Duke Stone getting the start in Game 1 of The Regional
- Thread starter Willow Grove Dawg
- Start date
I like the move. Just be the better team and win.
Just give us a solid showing, We scored 43 runs in 25 innings the previous time we saw this team. I expect our offense to give us run support. Just don’t let it become a back and forth shootout where things can get weird this time of year.
Scares me to death. But I think best chance for us to win the regional.
The one negative is that if you win the Regional and go to the Super Regional, I don't think we are going to want Duke Stone pitching the first game of the SR. So that means someone will be pitching Game 1 of the SR on short rest. I was kind of thinking start with RM and then go TV and Stone which would let you keep the same rotation for the next weekend assuming you survive.
Plenty of rest to go TV, Ryan & they Stone in SR. This is how you manage a pitching staff in postseason. We’re just not used to it because our coaches have mismanaged it for decades.
Paul Maholm pitching against an awful Middle Tennessee team still makes me angry.
Yeah, that was incredibly stupid. Burned him for the entire regional to pitch 7 innings in a game we won 12-4. Then he wasn't available to pitch against North Carolina, who wound up winning the regional.
If Stone pitching vs Lipscomb scares you (a team he's already dominated), then how would you feel about Stone pitching on Sunday versus either Louisiana or Cincinnati? This is 1000% the correct move.
Not necessarily true, we may get put in a Saturday-Sunday-Monday Super.
But you also don’t want RM throwing in an early game on Friday (against a 4-seed) after just throwing 80 pitches last Saturday. That’s somewhat short rest for someone who still isn’t proven to be 100%, although he might be near that point now. And you DEFINITELY don’t want to waste TV against a team we’ve already dominated. Stone is the correct call. He’s plenty capable of eating a lot of innings against a team like Lipscomb.
If its a Fri-Sat-Sun Super Regional, the only real restriction is that our Game 3 pitcher in the regional (RM most likely) probably can’t pitch until Game 2 of SR…which is fine. We’d lead with TV anyway.
Personally, I love this, because I think it shows a very high degree of confidence from Oak in McPherson to return to form, since he’s now assured of starting in a very high leverage game against a decent team….no matter what. If there were still a few cobwebs, I thought we might see him against Lipscomb instead.
Exactly. And this decision was made before we had McPherson pitch the simulated game on Saturday. At least that he wouldn't start the Friday game. I guess if we had somehow not hosted (I'm sure we knew at least 95% that we'd host), we would have pitched TV vs the #3 seed and McPherson Saturday vs the #1.
Overall sounds like a good decision. We should be in really good shape starting pitching wise if we get by the first game. If we lose a game though I have no idea who would be our 4th starter?
That’s every team in the country, though. Nobody has 4 reliable starters in college baseball. Most teams don’t even have two reliable starters. We’re lucky to say we have 2.5 reliable starters, when McPherson is healthy.
Probably Sweeney, with a very short leash. We started like 7 different guys consecutively in the midweeks to start the season. He's the last one I can remember having a nice start in a big game (Gov Cup).
You'd think Foster should be the obvious choice, but he's become completely unreliable. It's sad.
Duke is a Dawg, and he is ready. Right call
I really wish Foster would find it, we need him, but at this point in the season .............
I don't subscribe to that, so will miss the game. Unless they decide to expand coverage to SECN or SECN+.
Youtube. Someone usually has the game on there. It might get taken down a few times though
It'll likely be on a pirate YouTube channel. I'll post a link in the game thread tomorrow when I find one.
It’s interesting to see the different strategies in play with different teams. More 1 seeds are throwing their ace against 4 seeds this year than I would’ve thought. Even Georgia is.
There are some pretty decent 4 seeds out there. We got one of the easier ones (I hope...)
We scored in all but 1 inning, so no...Their team era is almost 7 and they've hit only 32 HRs as a team. I worry more about waking up each morning.
Same here. I like the decision now. I hope I still like it 24 hours from now.
Dude, go to YouTube and search "Mississippi state baseball live" and the game will be on.
Only thing I hate is for some reason I can't minimize it on my phone without it turning off (they want you to pay for that privilege). Occasionally it glitches and I get the small window so I can come see how all the dumbases here are "enjoying" the game. Now that I think about it, YouTube is awesome.
ill try to remember to post a link in the game thread but it's during "work" for me so we'll see.