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gtrower said:
Tech going for the sweep, dwags staring down the barrel of an 0-4 week. Screw RPI, this is glorious.
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Yes, life is great in college baseball this week. Lucy has the flu ........

Up to #6 in rpi this morning. Hard to believe where we are right now. At a dinner party last night, I pointed out that we are 9th of 297 teams. Anyway, that points out there is a lot more downside when you are at the top; but ain't it beautiful. We win today we pick up 7 rpi points, we lose and we lose 58. ugag is 5th and only 48 points in front. How about we win and they lose......... again. Rinse and repeat.

Interesting Chapman came back the next day and pitched great again. He had pitched a total of 9 innings all year before Friday. Now up to 11. I love giving guys a chance in limited doses. 2 ER from a HBP and a double followed by sacs. Willingham had a HBP too, but the DP in the 8th had to crush Clemson.

No problems "earning or deserving" that win. While GT and Clemson had 14 hits each, Clemson gave up 7 BB to our 2. (Both teams had 2 HBP.) So walks killed Clemson in the end. We got away with two errors which is always worrying.

For today's game, Clemson has to be depleted in pitchers. I don't have the Friday stats on pitch count, but Clemson used 5 pitchers to our four. Yesterday they used 5 to our 3 (and Chapman was a repeat.) Yesterday we saw 165 pitches (20.6 per inning in 8 innings!!) and Clemson saw 146 (16.2 per inning in 9 innings). In total Clemson has used 10 pitchers but two have only faced one hitter. So we have the advantage. But the baseball Gods are cruel. Just not yesterday.:D
 

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GTNavyNuke said:
Yes, life is great in college baseball this week. Lucy has the flu ........

Up to #6 in rpi this morning. Hard to believe where we are right now. At a dinner party last night, I pointed out that we are 9th of 297 teams. Anyway, that points out there is a lot more downside when you are at the top; but ain't it beautiful. We win today we pick up 7 rpi points, we lose and we lose 58. ugag is 5th and only 48 points in front. How about we win and they lose......... again. Rinse and repeat.

Interesting Chapman came back the next day and pitched great again. He had pitched a total of 9 innings all year before Friday. Now up to 11. I love giving guys a chance in limited doses. 2 ER from a HBP and a double followed by sacs. Willingham had a HBP too, but the DP in the 8th had to crush Clemson.

No problems "earning or deserving" that win. While GT and Clemson had 14 hits each, Clemson gave up 7 BB to our 2. (Both teams had 2 HBP.) So walks killed Clemson in the end. We got away with two errors which is always worrying.

For today's game, Clemson has to be depleted in pitchers. I don't have the Friday stats on pitch count, but Clemson used 5 pitchers to our four. Yesterday they used 5 to our 3 (and Chapman was a repeat.) Yesterday we saw 165 pitches (20.6 per inning in 8 innings!!) and Clemson saw 146 (16.2 per inning in 9 innings). In total Clemson has used 10 pitchers but two have only faced one hitter. So we have the advantage. But the baseball Gods are cruel. Just not yesterday.:D
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Since willingham pitches yesterday, gotta assume that Brandt is good to go today, right?
 

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GTNavyNuke said:
Yes, life is great in college baseball this week. Lucy has the flu ........

Up to #6 in rpi this morning. Hard to believe where we are right now. At a dinner party last night, I pointed out that we are 9th of 297 teams. Anyway, that points out there is a lot more downside when you are at the top; but ain't it beautiful. We win today we pick up 7 rpi points, we lose and we lose 58. ugag is 5th and only 48 points in front. How about we win and they lose......... again. Rinse and repeat.

Interesting Chapman came back the next day and pitched great again. He had pitched a total of 9 innings all year before Friday. Now up to 11. I love giving guys a chance in limited doses. 2 ER from a HBP and a double followed by sacs. Willingham had a HBP too, but the DP in the 8th had to crush Clemson.

No problems "earning or deserving" that win. While GT and Clemson had 14 hits each, Clemson gave up 7 BB to our 2. (Both teams had 2 HBP.) So walks killed Clemson in the end. We got away with two errors which is always worrying.

For today's game, Clemson has to be depleted in pitchers. I don't have the Friday stats on pitch count, but Clemson used 5 pitchers to our four. Yesterday they used 5 to our 3 (and Chapman was a repeat.) Yesterday we saw 165 pitches (20.6 per inning in 8 innings!!) and Clemson saw 146 (16.2 per inning in 9 innings). In total Clemson has used 10 pitchers but two have only faced one hitter. So we have the advantage. But the baseball Gods are cruel. Just not yesterday.:D
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Yea on RPI, comparing GT to uGA really gives you a sense of the screwiness of the formula. We’re almost identical in record, and they’re just a hair ahead in the rankings. But then look at how they are well over 100 in OOC SOS. They’re 15-1 in Q4 games and we’ve played half that many. There is a huge downside to losing bad games, but the best I can tell you don’t get any penalty for scheduling soft as long as you win. Play 0.500 in conference and runbthe table against terrible teams and you’ll be ranked highly.
 

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Yea on RPI, comparing GT to uGA really gives you a sense of the screwiness of the formula. We’re almost identical in record, and they’re just a hair ahead in the rankings. But then look at how they are well over 100 in OOC SOS. They’re 15-1 in Q4 games and we’ve played half that many. There is a huge downside to losing bad games, but the best I can tell you don’t get any penalty for scheduling soft as long as you win. Play 0.500 in conference and runbthe table against terrible teams and you’ll be ranked highly.
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I'd be more concerned with gaming RPI if that was all they use to seed. But at the end of the year, they can look at our record, RPI, and series wins against good teams. We'll be the beneficiaries of aiming high.

Not too mention we're now battle-hardened. It's not like the teams we see in the regional will catch us off guard when they throw their best. We beat UCLA's Friday night starter. Louisville too. That's pretty cool.
 
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We have won 2 games this weekend "the old fashioned [GT] way"... by giving up 7 & 8 runs, respectively ...& simply scoring more... by all means possible.

I'd recommend a more balanced approach to ensure a sweep today... #1 priority, keep lead off man off the bases.
 
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GTNavyNuke said:
Hurter to start.

English at 1st, Webb at 3rd, Guldberg dh. Rest standard.

Can English go from 1st to dh to pitcher? Or 1st to pitcher to dh?

Going to chat.
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I think you can do this... switch Guldberg & English (DH & 1B).. to keep them both in batting order... but if English goes from DH to pitch... the DH is burned. ...but I'm on record as being stumped/unsure on DH/P... sub subtleties.
 
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FredJacket said:
I think you can do this... switch Guldberg & English (DH & 1B).. to keep them both in batting order... but if English goes from DH to pitch... the DH is burned. ...but I'm on record as being stumped/unsure on DH/P... sub subtleties.
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I'm pretty sure that we have done that with English before.
 
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bwelbo said:
Since the stupid idiot dwags couldn't figure it out, here one more time is the scouting report for how to pitch to Kyle McCann:
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And if you don't pay attention, here is what happens:
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Clemson has not figured this out either.
Count 0-2: Do NOT pitch to him
 
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English just got HBP on the right hand. Stayed in the game but looked like it hurt.

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I’m so glad we won the first 2. That would have sucked to need this one for the series and then give up 6 in the 8th.

Clemson played pretty well all 3 games and put up a lot of runs. I think they played better than 2/3rds of the ACC did against us. And didn’t leave with much to show for it.
 

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They left with a win, which is what all ACC teams have left the weekend with except Miami, who were lucky to get away with 2.
 

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Yup. We went 3-1 on the week. Another great week. It’s great that the only thing between us and a top 5 RPI is not closing even more victories out.
 
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