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Williams actually went out and talked to his pitcher. It worked. Eberle still needs to find the strike zone more consistently. The offense is giving him a HUGE cushion as it stands at 7-0 Cards in the 2d with 1 out. Rose and Munroe with back-to-back HRs.
I think the tv guys said 13 runs in an inning is a team record for the Cards. That was a lot of fun. Amazing how an explosive offense helps the performance of a pitcher. Eberle pitched a good game. Started a little shaky, but settled in. A very solid and impressive road win.
This was another example of why I referred in an earlier post “as this team being schizophrenic”. Anxious to see how we respond this afternoon, and again on Sunday. Aside from FSU and UNC, it looks like there are several teams competing for who is the 3rd best ACC team.
Yes, very good win! I too wonder how they come out today. Will they be focused? Or, do they struggle to even get guys on base - we have seen that movie before.
We're all hoping that the Vandy win helped to get this team going for the stretch run.
Renewed focus,pep-in-the-step,whatever you want to call it. The offense has to be the best part of this team-no choice. Yesterday was a great start.
Mac talked about the pitchers after the Vandy game and basically said he needed 2 to 3 more guys to step it up and become Dawgs for this team to have any chance of making noise postseason.
Renewed focus,pep-in-the-step,whatever you want to call it. The offense has to be the best part of this team-no choice. Yesterday was a great start.
Mac talked about the pitchers after the Vandy game and basically said he needed 2 to 3 more guys to step it up and become Dawgs for this team to have any chance of making noise postseason.
Bad start. Hope the bats are alive to help. Forbes struggles to throw strikes consistently and this results in him throwing too many pitches. First inning and he is already at 35 pitches. This rate he’ll give us a whole two innings. He just walked a guy so his 36 pitches will most likely hit 40.
Oh, Ga Tech 3, Cards 0.
Oh, Ga Tech 3, Cards 0.
Any pitcher is really going struggle if they can’t control their off speed stuff. No pitcher will be successful if they can’t locate their fastball.
Hitters today can turn any fastball around. Forbes can’t throw his off speed stuff consistently for strikes. Hitters can just sit up there looking fastball. Forbes fastball has zero movement and can’t really locate it. He is working from behind so he is going to be hit.
It explains why he is getting hit and his strikeouts are way down against the better hitter ACC teams.
Hitters today can turn any fastball around. Forbes can’t throw his off speed stuff consistently for strikes. Hitters can just sit up there looking fastball. Forbes fastball has zero movement and can’t really locate it. He is working from behind so he is going to be hit.
It explains why he is getting hit and his strikeouts are way down against the better hitter ACC teams.
The 1st inning told me everything I needed to know when Forbes walked the lead-off man, then got behind every hitter he faced. No surprise when the walk becomes the first run, and a wild pitch is responsible for the 2nd run. Only thing missing was the HBP.
We turned 4 DPs Friday, yet somehow the pitching staff cannot understand why control is so important to this team’s success.
We turned 4 DPs Friday, yet somehow the pitching staff cannot understand why control is so important to this team’s success.
Last weekend and this one exactly what this team is.
The offense has to get guys on base for any chance to carry the erratic pitching. They sure didn't today. We are what we are.
I was thinking it sure would be nice if we were getting walked a little more like opposing teams are against us 🤔
The offense has to get guys on base for any chance to carry the erratic pitching. They sure didn't today. We are what we are.
I was thinking it sure would be nice if we were getting walked a little more like opposing teams are against us 🤔
Most important series of the year and we don't show up for 2 of the 3 games. Didn't win an ACC series on the road the entire year. Sean said it best, a complete lack of focus. Extremely disappointing and frustrating.
Strange series. Cards go gang busters game one, G2 weather delayed, then Tech pitching goes nuclear. But, it wasn’t like it was dominating pitching. Cards put the bat on the ball. “Hit ‘em where they ain’t,” the Cards did the opposite.
On to Bellarmine.
On to Bellarmine.
The Sunday performances were so disappointing, and quite frankly it tells me the level of focus on this roster raises questions about every aspect of this program.
