re: 2022 Diamond Dawgs / 36-23 (15-16) / Season ends in the Chapel Hill Regional

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Btw Cole Tate is likely done for the regular season with a stress fracture in his leg

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I get that we're doing Thurs-Sat because of Easter (I guess?) but why did we also have another one of those 2 or 3 weeks ago? Does every team have to play 2 thurs-sun weekends?

Also I could be wrong but I could swear we've played on easter sunday in the past?

Dawgs lead 1-0 through 1 thanks to back to back errors by the A&M defense

2-1 Aggies in the 5th

6Ks and only 2 hits for their starter so far

Garrett Brown coming in for Crisp

I’m fine with it. Brown is arguably worse in the bullpen than he is a starter

ETA: He just chunked it into the outfield on a pick off attempt

Threatened in the 1st but 0-0 heading to the 2nd

We should have bases loaded no ours but instead have 1 and 2 with 1 out

Dawgs win a nail biter 4-3. Took my kid to the game, hence my absence but I’ll have notes later

Props to Luke Wagner tonight, getting us through 4 full with only 1 run. Unless Sully proves otherwise, we basically only have 1 actual 6-7 inning starter left on the staff in Cannon so everyone else needs to go at least 4 innings to pull their weight. Wagner did his job and got us out to the lead we needed to make A&M press at the plate.

Woods looked much more himself tonight than he did at KSU and while Gowen allowed it to be tighter than was comfortable, he shut them down in the end and has cemented himself as one of the top closers in the league.

Offensively, it was statistically a better night though we are still constipated in the RBI department as a squad. At least we fought off pitches and got on base which caused A&M to burn two guys with starter potential as they head into what is likely a staff game for them tomorrow. I’ll credit Stricklin with this: what we lack in timely hitting he will make up for in being pesky at the plate for o get to a soft bullpen. Only problem is when someone like Dettmer decides to lock in last night, we simply don’t have an answer and certainly don’t have an ace at the moment to try to outlast him with. Hopefully that changes next Friday; sounds promising for Cannon to return in T-Town.

Should be a raucous crowd tomorrow afternoon. We will learn a lot about this squad’s near future with Sully back on the bump for a full game of work. Woods is spent, as is Wagner, Crisp, and Marsh. Not sure how many pitches Polk and Brown threw last night but I’d just as soon not see them again if at all possible. So, that leaves us somewhat thin in the pen (Gowen should be able to throw again tomorrow but probably for no more than 6 outs I would think).