Lot of freedom giving to runners on aggressiveness on the bases so I gotta think that is on Hellum, I'm with you just not worth the risk in that situation.
I had the exact same thought. I like that Hellum rewarded the start with the double (...and triple later), but I really thought they would pinch hit there with Cole or Akin.
Agree. I did see Gandossy talking to Hellum in the dugout after that half inning (not yelling or anything, but did appear to be talking about it).
I was at the game so I wasn't sure what they were checking, but thought it probably was whether the batter touched the safety bag or white bag as Goldy mentioned, but how can it that take so long...?. And my favorite part is the umps huddle up, come back to McDevitt to I guess say they can't/will not review (?), he says something, they huddle up again, and now they do decide to review it..???
If Gophers and MSU finish 11-19, Iowa finishing in the top 8 (+ ties) would help MSU, as Spartans were 2-1 vs. Iowa, the Gophers 1-2.
You shouldn't include Illinois at this time. If there's a 3-way tie for 12th spot and:
Thanks.
You raise an interesting question. I didn't pay any mind to the "tied or not" comment.
Probably the reason they didn’t trust putting Carey on and loading the bases like I thought they might for the left/left. I did think Hunt should’ve been more aggressive going after that slider though.
He has since deleted the tweet and now going with the win % against the top 8.
The hiring of McDevitt is on him. That should speak volumes about how serious he takes the program. Need a national name that can recruit if you want to be a serious contender.
If you are talking serious contender like in the national tournament year in and year out you need to put a lot more scholarships into baseball, we are nowhere near the 34 you could give out if administration wanted too.
Thanks for the insight. So then, why have a program to be mediocre or worse every year.
Just so many close losses, had to be like 5-15 in 1 or 3 run games. They played a lot of good baseball but that didn’t always lead to the result. The situational hitting those first 3 weeks of conference play were killer.
I saw softball used the same tiebreaker except it was top 12 (+ ties), which would match the tournament field and also give a larger set of results to compare. I have no idea why they chose 8.
Execution late in games. Few different times we had runner on 3rd less than 2 out either down by 1 or tied late in a conference game and couldn't score him, just a few weeks ago at Penn State I think it was Hellum got on Spanier showed bunt got a wild pitch to get Hellum to 2nd, Spanier bunted him to 3rd and Hamilton and Neels had shots to tie it but couldn't get the job done.> This team underachieved and that is very disappointing.
> They played a lot of good baseball but that didn’t always lead to the result.
Coach McDevitt mentioned on some podcast I think he wanted the team to be one that hit home runs, stole bases, could pitch and was sound defensively. One could argue they checked a lot of those boxes. They finished the conference 6th in HRs, T5th in SBs, 5th in ERA, 4th in WHIP, 5th in BAA, 8th in FldPct. We were +14 in run differential...and yet it all added up to an 11-19 record.