Baseball Question - for those that aren't alarmed yet...

[dawgstudent]

if we don't sweep - is it time to worry?

This weekend's opponents are Nicholls St and UMass.

 

[patdog]

Depends. If we go 3-1 with 3 convincing wins and a fluke loss, the season's still young. If we go 2-2, it's time to worry.

 

[aTotal360]

For those that aren't alarm...we salute you.

 

[The Maroon Pug]

If we go 2-2 this weekend, I will start looking for my tar-n-feather kit

 

[msstate7]

According to how many om beats Louisville**

 

[KurtRambis4]

Unfortunately,

this plays a role for quite a few on here.

 

[rugbdawg]

We have to sweep. We are playing UMass-Lowell.

Not UMass btw. Big, Big, Big difference.

The starter we face tonight pitched 23 innings last year and had a ERA of 5.48. His longest outing has been 4 innings against William & Mary.

Hudson could strike out 23 tonight. Not joking.

 

[msstate7]

I'll be happy if Hudson goes 7 innings. We have to get innings out of our starters

 

[engie]

We should sweep this weekend, so yes. I look for much more collected performances on the hill. Need to continue hitting it well -- and become more consistent there as well.

I certainly am not alarmed by our talent level. Every single guy we ran out there is capable high-ceiling guys both on the hill and in the field. But at some point the bright lights can't bother you. It's especially time for the juniors on the hill to settle in.

 

[rugbdawg]

I think we could win the weekend something like 60-10

I'm serious. Umass-Lowell is going to be that bad. They are gonna make South Dakota State look like the 2016 Cubs. Santa Clause State isn't good either.

 

[MSUDC11]

We need a sweep. And should get it.

 

[patdog]

Santa Clause State isn't good either.

Nicholls St. had a top 100 RPI last year and wins over LSU and UL-Lafayette. They would have probably swept us last year.

 

[MadDawg.sixpack]

this plays a role for quite a few on here.

In every sport.

 

[maroonmania]

Given the Dodger Stadium series and the Oregon series coming up its not going to take long to understand what kind of team we have regardless of what happens this weekend. There really is no good excuse not to win 4 games this weekend though.

 

[msudawg12]

It would be disgusting if we didnt sweep....

 

[Philly Dawg]

In many of our best seasons, we had poor early season results. In many of our worst seasons, we had great early season results. Despite having full knowledge of these facts, we still start predicting Omaha if we have a string of non-conference wins and predicting a coaching change if we have a string of non-conference losses. "That's baseball."

 

[bulldogcountry1]

We need to sweep, but, more importantly, we need to have good starting pitching performances.

 

[MaroonNation]

We don't have fluke losses. They are usually trips to the woodshed

 

[KurtRambis4]

Like when

we played that team that had an entire new squad and coach?

 

[wtw2400]

We need to win every game this weekend plus Alcorn on Tuesday. So we need to go 5-0. We are on the right track as we are 1-0. To me a win is a win so it doesnt matter how close it is unless we lose which is the only thing that matters. If you schedule these teams you better beat them. But thankfully MSU has scheduled a million times better this season as this is the last cupcake weekend. So going 5-0 will pay off down the road to host. We used our fluke losses last week to FAU.