re: SEC Softball Standings with one weekend to play

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So what's the SECs plan for finishing last night's OU is A&M game? Stupid to start the game that.late knowing weather was coming in. OU up 5-3 in the 6th with Kendall Wells coming to bat i the 7th. Looks like rain all day today a d I doubt they play on Sunday with the tourney starting Tuesday.

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Well they got five innings complete, so they could call the game, there is nothing being played in SE Texas today, I'm not sure they want to play two games and an extra 2 innings on Saturday unless the Florida and Alabama games force them to.

Last I heard: They were going to meet at 9am today and talk about how to proceed. I haven't seen anything resulting from that meeting yet.

When they game started last night, they were expecting clear skies until about midnight, so around 4 hours to play the game. They clearly got surprised well before that.

Radar looks like it might clear out for a while after 12:30 today...for about 90 minutes at most. It might be enough to finish last night's game, but I don't know that they'd try in that small of a window.

I also don't know anything about that field, like how soaked it got or how quickly it can dry out. They did seem to get the tarp on the infield pretty quickly last night.

I personally doubt they play at all today, but tomorrow and Sunday still look nice going by every weather prediction I've found this morning.

Well, my prediction was wrong. They're planning on resuming last night's game at 12:50pm today.

If current radar holds, I doubt they'll get a chance to start Game 2 after that. Likely a double tomorrow, but no official word just yet.

I don't know how we can be that bad in Softball.

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bigDgator

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Well that half inning just now shows exactly what I'm talking about.

-Runners on first and second, no outs.
-Failed bunt attempt in which the batter pops out. Runners on first and second, one out.
-Batter walks. Bases loaded, one out.
-Batter hits a soft grounder to third, USCe gets the force at home. Bases loaded, two outs.
-Batter strikes out looking.

No runs scored.

The Bama offense in a nutshell.

Disaster. Resuming last nights game

B6 OU up 5-3. 2 outs Atm has runner on 3rd

OU relieves their best pitcher - big mistake

Atm goes up 8-5. Total meltdown by OU. As I said our pitching is suspect but taking out your best pitcher with 2 outs and 2 run lead was a bad move. All coaches make mistakes even the great ones.

Final: Atm wins 8-5

That was the most ridiculously horrible bit of softball I can ever remember OU playing...by a lot. Just crazy awful. Stupid. Atrocious.

So dumb.

But one could say equally great play by A&M.

And on top of all that shite, the stats page crashed early on, so I'm not even sure what exactly happened and who did what.

Congrats to A&M on the massive comeback with only one out left in the inning.

And just one more thing: Enough with trying to get Pickering out of her slump. She's hitting well under .100 for the last few weeks. We have plenty of hitters, and she's not even that good of a fielder. Get her out of there.

I don’t know much about softball pitchers. Could yesterday’s starter been able to pitch today without issue?

I’m sitting in OKC- I was supposed to be back in cypress about an hour ago but the weather is apparently shitty in Houston. I’d be shocked if there are any games tonight.

Rain delays have always been OU’s kryptonite.

Cost them a national championship against Bama in 2012.

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Could yesterday’s starter been able to pitch today without issue?

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Usually, yes. A lot of teams will ride their only good pitcher for the vast majority of the postseason. Getting tired or injured from overpitching is much less of an issue in softball, though they certainly can and do get worn out.