UNC is imploding!!

[maroonmadman]

nm

 

[UpTheMiddlex3Punt]

I'm still feeling uneasy

 

[patdog]

This is incredible. We haven't hit a ball hard yet this inning.

 

[cowbell88]

Implode on.

 

[Crazy Cotton]

batting around and still one out. wow How many pitchers did UNC bring?

 

[OnlyDawgInMinn]

I'll keep saying it... It all started with Mangum showing bunt with a relatively unknown runner at 2nd in a pressure packed situation... Seemed super insignificant, but we have been living rent free in the minds of the Heels since.

 

[Drebin]

I'll keep saying it... It all started with Mangum showing bunt with a relatively unknown runner at 2nd in a pressure packed situation... Seemed super insignificant, but we have been living rent free in the minds of the Heels since.

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I'll bite. What does the pinch runner do in that situation to change anything? I saw your earlier post about a runner on base that they were unfamiliar with, too. What is he going to do that's so different there? The unknown runner angle is a silly take in my opinion. The only reason he was put in to pinch run is because Skelton doesn't run especially well (and needed to grab some pine after that pass ball, anyway).

Mangum wasn't going to bunt anyway. He was showing bunt to keep the runners in at the corner.

We got a couple of timely bloops and UNC tightened up too much in a pressure situation. That's what happened.

 

[tenureplan]

They wouldn't be worried about Skelton stealing third?

 

[Drebin]

They wouldn't be worried about Skelton stealing third?

They weren't worried about anyone stealing third there. Cohen would've walked out onto the middle of the field and fired Hendo on the spot if anyone got thrown out trying to steal third and kill a potential big inning in that situation. Baseball 101....don't make the first out of an inning at third base in a late and close game.

 

[OnlyDawgInMinn]

I don't think its as much about the unknown runner as it is the entire weight of situation. I think the end result was due to young pitcher, that hasn't really been tested all game, seeing multiple variables while trailing 2 runs:

You have fastest and smartest player on the field at the plate oddly showing bunt With runners on and no outs. You know he can reach base on laying one down...

You have no clue about the runner at second base drifting further and further off the bag, but he’s got a good lead. Maybe it’s an easy pick?

You have to not let this game get out if hand. The season depends on it.

That is a pressure packed situation with a few moving parts. Mix in a bad throw on an ill-advised pickoff attempt that subsequently moves the runners to second and third not to mention no relief in sight - Game over! A 19 year old kid isn't coming back from that.

Maybe I am making more out of that sequence than it actually was. I'm excited, of course ... But it seemed awfully scripted. Minus the error.

It Wouldn't surprise me if Mangum dialed that bunt up himself and it just happened to unfold in that fashion. Fuggit... we are one W away from the championship series.

 

[patdog]

They weren't worried about him stealing third. But they were concerned with keeping him from getting a big lead to score on a single. They would have never even tried the pickoff if Skelton was on 2nd.