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hskr4life

hskr4life

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Just now, brfrad said:

We have just turned into a Little League team trying to field the ball this inning.  Walsh misses a foul pop-up at 1st base.

 

In the last couple of weeks.  Had been a solid team in the field to this point in time.  One of the top in the country until these last few weeks it feels like.

hskr4life

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Lol-- I guess I see how we're still one of the top fielding teams in the country.  We don't get an error booked when we make an error.  Sorry Bryce was an error.  I count DC's miss at 3rd an error.  I also wish that missed foul pop up could be called an error.

brfrad

brfrad

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7 minutes ago, hskr4life said:

Lol-- I guess I see how we're still one of the top fielding teams in the country.  We don't get an error booked when we make an error.  Sorry Bryce was an error.  I count DC's miss at 3rd an error.  I also wish that missed foul pop up could be called an error.

2 errors should have been called.  Matthews and Walsh should have an error.  A common misconception is most people think you can't give an error on a foul pop-up until you see what the batter does.  The batter did make an out.  However, you can and should give him an error.  The pop-up to 3rd that was lost in the sky is not an error.  The definition is a routine play.  It is not a routine play if you lose it in the sun or sky.

 

Matthews was charged with an error last night on a ball hit deep in the hole.  So, it kind of evens out.

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brfrad

brfrad

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7 minutes ago, hskr4life said:

I know it was early, but maybe we should have been more worried about what happened out there to start the year in Cali.

I don't think that was the worrisome part.  The worrisome part is the inconsistency.  

 

We get swept by San Diego.  Then, we take the next 5 including a win over Vanderbilt.  We demolish the bad teams after a loss to Ole Miss.  Lose to Omaha.  Lose to Nicols and Creighton.  Take 2 of 3 from Illinois and Michigan.  Sweep Northwestern.  Then, get swept by Iowa.  Finally, beat Omaha.  Lose to SDSU.

hskr4life

hskr4life

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Is there any P5 program over the last 5 years that has been as bad as Nebraska’s major men’s sports overall?  Literally, football, basketball, and baseball have been awful.  I thought having Frost, Fred, and Will was a dream scenario, but it has been anything but.

brfrad

brfrad

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20 minutes ago, hskr4life said:

Is there any P5 program over the last 5 years that has been as bad as Nebraska’s major men’s sports overall?  Literally, football, basketball, and baseball have been awful.  I thought having Frost, Fred, and Will was a dream scenario, but it has been anything but.

Frost 5 years 0 .500 or better seasons

Hoiberg 4 years 1 .500 season

Bolt 4th year Has 1 better than .500 season.  Hopefully we can finish this out for 2. 

 

Pretty sad to have 1 .500 season and 1 better than .500 season. 

throwback

throwback

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I absolutely hated our approach at the plate tonight. You've got a SDSU starter who has barely pitched and who has clear control problems, and we are chasing too much and trying to hit everything 500 feet. How that dude had only 65-ish pitches thru 5-2/3 innings is almost criminal. Needed to make him work waaaaay harder than we did.

 

Then that got me thinking. Our offensive approach has been pretty poor for most of the month of April. It's been the same story. Lackadaisical approach at the plate to start games over and over and over. Not sure what our game plan has been, but it ain't working. And now that our weekend starters are showing cracks in the armor, our slow starts offensively are magnified significantly. It seems like we're always behind 2-0, 3-0, 4-0. It's tough to win when you're always fighting from behind in baseball.

 

Kind of explains why we've been struggling so much in the midweeks, as we're always behind it seems like. We haven't had that problem so much on Fridays and Saturdays until lately, but it's becoming a huge problem now.

 

Feels like we spent February and March showing we were a surprise HR hitting team, and now in April, when our bats should be really heating up, we're just kind of taking it for granted that we're going to hit some bombs and come from behind. We need to get back to the basics we had early when we weren't thinking about HRs, and they were just happening.

 

I'm not a rah-rah guy, especially in baseball, but we definitely need more intensity / focus at the start of games. Maybe we need a more stringent plan at the plate that everyone needs to follow, maybe we need to swap Burnham and Matthews in the order, maybe we need to do something different in BP, I'm not sure. 

 

Sometimes, it's hard when your two best players make it look so easy and are laid-back players. The rest of the team kind of takes on that same mentality / approach, but those other guys need a bit more focus.

 

Starting to feel like that leadership vacuum we had last year is rearing its ugly head again now. We were hiding it with great starting weekend pitching and tons of bombs for quite a while, but with the season on the line, it's slipping away. I'm not sure who the 'enforcer' is on this team, and it's probably too late to find one at this point. It's tough when your 5th-year senior hitters don't really have a significant role for them to live up to their captaincies.  Maybe Efry can get them going - he is hitting better of late and getting more playing time and he's a guy that will show a little fire.

 

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It was great to see Christo pitch so well last night and Sears tonight. If I'm the coaches, I'm starting Christo Sunday and I'm giving Sears consideration as a weekend starter, too, if Kaminska can't get it back. Christo and Sears have electric arms, maybe the best arms on the team, so to get them going would be a big, big help heading into the postseason. We're kind of at the point where we can't worry about a bad outing from one of those guys on the weekend setting them back mentally. We're down to crunch time, and they can either help us in the postseason or they can't. Might as well try it while they both have a shot of confidence.

 

Also should mention SDSU played a very solid game and definitely deserved to win. But at some point the opponent outplaying us / wanting it more than us has to stop. We have way too much talent for those kinds of things to happen, especially in the midweek. To me, it all comes back to lackadaisical approaches at the plate early in games.

 

AuroranHusker

AuroranHusker

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1 hour ago, throwback said:

I absolutely hated our approach at the plate tonight. You've got a SDSU starter who has barely pitched and who has clear control problems, and we are chasing too much and trying to hit everything 500 feet. How that dude had only 65-ish pitches thru 5-2/3 innings is almost criminal. Needed to make him work waaaaay harder than we did.

 

Then that got me thinking. Our offensive approach has been pretty poor for most of the month of April. It's been the same story. Lackadaisical approach at the plate to start games over and over and over. Not sure what our game plan has been, but it ain't working. And now that our weekend starters are showing cracks in the armor, our slow starts offensively are magnified significantly. It seems like we're always behind 2-0, 3-0, 4-0. It's tough to win when you're always fighting from behind in baseball.

 

Kind of explains why we've been struggling so much in the midweeks, as we're always behind it seems like. We haven't had that problem so much on Fridays and Saturdays until lately, but it's becoming a huge problem now.

 

Feels like we spent February and March showing we were a surprise HR hitting team, and now in April, when our bats should be really heating up, we're just kind of taking it for granted that we're going to hit some bombs and come from behind. We need to get back to the basics we had early when we weren't thinking about HRs, and they were just happening.

 

I'm not a rah-rah guy, especially in baseball, but we definitely need more intensity / focus at the start of games. Maybe we need a more stringent plan at the plate that everyone needs to follow, maybe we need to swap Burnham and Matthews in the order, maybe we need to do something different in BP, I'm not sure. 

 

Sometimes, it's hard when your two best players make it look so easy and are laid-back players. The rest of the team kind of takes on that same mentality / approach, but those other guys need a bit more focus.

 

Starting to feel like that leadership vacuum we had last year is rearing its ugly head again now. We were hiding it with great starting weekend pitching and tons of bombs for quite a while, but with the season on the line, it's slipping away. I'm not sure who the 'enforcer' is on this team, and it's probably too late to find one at this point. It's tough when your 5th-year senior hitters don't really have a significant role for them to live up to their captaincies.  Maybe Efry can get them going - he is hitting better of late and getting more playing time and he's a guy that will show a little fire.

 

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It was great to see Christo pitch so well last night and Sears tonight. If I'm the coaches, I'm starting Christo Sunday and I'm giving Sears consideration as a weekend starter, too, if Kaminska can't get it back. Christo and Sears have electric arms, maybe the best arms on the team, so to get them going would be a big, big help heading into the postseason. We're kind of at the point where we can't worry about a bad outing from one of those guys on the weekend setting them back mentally. We're down to crunch time, and they can either help us in the postseason or they can't. Might as well try it while they both have a shot of confidence.

 

Also should mention SDSU played a very solid game and definitely deserved to win. But at some point the opponent outplaying us / wanting it more than us has to stop. We have way too much talent for those kinds of things to happen, especially in the midweek. To me, it all comes back to lackadaisical approaches at the plate early in games.

 

 

 

Agreed, the term for this squad is definitely lackadaisical, it sadly hits the nail on the head. It's not too late to change the trajectory, but it is getting late in the ballgame....

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