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THE STRUGGLING TIGERS: IN JAY WE TRUST · JustIN Time

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  Welcome to another edition of this Just in Time podcast.
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  I'm your host, Justin. Today we were going to be
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  talking about we're just going to do a special real quick show.
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  I'm not going to go through each game because frankly, it was a
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  hard week for LSU. But today's Saturday and last
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  night, they had a great game. They came through, it really
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  worked on some stuff. I think they got a good, some
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  good stuff going. It'll be great moving forward.
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  I think what they needed to do was take a rest, reset, have a
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  really good practice, get the bats moving again.
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  We got the bats going again last night and that was perfect.
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  But we're not going to talk about last night.
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  We're going to talk about the Dartmouth Northeastern,
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  Dartmouth Northeastern and ull games.
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  As painful as that's going to be.
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  It was a three and two week. Yeah, we went three and two last
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  week in A5 game stretch in those two losses were just we looked
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  terrible and through even the three wins, pitching was great
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  on the 1st 3, but pitching wasn't so great in the second to
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  the last two. Offense wasn't great throughout
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  the whole thing. So I'm going to jump in to it
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  and I'm not going to spend too much time talking on the games
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  I'm going to go through. I'll go through the stat lines
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  for the first. Here we go.
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  I'll go through the stat lines for the Friday, Saturday.
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  I'll go through the stat lines for the last for the Friday and
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  Saturday game, which we're good. Like I said, we didn't hit that
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  well, but I'll kind of run through them real quick because
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  Evans did great. Evans was great, you know, but
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  offensively we only had five hits, but Cason Evans went five
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  and a third, gave up two hits and two runs, walked three, but
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  10 KS, you know, so he did great.
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  Offense wasn't great. We then we win that game five to
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  two. Then we on Saturday we turn
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  around and beat Northeastern 3 to 1.
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  Cooper Moore went seven and two, seven and 2/3.
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  He had a perfect game going until the 5th when he walked
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  one. He gave up three hits and one
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  iron run with 10K's. Had a perfect game going until
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  the 4th where he walked on and then in the fifth he had a no
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  hitter going on and then he gave up his first hit.
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  Then we go to the Sunday game again, wasn't a huge, wasn't
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  what we were expecting Offensively, we only scored
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  three runs. Offensively, they just needed to
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  reset. But here we go.
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  William Schmidt got the win. We only had four hits in this
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  game. Really.
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  Yeah, we had four hits in this game.
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  William Schmidt went seven and a third gave up four hits and then
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  he struck out nine. He didn't walk anybody, but
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  right before they pulled him, he did have a hit by a pitch.
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  Offensive leaders we let's see, we got again, we got four hits.
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  Our offensive leaders were Brown and Milan.
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  Brown had a home run and then we get to the ugly where, I'm not
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  going to lie, once it turned 10 to nothing and it didn't look
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  like anything was going. I had other things to worry
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  about this week and I turned the game off.
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  But the losing pitcher was Cooper Williams.
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  Looks like we did get something going.
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  We had ten hits, but it was all of our backups to say that got
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  hits. Eddie Yaman, the 4th got two
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  hits, went 2 for three. Patrick went one for one.
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  Harden went one for 2, Klaus went one for one.
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  Yaman, Milam, Rucker, Harden and Klaus were leaders in this game
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  and they came back from what seemed to be an immeasurable
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  odds when they had went down 10 O in first, in the third, in
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  work they way back and only lost 13.
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  Still, we need to be better. We need to be more offensive.
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  And then the ugly. The real nasty, ugly thing
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  happened defensively. We lost to ULL Louisiana, the
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  University of Louisiana, Lafayette.
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  I would never call you Louisiana.
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  You will always be ULL you'll always be, little brother.
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  We've got national championships hanging up.
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  You have championship appearances, but kudos.
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  See all y'all did beat us that night.
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  Whatever, get over it. We lost 7 to 2 with our two runs
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  only coming in the 5th of a two run bomb by Caraway.
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  We had seven hits, but here's the big deal, 3 errors and we
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  left seven on our offensive leaders were Curio was 3 for
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  three, Brown was 2 for four and Caraway was one for four with a
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  home run. Just to make it a Long story
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  short, they had mental breakdown.
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  Pitching wasn't all the way there and Jay Johnson this week.
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  I read an article in the Advocate yesterday.
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  He took responsibility somewhat for this.
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  It's not solely on him because regardless you need to hit.
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  But he said he top loaded the schedule.
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  He learned from this. He won't top load the schedule
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  again. NCAA rules only lets you makes
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  you have to take one day off. So playing A5 game week made
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  them have to take off Tuesday so they couldn't work on the errors
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  and stuff that they mental mistakes that they had on Monday
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  night, which led them into going into Wednesday somewhat not
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  prepared and it hit the fan. I'm not putting any.
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  This isn't going into this week's numbers.
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  I mean it the last week's numbers.
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  This isn't going into the powerhouse poll, which I'll get
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  into, and I'm not going to do a tone setting Tiger of the Week
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  since this is just a special episode, but we had 14.
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  We scored fifteen runs on fourteen hits.
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  We scored four in the first, three in the third, five in the
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  third. I mean four in the first, three
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  in the second, five in the third, three in the fourth, none
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  in the 5th, none in the 5th, but we scored fifteen runs.
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  Cason Evans had a perfect game going into the 6th inning and we
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  had a completely. It was a clean slate, clean
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  defensive game with 0 errors. That means a lot when you look
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  into it. Our offensive leader was of
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  course Jake Brown. He went 4 for five with a home
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  run. Curio was the next one.
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  Three for four got his first home run.
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  Milan got his first home run was 2 for three.
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  York was 2 for four with a double.
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  Dardar was one for three with a double and two RBI, Bron was one
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  for three with one RBI, and Aaron Beatty was a one for three
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  with a home run and one RBI. Jake Brown hit three home runs
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  last night. Left field, center field, dead
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  center and then right center. So he had a great game and then,
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  but like I said, we'll cover that more next week, but I just
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  had to get that bad taste of the UL out my mouth.
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  Moving forward. I think what they need to do is
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  just keep it simple. Last night they had a real
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  simplistic approach. Then they faced a good FCC
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  caliber pitcher last night and everything went good.
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  We'll face and we'll probably face another good on today and
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  then everything will be, you know, we'll get back to where we
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  were, where we were going, and they'll do good things again.
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  I'd rather lose two or three games.
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  We're not supposed to lose at the beginning of the season then
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  get to it be in crunch time at the end of the season and we
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  drop two or three games and there goes our season.
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  These are learning experiences. Not having Stanfield there help
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  hurt us. Hopefully he comes back soon.
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  We need we could use him back. You know, I think they found out
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  we found our second baseman last night with Rucker.
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  I think he'll be good and I think Dardaro end up being in
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  that DH spot because he's you can't lose him offensively, but
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  defensively he's a liability. And I would rather a guy, and
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  I'm not saying that Rucker can't hit the ball because Rucker can
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  hit the ball. He's got a good eye at the plate
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  and he gets stuffed on defensively.
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  But we'll see in the future what happens.
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  We probably won't have a solidified lineup until after
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  next week. Knowing Jay Johnson, you
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  probably won't have a solidified lineup defensively until Tax
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  Day, but here we go. I'm going to go ahead and give
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  Will's breakdown. I'm going to read his notes on
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  why for the powerhouse pole Week 3 pitching.
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  He's got Schmidt at one more at 2, Evans at 3.
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  His rationale was no more, and Evans had more KS than Schmidt.
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  Schmidt didn't allow a walk or earn run and was perfect through
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  his four innings work, giving him the edge over more.
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  In fairness, Evans a couple of errors from the infield put him
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  through a toughest spot going into the past weekend.
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  We agreed that the starters needed to step further, step up
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  further and started delivered offense.
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  Despite struggles. He had Jake Brown, Eddie Yaman
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  and Steven Milam. Despite struggling on Monday
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  against Northeastern, Jake Brown was clearly the best performer
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  on offense this past week. He has a huge second game
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  against Dartmouth as he hit a home run in the bottom of the
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  first along with the clutch RBI double in the 8.
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  Bottom of the eighth. Yaman at 2:00.
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  Because of what he contributed in his outing against
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  Northeastern on Monday, he accounted for two hits, two RB
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  is and two runs. Given his production during the
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  comeback effort, his performance carried weight for me.
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  Not much on rendering redeeming, not much redeeming qualities on
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  offense, but I ended up giving him the spot over mile limit 3
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  as I charted him from multiple hits over the stretch and
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  including his stolen base. Most of the offensive production
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  was misleading due to gifts of errors of LSU was given and
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  posing fielding. Special shout out to Reeves to
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  reserves who showed up against Northeastern's Law in the
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  Northeastern loss. Really gave the team life and
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  almost put pulled off the comeback.
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  I love the decision Jade to shake things up a little bit and
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  most of it worked. Here we go with defense.
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  Steven Milam at one, York at 2, Cooper more at 3.
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  Milam just continues to excel on defense.
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  Made some great plays at second base along with his usual
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  shortstop productivity. York made great plays at first,
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  including getting off the bag to toss to toss the out two more in
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  the top of the sixth in game one against Northeastern.
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  Along was snagging a family out in the top of the fourth in Game
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  2 versus Dartmouth. Cooper Morrow was very active
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  fielding in game one versus Northeastern, recording 3 outs
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  to the first. Building definitely was sloppy
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  in general, but these guys were solid during the stretch.
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  OK, here's mine pitching. I've got Schmidt, kind of the
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  same reason as Will Moore, and although Evans did great, I
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  really appreciated Guidry coming in and slamming the door
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  offensively. For me, this was hard.
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  Nobody really did anything too special.
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  I've got Brown in one for obvious reasons, Curiel at 2:00,
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  and then I've got Caraway at 3:00 because he did give us the
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  only two runs against ull Milan would be in there.
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  But that one double he had in game, I think it was Game 2,
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  might have been game three. I don't count that because that
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  hit the center fielder in the glove, and I don't think Dardar.
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  Dardar deserved the hit because that left fielder was nowhere
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  near that ball. And then Caraway, like I said,
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  Curio had some decent hits. He did come around.
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  He was struggling at first, but he got some good hits.
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  OK defense, Cooper Moore at #1 for me, he was flawless on
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  defense. He fielded his position and he
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  just looked really good doing it to his mile.
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  And my own is always probably going to be up on this list for
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  me. The place he makes are really
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  hard, but like I said last week, he makes it look to where anyone
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  can get out on that field and make those plays.
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  And if anyone else got on that field, like one of us got on
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  that field, we would look foolish doing that.
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  We can't do that. He makes it look easy enough to
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  where we could say we have the confidence to say, oh, I could
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  go out there and do what he does.
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  And we don't know when she has that kind of play just off the
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  street. He practices, he puts in the
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  work and he gets it done. Defensive, I mean, I said that
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  and then three, I've got Curio. Curio had some really good
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  plays. He was sick on Friday night,
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  came back Saturday and played really good defense, solid
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  defense. Those are my guys for this week
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  and we'll put the tone setting Tiger back when we thought I was
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  going to film this episode on Wednesday and he said just the
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  bats need to wake up in the offense.
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  His setting, tone setting. Tigers are the offense.
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  They need to bats need to wake up.
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  Mine would be offense and defense for this week, this
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  week, and I know they showed up last night.
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  They showed up and showed out last night.
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  They did really great. They played a clean game of
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  baseball. You know, they look really well
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  put together. They did really good.
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  Come on deep. I mean, offensively we hit 388
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  going into the Dartmouth. The Magnes game, we were 3/8 had
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  a 388 team average, team average from Magnes, Dartmouth, McNeese,
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  Dartmouth, Northeastern in Dartmouth.
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  Again, those four-game stretch was 168 or something like that.
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  I think they needed to wake up and come back in a big way and
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  they did that. I think a lot of their approach,
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  what they did was they needed to keep it simple, go back to the
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  basics, work hard, you know, hard work.
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  When you work hard in these situations, you just keep doing
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  what you were doing. The drops, the bounces, it's all
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  going to come from the hard work.
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  You have to keep putting in the work in.
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  Last night showed it. They put in the hard work, kept
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  it up and they got the bounces. They got the drops, they got the
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  hits, they got the hits in the no man's lands that can really
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  pump an offense up. Defense, they was solid.
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  I think a lot of that has to do with personnel, but they looked
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  really good last night and you can't take that away from them.
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  I'm sure moving forward they'll continue to look great.
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  They're back to a regular schedule now too.
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  They play 3 game series and then they have one midweek game.
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  It's not going to be like anything outlook outrageous or
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  top heavy like the schedule was where we had start the season.
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  We play Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday, then Wednesday.
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  That Wednesday they got on the plane, went to Jacksonville
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  after they beat Nichols. They had one day of practice,
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  then they played three, came back, had a game on Tuesday,
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  then rested practice, came back on Friday, played Friday,
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  Saturday, Sunday, Monday and then Wednesday again and didn't
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  have that normalized. Jay Johnson schedule, practice
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  schedule where he went and got everything taken care of and
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  squared away. But he did that and it was
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  great. They showed really good results
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  last night. They look good at the plate,
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  they look good defensively, they look good pitching wise.
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  I think was by the time the season's all said and done,
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  they'll be right where they need to be.
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  They're getting better. It looks like right now they're
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  getting better. They're training up after one
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  game, which is good. We have another game in a couple
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  hours and we'll see how they do. But overall, I think this will
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  be a good weekend and right now this is a great place to sign
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  offs. Have a great day, a great night,
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  whatever you have just made a great one.
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  know other people who will like it and let's go, let's go cheer
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  these tigers on. They could use use it.
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