re: Alabama Baseball Thread -RIP 2014/Stacked for 2015?

Yes and we gave up 10. Not a good sign going into this weekend.

With Turnbull having to pitch last Saturday after Friday's rainout, the rotation for this week will be Bramblett, Turnbull, and then Kamplain. I assume Keller is still out, it'd be nice to have him back by next week otherwise the pitching for the first game or two in Hoover would very much be by committee.

ETA: Keller is available out of the pen this week, working himself back to full strength. Three weeks ago he was our #1 starter, it'd be nice to get that back (or something close to it) for the postseason.

Yea that'd be nice.

Meanwhile tonight it's 1-0 MSU in the 3rd. They got a run in the third inning with a two-out single, wild pitch, and another hit. After a walk and another wild pitch, Bramblett got a strikeout to strand two more in scoring position.

We're so impatient offensively. Their guy has only thrown 15 pitches thru two innings. I honestly think we've only taken two pitches.

State takes the lead right back. Single, sac bunt, and an infield single (could've been an error) put runners at the corners with one out. RBI groundout and then a two-out single make it 3-1. Salem misses the cutoff man so there's another runner in scoring position with two outs. If Overstreet makes the tough play on the infield hit, no runs would've crossed.

ETA: Overstreet boots another, 4-1. Not much has been going our way these past few weeks.

His arm his horrible, but he also tracks down a lot of catches other people wouldn't get to. All in all I'd say he's above average. His good speed helps us more often than his terrible arm comes into play.

Cucjen pops out into shallow left. With White ahead in the count 2-0, MSU is making a pitching change. 1st and 3rd still, one out.

ETA: White hits a perfect double play ball to third, but State is unable to make a good relay throw. Run scores, White at 1st with two-outs. 4-2. Salem flies out to end the 5th.

A really pathetic effort so far, considering what's at stake.

A really dumb decision by CMG to start Bramblett tonight, instead of Turnbull. This was a huge game, and our team/coach did not treat it as one or approach it with the necessary sense of urgency. That is extremely disappointing.

I actually agree with the decision to hold Turnbull till tomorrow. He just pitched his best game in weeks on Saturday. He's had a week off between every start this year, I think bringing him back today would've been too quick. Having him healthy and fresh is more important than whether he threw game one or game two this weekend. I'm sure Gaspard was tempted to throw him today, but he did the reasonable thing in my opinion.

I'm kinda tired of Gaspard running the same lineup out there every day though when they aren't producing at all. This is looking like the 8th time in 9 SEC games we'll score three runs or less. I understand we don't have a lot of guys on the bench we could plug in, but he could juggle the lineup some. Don't know why our best hitter all year long continues to bat 6th.