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Ricky Peral
Nice job getting rid of the coach the won 3 ACC Championships Wellman. Now we can't even make the ACCT.
Getting rid of Greer reminds me of flushing Dino. Anybody with any success has to go.
Nice job getting rid of the coach the won 3 ACC Championships Wellman. Now we can't even make the ACCT.
Bottom 9 2 outs up by one with a runner on third. Walking that guy intentionally put the winning run on base. An extra force out at second was mitigated by him stealing second on the first pitch of the at bat (catcher didn't attempt to throw him out at 2nd because of runner on 3rd). That puts two guys in scoring position, up 1 with 2 outs in the bottom of the ninth. Boneheaded coaching decision. I've never seen anything like that in all the years I've played or watched baseball.
Getting rid of Greer reminds me of flushing Dino. Anybody with any success has to go.
And while Walter has made some questionable decisions, at the end of the day our players need to step up and make plays in the clutch.
That 6 run inning in game two had a fielding error by the CF that would have ended the game and almost cost us that game as well.
Somebody said that we could have gotten out of the Clemson big inning in that game we blew Sunday but made an error in the field.
We just don't play fundamentally sound baseball and it shows up in the clutch and costs us games.
People who know way more about college baseball than I do....should we be attempting to manufacture runs the way that our coaching staff insists on doing so?
I've always thought it was dumb as hell to sacrifice an out in pretty much any situation to get a runner to second, especially when we have what seems to be a fair amount of good hitters on the team.
Almost every time we get a runner on first with less than two outs we try to bunt him to second. Seems extremely counterproductive to me.
The final play from Friday is on the Notre Dame site's set of 'highlights' from the game here. It really doesn't give a great view of the throw, despite having a pair of different angles.
The game that got away against Clemson - the play that would have erased a huge Clemson inning wasn't an error, but a dropped foui popup that would have been an incredible play by Christian Bartholomew. The batter for Clemson, Chris Okey, was a right hander and the popup drifted toward the 3rd base dugout. Wake catcher Ben Breazeale didn't get a good view of it off the bat, and Bartholomew made a great run at it. He slid and got a glove on it, but couldn't hold on. Next pitch - grand slam home run instead of the 3rd out. Wake led 8-6 before the grand slam, and lost 13-8, but were just one out away from turning it over to Donnie Sellers for the potential 2-inning save.