tylerdurden24

Dawgs win it 4-0 over Mizzou.

Nip and tuck for a while but blew it open in the 8th

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Didn’t Vigue have an issue at the end of his last outing? Hopefully just some fatigue and getting some needed rest. We need him badly.

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Had a forearm cramp at Arkansas. Supposedly Wes decided Sunday AM before he could even get warmed up to sit him. Idk that I believe that but gotta hope he comes back this weekend

11-0 Dawgs in the 6th

Dan Jackson has 2 HRs and 5 RBI

Brings his season total to 23 HR and 21 SB. A 25/25 season is well within range with an outside shot at becoming only the second player ever to hit 30/30 (JD Drew is the only one to ever do it)

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A more accurate picture of a teams resume might be this… RPI Top 25 Wins minus Losses Outside the Top 25: +6 Auburn, Texas +4 Ole Miss, Texas A&M +2 Georgia, Georgia Tech +1 Arkansas, Florida, N Carolina, UCLA -1 Florida St, Miss St -2 Alabama, Oklahoma, Nebraska, Tennessee -3 Kansas, Miami -4 USC, Virginia -5 Wake Forest -6 Kentucky, Oregon St. FYI, Vandy is -7, LSU -8, Missouri -9, and South Carolina is -10.

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Wonder if you could adjust for this with regard to just weekend losses vs all games. Not that this is any less valid a look at resume but curious the actual strength of teams by this metric when it’s good vs good during weekends tilts.

Our draw in regional play is going to determine a lot for us, unfortunately. Would like to one day be at a point with this program when we can confidently take on all comers but the state of our pitching depth just doesn’t really allow for that. Good news is our lineup is just fricking hell on wheels; what they’ve done on the road does not get enough attention and Dan Jackson isn’t getting the publicity he deserves for the season he is having as a fricking catcher.

5-1 Dawgs win the rubber match and the series. Aoki paved the way but Ishikawa, Brown, Edwards, Farley, and Byrd all pitched down the stretch after throwing the last 2 games. No clue where Vigue is and that’s concerning.

But in spite of some really rough looking pitching this weekend, we have now won series in College Staion, Starkville, Fayetteville, and Oxford. That’s positively insane.

It takes 14 innings but Phelps hits a solo shot and we add a bases loaded walk to win Game 2 9-7.

Vigue gets the start tomorrow but I have no idea who we have left to pitch behind him. Aoki, Scott, Byrd, Brown, and Farley are all spent. Jameson may be too. A complete game would be a god send…

In the last 4 games, UGA pitching has averaged per game:

11.25 runs
11.5 hits
6.5 walks

That includes a run rule loss to Tech and 8-run and 4-run blown leads in Game 1 and 2 today, respectively

Currently in the 12th inning of game 2. Longer this goes on, the more imperiled game 3 tomorrow becomes as Ole Miss has a much deeper, better quality pen than we do.

I’ve been a UGA season ticket holder since the perno years. I’m quite aware the difference. This is the first season under Wes we’ve had a regular starter on the mound average more than 3 innings of work. My critique of the staff isn’t hyperbole and guess work, we are now and have been in the statistical basement for pitching in the SEC all 3 years he has been here. We give up an inordinate number of walks and HBPs and it absolutely kills us.

Unless Arkansas retires DVH, Wes isn’t going anywhere and he may not even go there. He is an obvious improvement over Stricklin and the program is at least in hosting conversations again… but we cannot keep living in the bottom third of pitching in the conference. We will not ever advance beyond Supers if we don’t find an advantage on the mound, no matter how many tanks we hit. Regular season wins are a good way to pass the time February-May but nobody cares about what you did in April if you shite the bed in June.

As for money, far as I can tell Wes hs been given what he wants; he just wants guys with high velocity stuff that he can mold. Problem is we need guys who can hit the fricking zone, not the Jordan Stephens of the world who touch 100 but walk and hit batters far more than striking anyone out. So far all Wes has done with our pitchers is make guys who would’ve been late round MLB flyers picks into mid round guys, none of which is really helping us win ballgames at the college level.

3 years in and I’m becoming convinced this is just who we are under Wes: good team 3/4 of the way through a season, shite the bed down the stretch, blow it in our own regional, rinse and repeat.

Better than where we were but im really not interested in doing this for 8 years before we wise up. He needs to show growth in year 4 or we need to consider moving on while we still have some momentum