It’s still early; but we need to come alive Saturday and win. Georgia is definitely one of the best teams in the Sec, two close games but no cigar.
Georgia for the moment is better.
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They've been clearly better so far. Not a lot better, but enough better.
College baseball is all about getting in a good zone. Every team will have rough patches. That's how #1 national seeds can lose regionals on their home field. It's baseball.
Catcher made
Sure it wasn’t a 1 run game ……a-17n-Gain
Their bugaboo until this weekend has been starting pitching and for two days their starters have been really good. Hitting and bullpen has been a strength all year, if they‘ve gotten some starting pitching figured out then they are on the shortlist of teams that can win it all.
yes to getting in a good zone. I’m not too concerned right now, it’s not about getting hot this early but way more important later in the year.
I was called a troll for predicting this. And now everyone agrees. Just like when I said Lemonis wasn’t the guy.
Take a deep breath and relax. We haven’t played well this weekend, **** happens.
College Baseball is a LONG season. Rarely is a team dominant the entire season. Our has some flaws. The coaching staff has to figure out how to best utilize our strengths. This series might feel like Arkansas in 2021 in 10-12 weeks. We need to get McPherson back and we have to hit the ball better than we did tonight.
We literally swept a Top 15 RPI team on the road less than a week ago. And we’re 7-4 in SEC play. Our resume is fine.
Their starter last night was 5-0 before last night and tonight's was 3-1 before tonight. How is that a "bugaboo" (whatever that is?
W/L record for starters doesn’t mean a whole lot. Volchko has been good (not great but good) and they’ve had issues finding a second starter beyond him. Vigue didn’t make it out of the first inning in his last start a week ago. And they’ve listed TBA for tomorrow because Sunday starting pitching has been a mess for them.
So GA is 26-6 overall. Their Friday and Saturday starters combined records are 10-1, and last night's guy held us to 5 hits and 3 runs. But those starters aren't necessarily very good this season, it's just smoke and mirrors. OK, think I've got it now.
Two good teams. Time will tell which is “better”. A lot of baseball left for all.
Starting pitching is not their strength, or it had not been until this weekend.. Their strength is that they have hit a zillion home runs and have a pretty deep pen.
Volchko is a very average Friday night guy. He’s more of a Saturday guy that they’ve had to use as a Friday guy because no one else has been able to give them a ton of length. Last night was the first time in conference play that they’ve had a starter other than Volchko throw 5 innings. I think they’ve had four games in league play where their starters didn’t throw more than 2 innings.
Several in our lineup have got to produce more, we have several players that have to produce more than one hit a game and got to produce with runners on base.
There's a reason why the top ranked regular season team never wins Omaha
Baseball is a cruel and frustrating game. Love it or hate it, That’s just the way it is.
Gramling struck our guys out 11 times. You should have seen this coming against good pitching. They picked a bad time to go into a slump. OLe Miss could not get timely hits against us; it bit them in the *** and now it is happening to our guys. Just hope they can open the flood gates back up today.
Agree, they are a better team right now. Spoke to an older long time bulldog this morning and he said it best. "Not many teams want to play us right now, fewer want to play Georgia....we are really good, they are better".
IF they’re better, and I really don’t think they’re, they’re not much better. 10-9 & 3-1 and we’re still not playing as well as we can & are missing out #1 starter.
In conference play coming into Thursday's game they had 19 HRs, Vandy had 18, we had 16. Vast majority of their HRs came against unknown Snow Bird competition
My issue all year has been the number of runners we've stranded. No matter how much we win by, we leave too many on base.
Guys- our team is good. We are playing a comparatively good team without McPherson. Our team is also YOUNG with a lot of transfers. We’re shooting to be at our best in May and June.
We haven’t been at our best this weekend, but games have still been tight with a top five, maybe top three team even.
Time will tell, but this team is good.
We haven’t been at our best this weekend, but games have still been tight with a top five, maybe top three team even.
Time will tell, but this team is good.
Georgia is a national seed, may win the league. We’re probably a host team.
I believe BOC will only get better, this is year one and I think he will improve our squad over the coming years. He ain’t no dummy and he is seeing what we need.
For everybody that's blowing UGA right now you might want to consider that we just might not be quite as good as everyone seems to think. Our OOC schedule is **** and our stats were the product of feasting on weak teams. UGA's pitching punked us all weekend and their staff is decent but not great. Maybe, just maybe we had a bad weekend but we've got guys that aren't hitting their weight in league play. Stallman is at .208 and Ace is .204. Not sure what we're paying Reed but I know we're paying WAY too much for the performance we're getting from Reese. If the season ended today he's not an All-American.