College Baseball 2024

[David44]

MS doing exactly what they need to do in Game1

[s1nglewing]

3 hours ago, Dawg83 said:

Might be dead wrong on this and I hope I am… I kinda think Bama wins two in Starkville. Just think that’s a dangerous team, and State is possibly due a letdown.

Don't think Alabama's getting a win tonight

[s1nglewing]

I don't really watch a lot of baseball until Tournament time, but MSU's caps tonight are righteous.

[Bulldogs4]

A good win for the Dawgs! With the run rule, pitching is in good shape for the weekend. 
 

[Dawg83]

State continues to play really well. You hope they’re not peaking too early but heck I’ll take this over whatever the heck 2022 and 2023 were.

 

State is 15th nationally in ERA, they were 236th last year. Justin Parker is dang near a miracle worker.

[Bulldogs4]

Don’t think we are peaking but the team has finally jelled and playing with confidence. 

[maroontide06]

Tonight’s game felt like one of those momentum type shifting games.  I realize it’s baseball, but it just feels like things are starting to come together for this team.

[David44]

It seems to have certainly started to all come together for this team. After the big road series win last week,

could have easily expected a let down, but they came out and played like it was a regional elimination game.

No reason to think that they won't play well again today either, but today is probably more about how Bama responds.

 

 

[maroontide06]

Well you can wrap that one in Maroon & White.  Another solid performance by the Diamond Dawgs.

[Dawg83]

State all the way up to 17 in the RPI. That host spot is very much in reach. Not there yet but very very close, just need to hold serve down the stretch pretty much.

[David44]

Don’t see how they miss it now. No worse than 3rd now in the West. If LSU wins tonight or Sunday, they can move up to 2nd by winning the A&M series. Then you may be talking about a top 8 seed.

Crazy how fast things turned around for this team.

[Bulldogs4]

Good, solid win. Great job of extending the lead.

Saved our pitching so we should be in good shape tomorrow. Just need to keep getting timely hits and continue to play solid defense in the field. 
Let’s Go Dawgs!!!

[Dawg83]

Don’t look now, but Ole Miss and LSU both won the first two games of their series and are both 9-14 now, tied with Bama. The bubble hopes are not completely dead for either one and that series in Baton Rouge in two weeks could be very significant for the winner.

[Bulldogs4]

Well two out of three is not bad. Tough to sweep a good team. 
So while today is disappointing the overall weekend was good. 

[Dawg83]

My gosh I have never seen a college team worse at catcher than Ole Miss this year. Words cannot describe how they just gave away Game 3.

[Dawg83]

State still in solid hosting position despite the Sunday loss but definitely need at least one win in Fayetteville next weekend. And then to take care of business against UNA and Missouri in the final week.

[Bulldogs4]

Tough loss for Ole Miss though 2 out of 3 is still a good weekend. Still a tall hill to climb the next two weeks. 

[Insideradvantage]

55 minutes ago, Dawg83 said:

My gosh I have never seen a college team worse at catcher than Ole Miss this year. Words cannot describe how they just gave away Game 3.

We gots no hind catcher. But that was also a stupid substitution decision from our head ball coach. I'm just shocked I tell you. 

[Dawg83]

With Mizzou’s loss yesterday, State has officially clinched a spot in Hoover. We will see if they do anything there this time around, I believe State has one win in Hoover since 2017, and it was that 17 inning marathon game against LSU.

[Former Coach]

1 hour ago, Dawg83 said:

With Mizzou’s loss yesterday, State has officially clinched a spot in Hoover. We will see if they do anything there this time around, I believe State has one win in Hoover since 2017, and it was that 17 inning marathon game against LSU.

If they can get to 17 plus wins I feel like they will go to Hoover with the intention of getting a couple of wins, just to secure hosting. In '21 there was no reason to use your best pitchers because the national seed was locked in before Hoover.

[pancho]

who stayed up and watched the thriller in oxford?

[Insideradvantage]

I started and watched while brushing my teeth. It had been going for 5.5 hours by that time. 

[Dawg83]

We are still on track for State vs Ole Miss in Hoover, for whatever that’s worth. OM will still likely sneak in as they have a two game lead on Mizzou for the final spot. A&M coming to Oxford this weekend though, and I think A&M might be the best team in the country this year. Would not shock me if OM gets swept and then making Hoover is suddenly more iffy if Mizzou takes care of Auburn.

 

State is pretty firmly stuck in the 5-6-7 range unless they win the Arkansas series and then sweep Mizzou. They could certainly sweep Mizzou but I’m not over optimistic about winning a series in Fayetteville. Think you’d be totally fine with 1 out of 3 this weekend.

Edited May 9, 2024 by Dawg83

[Bulldogs4]

One win in FYV would be a win for State. Two wins would be awesome but not expected at all. 
Arkansas has great pitching but they don’t necessarily score a lot of runs. So it is very possible that all three games will be close and lower to mid-scoring type games. Hopefully we can win one or two…

 

I predict Ole Miss wins one game against Aggie maybe even two. Why? Just because the SEC is weird like that. Lot of pressure on A&M whereas Ole Miss can just go out and play ball. Conventional wisdom says a sweep by Aggie but  I just don’t see it happening. 
 

USM helped themselves immensely last week with a sweep over Coastal. They are on the road at Arkansas State this weekend who is quite frankly not very good. But it is on the road. USM needs to win two. A sweep would be really good but it is hard to sweep a team on the road. They have put themselves in good position to make a Regional. Just need to continue to take care of business. 

[maroontide06]

If State were to pull off a win in Fayetteville, it would probably need to be the Friday or Saturday game.  Ideally you'd want to win the Friday game, but it's all going to depend upon a quality start by Stephen and also being able to get some timely hits with the Arkansas ace and tapping into their pen around the 6th inning.