[olldflame]

Final score 4-2 Flames, as Price closes it out and and Jackson is off the schneid in the BSC tournament. Question now is who pitches tomorrow? I suppose Tarantola will start. After that ??????

[olldflame]

Excuse my uninformed post above about Todd. Apparently he tried to go with the oblique muscle injury he suffered yesterday and had to come out after 2 ABs.

[jinxy]

Its pretty much a crapshoot pitching wise. Same it has been all year. Roll with tarantola for as far as he can go. We will have to hit better to even have a pumchers chance.

As far as interest goes. This baseball season has less interest than any season i can remember since 03. Thats what 2 or 3 mediocore at best seasons will do to you along with virtually no pitching.

As far as that 2013 team. That team had talent and under performed most of the year then put it toghether. We dont have remotely the type of talent this year that we had then.

[Jonathan Carone]

If we can go 2-2 this tournament after finishing third with the injuries we had, I can call that an acceptable result.

[ballcoach15]

Who we play next ? And when ?

[olldflame]

Who we play next ? And when ?

Should be against the High Point/Radford loser 45 min. after the end of the 12:00 game between Campbell and G-Webb tomorrow.

High Point won 6-3, so we get the Highlanders again.

[ballcoach15]

Thanks

[jinxy]

So hard to follow. Whos out csu and longwood? Campbell and hpu undefeated?

[SumItUp]

You're correct. CSU & Longwood are out. Campbell and HPU have not lost. Other teams remaining are playing elimination games each time they play. I followed a lot of tournaments across the country yesterday. It's amazing how many of them poorly present brackets/standings/results online in an easy to find manner. I'm having flashbacks to 2005.

Use this link to look at the schedule. http://bigsouthsports.com/calendar.aspx Select begin date of May 22nd and Sport Baseball.

[ballcoach15]

Tournaments can be confusing, There are many different formats for conference tournaments. My "favorite" is the ACC's Pool play. It's not single elimination, but lose one game and you're basically done.

[thepostman]

An updated bracket can be found here:

http://bigsouthsports.com/sports/2018/2 ... 80419.aspx

[olldflame]

Troy Todd is in the starting lineup at DH against Radford. Not sure how well he will swing the bat with an oblique injury, but at least he won't have to throw.

[prototype]

Troy Todd is in the starting lineup at DH against Radford. Not sure how well he will swing the bat with an oblique injury, but at least he won't have to throw.

We really have no one else? Not sure how not playing 100% is going to help us? I'm not a college baseball player, but had the same injury a few months ago and it was painful. Had to take a few weeks off and even then I was still feeling it for the first few times back playing basketball.

[olldflame]

Troy Todd is in the starting lineup at DH against Radford. Not sure how well he will swing the bat with an oblique injury, but at least he won't have to throw.

We really have no one else? Not sure how not playing 100% is going to help us? I'm not a college baseball player, but had the same injury a few months ago and it was painful. Had to take a few weeks off and even then I was still feeling it for the first few times back playing basketball.

I have to believe they had him take some BP swings and watched him closely. He is by far our best hitter, so I would say he doesn't need to be 100% to help us, but he needs to be able to take a full cut, not just slap at the ball. If he can't, I'd say we are better off with Mathieu in there.

[LUDad]

Smart play to go small ball to get 1st run in.

[SumItUp]

Radford 2, LU 2 after 9 and going to extra innings.

[LUDad]

Everyone knew a bunt was coming Why didn't he go ahead and square early?

[Jonathan Carone]

Walkoff. We win.

[jinxy]

Showing a little grit to scratch out a win. Role reversals as suddenly the pitching is carrying the hitting. Unfortunately we are just about out of pitching. We could probably get 6 or 7 from clinton and bertsch and then it gets really hairy. If we do much of anything tomorrow it will be impressive.

The thought of winning game 1 would mean we would need to get 9 out of stamper hand brockman etc haha. Then if you really want to get crazy imagine what saturday would have to look like. No idea. Dont think we will have to worry about it but i could see us getting one win tomorrow.

[Chippy]

It might be Clinton, Bertsch, and Brockman 3 innings each or some combination. I believe Hand is "unavailable" and not sure about Stout.

[Cider Jim]

There is something magical about watching an extra inning, walk-off dinger leave the yard, esp. against Radford.

TF and I were there to witness it; too bad ballcoach missed it.

[thepostman]

Ballcoach is a bandwagon fan

[ballcoach15]

Ball coach was at work, making up for time lost for softball, the past 3 weeks.

If lucky, I will get caught up by Fall Softball Season.

[Jonathan Carone]

Clinton threw less than 70 pitches the first day so he may be a little fresher than would be expected at this point.

[jinxy]

Best case is probably 4 max 5 from clinton. Bertsch probably has 2 or 3. To survive tomorrow stamper would probably have to give us 6 plus in a potential game 2.