A Sea Of Red

Weather looks good for Thursday. Rain for Friday/Saturday. Hope forecast is wrong.

I'm coming down from New Jersey to watch the games on Thursday, Friday and Saturday. Could use clear weather and a sweep of all the games to get us going.

I agree. Need good weather and a good broom.

First up, Norfolk State!

I've got DishNetwork, and this game is being broadcast on channel 24, WFFP.

Ladies win 9-1 in 5 innings under the "mercy rule". Chase Cassidy gives up just 1 hit and strikes out 10.

Good crowd for opening game.

Nice win! TZ seemed to struggle in left field-dropped one and almost overran another. Chase needs to tighten up her control. There were too many pitches (rise balls and curves) that missed by a lot. Also, she will need to have an effective change up moving forward.

I believe she only threw one change-up all game. It appears to me as if catcher's target is "too high". I will watch that more closely today. When we keep pitches down in the zone, results are much better.

On the dropped fly ball. I believe there was a communication problem between LF and CF.

Dalegarz1 wrote:Nice win! TZ seemed to struggle in left field-dropped one and almost overran another. Chase needs to tighten up her control. There were too many pitches (rise balls and curves) that missed by a lot. Also, she will need to have an effective change up moving forward.

Agreed. Although I think this game was the fewest walks she allowed all year, considering she was walking 5+ per 7 innings, I would say 2 walks was a big improvement.

Probably a hitch in the motion somewhere. Who is the pitching coach again?

BJWilliams wrote:Probably a hitch in the motion somewhere. Who is the pitching coach again?

Her sister.

LU 10 LaSalle 2 in 5 innings. Bats were hot.

ive never seen such poor outfield play at the college level. what the heck was Dot doing in that 8th inning? has she ever coached before LU?

We gave that game away in every way a team can give one away. Worst game of season. Maybe worst game of decade.

Every outfielder made a big mistake (2 errors by LF and CF and throwing to the wrong base by RF). Another costly error by 3B.

Ballcoach's (again) mindless pronouncement aside, that was not a good result in the late game.

And to answer the other poster's question...I believe no.

I saw every pitch of that game, and I still do not believe some of what I saw:

hitting
base running
fielding/throwing
pitching
coaching

We were down 4 runs in bottom of 8th, with 2 runners on. Batter bunts to move runners up. ???

The only positive, was pitchers threw more change-ups than normal.

You're so right about the 8th inning strategy. Who is making those decisions 3B coach or DR. Did them a favor by giving them an out with two meaningless runners on base.

LU 1 SH 1 b4. Pitcher had 0-2 count then issued a bb. Then gave up hit on 1-2 pitch.

3-1 SH top 8. We are not hitting . bats are dead.

No pop or power in this lineup. Pitching looks good but no run support gives us back to back extra inning losses. Again, why are we bunting a runner over from 2nd base when we're losing by 2 runs in the bottom of the 8th. It seemed like a planned sacrifice bunt versus a bunt for a hit.

For the second night in a row, we give up an out to move a meaningless baserunner. Does anybody know the game?

On the positive side, the Periscope feed was cool to watch for those of us away from the ballpark.

I'm a distant observer but I thought we'd be better by now. We look like a .500 team. Doesn't appear to be thecstrongest competition either.