So many watched 3rd call strikes, obviously the most memorable were TKs back to back to end both games.
What is the deal with watching close pitches with two strikes….?
That's baseball basics, right!?

Gig'em!

OlsenAg15 said:

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So many watched 3rd call strikes, obviously the most memorable were TKs back to back to end both games.
What is the deal with watching close pitches with two strikes….?
That's baseball basics, right!?

Gig'em!

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It's easy to be a critic. And if he had swung and come up empty on those, there would be an outcry that he swung at a pitch outside the strike zone. I would have loved to see him connect for the double during today's first at at bat. But, it doesn't always go my way as evidenced by a good batter NOT getting a hit 2/3s of the time.

Sterling82 said:

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OlsenAg15 said:

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So many watched 3rd call strikes, obviously the most memorable were TKs back to back to end both games.
What is the deal with watching close pitches with two strikes….?
That's baseball basics, right!?

Gig'em!

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It's easy to be a critic. And if he had swung and come up empty on those, there would be an outcry that he swung at a pitch outside the strike zone. I would have loved to see him connect for the double during today's first at at bat. But, it doesn't always go my way as evidenced by a good batter NOT getting a hit 2/3s of the time.

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Critic…hardly.
It's an objective observation.
Between Fridays game and today's game, I counted at least 10 Ks looking.
It's not just TKs, those were just the most MEMORABLE, since they ended the game, and it happened to be him both games.

I wildly disagree that there would be an outcry if he had swung at a close pitch, that's what you do on two strike counts, in general and certainly with the game on the line.

I'll leave it at that, but we didn't get out talented these past two days.

One of the factors that can drastically make hitting more difficult is when you know the zone as a hitter and an umpire starts calling pitches out of the zone strikes regularly but inconsistently. If he's going to give the low strike or high strike consistently for instance you atleast know that's the zone but if he's just going to give random pitches 6 inches off the ground a strike call you become very indecisive and lose aggressiveness.

Personally I think starting to swing at pitches you know are out of the zone for fear of a strike call is a horrible idea. Can lead to nasty slumps swinging at bad pitches. If you know it's a ball you have to take it. If the umpire decides to be a crap show on that pitch well then oh well.

The best way to combat this is be aggressive early in counts at good pitches to hit when you have an umpire doing this, if there's a pitch to hit in 0 strike or 1 strike counts you better hit it.

TK can't handle off speed stuff as most of our hitters (Jace, Henseler, Sorrell, and Bear have been awful and not delivered at all. That is difference.

FM 949 said:

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Royo is the only Ag hitter that has shown up in this series.

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Kiel is 3 for 9 with two doubles and a walk. That is an OPS of 1.000. That is pretty damn solid despite being the final out of both games so far. Keep in mind he is only a freshman.

FM 949 said:

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I don't care if he's a freshman or not. We all need to stop making excuses.

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Reads as an angry old man lmao

FM 949 said:

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Not really. Neither angry or old. Don't like moral victories. The whole team is 0-2 in the series. That's all that matters.

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No one has taken a moral victory all weekend

"Quit making excuses" when no one has actually done is hilarious

It's not a "moral victory" to say TK played well this weekend despite the two game ending K's. He did. I guess we can have a different argument on whether well was well enough.

The ones that disappointed at the plate were 2-5. It's really hard to win games when that part of your lineup is 3-27.

Probably so. And I absolutely agree with above. A&M isn't losing games because of TK. It's Jace, Hensler, Sorrell, Harrison, and Kent that haven't impacted the games offensively.