Miss State at Kentucky (Friday)

[Comebakatz3]

 

[Jeff12wb]

Free stream

 

[Old_Red]

How about that? I thought MSU would not give us the free passes that our OOC teams have been giving us and they promptly plunk Gray, walk Felker, give up a single to Burkes, and hit Pitre to give us a run.

 

[Old_Red]

After Gilliam tries to hit off of his wrists and pops up, WaldSchmidt singles to right and scores 2.

 

[Jeff12wb]

How about that? I thought MSU would not give us the free passes that our OOC teams have been giving us and they promptly plunk Gray, walk Felker, give up a single to Burkes, and hit Pitre to give us a run.

Apparently this ambidextrous superstar has never pitched in a game below 70 degrees. WOW! Could explain the rough start and location issues.

 

[Old_Red]

McCoy bunts cleanly to score another. 4-0. That's a good start against a pitcher who started with a 0.6 ERA.

 

[Old_Red]

Darn 4-2 and we leave the bases loaded. Not getting timely hitting.

 

[Old_Red]

Pitre's error causes us to lose Williams. I hate to see that. He's got to get one out on that ball. Instead of two outs and a runner on 2nd, we get bases loaded and one out (I'd put Williams' last walk looked like a frustration walk.

 

[Comebakatz3]

Pitre's error causes us to lose Williams. I hate to see that. He's got to get one out on that ball. Instead of two outs and a runner on 2nd, we get bases loaded and one out (I'd put Williams' last walk looked like a frustration walk.

Lose him?

 

[Old_Red]

Mingione brought in Byars.

 

[Old_Red]

Byars makes a mistake pitch and gives up a two run single. We are now down 4-5.

 

[Comebakatz3]

Mingione brought in Byars.

That's an interesting choice...

 

[Old_Red]

Mason Moore now in and loads the bases with a walk to the #9 hitter.

 

[Old_Red]

6 strikeouts and only two hits through 5 innings. Without the free passes, we'd be hurting.

 

[Old_Red]

"4 straight strike outs for the Wildcats". You know I am sick of hearing that in SEC play. Same as last year.

 

[Old_Red]

10 strikeouts for the game. Two strikeouts in the 7th with a runner in scoring position. We also had a pop up to 2nd with a runner in scoring position. We are taking small ball to the limit.

 

[Old_Red]

"Three strikeouts in the inning" to end the 8th. We did get a nice single with a runner on 2nd to tie it up.

 

[Comebakatz3]

Got a ground out with the bases loaded to end the State 9th.

 

[Old_Red]

Two strikeouts to start the bottom of the 9th. Followed by a ground out . Going 10.

 

[Old_Red]

A lineout with a runner on 2nd again. Two down. Followed by a wild pitch putting Gilliam at 3rd and two outs. Followed by a walk off wild pitch. Amazing but good.

 

[Comebakatz3]

Gilliam singles and is bunted over and then two wild pitches scores him to give UK a win.

 

[Comebakatz3]

Not sure we really "deserved" to win that one, but got the job done regardless.

 

[Old_Red]

We had 15 K's

LOB by game
Elon 4, 8, 10
Evansville 14
Wright State 13, 6, 11
Morehead State 15
Indiana State 6, 10, 4
Murray State 7
Ohio 11
SIU 15, 15, 8
Indiana 7
Mississippi State 8

 

[Comebakatz3]

We had 15 K's

LOB by game
Elon 4, 8, 10
Evansville 14
Wright State 13, 6, 11
Morehead State 15
Indiana State 6, 10, 4
Murray State 7
Ohio 11
SIU 15, 15, 8
Indiana 7
Mississippi State 8

State left 13.

 

[Old_Red]

State left 13.

The fact that we can leave 8 when we only had 5 hits is pretty remarkable too.

 

[Comebakatz3]

The fact that we can leave 8 when we only had 5 hits is pretty remarkable too.

Yea, not sure that hitting will be a strength, but they seem to make opponents pay for walks and other mistakes.

 

[briarcreek]

Mason Moore and Seth Chavez were huge in this one. The bullpen continues to be a real strength of this team.

 

[irishcat1965]

Really don’t know what to make of the game but a win is a win. Especially a Friday night SEC win.

 

[Tskware]

Mason Moore and Seth Chavez were huge in this one. The bullpen continues to be a real strength of this team.

Agree, I went for the 1st five innings, after a terrible start, MSU's switch pitcher was really tough, has a lot of velocity and movement on the ball. But pulling out the W is the kind of game that will help get you in the NCAA tournament. Kentucky doesn't have a really top end pitcher, but a lot of depth, like we saw last night.

At the beginning of the week, I was hoping for a split of the four games with Indiana and Miss State. Mission accomplished! Now hoping for 2 of 3 series win over MSU.

 

[briarcreek]

Hopefully our pitching depth will help us over these next 2 games. We still have Hagenow, Nove, Giles and Strickland available out of the pen today and I’d think Chavez would be available tomorrow as he only threw 18 pitches.

 

[CockyCat3]

My vote is for 6 or 7 innings from Bosma so we only need 1 or 2 of those guys and we have the rest plus our normal Sunday relievers available tomorrow 😀

 

[backinky2018]

Agree, I went for the 1st five innings, after a terrible start, MSU's switch pitcher was really tough, has a lot of velocity and movement on the ball. But pulling out the W is the kind of game that will help get you in the NCAA tournament. Kentucky doesn't have a really top end pitcher, but a lot of depth, like we saw last night.

At the beginning of the week, I was hoping for a split of the four games with Indiana and Miss State. Mission accomplished! Now hoping for 2 of 3 series win over MSU.

I want a sweep...I think it's possible too.

 

[backinky2018]

Hard to overstate how important that win was last night. Poor hitting night, but our pitching was (for the most part) very tough. Even though we struck out a lot, our plate discipline was very good. We don't swing at a bunch of bad passes.

I think this series is critical to UK getting into the NCAAT. Hoping for a sweep, but critical to get the series win at a minimum.

 

[Kybluedude]

Who is doing the color work on the radio?

 

[Comebakatz3]

Who is doing the color work on the radio?

Keith Madison