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Nebraska (10-12) vs. USC (13-9) Series Game Thread

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throwback
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Sigh. Just can't get any momentum going.   This may not be very popular, but it's time for the coaches to stop eff-ing around with the lineup and rely on the vets who won the jobs in fall an

AuroranHusker
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NU-USC game tonight is going to be broadcast on FS1 at 8:30 pm.

hskr4life
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How in the F do you get picked off at 3rd. And then a single would have brought him in.

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The most frustrating part of this team is we are the worst at fundamentals.  Case in point.  Getting picked off 3rd base can never happen.   Carey has been picked off 1st, 2nd, and 3rd this year.  Congratulations!  Nunez tries to go to 2nd in a ball the catcher blocks.  Gets thrown out by 5 steps.  I can live with losing if we are unlucky.   I am sick of losing when we beat ourselves.

hskr4life

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  On 3/22/2025 at 5:07 AM, brfrad said:

The most frustrating part of this team is we are the worst at fundamentals.  Case in point.  Getting picked off 3rd base can never happen.   Carey has been picked off 1st, 2nd, and 3rd this year.  Congratulations!  Nunez tries to go to 2nd in a ball the catcher blocks.  Gets thrown out by 5 steps.  I can live with losing if we are unlucky.   I am sick of losing when we beat ourselves.

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That pick off directly cost us a run. Instead of 4-4 with a guy on 1st and 1 out, we get 3-4, a meaningless single, and out of inning.

 

Pitching did well enough to keep us in the game. They scored 3 after an error. So….

throwback

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Same old, same old. 2 baserunners total in 8 of the innings, and one of them gets thrown out by a mile trying to take second. And then in the one inning USC makes a defensive mistake and we get something going, we get back-picked at 3rd base with less than 2 outs. Unbelievably bad baseball.

 

Sad part is the pitching staff has been pretty solid, even without Mac.

 

Offense is beyond trash. From the 5th inning on, we hit two balls out of the infield. Little League stuff. And USC didn't even use its awesome closer yet.

 

And I hate to pick on Carey, who's been great at short and is one of the only guys making solid contact right now, but I believe he completed one of the rarest of hat tricks last night - I think he's now been picked off all three bases this season, and we're not even halfway through yet. The number of Huskers who have that "honor" throughout school history has to be incredibly small. 

 

Maybe we're so bad at running the basis because we hardly ever get on base? 🤔 Something to ponder while waiting to see what path we take toward our 3-run outburst today.

 

throwback

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  On 3/22/2025 at 5:07 AM, brfrad said:

The most frustrating part of this team is we are the worst at fundamentals.  Case in point.  Getting picked off 3rd base can never happen.   Carey has been picked off 1st, 2nd, and 3rd this year.  Congratulations!  Nunez tries to go to 2nd in a ball the catcher blocks.  Gets thrown out by 5 steps.  I can live with losing if we are unlucky.   I am sick of losing when we beat ourselves.

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Good points - I mean I kind of get the baserunners feel like they have to try to be aggressive and make something happen when we're so bad at getting clutch hits. But this isn't high school. Division I teams are going to make the right play when you're overaggressive on the bases 9 times out of 10. Gotta be smarter about it. 

 

Just another symptom of a team that has no confidence in its teammates to come through in the clutch. Everyone is trying to do too much.

 

And at some point, the base coaches have to start owning all these pickoffs.

 

brfrad

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Another run given up due to lack of fundamentals.   Fail to hold the baserunner.  Then, let a ball drop.

 

The baserunner had a jump where he was halfway to 2nd.

 

Ben McLaughlin with the biggest lie in baseball history.  We had a couple hard hit balls today.  🤣🤣🤣

brfrad

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4th inning 

 

Weak chopper to 3rd

Solid single to center

Solid single to right 

Foul out to catcher (tried to do too much)

(Actual competitive at bat)  Fly ball dropped by the centerfielder.  Given a double?  That was generous.  Tie game.

Double roped down the rightfield line. Lead 4 - 2

Weak grounder to 3rd.

 

 

 

Maybe I should keep doing this.

 

brfrad

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6th inning

 

Weak ground ball to 3rd. Throwing error

Ground ball to 1st Fielder's choice

Chopper to 3rd  Fielder's choice

Solid single to center

Weak ground ball to 3rd. 3rd basemen wins race to bag

 

This stopped working.  Might need a break.

 

 

Bugeaters1

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  On 3/22/2025 at 10:31 PM, brfrad said:

6th inning

 

Weak ground ball to 3rd. Throwing error

Ground ball to 1st Fielder's choice

Chopper to 3rd  Fielder's choice

Solid single to center

Weak ground ball to 3rd. 3rd basemen wins race to bag

 

This stopped working.  Might need a break.

 

 

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Need a basketball jones on the baseball side.

 

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