Other than Hughes, I haven’t been impressed by anyone out of the bullpen. English has been roughed up twice in a row, as has Gibson. No one besides Hughes has gotten any meaningful innings that I can recall.
Obviously, it’s a HUGE problem as this makes two blown games (NW, Miami) where we really should have won. It’s the difference between being decent and really good.
My prediction is another L tomorrow. Usually in a 3 game series between comparable teams each team wins one solidly and the 3rd game is close, hard fought and decides the series. Tonight was our chance.
Keep hearing how great our pitching is. Keep seeing our bullpen blow games. Talent is there. Performance is not. Coaching?
At least with the time change, the end will come quicker today.
I expect us to lose but hope we win. I think it will be a blowout one way or the other since both games have been so close.
Right now I think we are an average ACC team which should get us into the NCAAs to go to someone else's (Florida) regional. Maybe we get a lot better
relative to other teams, the pieces are there from a player standpoint. But Hall is still coaching like we don't have pitching depth.
The Miami announcers were pretty good last night; they called out the weaknesses on the Miami team - mostly fielding. They also were questioning why Gibson stayed in to go through the batting order a second time. I thought Gibson was a bad choice when I heard he came in; other than the first and last batter, he proved me wrong.
What I still can't believe is that we didn't have anyone warming up in the bullpen.
In any event, one more good pitch, or a better defensive play in the game to reduce the number of batters and
we would be celebrating our first ACC road series win in years. Miami gave us chances, their LF is awful at tracking down the ball. Maybe it was the wind, but Murray did a much better job in LF.
