Murray State @ Kentucky
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I would put in Helen Keller in before Ramsey. No way she could do worse.
Ritter having a strong afternoon. Like to see that from the 9. 8 and 7 haven't lived up as much though.
Their first basemen is very good. That was a great play.
Well, I thought we should go 4-0 this week... I felt like at minimum 3-1. This wasn't the 1 I expected.
Hitting wasn't the problem today. I thought when Ramsey was a freshman that he was going to be dinomite, buy it sure hasn't happened.
Ramsey made a pretty good pitch that the Murray dude kinda capped into no mans land in LCF...after that, he started missing closer and closer to the middle of the plate...unfortunate that he didn’t recover after that first batter.
True. I just think the UK offense is very much reliant on the HR. The college baseball offenses of old were that way in a sense but it was with the 3 run HR. UK isn't much for stringing together hits... they seem to be an offense that hits it a long way or they struggle.
That's an exciting offense, but not extremely sustainable and that's the frustrating part. When we have the HRs the numbers look really good. When we don't have the HRs, we seem to struggle.
Well UL lost to EKU so that makes for an interesting day in baseball. This is after they lost to Morehead State earlier in the season. The difference is they have a great coach to straighten things out and we don’t.
Heard Flynn talking on the weekend how much he liked UK'S new turf and that he thought UK had the best in the league at CHS
It has value, but baseball, to me, is played on dirt and grass.
Agree, football too. I harken back to the days when football's played in the mud, the blood and the beer...1950s NFL was what I was raised on. Baseball has become as antiseptic as football.
Yep, I agree. Even my old high school now has a turf field and it is weird and sad that those guys aren't out there playing in the 'conditions.' Seems a bit spoiled.
Flynn loves the turf field because he is an old infielder that loves the idea of no bad bounces and true hops. I get that, and it probably makes for better baseball, but at the same time... bad hops are part of it. Ozzie Smith made arguably the greatest infield play of all time thanks to a bad hop... where he is diving to his left and the ball takes a weird bounce and shoots back right and he still makes the catch, gets up and throws the guy out. That doesn't happen if he just gets a true hop.
I guess the playing conditions/fields are better for everybody....except old geezers like me. Remember the time a WS changed when Tony Kubek took a bad hop to the throat?
WS 1960. Kubek was NYY SS. Yanks led late in the game then a Pirate batter reached and eventually scored after a routine ground ball took a bad hop and hit Kubek in the throat(left game and many felt shortened his career). Pirates tied the game and won it in the 9th on Bill Mazeroski's famous HR.
Mentioned this was before your time...told you I'm a geez!
With the way the weather is in KY in February-May, it just makes sense for an all turf field so you can get the games in. I like a natural surface but I know that they have now really works for the weather conditions.
Yea, I know. I can still complain about it though. Hahaha
Baseball was meant to get dirty!! Can live with the turf, but want dirt on mound, HP and around bases for sliding. Just me!
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