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Gator Baseball Gator Baseball: UF vs. Vanderbilt
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Wet night but a nice win for the good guys. Singer was good, but not his best nite control wise as his pitch count got high early, but he was very good in tough spots. Got to him late with 2 balls at the wall and one over the wall, but for the most part he was good. Gators slow start offensively but VU pitcher was good and thanx to some catcher miscues and shoddy D by Vandy we got 2 runs. However we again failed in 2 consecutive innings to get a runner home from 3rd base with less than 2 outs which would have given us a 3 run cushion. One of those poor at bats was by India (surprisingly), however he obviously was PO'ed and in his next at bat crushed a 2-runner homer to give us a 5 run lead. That is the sign of a great player. Remember the poor previous at bat and use it to your advantage next time. Nicely done. Sorry we had to go to Byrne after having a 6 run lead but he did not throw too many pitches. Noon start today and would be nice to win the series today!
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Nice win for the good guys in a strange game to ensure the series. Now time to get greedy and get out the brooms. Close game until the bottom of the 7th when a horrendous defensive play by Vandy opened the floodgates. Vandy is usually good defensively, but in these first 2 games they have been awful and practically gave us the game in the 1st inning. Bottom 1st, 2 out, runners on 1st and 2nd and JJ at plate with a 3-1 count. India takes off from 1st base (inexplicably) on next pitch and Liput stayed at 2nd. Catcher throws down to 2nd base, who runs India towards 1st base and throws to 1st baseman. Liput then takes off for 3rd base and instead of the 1st baseman keeping India in run down to end the inning, he throws to 3rd base where he short hops the throw, allowing Liput to 3rd and India to 2nd. JJ then singles to center scoring 2 runs. Our mistake should have ended the inning but Vandy's blunder gave us life and JJ delivered. JJ also had a beautiful double down the right field line in the 7th. Would love for JJ to hit more balls up the middle and to right,
Bottom 7th, leading 3-1. Dalton singles in a run and JJ doubles him in, making it 5-1. Breathing room but still a game. Langworthy then skies a pop between home plate and pitcher's mound where 4 Vandy infielders converge and the 3rd baseman makes the attempt. any of them could have caught it, but it looked like the Bad News Bears with Walter Mattheau as coach. That hit ( they actually scored it a hit, LOL), led to Bell's 3 run dinger 2 batters later and it was over. The good thing today was we were able to score when given those opportunities and that is big in the SEC.
Kowar was good, tho his pitch count got high with a few unnecessary walks, but other than that he was solid. Bullpen is fresh but hopefully we will not need them much tomorrow and Dyson can be solid. India looked like he tweaked his knee in his last at bat, but hopefully it is nothing serious. Can't afford to lose him!
Bottom 7th, leading 3-1. Dalton singles in a run and JJ doubles him in, making it 5-1. Breathing room but still a game. Langworthy then skies a pop between home plate and pitcher's mound where 4 Vandy infielders converge and the 3rd baseman makes the attempt. any of them could have caught it, but it looked like the Bad News Bears with Walter Mattheau as coach. That hit ( they actually scored it a hit, LOL), led to Bell's 3 run dinger 2 batters later and it was over. The good thing today was we were able to score when given those opportunities and that is big in the SEC.
Kowar was good, tho his pitch count got high with a few unnecessary walks, but other than that he was solid. Bullpen is fresh but hopefully we will not need them much tomorrow and Dyson can be solid. India looked like he tweaked his knee in his last at bat, but hopefully it is nothing serious. Can't afford to lose him!
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Thanks for the report! Winning series is great and if they can manage a sweep it’s even better. As good as the SEC is, every win is huge.
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but weren't all seven runs today scored with two outs?
Ocalaman
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You are correct.
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Sunday, Watching ... wow. 4-0 Gators in first !
Dawned on me :
1) Our Gators play the way that made long ago baseball "America's Game" = kid-like excitement for our fans.
2) It's hitting that makes baseball embraceable by spectators.
3) The heroics that engage us very much comes from runners churning for that extra base.
4) Our guys have been highly successful at stealing second.
5) In College baseball "crack" refers to the crack of the bat, not drugs.
6) College baseball players show "normal" balanced growth -- in the range of 5'11", 195 lbs.
Dawned on me :
1) Our Gators play the way that made long ago baseball "America's Game" = kid-like excitement for our fans.
2) It's hitting that makes baseball embraceable by spectators.
3) The heroics that engage us very much comes from runners churning for that extra base.
4) Our guys have been highly successful at stealing second.
5) In College baseball "crack" refers to the crack of the bat, not drugs.
6) College baseball players show "normal" balanced growth -- in the range of 5'11", 195 lbs.
Ocalaman
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Exactly right. Baseball is a long season and I hope they're not peaking too soon. It's not always the most talented team that wins the CWS, but the one who gets hot at the right time. We've had much more talented teams in the past than last year's national champs. They do look great in all phases of the game, but we have to wait and see how it all plays out.
- Nov 19, 2014
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Series sweep for the good guys, but man that game was dragging that even I had to leave with the Gators up 6 runs. Every starter had a hit except JJ, but he did line out hard to 2nd base and hit a rope to left field that the Vandy defender made a great catch on. But JJ had a good weekend with the bat (as did the entire team) as he used all fields and hope he continues taht. Dyson loaded the bases in the 5th inning and with one out, Butler came on and got a strike out then a weak grounder that he had to field on the run and made a nice play to shut the door and that was the last gasp Vandy had. Vandy did not look nearly as good as they have in the past 5 or so years so I think they were a bit overrated, but nonetheless, a great weekend for the good guys and a series sweep is very difficult in this league, Tuesday at home against FGCU and then next weekend at the Tinerc HillBillys!
- Jun 14, 2014
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What in the world did the hitting coach do in the off-season ? This is a totally different contact hitting team. Can't help thinking abandoning that stupid show-bunt pre-pitch crap involves an attacking-the-pitch mindset ? Can't help but think this won't fade as the season progresses. Got several HR hitters. Opposing star pitcher can give up only 4 hits yet we get 4 winning runs. Maybe this team roars into post-season without a long slump-streak like last year ??
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JJ was hard luck today for sure, but he had two "quality at bats". Unfortunately those don't show up in his batting average but it's a metric a lot of coaches are using now. Anyho, damn those boys played well this weekend.
