2017 Nebraska Baseball

[brfrad]

Why would you bring in your closer with a 7 run lead when you have a big conference series this weekend?

[Bugeaters1]

Why would you bring in your closer with a 7 run lead when you have a big conference series this weekend?

He's not the closer people, Alvarado is.


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[brfrad]

1 minute ago, Bugeaters1 said:

He's not the closer people, Alvarado is.


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I think it depends on the situation.  I could very possibly see them using Alvarado as the closer.  It is a weird reason for this.  They don't want to lose his bat by bringing him in the 7th or 8th inning, and then bringing Luensmann in for the 9th.  You would need to replace him with someone in left field.  If you put him back in left field, you lose the replacement.   If you want to keep the replacement, then you lose Alvarado's bat.

 

I think Luensmann should be the closer, but he should only be used for one inning, and in some circumstances two innings.  I think using him multiple innings is ineffective because you only get him for one shot on the weekend.  Luckily, our bullpen is pretty deep with pitchers who can close games. 

[Bugeaters1]

Looks more like he Is a set up guy. But you do bring up some valid points. I'm just going by the fact that he has been used as the closer role yet. But it is a long season.

 

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[brfrad]

I guess trying to get Luensmann some confidence for the conference season, would be fine. 

[Bugeaters1]

Chad's body language looks a lot better tonight.

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[khoock]

Good win today. Excited for BIG Ten play! 

[huskerbaseball13]

7 hours ago, khoock said:

Good win today. Excited for BIG Ten play! 

 

Nice to see the bats break out a bit.  A series win this weekend would go a long ways.  Indiana is one of our last chances to get quality wins.  Hopefully they can get all three games in.  Look's rainy in Bloomington. 

[The Polish Rifle]

Iowa (14-9) with 4 games against NAIA teams on the schedule, played 0 top 25 teams, schedule has included Alabama State (x2), Moorehead State, Bucknell, Lehigh (x2), Villanova and Purdue (x3) and still have a RPI 40 spots higher than us. File that under things that piss me off every year. 

[huskerbaseball13]

13 hours ago, The Polish Rifle said:

Iowa (14-9) with 4 games against NAIA teams on the schedule, played 0 top 25 teams, schedule has included Alabama State (x2), Moorehead State, Bucknell, Lehigh (x2), Villanova and Purdue (x3) and still have a RPI 40 spots higher than us. File that under things that piss me off every year. 

 

The NAIA games don't count towards their record so really...they are 12-9.  With that said, their RPI number and SOS really boils down to just one series....the series vs USF.  USF is 23-3 and that record does wonders for Iowa's RPI.  Throw in...some of the teams we have played that are a normally strong program are having a down year (Western Carolina/Charleston.) 

[HB]

Lose Eddins for the year.   Not good.

[brfrad]

On ‎3‎/‎30‎/‎2017 at 7:47 PM, HB said:

Lose Eddins for the year.   Not good.

That really hurts for our mid-week games.  We want Waldron to be available for the weekend, so we don't want him to go long in the mid-week.

[brfrad]

We need this game.  Need to find a way to get at least 1 in the 8th.  It's the difference between a regional team, and staying home.

[Bugeaters1]

We got it.

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[brfrad]

8 minutes ago, Bugeaters1 said:

We got it.

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And then some.  We hit half our total of home runs.

[Bugeaters1]

So who gets the call in the 9th?

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[HB]

Let's hold on here!  

[brfrad]

2 minutes ago, Bugeaters1 said:

So who gets the call in the 9th?

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I let Fischer come back out, and if anybody gets on base, Luensmann comes in.

[Bugeaters1]

I didn't like Fisher in coming in but he did the job.

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[Bugeaters1]

Alvarado to finish it.

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[Bugeaters1]

I'm wrong you called it Fisher for now.

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[brfrad]

Why use him if you don't have to?   Fischer pitched pretty well in the 8th and you have a 4 run lead.  If you don't use him, and Fischer gets through the 9th, you can have Luensmann and Alvarado available for the final 2 games of the series. 

 

Sorry, I didn't see they left Fischer in the game.

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[Bugeaters1]

I was going by what the PBP. guy was saying about Alvarado.

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[Bugeaters1]

Well Luensman Is in.

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[Bugeaters1]

Well 1 pitch 1 out. Now get the series win tommorrow.

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