LSU to Face Arkansas On Friday
by Richard Pittman on Jun 17, 2009 11:01 PM CDT
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PrintIt took 12 innings, and Arkansas had to use up all of its best pitchers, but Arkansas advances to face LSU at 1:00 Central on Friday. They used their 3rd starter, lefty Drew Smyly for 4.2 innings, then used their best middle reliever Mike Bolsinger for 3 innings, then used a couple of different pitchers for a few outs before bringing in their ace starter Dallas Keuchel in the 9th. He stayed in until the game was over after the 12th. Arkansas will struggle to find pitchers to face us on Friday, as Smyly, Keuchel, and Bolsinger are probably not available at all. Their next two starters, Eibner and Forrest, both would be on 3 days rest following outings that weren't exactly dominant against the very team they will be facing again.
Really, this game could not have gone better for us.
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Earlier on, I thought I would rather us face UVA.
When I saw Keuchel come to the mound in the 9th, I figured it didn’t really matter. Not that I would overlook Arkansas, but K would be one that I would be concerned about. Now all we have to worry about is complacency.
UVA did some lousy baserunning, don’t you think? And the small ball stuff just drove me nuts.
Kudos to the Razorbacks, for hanging in there, and doing the league proud.
Very poor baserunning
especially towards the end of the game, but I thought the ESPN crew hit the nail on the head by pointing out that the guy hadn’t been on base since early April.
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by Richard Pittman on Jun 18, 2009 6:00 AM CDT up reply actions
Fun game to watch
I really enjoyed the game last night. Even though I get up @ 5:00am I had to stay up and watch. I couldn’t believe how UVA botched it with men on third almost every inning from the 9th on. That had to hurt. All good for our Tigers though.
Could Not Have Been Better
I,too, was thoroughly enjoying every pitch from the 9th inning on. I was still having trouble pulling for either, though my SEC blood won out and I had to pull for the hogs. We just need to be ready to put it away early. Ar-kansas is not going to lay down as they proved over and over last night.
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