Seasons that turned on a game

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12:29p, 4/13/26
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For a long time I've been intrigued by how one game can turn around a baseball team's season. Maybe the worst example of it for the Aggies was the 2008 season. The Aggies had won a Big 12 record 16 conf games in a row, were playing Nebraska to clinch the conference title in the first game of a doubleheader. Had a late lead but botched a double play ball then went on to lose the next 8 in a row.

It's still too early to know for sure but the Sunday Georgia game seems like maybe that in reverse. The Aggies had lost 8-2 Saturday, were 1-4 in conference, and getting swept in their first home series would have sure seemed like "here we go again". But instead the next day they run ruled the dawgs and have been a different team since. Won 8 of their last 9 conf games and have averaged an impressive 11.7 runs per game in that stretch.

Look at the run differential of SEC teams, conf games only. No one else is close.
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12:50p, 4/13/26
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Felt like there were 2 of those season trajectory changing games last season.

Game 2 at Tenn and Game 1 vs Mizzou.

Going into game 2 of that series we were hovering near .500 overall and were 1-9 in conference. Starting game 2 of that series, we beat Tenn in games 2 and 3, swept a not good USCe team, beat top 10 Arky in fayetville 2/3. Got swept by a combined 3 runs at #1 tu, beat #2 (and eventual national champion) LSU 2/3. And then.....got swept by winless in conference mizzou.
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1:05p, 4/13/26
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Baseball is an emotional sport. For as long as I can remember, I hated the overuse of the term "momentum" in sports talk. My son now plays freshman baseball at Marcus HS. In any given week I watch more baseball between the Rangers, Aggies and my son's teams than I watched my entire life before my son started playing.

All that to say I have been amazed how one play can turn an inning, one inning can turn a game, and one game can turn a tournament or season. The MLB is more immune for sure, but HS and college baseball simply aren't. And it's not just the one play. It's how the players handle it. It's how the coaches handle the players.

Momentum absolutely exists in baseball. I love it and hate it at the same time. When it doesn't go your way, it feels unfair. When it does, you feel like it's "about time"!

I hope those first hits in that GA game were enough to spin this season in the right direction. It feels like it...until maybe it doesn't.
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2:07p, 4/13/26
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You can probably figure it out which one game I was able to make it to based off of your post. I watched us play that day and Georgia just powered the ball the entire game. Hell, the left fielder even got hit with a baseball to the head from the fans in that game. All around that game looked like monkeys nut massaging a football. I am glad that the team turned it around and have a good groove going.
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In reply to jimscott85 • 2:10p, 4/13/26
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I remember Larry Dierker saying "momentum is your next day's starting pitcher ". I don't know who first said that but I learned it from him.

I really wish we had gotten to see that game last night. It would have been a good test of that saying. The sips had a big advantage in starting pitching, on paper. But the Aggies were smoking.
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2:39p, 4/13/26
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Walker Pennington hitting a 3-run HR in the 9th inning of the 3rd game against LSU in 2017 really turned that season around.

We had a rough time in Houston at Shriners, got swept at home by Kentucky, and lost 2 to Vanderbilt (including a 17-3 loss in game 2). A week later at the Box, we won 4-0, lost 7-4, and won 4-3 on that Pennington HR in the 9th, funny enough scoring 4 runs in all 3 games. It was enough to take the series from #6 LSU. The team went on a tear after that with a hiccup or two along the way, making it all the way to Omaha. It did help that the #2 seed we were paired against lost to Davidson, giving us a better draw in the Supers. But still. The team was on the road in the Regionals (there was talk we might not even make a regional in the first part of the season) and swept through it in 3 games.

This story was the basis for the Maroon Dawn "Aaaand it's gone" thread where he gave up on the team after the Vanderbilt Saturday game and the team turned around and went to Omaha, chasing him from this board for good.
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In reply to Aggies2009 • 5:28p, 4/13/26
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Aggies2009 said:
Walker Pennington hitting a 3-run HR in the 9th inning of the 3rd game against LSU in 2017 really turned that season around.

We had a rough time in Houston at Shriners, got swept at home by Kentucky, and lost 2 to Vanderbilt (including a 17-3 loss in game 2). A week later at the Box, we won 4-0, lost 7-4, and won 4-3 on that Pennington HR in the 9th, funny enough scoring 4 runs in all 3 games. It was enough to take the series from #6 LSU. The team went on a tear after that with a hiccup or two along the way, making it all the way to Omaha. It did help that the #2 seed we were paired against lost to Davidson, giving us a better draw in the Supers. But still. The team was on the road in the Regionals (there was talk we might not even make a regional in the first part of the season) and swept through it in 3 games.

This story was the basis for the Maroon Dawn "Aaaand it's gone" thread where he gave up on the team after the Vanderbilt Saturday game and the team turned around and went to Omaha, chasing him from this board for good.


Hell yeah. I was there for that one...Penningtons walk-off vs LSU in 2017. Remember it like it was yesterday. My Dad bought tickets for me and my future wife and we made the trip to Baton Rouge together. I remember the three of us going nuts in a sea of purple and gold! He ended up passing unexpectedly about 2 months later, so thats my final memory of watching Aggie baseball with him. Still think about it often.
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6:17a, 4/14/26
This is why people really like baseball
There is a magic and momentum that can't be explained Trying to understand makes the game fascinating
Of course there are people that just chalk it up to being random and those guys don't really like baseball
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In reply to McInnis • 6:46a, 4/14/26
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Georgia's Sunday pitching is really bad.
I personally look at 2 innings so far this season. Top of the first against Vandy in the second game after being drilled in game one. Moss walks the lead off batter and the next guy gets a single. Runners on first and third with no outs and Moss strikes out the side.
This past weekend after the rain delay when we knocked Harrison out of the game in that first half inning,
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