cantu is hot it’s scary because he’s a lefthanded hitter with power. Offensively, after that, they’re nothing special, they’re just hot. “Collin Sullivan is really good, Jack Jasiak is really good, Brad Lord is more inconsistent than other guys but maybe has better stuff than all of them. They don’t have top 3-4 round stuff where it’s 95 or 96. Sullivan is 90-93 with a good cutter that’s hard on righthanded hitters and a changeup that’s tough on lefties. He commands his fastball well. All the starting pitchers are three-pitch mix guys, they keep you off-balance. It’s not like its 85-88 and they trick you. It’s 90-93 with three pitches that are average to above-average with good command. “Orion Kerkering is really good at the end of the game. He’s 94-97 with a legit breaking ball. That’s the best back-end guy in our league in terms of stuff. Logan Lyle is a really good piece in the back end. You’ve got to get their starters out of the game and extend the bullpen, that’s their weakness. If they go starter, Kerkering and Lyle every time, you’re going to be in trouble to score a lot of runs. You have to tax the starting pitchers, you have to get them out of the game early. Whether that helps you win that game or the next game. The depth of the bullpen is not very good but their top six guys are really good. “Hogan is a tough switch hitter. Roberto Pena can do damage but he’s pitchable. Cantu is the X-factor because when he goes, it’s another power bat. When he’s good (it) makes (the) lineup deeper. “Any time you start to win games you get confident. I saw a lot of growth from them the whole season. Early in the season, the pitchers weren’t great, offensively they were doing a lot of trying to manufacture runs—they didn’t do any of that at the end of the year. They got more experience and more confident and midway through the year pitchers really figured it out. Even the bullpen guys, Kerkering got lit up early in the year and then he just got the experience. He’s still a freshman. I thought (pitching coach Karsten Whitson) did a great job developing those guys. As a team, they got more confident and started to play better. Carmine and Riley, they were good, but then you had other pieces that started to figure things out. They lost Drew Butcher, but other guys stepped up. Sullivan started to hit, Eaton started to hit. Guys started getting hot and they added with the guys at the top of the lineup that are good, and confidence started to spread through the offense and the pitchers kept doing their thing. They’re super confident right now.” Scouting report (anonymous coach breaks down the Patriots) Spoiler “If you get them in a hitter’s ballpark, they are as dangerous as any team in the country. They know how to elevate pitches and put them up into the air when they play at their home yard, which is very conducive to that. When you get them in environments like that, they are as dangerous as anybody.” “The lineup goes through Jackson Glenn. He’s probably the most mature hitter they have. He is the one that will take the walk, will take that close pitch more often than some of the other guys. I think when he goes, they go, that type of situation. I think he is their leader and he also provides the confidence that they need to go into an environment like this, being as veteran a guy as he is and being the player of the year. “We didn’t do it very well, he got to us multiple times, but you have to mix it with (Glenn). You have to not let him see the same timing consistently. It’s got to be plus, minus, plus, minus, north, south, and constantly change his eyesight and his timing because if you let him time it up, you’re going to be done. “The guy that got us and has gotten us in the past is (Andres) Sosa. Not great, jump-off-the-page numbers, (but) he always seems to be the guy that we know how to pitch him, but we’re constantly 2-0 or 3-1 to him and he will make you pay in a big-time way. He’s kind of a guy that you almost feel like is hiding in the lineup and is laying low in the weeds, and you get through some of the big-name guys and you kind of relax and boom, he gets you. “Dom Hamel has a Power Five conference fastball. He will run the ball up in the zone. You have to lay off of that pitch. If you cannot lay off the fastball up, you’re going to pop up and strike out 15 times a game and all of the sudden, you look up and it’s the eighth inning. Great presence, great confidence on the mound. “Same type of situation arm strength-wise (with Rhett Kouba), a little bit more east or west type of guy. The ball will run out of his hand in on your hands and he can pull that slider away, where Hamel is more of a north and south type of guy. It just depends on who you match up better with offensively. Both of those guys give (DBU) a chance to win a super without getting to the third game. “They don’t have that push-button bullpen where in the seventh inning you know who’s coming in, in the eighth inning you know who’s coming in, all of that, so I think you have that situation where they continue to run the right stuff at you until the right guy clicks that day and then they stick with him. I think that tends to be their approach. “I think Dan (Heefner) is very smart with (bullpen usage). He knows (he can) continue running out similar stuff. He’s going to wait until he hits on the right guy for the right day. “I think it will be interesting to see how their defenders play on a natural surface field. Obviously, if they played that many home games this year, and they also played the conference tournament on turf, I think if you’re going to beat them, you’re going to need to test their infielders on a natural surface, which is something that most teams have a hard time doing.” Scouting report (anonymous coach breaks down the Cavaliers) Spoiler “Andrew Abbot is what stands out. That kid is unbelievable. In the last decade in the ACC, I would put him with Reid Detmers, Brendan McKay, Danny Hultzen as one of the best lefthanded starters I’ve seen. He can pitch, he’s confident. And it’s not just stuff. It’s stuff, pitchability, confidence and execution. “The problem against Abbott is he’s got the fastball at the bottom of the zone with the changeup off of that. He can put the fastball where he wants. He’s got the changeup coming off of that. Hitters get stuck in between and then he’s ahead. Then you talk about the spin. And there’s deception and pitchability. Every time something starts to get going with him, he’ll either go sinker away, groundball double play and you’re back to the dugout, like what just happened. Or he’ll go 0-1, pop out, punchout, threat gone. It’s every time. It’s so hard to get something going off of him. “The rest of the pitching staff was good, not great. But they looked like they were unhittable in regionals. Their lineup right now is completely confident, they play great defense, there’s pressure throughout. (Associate head coach Kevin McMullan) runs the offense that they run. The ball’s going to be in play, they’ll bunt, hit and run and then they might hit the home run to walk you off. They’ve got guys with thump. I love Kyle Teel. I know he’s only a freshman but there’s so much energy from his at-bats. I felt like the guys fed off of him. “I think the momentum is sustainable for Virginia because it’s been a build. And it’s a good team. It’s not your No. 3 seed that snuck in and played its butt off for a weekend. They scuffled early. Everybody thought they would be good and then they scuffled. They didn’t get hot at the end, they just started playing better and better. I don’t look at them as a team that got hot at the end, (I) just look at a team getting better and better.” Scouting report (anonymous coach breaks down the Bulldogs) Spoiler “They have a real 1-2 punch in the rotation and a real ninth inning guy. If you don’t have the lead you’re not going to score on Landon Sims. They have real, high-end, top-two round starters. Against us, they defended well, had some length to the lineup—I was really impressed. Tanner Allen, Rowdy Jordan at the top of the lineup is tough. They’re a complete team. “Christian Macleod and Will Bednar have stuff and pitchability. It seems like nowadays, you have stuff but not command or you have feel and the stuff isn’t there. Those two guys pound the strike zone and have above-average secondary pitches. MacLeod doesn’t have the fastball of Bednar and Sims, but it’s his third pitch. Bednar tunnels well with his fastball and slider. The slider has late bite and it’s hard to see. “You have to be aggressive against Sims. He’s a two-pitch guy coming out of the bullpen. But you’re talking about two strikeouts per inning and he doesn’t walk you. You have to be ready to hit, you have to be aggressive. His fastball has ride to it and he holds his plane well. Our guys were missing under the fastball repeatedly. The breaking ball—usually hitters swing over the top and our guys were swinging under it. There’s some type of deception to it. He has really strong intangibles, he’s got a really confident, aggressive mound presence and great tempo. He’s an absolute bulldog in every way, shape and form. The maturity and intensity that he pitches with rubs off on other guys. “They have a nice mix of left and right in the lineup, some strength, some athleticism and Tanner Allen and Rowdey Jordan are the two guys. Logan Tanner is going to hit a mistake out of the park, Luke Hancock is a threat and Kamren James, they’re all double-dight home run guys. You’ve got to make pitches, too. They’re tough to strike out. A lot of teams in our league struck out over 500 times—they struck out 369. They don’t chase, they foul off more pitches than your typical Power Five Conference team. That allows them to see more pitches, get in your bullpen earlier. “They defended great. Logan Forsyth made some errors early, but I think the game has slowed down for him. He’s starting to play like a sophomore. “Dudy Noble, it’s one of those places in our league, especially in the West Division, they’re tough places to go in and win. What you’ve got to do is get to game three. Split the first two and make them burn Sims. He hasn’t pitched twice on a weekend much. Mostly, he throws once a weekend with a long save. I’m not sure how effective he is if he has to close back-to-back games. You’ve got to find a way to split and get to game three. That’s been a revolving door for them. If you beat them or even if you lose, you’ve got to keep it close and make Sims come in the game.” Scouting report (anonymous coach breaks down the Fighting Irish) Spoiler “The weird thing about Notre Dame is they just kind of beat you. Niko Kavadas can do damage. They have guys on the mound that throw strikes, they get ahead, they play great defense and they beat you. “They catch the balls that are hit at them. They make the routine plays. They just are hard to beat. They throw strikes, they have good at-bats and if you make a mistake to Kavadas he hits it out. They have some other guys that hit home runs but nobody else with that kind of power. “They started to believe. You could see it during the regular season, and they believe now. They’re veteran, they’re really old. Stuff just doesn’t faze them. “You have to attack Kavadas hard in. When you go in, you’ve got to get in. When you go up, you’ve got to get up because he wants to extend. If you go in and don’t get in, he does damage. If you go up and don’t get up, he does damage. And he hits breaking balls. When you spin, you’ve got to go strike to ball. “They can do whatever with their top six guys on the mound. If you get past those guys, there’s not much else. But those six guys give you length. They get creative. If they throw the ball well, they don’t need anybody else. They’re all stretched out. “They’re good baseball players that have gotten better. They play hard, they believe, they play together.”
NC St runner being kept at 3rd with that poor throw was funny. And just like that Arkansas is on top with a 2-run HR in B2 that makes it 2-1 Rocker in the NCAA Tournament: 6-0 (6 Starts) with 42.2 IP, 20 Hits, 64 Ks, 3 ER and a 0.63 ERA
You’ve been cryptic lately itt but I’m going to guess you bought a NC State shirt or something and it didn’t come in time how close am I
Paying for full espn and plus and have never had any issues but now somehow the U is unavailable. Eat my tiny circumcised Irish cock
NC St is gonna have a bad time if they're gonna be chasing pitches two feet outside the zone before Kopps and his slider enter the chat
Previous inning….where have they been hiding this kid pitching. He just sat down 3 straight. Next inning…..never mind.....
Hard to know what to expect on a guy where there’s zero scouting report on him. We figured it out though same thing with this lefty