TCU v. UT Baseball, Thursday, Game #1

[Dogfrog]

Also ML hasn’t looked sharp like his nap was too long this afternoon. Maybe now.

 

[MTfrog5]

Fastball down hasn’t been a strike for the last 5 innings until the 9th. scheissing ump

 

[PurpleBlood87]

Agreed, but easier to say than do when the SS is aggressively calling you off in live play

Hopefully a coach talked to Oviedo after that play.

 

[AroundWorldFrog]

scheiss, that was winnable game.

 

[TCURiggs]

Their great defense beat our sketch defense. Damnit.

 

[Pharm Frog]

Agreed, but easier to say than do when the SS is aggressively calling you off in live play

It should be far harder to call off an aggressively calling outfielder. Far harder. And even harder when there’s a runner on third with less than two outs.

 

[tcumaniac]

Well

 

[MTfrog5]

scheiss, that was winnable game.

Seems like we’ve had way too many of those winnable games this year

 

[PurpleBlood87]

Well that sucked.

 

[MTfrog5]

It should be far harder to call off an aggressively calling outfielder. Far harder. And even harder when there’s a runner on third with less than two outs.

This. Watson should have scared the [ Finebaum ] out of him making sure everyone in the park knew who was going to catch the ball

 

[berryfrog95]

All the chances in the world. UT much better on decisive defensive plays tonight. Season hanging by a thread.

 

[TCURiggs]

It should be far harder to call off an aggressively calling outfielder. Far harder. And even harder when there’s a runner on third with less than two outs.

Again, I agree, but if you saw how aggressive Oviedo was on both of those calls it's hard to fault the other guys fair bailing out. That doesn't make it right.

 

[Pharm Frog]

scheiss, that was winnable game.

We don’t beat very good teams in one-run games this season very often.

 

[ThisIsOurTime]

Tough loss but get to play again tomorrow and Saturday to redeem things. Boulware and Watson should take this game personally as going 0-4 and poor defensive play in the field were big factors in the loss tonight. They should have something to prove the rest of the series.

 

[TCUdirtbag]

We don’t beat very good teams in one-run games this season very often.

and that's why i'll be shocked if our season isn't over in 8-9 days

 

[Pharm Frog]

Again, I agree, but if you saw how aggressive Oviedo was on both of those calls it's hard to fault the other guys fair bailing out. That doesn't make it right.

I obviously didn’t see the play but it would not be hard at all to fault any outfielder for bailing out on a catchable ball with a runner at 3rd and less than two outs regardless of how loud the SS was yelling. You make it sound like it happened twice which makes it even stranger.

 

[TCURiggs]

I obviously didn’t see the play but it would not be hard at all to fault any outfielder for bailing out on a catchable ball with a runner at 3rd and less than two outs regardless of how loud the SS was yelling. You make it sound like it happened twice which makes it even stranger.

The first one was on a foul ball near the 3B dugout, where Ovieado sprinted in late and called Conner off and almost missed it because it was such a long run. The other was where he sprinted back to shallow LF and called Josh off when the runner was on 3B and he ended up bobbling it while going away from the plate and tried to make a throw home to get the runner tagging. Josh could've easily caught the ball and made a much better throw coming towards home.

 

[ThisIsOurTime]

I obviously didn’t see the play but it would not be hard at all to fault any outfielder for bailing out on a catchable ball with a runner at 3rd and less than two outs regardless of how loud the SS was yelling. You make it sound like it happened twice which makes it even stranger.

There was another play earlier in the game where Oveido called off the 3rd baseman in a foul ball pop up just behind 3rd base. That was the right call because it is an easier play for the SS but it wasn't executed very well as Oveido was late in getting over creating confusion.

Of course, Watson looked lost tracking fly balls today. He struggled to find another pop up in the 7th or 8th.

 

[MTfrog5]

I mean I guess we can’t say our SS doesn’t want the ball

 

[Pharm Frog]

Thanks for the explanations. Doesn’t really surprise me. There’s been a tad bit too much passivity this season in several regards.