It's officially worry time. Runner on 2nd, no outs. 3, 4, and 5 up. 3 straight strikeouts against a junk ball pitcher. Then, we decide to kick the ball all around the park in the next half inning. We need to get crap together and start playing ball.
I just saw we had Hufft in for Brumbaugh for defense. Understandable.
However, so many things he did wrong that inning. Should have pinch ran Buttenbach instead of Overbeek. Knowing if you get to Hufft's spot in the order you can pinch hit Overbeek. Since you did pinch run with him, you have to pinch hit Walsh in that situation.
Why do we PH Buttenbach when Brumbaugh flew out to the warning track 2 x today? That was his 6th at bat of the season. I would have rather had Walsh in that spot.
We really got to stop these batters from leaning into pitchers, or trying to get out of the way.
They tried to start policing it, but it's gotten out of control again.
Blowing the 3 run lead in the 9th on Friday was a killer.
This kind of season reminds me a little of 2019. Started the season 21 - 11 and 10 - 2 in conference. Went 3 - 8 in our next 11 before finishing 5 - 1 to finish out the regular season.
Almost need a sweep over Maryland just to get back on track.
The HBP with 2 outs that should have been the 3rd out was awful. I believe it should have counted as a strike making it the 3rd strike. Rutgers goes on to take the lead.
We haven't got the benefits of pitches being called down the middle for balls to get us in hitter's counts.
I know we need to win. I don't know about using Walsh this early. They weren't hitting Christo hard.
Maybe we can score a bunch of runs and save Walsh for Tuesday.