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Baseball - TCU @ OU - Game 1

Pharm Frog

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Nice time to give up an 0-2 walk off single

EDIT - but the story of this game was the first inning debacle of 3 unearned runs with another ridiculous number of runners LOB
 

WhoDatFrog

Active Member
Ware (1-4) up.
Frogs @ double play depth.
Lines an 0-2 offspeed pitch to LCF for the walk off win.

Frogs drop the opener 7-6. :(
 

TooColdU

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Credit OU’s batting approach this game. They knew Lodolo had good stuff so they were agressive early in their at-bats. They managed to get 10 hits on our best pitcher.

With that said, Eissler did a great job pitching through the 5th-8th innings.
 

MadFrog

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When a team uses a sacrifice bunt, they are GIVING UP an out. Why TCU continually cannot get that out when the other team sacrifices is beyond reasonable comprehension. Our infield feeling is lousy at best. We never make a great play on the infield. Throws to first base on easy plays are usually off line. At least our first baseman can stretch and make the catch. This team is a long ways from being good.
 

Pharm Frog

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When a team uses a sacrifice bunt, they are GIVING UP an out. Why TCU continually cannot get that out when the other team sacrifices is beyond reasonable comprehension. Our infield feeling is lousy at best. We never make a great play on the infield. Throws to first base on easy plays are usually off line. At least our first baseman can stretch and make the catch. This team is a long ways from being good.

This team is only slightly worse defensively than last year’s team and went into last night being exactly even in fielding percentage. There’s no doubt that this team struggles inexplicably with small ball defense and this is not unique to this iteration of TCU baseball. It should be pointed out that Shepherd is fielding waaaaaay better than last season and Oviedo is better as well. Isola has been somewhat of a surprise IMO with his pure defensive work although he has probaby one too many PBs to this point. No comment on framing and such. For their opportunities, Henry and Wolfe are the players bringing down our fielding percentage and one of these is trying to learn a new position.

One interesting thing is that our opponents are playing much better defensive against us this year which may be one of the reasons we’re dropping some of these one-run games.
 

Pharm Frog

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If we look at Earned Runs v Unearned Runs (which isn’t always reflected in defensive fielding percentage and is more situational), we find that last year’s team benefitted from 18% of runs being unearned. This year it’s at 20%. Last year 10% of the runs we gave up were unearned. This year it’s at 13%. This is troubling since we don’t have the arms that we had last year but some of these runs are attributable to the arms we do have not fielding their position very well.

So if there’s an issue other than this being college baseball...it may be that we don’t have the shut down arms to keep errors from hurting as much. And I have little hope that our pitchers will become good defensively. I recall looking at this in the 2017 season and seeing how much worse our pitchers were defensively than others. It wasn’t even close then. Doubt it’s gotten any better.
 

PurpleBlood87

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Eissler looked pretty good - he struggled a little on making good pitches with 2 strikes and the last one was terrible

But he had a good outing overall

The crazy thing was the one time TCU tries to bunt Goodloe doesn't get a pitch to bunt and walks. But then they refuse to have Wolfe move the runners to second and third for Watson and Guenther.
 
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