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Post by nashvillestag on Jun 4, 2021 22:18:24 GMT -5
Can you challenge plays in NCAA Baseball? If so, these plays should have been challenged. Just today’s game. Frustrating. I'm not sure of the technicality of it, like whether a team can initiate something like that or not, but concerning the key play of the pitch that may or may not have hit the nub of the bat (and it was VERY CLOSE and not obvious either way), remember, it WAS looked at by the umpires and they happened to rule against the Stags probably because the original call on the field was that the ball hit the batter. But then again the earlier play where the wrong call was missed (and seemed obvious) was not looked at and I'm not sure why. Anyway, yes unfortunately this was a heartbreaking and frustrating loss because of how close the team was to winning this game.
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Post by nashvillestag on Jun 4, 2021 22:28:28 GMT -5
I think he goes with Noviello, you worry about Sunday after tomorrow. 4th starter is Signore, who for all his history, has been very unreliable his last 3 starts, including the Rider game last week. Have to win tomorrow I agree. Let’s go for a win with our best and then hope for a bullpen win (nobody pitches more than once through the lineup) vs. whomever in the next elimination game. If it’s ASU, again, they will probably be pretty thin on pitching... assuming their #1 pitches vs. Texas. Certainly that's the right way to go. Right now the odds have dropped dramatically for the Stags to win this region, but winning at least one game, especially because of how this one ended, is extremely important for the moral of the team and the memory of how they will remember this season. One game at a time, and I agree with you, ASU if we would meet them again, would be short on pitchers.
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Post by nashvillestag on Jun 4, 2021 23:23:12 GMT -5
9th Tough call. But I probably would have taken Sansone out after 1 run. But that is second guessing on my part. Yeah when you lose a tough one it is always easy to second guess. I myself don't claim to know the differences between the roles of the all the pitchers, but I do know that both Sansone and Cafaro (as well as others) have been pretty dependable for most of the year and therefore either could have succeeded or failed in that situation. I think Currier may have stayed with Sansone because Cafaro has a walk rate quite a bit higher than Mike. That's the last thing you would want to do when you are trying to protect a lead of course. Didn't work out this time unfortunately, but we'll never know if it would have if he had gone in another direction. But speaking of second guessing, I was surprised and I wonder why he pinch hit a low 200 hitter in Watson for a 330 hitter in Wosleger with 2 men out and a man on second in the top of the 9th? Even the announcers wondered the same thing there. Same thing though. Even if that move was not made, would the result have been different? We'll never know.
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Post by FU73 on Jun 5, 2021 5:38:29 GMT -5
Fairfield Baseball @stags_Base Final Arizona State 7, Stags 6 ASU scores a pair on a hit batter and a single in the ninth. "I'm proud of the grit and resilience of getting ahead and then falling behind before battling back and getting ahead," Head Coach Bill Currier said. "We showed a lot of character with the lead going into the ninth but couldn't just get it done. We had the right people in at the end but that's how it goes sometimes. We put us in a position to win that game."Box Score:fairfieldstags.com/boxscore.aspx?path=baseball&id=10567
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