snowdog90 said:

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I guess this would be a decent recipe for any series, but I'd love to see the pitching do the following.

15 innings
Prager
Lamkin
Jones

4 innings
Aschenbeck

2 innings
Sdao
Stewart

6 innings
Moss
Jackson
Rudis
Badmaev
Smith
Peery

It would be great to get more out of the starters, but 15 would be good. Sdao might be needed for more than 2, but 2 would be good.


As for the offense, I've figured out what's been bugging me. As a team, we're taking a lot of walks, but we've been stranding lots of runners. With all these walks, it might be beneficial to start employing an aggressive running game, at least with the bottom of the order. Steal some bases, hit-and-run with Ali and Kent and Sorrell, when he's in. With so many walks, runs sometimes need to be manufactured. We're struggling with that.

Obviously, you don't want to make dumb, over-aggressive outs when GG, Jace, Monty or Appel are batting, but basically I'm spit-balling.

Great result tonight. More character-building and great job of finding a way to win.

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Wabs said:

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snowdog90 said:

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I guess this would be a decent recipe for any series, but I'd love to see the pitching do the following.

15 innings
Prager
Lamkin
Jones

4 innings
Aschenbeck

2 innings
Sdao
Stewart

6 innings
Moss
Jackson
Rudis
Badmaev
Smith
Peery

It would be great to get more out of the starters, but 15 would be good. Sdao might be needed for more than 2, but 2 would be good.


As for the offense, I've figured out what's been bugging me. As a team, we're taking a lot of walks, but we've been stranding lots of runners. With all these walks, it might be beneficial to start employing an aggressive running game, at least with the bottom of the order. Steal some bases, hit-and-run with Ali and Kent and Sorrell, when he's in. With so many walks, runs sometimes need to be manufactured. We're struggling with that.

Obviously, you don't want to make dumb, over-aggressive outs when GG, Jace, Monty or Appel are batting, but basically I'm spit-balling.

Great result tonight. More character-building and great job of finding a way to win.

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Agree with this. I'd like to see the offense put more pressure on the defense. Seems we take a station-to-station approach too much. Granted, this is a small gripe because our offense has for the most part produced runs via the HR - but we do seem to go into mini-slumps with this approach. I know this has been mentioned several times, but I do think we watch too many very hittable strikes early in the count. I think this leads to a much higher number of strike outs. If a pitcher is pumping a FB right down the pipe on the first pitch, hop on it and hammer it.

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StinkyPinky said:

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AgFormerlyInIrving said:

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jkag89 said:

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1) Three Ws
2) No serious injuries

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^ This! And no food delivered to the press box!

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Fat chance. We'll get a two inning play by play on the short rib nachos.

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Denton82TAMU86 said:

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I don't see Cortez on your pitching list. Did I miss something and he's not available?
He's arguably been as effective as anyone on the pitching staff.

Edit for my poor phone typing.

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grover1263 said:

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Love it but swinging early is not coach's philosophy. Especially the first 4-5 innings of a game. Just the way it is and he has been very successful with his coaching philosophy over the years.

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AgFormerlyInIrving said:

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jkag89 said:

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1) Three Ws
2) No serious injuries

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^ This! And no food delivered to the press box!

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jkag89 said:

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It won't be an issue for tonight's game on ESPNU, the announcers will probably be calling the game from own easy chair in their den home studio.

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Denton82TAMU86 said:

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Your takes are generally pretty solid so I am relieved it was just an oversight on your part and not something catastrophic that I had missed regarding Cortez.

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