2012 College Baseball- Road to Omaha

They had enough pitching to win their regional last week. That's a tougher weekend for a pitching staff than playing in Omaha.

Once you get to the CWS you only play once a day and you have a day off between games until you get to the championship series.

 

This was a rough, disappointing loss -- I really felt LSU had a good chance to win it all -- but I don't think Mainieri's in any trouble. He has a recent national title to his credit, and I like to think the Smoke Laval debacle is still fresh enough in people's minds to make them appreciate the success they've had under Mainieri.

 

I didn't catch anything other than the Stony Brook dogpile. What were the LSU players doing?

 

They were doing what every losing team in a super regional does immediately after the last out. Don't understand Han's problem with that.

 

Not to mention the fans stayed and gave a huge ovation to Stony Brook. The Stony Brook players were going around the park slapping hands with LSU fans congratulating them. If you're looking for a classless LSU argument, this isn't it.

 

Yeah I was going to say. It's fucking Stony Brook. They ought to get free cab fare down to New Orleans and comped drinks and women to their hearts' content.

 

My beef with LSU was less about the staring and more about the late, whiny-ass beanball in the back that the LSU lefty gave a Stony Brook hitter.

Brook was up 7-2 and had guys on first and second and the runner on second gets picked off. So, the guy who was on first steals second -- essentially replacing the picked-off guy -- and this pisses off the LSU lefty, who immediately drills the hitter in the spine.

I get the unwritten rule that you don't run when you're up big late in a game. Fine. But to me, that rule only applies in otherwise meaningless midseason games. Certainly in a postseason, winner-take-all situation, every single run is important. Especially when you're Stony Brook and you're playing a team that you simply couldn't finish off in Game 1.

But come on. We're really living in a world in which mighty LSU is pissed that Stony Brook is running up the score?

 

I was zoning in and out in the later innings and missed that, lino, but it seems weird that LSU would plunk a guy in that situation. Down five runs late, in an elimination game, you really don't want to put another guy on could score and finish you off.
And stealing with a five-run lead ought to be fine by "the code." Five runs is one good inning. If Florida State had been running in the ninth inning against Stanford tonight, that's a different story.
Did the pitcher posture or anything after he hit him?

 

You only have to watch a *little* college baseball to know that 5 runs isn't anywhere close to where the line should be for not running. Even with the new bats.

 

Pardon me, but I thought postgame handshakes were part of the protocol. Apparently not part of the program.

 

I didn't notice any posturing from Cotton, but there was no way it was an accident. He drilled Cantwell squarely on the No. 3 on the back of his jersey. The ump came out to cool things off, and to his credit, Mainieri immediately yanked Cotton.

 

Maybe in little league, high school and the NHL. Not so much in college baseball.
Nothing wrong with just heading off the field and into the clubhouse, or watching the other team celebrate from the dugout. It's quite a common reaction, actually.
Doing anything more, especially while the other team is dogpiling on your home field, is actually worse. It'd take away from the other team's moment.