Eagles break it open...9-1 still batting bot of 4th....USM with "only" 7 hits (all singles), while ODU stinks the place up with errors, hit batsmen and walks.

USM up 14-3.......we have 14 hits, and ODU has 14 hits!

Hunter Slater for the week:

3-for 4 on Tuesday (reached base 4/5 times)
3-for-3 with 3 RBI yesterday (reached base all 5 times)
3-for-4 with 2 RBI today (reached base 5/6 times)

9-for-11 (.818 batting average) with 5 RBI and reached base 14-out-of16 times (.875 OBP)

When the hitting coach was just asked by JC what he attributes the big turn around in the season here recently with the win streak, etc. (or something to that effect), he said getting Blaylock back. Who was it that said Blaylock may save our season? Oh, nvm, that was me.

(03-23-2019 06:14 PM)Reggie Favre Wrote:  When the hitting coach was just asked by JC what he attributes the big turn around in the season here recently with the win streak, etc. (or something to that effect), he said getting Blaylock back. Who was it that said Blaylock may save our season? Oh, nvm, that was me.

Ya'll just don't understand how detrimental Storme Cooper was to our entire team. Plus the combo of Blaylock, and Bowen at DH are helping big time. I still say they need to get Lynch out of the lineup. He is now our biggest hole in it.

I think who we’re playing is also affecting things.

(03-23-2019 09:33 PM)LaEagle55 Wrote:  

(03-23-2019 06:14 PM)Reggie Favre Wrote:  When the hitting coach was just asked by JC what he attributes the big turn around in the season here recently with the win streak, etc. (or something to that effect), he said getting Blaylock back. Who was it that said Blaylock may save our season? Oh, nvm, that was me.

Ya'll just don't understand how detrimental Storme Cooper was to our entire team. Plus the combo of Blaylock, and Bowen at DH are helping big time. I still say they need to get Lynch out of the lineup. He is now our biggest hole in it.

Actually, i do. As shown by this post the first week of the season.

https://csnbbs.com/thread-870423-post-15...id15909081

(02-15-2019 09:30 PM)Reggie Favre Wrote:  He's gonna have to find a way to keep Balylock in the lineup everyday. There is no way around this. We will not be a good team with both Donaldson and Cooper in the batting lineup.

(03-23-2019 09:56 PM)EagNBran Wrote:  I think who we’re playing is also affecting things.

No ones worse than Holy Cross and we hit as bad against them as anyone

(03-23-2019 09:33 PM)LaEagle55 Wrote:  

(03-23-2019 06:14 PM)Reggie Favre Wrote:  When the hitting coach was just asked by JC what he attributes the big turn around in the season here recently with the win streak, etc. (or something to that effect), he said getting Blaylock back. Who was it that said Blaylock may save our season? Oh, nvm, that was me.

Ya'll just don't understand how detrimental Storme Cooper was to our entire team. Plus the combo of Blaylock, and Bowen at DH are helping big time. I still say they need to get Lynch out of the lineup. He is now our biggest hole in it.

I agree about Lynch. If the ball ain’t hit right at him he can’t get it. However, his BA of .250 is almost high as Wallners .268

I think Wallner has far more SOs than anyone on the team. Hes gotta get himself together. Another difference maker that can swing games one way or the other

(03-24-2019 09:22 AM)Reggie Favre Wrote:  I think Wallner has far more SOs than anyone on the team. Hes gotta get himself together. Another difference maker that can swing games one way or the other

Here is how i think about it. If we play State again today, I have confidence in everybody in our lineup except Lynch. I still think Guidry is the best ball player on the team, he is starting to come around at the plate and getting rid of the yips at 2nd.

Agreed about Wallner, the dude K's way too much. Scouts notice that, he better plan on coming back next year if he is planning on a big signing bonus because it ain't happening this year.

(03-24-2019 10:28 AM)LaEagle55 Wrote:  

(03-24-2019 09:22 AM)Reggie Favre Wrote:  I think Wallner has far more SOs than anyone on the team. Hes gotta get himself together. Another difference maker that can swing games one way or the other

Here is how i think about it. If we play State again today, I have confidence in everybody in our lineup except Lynch. I still think Guidry is the best ball player on the team, he is starting to come around at the plate and getting rid of the yips at 2nd.

Agreed about Wallner, the dude K's way too much. Scouts notice that, he better plan on coming back next year if he is planning on a big signing bonus because it ain't happening this year.

w/o question. and as the bells go off at st Thomas, wallner drives in his 18th.
batting in the 6 spot today...

Already 7-0 USM in the 1st.

C-USA righty with a very low K rate screamed “batting practice!”.

Looking to be an ugly one today.

Shepard goes 1.2 IP with 4 Ks and 4 walks. Didn’t give up a hit.

It’s 9-0 USM in the 5th. Another league play bludgeoning.

If I thought Berry and Caillet would put together a halfway decent schedule, I’d totally be for USM going indy in baseball like Miami and Dallas Baptist used to do. But we’d probably just schedule a bunch of OVC schools on their conference bye week.

(03-24-2019 12:55 PM)BeagleUSM Wrote:  It’s 9-0 USM in the 5th. Another league play bludgeoning.

If I thought Berry and Caillet would put together a halfway decent schedule, I’d totally be for USM going indy in baseball like Miami and Dallas Baptist used to do. But we’d probably just schedule a bunch of OVC schools on their conference bye week.

So. You would be fine with no weekend games?

(03-24-2019 03:18 PM)Eagleaidaholic Wrote:  

(03-24-2019 12:55 PM)BeagleUSM Wrote:  It’s 9-0 USM in the 5th. Another league play bludgeoning.

If I thought Berry and Caillet would put together a halfway decent schedule, I’d totally be for USM going indy in baseball like Miami and Dallas Baptist used to do. But we’d probably just schedule a bunch of OVC schools on their conference bye week.

So. You would be fine with no weekend games?

I’m being about halfway serious. But you could definitely put together a schedule as an indy. Keep in mind that a ton of leagues have an odd number of teams so you bye weekends within conference play. That means teams have to play OOC series in April and May. We had to do this during C-USA 2.0. You could put together a schedule of teams on bye weekends that would be much more competitive than what we see in C-USA.

Standings after week 2 of CUSA action. Ties are listed alphabetically. March 29-31 opponent listed in parenthesis

USM 6-0 (@UTSA)
FAU 5-1 (host FIU)
WKU 5-1 (host Charlotte)
Marshall 4-2 (host MTSU)
Charlotte 3-3 (@WKU)
MTSU 3-3 (@Marshall)
UTSA 3-3 (host USM)
La Tech 2-4 (host UAB)
FIU 2-4 (@FAU)
ODU 1-5 (host Rice)
Rice 1-5 (@ODU)
UAB 1-5 (@La Tech)

(03-22-2019 08:23 AM)usm99 Wrote:  Looking inside the numbers, ODU is hitting .296 as a team, while the Golden Eagles are hitting .247. The Monarchs have a staff ERA of 2.78 and Southern Miss owns a 3.26 ERA.

Comparing before and after numbers from above

ODU was hitting .296; now .284
USM was hitting .247; now hitting .285

ODU had a team ERA of 2.78; now 3.82
USM had a team ERA of 3.26; now 2.90