Cats vs EKU tues...

[Jamal Mercer]

So Collett has 8 HR and Heyer 7??

 

[CatsFanGG24]

So Collett has 8 HR and Heyer 7??

I think it is 8 & 8.

 

[Comebakatz3]

I think it is 8 & 8.

You got it. They were tied at 2nd most with 7 coming into today. They now be tied for first.

 

[Black Diamond Cat]

I think the Cats focus dipped a little when they got the 5-0 lead. It obviously came back in the later innings !

 

[irishcat1965]

Excellent game by the Cats. Several pitched in relief so there was no stress on the bullpen.

 

[Old_Red]

Slugging percentage for the game was .828 I think. With OBP at .555.

The bad news is 5 earned runs this game. Good news on the pitching side no HR's, BB's, or HBP's

 

[Tskware]

Excellent game by the Cats. Several pitched in relief so there was no stress on the bullpen.

Did not expect there would be, anything can happen in baseball, especially in a mid week game, but UK is light years better than Eastern.

 

[bradscats]

Awesome game offensively. Love our team going forward. I do have minor concerns about our midweek starter in games against solid teams, though I don’t think we will see the offense that showed up against Xavier again.

 

[Comebakatz3]

Awesome game offensively. Love our team going forward. I do have minor concerns about our midweek starter in games against solid teams, though I don’t think we will see the offense that showed up against Xavier again.

Still struggling a bit to find the midweek go to. I'm ok with it. Usually I want us to develop at least 4 starters. That doesn't concern me much this year with Hakke basically being able to be the 4th.

After tomorrow we will have 9 midweek games left. Of those, Louisville, Xavier and Indiana will be the teams we have to worry about. So, that's 4 of the 9 remaining. We will have 3 more midweek games before we get to UL, so Harper has a chance to grow up a lot before we get to the toughest games.

Still... looking at Harper... he went 4.0 and gave up just 1 earned against Evansville. Short outing, but he recorded 8 strikeouts and gave up just 1 walk. He started against Western and went 5 full giving up 3 earned. The good things about that were that he gave up 0 walks and those three runs were on just 3 hits. So, it seems like he had a bad inning. It happens. Today he got a pretty big lead and then kind of relaxed I think. Still, 0 walks. So, just 1 walk in 14 innings. That's very solid. Hits need to drop. He's averaging one an inning. Worse are the extra base hits. 5 of those 14 hits are for extra bases and that's where he is getting hurt. I think those are fixable.