The big thing I noticed is both Faedo and Singer average almost 7 innings per start. So, it's important to jump on them early. Their closer has been lights out for them. Faedo leads the conference in strike outs but I feel like UK is a good two strike hitting team. Outside of their closer, the bullpen has an era over 3.
Right, but is that mostly thanks to poor midweek games or is it because of doing poorly on Sunday or what? If their two starters are averaging almost 7 innings an outing, and their closer is averaging around 2 innings per outing then it doesn't leave a whole lot of space in there for their bullpen to give up runs. At least not on Friday and Saturday.
It seems like Florida is prone to give up some hits. Opponents hit .247 against them, so we should be able to possibly string together some hits. It is just really hard to say what will happen. The best hitting teams in the SEC are: Kentucky (.322), LSU (.292), Miss. State (.287), Arkansas (.284), TAMU (.278), and Auburn (.278). Florida has only played two of those top 6 teams this season, and both of those happened a long time ago back in March. Against LSU they gave up just 1 run in the first two games on a combined 13 hits, before giving up 10 runs in the Sunday game on 12 hits (most in the 8th inning). On the first weekend against Florida they got rocked on Friday and gave up 14 runs with Feado getting knocked out in the 5th with 6 earned runs. They bounced back and held Auburn's offense in check and only gave up 2 runs in the second game, but lost 2-1 on 5 hits before giving up 10 hits in a 5-6 loss on Sunday. So, that is nice information, but doesn't tell us a whole lot.
You have Vandy who hit .277, but that series is a bit of an anomaly considering that Florida scored a combined 30 runs in 3 games (20 on Sunday alone). Still, Vanderbilt hit them pretty well scoring 16 runs themselves. Vanderbilt had 37 hits over the 3 games that weekend. That all sounds encouraging except that you might throw it all out considering how well Florida hit Vandy's pitching.
Still, the good thing, IMO, is that Florida's bats often seem to go very quiet. There were 19 games this season where Florida's offense scored 3 runs or less. So, Kentucky has to make sure that if Florida has one of those games this weekend that they scrape enough hits and runs together to win a close game.
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