In todays episode of head coaches overthinking things, canes have runners on 1st and 2nd in the 10th with a lefty coming to the plate. Pitt switches it’s LF and RF to get a stronger arm in RF. naturally the next pitch is a hard ground ball to the LF who proceeds to boot it and allow the winning run to score. If pitt doesn’t make that swap the runner is easily thrown out and the game continues
When it’s your season things like this happen. Southern Miss has had some just random and nice things fall their way. Good baseball teams and good runs just have these happen.
I don't know anything about baseball. But as I understand it, Tennessee is quite good. So I'm going disagree.
2nd and 3rd with no outs twice (7th inning in G1 and 8th inning in G3) in this series late in the game and can’t put a ball in play to push across the tying run. Should’ve been a sweep but we don’t have that clutch gene with this team. Nice series win. Like 8 walks and 3 errors today is very uncharacteristic
Hogs do not suck. Maintain faith. My opinion hasn’t changed. I’d much rather us sit in the 4-10 range all year than #1 just riding two pitchers like we did last year. We had a bad outing from Wiggins today but our starting pitching is the best overall since 2018. Our lineup hasn’t even scratched the surface of what it can do. The defense is elite, outside of the errors today. Our relief pitching is excellent and Tygart is not quite Kopps but he does an excellent Kopps impression.
Crazy to score 5 runs with no outs, then K three straight batters with runners at 2nd and 3rd. I had to just look away for a bit
Auburn went 5-0 this weekend and swept South Carolina on the weekend. Our RF brought back a game-tying HR today to keep us in the lead. And our closer, Burkhalter, has been really good so far this year. I believe he had 3 saves on the weekend.
It’d be lunacy to fire Sully, but his tenure may have run its course. The whole program seems in disarray. Kids don’t even want to be here.
Take with a grain of salt bc it’s a barstool account that originally posted it, but this seems quite insane
If that happens, Scott Stricklin will have made two football hires, a mens basketball hire, two womens basketball hires and a baseball hire since 2016. That’s, erm, not good.
Good luck. The kids hate him. He’s a pitching guru, but we haven’t been able to get guys out consistently in years. The program feels like it’s in a really bad place and in desperate need of a change.
Dollander gonna be back this weekend? If so, does he take his spot back from Tidwell? And how did Tidwell look this weekend?
Spoiler Blade Tidwell looks like Blade Tidwell Tennessee was without the SEC's leader in strikeouts in game two. You wouldn't have known watching Blade Tidwell pitch as he led the Vols to a 3-0 win to secure a series win. It was Tidwell’s first SEC start of the season as he started in place of fellow sophomore right-hander Chase Dollander, who was injured last Saturday against Alabama when he was struck by a line drive. Having not thrown more than two innings in any outing this season, Tidwell threw 74 pitches over 4.1 scoreless innings to earn his first win of the season. He struck out five, allowed just two hits and walked just one Gator. Blade Tidwell looked like Blade Tidwell in his first legitimate start of the season and that’s a scary thought for opposing teams. Chase Burns bounces back Tidwell returning to the starting rotation wasn’t the only positive development for Tennessee’s rotation. Chase Burns looked like Chase Burns once again. Burns pitched at least five innings in his first seven outings as a Vol. He didn't allow more than two earned runs in any of those starts, and he only allowed more than one earned run once. The Gallatin, Tennessee native ran into some trouble after three starts in SEC play, however. Against Missouri on April 8, Burns lasted just 2.2 innings, which still stands as his shortest outing of the season. He tied a season-high in walks with four. Burns then suffered his first loss of the season a week later on April 15 against No. 24 Alabama. He only lasted three innings and allowed a season-high four earned runs on a season-high seven hits allowed. In his first start following the back-to-back poor outings, he allowed just one earned run over the course of 6.1 innings to guide the Vols to an 8-2 win over the Gators. Burns struck out five as he improved to 6-1 on the season. He did give up three walks, but limited the damage as he pitched out of a couple of jams. The Gators only tallied two hits as Burns threw 98 pitches, 56 of which were strikes. TWO QUESTIONS So what happens with the rotation? Welcome back from suspension Mr. Vitello. Your first order of business? Deciding which one of your four premium starters is not going to start moving forward. Dollander missed his start against the Gators, opening the door for Tidwell, but Dollander isn't expect to be out much longer, if at all.
Sully's not getting fired this year for better or worse. I'm leaning towards preferring someone else at this point but we're a few more years of struggling away from making a move.