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re: **OFFICIAL 2022 ARKANSAS RAZORBACK BASEBALL SEASON THREAD - 3rd Place CWS**
Posted on 4/28/22 at 8:29 am to Hawgeye
Posted on 4/28/22 at 8:29 am to Hawgeye
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Would be interested how many of you said the same thing in 2018 when at this same time that team sat at 29-13, had just been swept on the road by Miss State. That team was 3-3 in SEC series at this point in the season.
Someone helped put it in perspective the other day.
In 2018 we lost FIVE series in conference play, and all of them were on the road (Florida, Ole Miss, MSU, LSU, and Georgia). That team couldn’t win a conference road game to save its life, and yet they were a foul ball away from a National Championship.
In the words of Yankee broadcaster John Sterling, “that’s baseball, Suzyn.”
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Posted on 4/28/22 at 8:41 am to Feral
That 2018 team was also more complete. This team has too many question marks and hasn't beaten anyone worth a damn outside an overrated LSU team at home. I wouldn't have too high expectations come postseason for this current team. DVH still being stubborn with Ramage and Zeb and not giving too many chances to the younger guys still. It always bites us in the arse. Same thing with hitting approach. It's like nothing has changed to adjust.
Posted on 4/28/22 at 8:47 am to Pygthagorean Theorem
Zeb has been fine this year. Ramage.....I would like to see less of.
Posted on 4/28/22 at 9:50 am to HogX
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Zeb has been fine this year. Ramage.....I would like to see less of.
This.
People keep shitting on Zeb, but he’s quietly had a pretty good year. He has a 2.65 ERA in 15 appearances.
He has the third most strikeouts of our relievers (not counting Ramage due to his number of midweek innings) after Tygart and Tole.
Zeb isn’t Kevin Kopps, but he’s been a fairly reliable bullpen arm this year.
But yes, Ramage doesn’t need to see the weekends unless he’s eating innings in a big loss or a blowout. I was fine with him coming in this past weekend after Wiggins got run with only 1 out.
This post was edited on 4/28/22 at 9:52 am
Posted on 4/28/22 at 12:47 pm to Poker_hog
quote:It's not really the foul ball. It's the fact that we drug our dick across the faces of the entire conference last year and people got too used to it and have now set that as the bar to achieve if we're gonna win a title. Some among us need to come to grips with the fact that we may never see another season performance like that again in terms of results. There's a reason it's only happened twice ever by any team in the history of the conference.
That damn foul ball clouds everyone’s judgement.
Posted on 4/28/22 at 4:11 pm to Drewbie
Yeah, Mississippi State got hot at the right time last season. We just need to stay a top 8 national seed since we play so much better at home.
If we can get to Omaha then maybe we can get hot at the right time.
If we can get to Omaha then maybe we can get hot at the right time.
Posted on 4/28/22 at 4:21 pm to Pygthagorean Theorem
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That 2018 team was also more complete.
They were not at this current stage of the season.
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I wouldn't have too high expectations come postseason for this current team.
Why not? This team has tons of potential.
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DVH still being stubborn with Ramage and Zeb and not giving too many chances to the younger guys still.
Ramage gave us useful innings against aTm the other day...but grouping Zeb in with him is laughable. Zeb was our best starter a season ago until he started experiencing arm issues and he has one of the lower ERA's on staff this season amongst those who have pitched 15+ innings.
Posted on 4/28/22 at 4:26 pm to Maytheporkbewithyou
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got hot at the right time
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we can get hot at the right time.
That is literally all the post season is about. Your example was Mississippi State last season. As well, NC State can be brought into that convo. Likely a great chance to win the title a season ago if not for Covid.
They were 33-17 and headed to Fayetteville for Supers. They went 6-5 last season in ACC series.
Posted on 4/28/22 at 4:39 pm to Hawgeye
Arkansas peaked during the regular season, they reached a ceiling. NCST did not.
Posted on 4/28/22 at 4:48 pm to dchog
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Arkansas peaked during the regular season, they reached a ceiling. NCST did not.
Has absolutely nothing to do with a team peaking. A team is who they are. It is about getting hot and catching teams that aren't, at the right time.
Using the term peaking in baseball is a farce.
Arkansas beat NC State 21-2 in game 1. What you are trying to say is that overnight, Arkansas was no longer "peaking" as a team. That is false. Arkansas went cold on the long ball and lost two baseball games by one run each. That is baseball. That is how it works and it has always worked.
Mississippi State was not the best team in baseball last year, but they had great pairings in the NCAA Tourney. At their home regional, they hosted Samford, VCU, and Campbell. In their Super, they hosted Notre Dame. They then got to play an overrated Texas team 3 times in Omaha with a game against Virginia squeezed in to make the CWS championship series against conference foe Vanderbilt.
State hit .278 as a team and had a 4.04 ERA a season ago. There was nothing great about that team. They had good matchup draws to the championship series.
This post was edited on 4/28/22 at 4:51 pm
Posted on 4/28/22 at 4:55 pm to Hawgeye
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State hit .278 as a team and had a 4.04 ERA a season ago. There was nothing great about that team. They had good matchup draws to the championship series.
Yep. Braves just won the World Series with the worst record in reg season of all playoff teams. And that's 162 sample size.
Posted on 4/28/22 at 7:49 pm to Hawgeye
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Has absolutely nothing to do with a team peaking. A team is who they are. It is about getting hot and catching teams that aren't, at the right time.
Using the term peaking in baseball is a farce.
Arkansas beat NC State 21-2 in game 1. What you are trying to say is that overnight, Arkansas was no longer "peaking" as a team. That is false. Arkansas went cold on the long ball and lost two baseball games by one run each. That is baseball. That is how it works and it has always worked.
Yep. The 2004 ALCS is another good example. The Yankees were a *much* better team comparatively and beat the shite out of the Red Sox for the first 3 games of the series, culminating in a 19-8 beatdown in game 3.
Suddenly they couldn’t win a close game to save their lives, the best closer of all time blew 2 straight saves, and they became the first team to lose a series after being up 3-0.
The Yankees didn’t suddenly become a shitty team overnight, and the Red Sox didn’t suddenly become world beaters overnight, either.
Baseball is a funny, weird sport. By its very nature, it has the most frequent examples of any sport where the best team in the regular season doesn’t win the championship.
This post was edited on 4/28/22 at 7:51 pm
Posted on 4/28/22 at 8:02 pm to UltimateHog
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Yep. Braves just won the World Series with the worst record in reg season of all playoff teams. And that's 162 sample size.
All about getting hot at the right time. Of course, the Braves GM also took some gambles at the trade deadline and struck gold with every player he picked up. The Bravos went on a tear from July through September. All of that was done without Acuna, who was out with an ACL tear. Anyway, not to get off topic.
Posted on 4/28/22 at 8:13 pm to Arkapigdiesel
Oh ya, that's Cards 2011 team that was 10 games out starting September I'll never forget that.
We start hitting and clicking at the right time as good a shot as anyone to win CWS.
We start hitting and clicking at the right time as good a shot as anyone to win CWS.
Posted on 4/29/22 at 5:34 pm to RazorHawg
RHP Noland
3B Wallace
DH Slavens
C Turner
2B Moore
RF Bohrofen
SS Battles
1B Stovall
CF Webb
LF Gregory
3B Wallace
DH Slavens
C Turner
2B Moore
RF Bohrofen
SS Battles
1B Stovall
CF Webb
LF Gregory
Posted on 4/29/22 at 6:48 pm to RazorHawg
2-out single stranded by Connor in the first.
0-0 to bot 1st
0-0 to bot 1st
Posted on 4/29/22 at 6:50 pm to RazorHawg
Slavens 4-6-3 double play.
Posted on 4/29/22 at 6:50 pm to RazorHawg
Moore single thrown out at first 9-6-3.
0-0 to the 2nd
0-0 to the 2nd
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