Yeah, these announcer "experts" keep talking about how the big league potential upside of Kowar is so great and I agree that when he's on he's unhittable. But I'd take consistent, tough Singer if I was a MLB owner. Looking forward to seeing how Leftwich does tomorrow in a big setting on the road.With Gators being so dominant, Sullivan has the luxury of "polishing" his pitching arms, getting ready for tournament time. However, when Kowar "falls off" after 5-6 innings, he goes terrible.
Good analysis. Reese has played above his level most of the year and has tailed off at the plate and in the field the last couple of weeks. JJ, Liput and India are steady and will be there in the clutch. I can't remember Maldanado ever having a 2-3 week stretch where he's struggled like he has of late. And I'll be interested to see how Dalton handles the pressure of post season play. He strikes out a lot and his BA has dipped quite a bit the last month. Brady Smith is really coming on as a freshman and Langworthy has brought his average above .300 after a real slow start. They need close out the last 7 games strong to keep their #1 or #2 seed in the NCAA's.Gators drop series finale 7-3, but win the series nonetheless. A few takeaways from today's game only was that Indy seemed to swing a better bat than the previous 2 games. Even tho Leftwich took the loss, he was not that terrible. He had a very rough 2nd inning where he threw almost 40 pitches and gave up 3 runs, but many of those pitches were fouled off it seemed like. He throws plenty hard, but his ball does not quite have a lot of movement, thus not many swing and misses. With that said he only gave up 2 solo HR's after the 2nd and departed after 6 full innings trailing 5-3. The best thing about his outing is I believe he yielded ZERO walks. So even tho he had a long 2nd inning, he did not shy away from throwing strikes. And in most Game 3 SEC series, solo HR's will not beat you. We were still in the game until the bottom of the 7th when with 2 outs and 2 Aggie runners, the hitter skied a popup to short CF. It appeared there was NO communication between anyone and it was clearly Horvath's ball. he was a bit late and as he reached out I know he could see Liput who practically ran under him. Yes Horvath was charged with the error, but Liput was in a bad spot and I have to attribute that to poor communication. Also defensively, Reese badly misplayed 2 relatively easy grounders to 2nd base, although I don't think he was charged with an error. And even being down 4 runs, we managed to get the tying run to the on deck circle in the 9th after the first 2 hitters reached base, but it never seemed like we were going to break thru.
Winning the series at A&M makes it a good weekend. I presume Dyson will start Tuesday nite to see if he can harness his ball movement and throw strikes. He has too good of an arm not to be contributing in a big way late in the season.
Certainly was poor communication, but I believe that is on Horvath. He should have called everyone off the instant he sees that he can get it.Gators drop series finale 7-3, but win the series nonetheless. A few takeaways from today's game only was that Indy seemed to swing a better bat than the previous 2 games. Even tho Leftwich took the loss, he was not that terrible. He had a very rough 2nd inning where he threw almost 40 pitches and gave up 3 runs, but many of those pitches were fouled off it seemed like. He throws plenty hard, but his ball does not quite have a lot of movement, thus not many swing and misses. With that said he only gave up 2 solo HR's after the 2nd and departed after 6 full innings trailing 5-3. The best thing about his outing is I believe he yielded ZERO walks. So even tho he had a long 2nd inning, he did not shy away from throwing strikes. And in most Game 3 SEC series, solo HR's will not beat you. We were still in the game until the bottom of the 7th when with 2 outs and 2 Aggie runners, the hitter skied a popup to short CF. It appeared there was NO communication between anyone and it was clearly Horvath's ball. he was a bit late and as he reached out I know he could see Liput who practically ran under him. Yes Horvath was charged with the error, but Liput was in a bad spot and I have to attribute that to poor communication. Also defensively, Reese badly misplayed 2 relatively easy grounders to 2nd base, although I don't think he was charged with an error. And even being down 4 runs, we managed to get the tying run to the on deck circle in the 9th after the first 2 hitters reached base, but it never seemed like we were going to break thru.
Winning the series at A&M makes it a good weekend. I presume Dyson will start Tuesday nite to see if he can harness his ball movement and throw strikes. He has too good of an arm not to be contributing in a big way late in the season.