Stankiewicz Making Pitching Change 3-0 Count With One Out
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Closer was done when Coop pulled him foul. He was done. I was thinking what a bad position to put the new guy in.
Yeah, I think that foul ball got in his head and he was trying to throw around bats rather than just pitching and that cost him his control
Foul ball definitely rattled him. It also rattled Stankiewicz.
I’m glad they pinch ran for the home run hitter Lamb in the 7th as that’s why the back up 3B was in the game and the starting 3B was in center. The backup 3B missed that foul pop up before Hull hit the game winner. And the 3B playing center didn’t dive for Hull’s ball. Lack of experience I guess. He definitely should’ve dove for that ball. Whew!!!! On to Omaha baby!!
Great observations, pretty wild decisions in retrospect. Those were two catchable balls, just converting one of them sends the game to extras
If I were a usc fan I’d be pretty upset with how he managed the last few innings.
The USC head coach definitely overmanaged the last couple innings. Neither of those were easy plays in the 9th, but I would expect our guys to make them. It's likely USC's regular starters at those positions would have made at least one of those grabs, which would have sent the game to extras.
Catching Hull‘s 9th innning hit was not a sure thing for anyone.
Actually, I believe that the announcers said (during a previous game) those are typical late inning defensive changes for the Trojans.
USC, however, did seem shy about the brick walls at the Bosh during the entire series. The IB "deferred" on a catchable foul ball yesterday. Sometimes the Bosh itself supplies some of "the Bosh Magic."
In hindsight of course, they would have been better off walking French. Shaffner’s fly out would have only moved Nicholson to third with 2 outs instead of it being a running scoring sac fly. Would have also allowed the outfield to play back rather than having to play shallow to try to cut down a runner.
Now that I have given it some thought, French’s single may have been the most important bat of the inning.
Now that I have given it some thought, French’s single may have been the most important bat of the inning.
He also pitched to Owen. Owen had 3 doubles and our freshman on deck hadn’t batted in weeks. That’s about as dumb as kicking it to Gio.
It looked like the left fielder had a better beat on the foul ball. He could see the wall in front of him. Should have called off the 3B?
French’s hit was when the ol’ win probability flipped from less than 50% to greater than 50% for UNC. Such a clutch AB from a kid who knew today would’ve been the last baseball game he’d ever play, if we lost.
Yeah. The guy that replaced him gave up a hit to our 9th hitter, a sac fly to Shaff, and walked GG. I was stunned he didn’t take him out then or that they didn’t walk Owen and pitch to a non starter freshman.
I didn’t think it was a bad idea to take Troy out. He had totally lost it and was going to keep walking batter after batter until he was replaced.