Cats vs Dogs ( Fri. )....
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With series @South Carolina, @Missouri, and @Florida and home series with Georgia, Tennessee, and LSU, would be real nice to get this series. Need to get the bats out soon.
You don't want to have to count on sweeping the bad teams. All three of the future away series are going to be tough.
You don't want to have to count on sweeping the bad teams. All three of the future away series are going to be tough.
They went to the closer. Not going to be easy to score on him but will be good to get some pitches out of him to make him harder to use the next two days.
I think White looked at a hanging breaking ball and then ended up looking silly the rest of the at bat... hurts.
Was really close. On the overhead I thought out, but theven close up showed the tag was after the foot stuck.
They said the MSU closer threw a lot of pitches Wed. night versus FIU, that seems a little strange for a mid-week game !
I think so. Why waste his arm to stop UK from scoring more when you have 2 outs and no one on. May need him two more times this weekend.
I don't know that we deserved that win, but the baseball gods were kind and didn't make a valve cover cost them the game!!
I have to say, I was surprised that there were so many empty seats. I know it's unseasonably cold, but surely it wasn't bad enough to scare away fans from watching a top 25 matchup.
Vandy got the win. Something interesting... we have 6 weekends of SEC play after this one. Only one team of those 6 currently has a winning record in the SEC, and that's USC at 6-5. I guess I didn't really notice it before, but it is strange that we spent the first 4 weekends playing 3 teams from the west. Would be great to see UK get this weekend from MSU and TAMU take 2 from Auburn.
If we can get this series on the road, the Missouri series will be very interesting. They started, flying high, but they were flying on the strength of a pretty weak SOS. Now, they appear to have really hit a wall. They swept Alabama but Alabama appears to be pretty bad. They lost 2 out of 3 against Arkansas and all three against Florida at home and have split with Georgia on the road this weekend. Maybe they aren't that good or maybe Florida and Arkansas are. At least after this weekend, the race for SEC champion will be more clear.
We don't play Auburn or Arkansas this year, the top two in the west. However, preseason rankings had Auburn T#6 and Arkansas #5. They had UK T#4 and Missouri 7. They had safe picks of Florida #1 and South Carolina #2 in the East. This is really a tossup season so far. Maybe some of those teams we faced early like Vanderbilt, Ole Miss and Texas A&M are not living up to preseason rankings is due to playing Kentucky?
I'm really happy with the win yesterday even if it was pretty lucky and could have gone either way at different points in the game, it didn't and I'll take it. I know I didn't expect Kentucky to be tied for the SEC lead at this point. I was worried at the pitching coming into the season, the early injuries to key offensive players, the unbalanced roster. It just goes to show you that the team personality that Mingione is molding is pretty powerful.
BTW Missouri has the 2nd lowest SOS in the SEC right now. Who has the worst? Arkansas... Maybe they're getting ready to get closer to their preseason ranking of #5 in the west. Interesting that Alabama has the next lowest SOS at 69, then Auburn at 53. Who has Alabama played? Missouri, @South Carolina, Arkansas, and now @Ole Miss..
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