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Quick thought on the blown first base call last night...
May 15, 2013, 12:06 PM
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It was egregious, reprehensible and a bunch of other words best not seen in print.
In the long run, it may also have been something we'll look back on as a defining moment.
Why? Becuase without that @#$@#$@!! call, the Tigers may well have continued to rally in the 8th. We might have gone ahead, then won in the top of the ninth.
Without a bottom of the 9th, there would not have been this ...
No walk-off homer by Bradley, no scrapping back to win when we absolutely had to. It would have just been a "Dang, that was a close call!" sort of game.
It didn't feel like it at the time, but that wretched call, and the Tigers' reaction to it, may be a building block for the future.
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Re: nice walk off win but...
May 15, 2013, 12:20 PM
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that ump is in the wrong line of work. Bad, blown, botched dont begin to describe it
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Frankly...considering the competition....
May 15, 2013, 1:16 PM
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(a USC-Upstate team with a record of 25 - 24), we should have never been in a position where a bad call from an ump could have influenced the outcome of the game.
Even if the team was slightly guilty of looking ahead to the weekend series with FSU, with everything Clemson had riding on the outcome, we should have put this team away long before the 8th inning.
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Re: Frankly...considering the competition....yep
May 15, 2013, 1:42 PM
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but not holding leads and playing to the level of competition is something we have seen all too often
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Re: Frankly...considering the competition....
May 15, 2013, 1:43 PM
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I have been a Clemson baseball fan my whole life and I can tell you what happened last night is part of baseball. Even great teams lose to decent teams on a regular basis. We have lost to a lot worse teams than we beat last night. To have the type of inning we had with walking two batters, hitting two batters and giving up 6 runs in one inning, I thought we did a pretty good job coming back and winning.
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I know....
May 15, 2013, 1:53 PM
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I myself have been attending Clemson baseball games for 42 years and while I do not disagree with your assessment, that does not make me feel any better about about struggling to narrowly escape with a critically important win against an otherwise vastly inferior opponent.
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Take the win and be happy.
May 15, 2013, 2:00 PM
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As for the playing down to the opponents part, we had won the previous 5 games against "inferior" opponents handily and comfortably.
SOmetimes bad games happen. Glad it came in a game in which we still managed to claw out a win.
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I love winning man...it's like better than losing***
May 15, 2013, 2:31 PM
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One of the reasons the baseball season is as long as it is
May 15, 2013, 1:57 PM
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Is because any individual game has the possibility of being a serious outlier.
We played one inning incredibly poorly. Had two pitchers lose the plot, and just got lost.
That happens at times in baseball, and it's the reason that at most levels a single game is rarely used as a measuring stick in baseball.
For the first two innings our pitching looked good. No reason to have someone warming up at that point. Then it went off the rails and suddenly we were tied before we could get another pitcher out there. Then the relief guy wasn't on track and we gave up 2 more before we brought in a third guy and shut em down, only giving up a single run (once again aided by an error) from that point on.
From a batting standpoint we were cold for most of the game. That happens as well. What you hope is that not all batters go cold at the same time and it just happened that (and hats off to their pitcher for his part in it) that most of our lineup struggled.
I'm dang glad we won. I'm glad we clawed back and snatched the win. But had we not, I wouldn't be calling for anyone's head for a 7 game winning streak to come to an end.
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Agreed. Winnig like that keeps the momentum on a
May 15, 2013, 12:54 PM
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super-high level going into Tallahassee.
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I thought the same thing after Bradley donned
May 15, 2013, 12:58 PM
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his Superman cape in the bottom of the 9th............the good news is: it doesn't have to change our opinion that this umpire sucks......he just sucks.
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So true.
May 15, 2013, 1:14 PM
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I'll tell you what Rev, I REALLY like this group of underclassmen we have, I think we may be headed for something special with them.
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