Super Regional - Baton Rouge

[LSUdeek]

If any of you are coming to Baton Rouge, let me know. I don't have (simply because they are impossible to get) tickets, but I may have a beer or several with your name on it.

Looking forward to seeing Gray.

[nighttrain12]

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The #Sooners are headed to Baton Rouge to face LSU in a Super Regional. Tickets on sale 8 a.m. Monday. Call 1-800-456-GoOU or 405-325-2424.

[boomersooner28]

Danggg, I want to have a Deek beer! Now how an I gonna get out of work...hhmmmmm

[RUSH LIMBAUGH is my clone!]

voodoo jinx on da tigahbaits, mah fren.

[Lott's Bandana]

Cheers, mate.

[badger]

I'll get game 1 up on vBookie asap

[Bourbon St Sooner]

I would like to get over to red stick for one of the games but probably won't be able to. I guess the advantage is that the beer's cheaper at home and there's no drunks in my face yelling tiger bait.

[nighttrain12]

11 of the final 16 teams are set. 10 of the 11 are #1 seeds plus #2 seed OU. 5 elimination games today in which all 5 have #1 seeds. There's also a #3 and #4 seed (and 3 #2's) playing today.

OU/LSU starts either Friday or Saturday and play up to 3 straight days (barring rain outs).

[Salt City Sooner]

Speaking of Mr. Gray:

http://espn.go.com/mlb/draft/2013/story/_/id/9338983/top-draft-prospect-jonathan-gray-had-positive-test-adderall

[8timechamps]

Speaking of Mr. Gray:

http://espn.go.com/mlb/draft/2013/story/_/id/9338983/top-draft-prospect-jonathan-gray-had-positive-test-adderall

Let's hope the NCAA doesn't spot test him.

[nighttrain12]

The sixteen teams are set. 14 #1 seeds and 2 #2 seeds (including OU) made it. The schedule should be out very soon.

[nighttrain12]

http://www.soonersports.com/sports/m-basebl/sched/okla-m-basebl-sched.html

This Friday, Saturday, Sunday, all starting at 6pm Central.

[8timechamps]

I'm not feeling so great about this series. I know OU matches (if not slightly exceeds) LSU in pitching, but the batting is where they may have the Sooners. It also doesn't hurt that the game is in Baton Rouge, and they are pretty freakin' wild for college baseball there (it doesn't hurt that they've won it all plenty of times). Unlike football or basketball, crowd doesn't come into play quite as much, but it's still going to create some kind of a distraction for our boys.

LSU/Vandy & UNC look like the best 3 teams in the country, but teams like OU, Oregon State and NC State could be overlooked. Hopefully, the great pitching and defense will get the job done against the Tigers.

[Sooner95]

Game on TV anywhere besides ESPN3?

[Sooner95]

No score. T2

[Eielson]

Game on TV anywhere besides ESPN3?

ESPN

[Lott's Bandana]

Pickoff wasn't even close. I'm not even upset Oberste was picked, because he wasn't.

Blue is off to a bad start, but am I surprised which way the mistake went? No, I am not.

[Sooner95]

No score B2

[Lott's Bandana]

Blue evened it up on that throw to 2nd.

Gray looks good.

Nice dayum ballyard they gots there.

[Lott's Bandana]

Wow, Gamecock and Tar Heel would be worth watching.

[Sooner95]

No score T3

[Eielson]

WE WANT HITS

[Sooner95]

Still nothin. T4

[SoonerorLater]

What kind of a strike zone does that umpire have?

[Sooner95]

Nadda T5. Lets go bats!!

[Sooner95]

Got one to 3rd. Still no score. B5

[Collier11]

Good pitchers dual so far, we really needed to cash in on that double

[Sooner95]

On to the 6th

[Lott's Bandana]

Am I too critical?

That groundout to short looked fairly routine. The announcers came unglued.


??

[Eielson]

WE. WANT. HITS.

[Collier11]

Top 7, 2 outs. Still scoreless

[Collier11]

Gotta wonder if SG will feel any pressure with Gray getting drafted so high to pull him after this inning, pitch count is getting high

[Sooner95]

1 run may win this one.

[Collier11]

Grays slider is nasty!

7ip, 3 hits, no runs, 8ks so far

[Sooner95]

Nice. Man oh man. Got a good one here!!

[Lott's Bandana]

Shame if either pitcher is pulled. Toe to toe.

[Sooner95]

Agree. See who blinks first.

[Sooner95]

Crap. 1 lob. On to B8

[Eielson]

Crap. :(

[hvhurricane]

SG has got to learn to put a man on in that position and play for the DP. He never does it though.

Oh, and Kyle Peterson is still a piece of ****!!

[hvhurricane]

And you don't bring in a FR pitcher in this position.

[Sooner95]

****. Wheels coming off.

[Sooner95]

Well. Got 3 outs to score 3 runs. Lets go boys!!

[Collier11]

Garza has been good all year, it was either him or Evans right? Gray pitched his heart out, may have been a case where he was tired but SG trusted his horse too long. Guess we will never know

[Eielson]

Any realistic shot of taking this series without Gray?

[Sooner95]

Cant blame our pitching in this one, we have to find ways to plate runs...

[Collier11]

Same issues that we have had at times this year, inconsistent offense. We can def still win it but it is stacked against us, if Overton can give us a gem, a combo of Fisher and Evans would give us a real shot.

[Lott's Bandana]

Same issues that we have had at times this year, inconsistent offense. We can def still win it but it is stacked against us, if Overton can give us a gem, a combo of Fisher and Evans would give us a real shot.

Their pitcher was just dead on tonight.

We got beat. I'm not loony about it.

[Sooner95]

This one sucks for sure...crap.. Gray pitched great....

Well, back at it tomorrow night.

[hvhurricane]

SG made two huge mistakes, IMO. We should have squeezed in a run in the fifth. And he should have put a man on in the 8th to get the DP. The leading run is already on 3rd. You have to get a strikeout or a DP.

We got screwed on the pickoff call. That ump was dying to make an important call and be a huge part of the game.

[hvhurricane]

Their pitcher was not as good as we made him look. He only has two pitches. We did a bad job of protecting the plate and getting him into deep counts. When the pitcher only has two pitches, that is a lot easier to do. This is the same problem we have had against good pitchers all year.

[BlackwellSooner]

Their pitcher was just dead on tonight.

We got beat. I'm not loony about it.

Yeah, that Nola kid is awfully good - - what is he, a freshman or a soph? Real young, he has quite a future, obviously. Excellent pitching performance, our guys don't have to hang their heads.

[LSUdeek]

Good game, Sooners. Gray gave us everything we wanted and more.

[hvhurricane]

One other thing, I am so sick of these bats. These one and two run games are getting old. The pitchers are not that good and the hitters are not that bad. Can we please adjust the bats again so we can see some more scoring. The way KSU hit the ball this year is amazing, given the bats. This is not MLB.

[Collier11]

So you would rather go back to having 15-13 games and every pitcher on the staff having over a 4 era? These bats give us the most realistic relation to wood bats and that is what we need to be doing

[hvhurricane]

I don't like MLB. I started watching college baseball first. I like having games with more offense than we have seen the last two years. I like aluminum bats. I like seeing HR's. These bats have a smaller sweet spot than wooden bats. They built a new stadium in Omaha based on the old bats, and now nobody comes close to hitting a HR. I don't need 17-14 games, but it should be somewhere in between. We are talking about a difference of about 80 HR's a year for OU. Think about that for a second. Max White was hitting bombs his FR year and now he is lucky to have warning track power.

[8timechamps]

When Gray was close to 80 pitches in the 5th, I figured he had to be getting fatigued...surprised SG rode him as long as he did. Regardless, I thought Gray pitched a great game. All in all, the Sooners played pretty damn good. LSU is a cut above most every team in the country, and OU pretty much played right there with them.

The bad news is Gray won't pitch again this series. The good news is Nola won't either. Once you get past Gray and Nola, there is a sizable drop-off for both teams, but I think it's bigger for LSU. It's going to be an uphill climb to win the series, but if the Sooners can win tomorrow (which I think they will), then it's back to one game...and anything can happen.

[Collier11]

I think the big key is that we need atleast 7 from Overton, he has been getting high into his pitch count too early since his return

[Collier11]

I don't like MLB. I started watching college baseball first. I like having games with more offense than we have seen the last two years. I like aluminum bats. I like seeing HR's. These bats have a smaller sweet spot than wooden bats. They built a new stadium in Omaha based on the old bats, and now nobody comes close to hitting a HR. I don't need 17-14 games, but it should be somewhere in between. We are talking about a difference of about 80 HR's a year for OU. Think about that for a second. Max White was hitting bombs his FR year and now he is lucky to have warning track power.

No one is asking you to like MLB, but there was a guy from SD ST I believe who had 30 HRs this year, maybe the pitchers are pretty good

[hvhurricane]

No one is asking you to like MLB, but there was a guy from SD ST I believe who had 30 HRs this year, maybe the pitchers are pretty good

So, just about every good team in the country has pitchers with an ERA below 2? That is ridiculous. Those pitchers aren't that good. They are benefitting from a dead bat. These kids aren't going to be better pros because they pitch against this bat. Both pitchers last night rarely used a third pitch. That will not even work in AA ball. And I don't think one kid in the country having 30 home runs makes up for the difference overall. Again, OU has an 80 HR difference. There has to be something in between. This will definitely not help the game grow. There should be at least 2 HR's in a game. Seeing teams struggle to even have gap power is difficult to watch at times.

[Lott's Bandana]

If you're watching Gamecock v. Tar Heel right now, you're watching a dandy.

[hvhurricane]

I wish we could have gotten matched up with Virginia again. They are the most overrated team every year. They are the Virginia Tech football team of baseball.

Going to be a tough one tonight, but I think if we score first, we will win.

[8timechamps]

I wish we could have gotten matched up with Virginia again. They are the most overrated team every year. They are the Virginia Tech football team of baseball.

Going to be a tough one tonight, but I think if we score first, we will win.

I think this is the first time I have agreed with you about anything. UVA fans know they aren't great at football, but when it comes to baseball, they will tell you that they'll win it all every year.

I have a buddy that loves UVA baseball (I have NO idea why, he didn't live there or go to school there), and he told me after the selections came out that UVA would be in the CWS after they "blew through" MSU. Whoops.

[Sooner95]

On the board early tonight

1-0 OU B1. Game is on ESPN2

[Lott's Bandana]

End of 2, tied at 1. Squandering opportunities. Left 2.

[Lott's Bandana]

Horribleness turns a single into a man on 3rd and then a base hit.

1-2
1-out.

[Lott's Bandana]

Errors follow errors. Painful.

3 errors this inning.

[Lott's Bandana]

Max White loafs to a base hit, batter takes second.

Guys are in a daze.

I'm hoping for rain.

[Lott's Bandana]

Another run from our mistake. That's 3.

we couldn't suck any worse tonight.

Bad timing.

[JoeR]

Overton is pitching well. Defense really letting him down.

[BlackwellSooner]

You suppose Sunny will munch on White's butt during the rain delay (for dogging it on the base hit earlier)?

If he doesn't, he should!

[hvhurricane]

I don't agree. Dillion does not have his best stuff. He has to work his off speed stuff in on the hands on each side. He is leaving the ball over the plate.

[hvhurricane]

I think this is the first time I have agreed with you about anything. UVA fans know they aren't great at football, but when it comes to baseball, they will tell you that they'll win it all every year.

I have a buddy that loves UVA baseball (I have NO idea why, he didn't live there or go to school there), and he told me after the selections came out that UVA would be in the CWS after they "blew through" MSU. Whoops.

Well, the committee did everything they could possibly do to get them there. Their regional was a joke and then they got paired up with an average MSU team. The play a horrible NC schedule every year but get a ridiculously high RPI because of the overrated ACC.

[colston15]

DO is pitching fine. Haley's error and White's misplay were killers. And we left two guys in scoring position when their pitcher was on the ropes.

I hate that we had to go to LSU. They and maybe North Carolina were the only teams I thought would beat us right now.

I still think we have a run in us out of this delay. Gotta believe.

[hvhurricane]

If we were playing a regular season Big 12 game, I would agree, but DO can't leave those pitches over the plate against this team.

[Eielson]

Are we going to send DO back out there after this long delay?

[OUmillenium]

ugh

[hvhurricane]

We better find some pitchers for next year. If you can't make it to Omaha with a 1st and 2nd round pitchers, in the dead bat era, then we might not get back for a long time.

[Eielson]

We better find some pitchers for next year. If you can't make it to Omaha with a 1st and 2nd round pitchers, in the dead bat era, then we might not get back for a long time.

What? We scored 1 run in two games, and you're complaining about our pitching?

[Collier11]

This Senior Class tied the OU record for most wins over a 4 year period, our bats were far too inconsistent all year. Great Season, proud of our baseball fellas

[champions77]

1 run in 18 innings of baseball. If sunny doesn't go out and find a quality hitting coach, then maybe he should be fired too. Poorest hitting OU team that I can recall.

[Collier11]

This team was preseason #15, they ended up as one of the final 16 teams playing. They won a conference title. I agree that our hitting was not good at several times throughout the year, having said that, people please stop saying anything about SG getting fired. It is dumb

[nighttrain12]

The better team won, nothing to be embarrassed about.

[Collier11]

That's another good point, LSU is a top 5 team in the country and they beat us on their home field. OU winning would have been a decent upset

[Sooner95]

I have to agree. If our hitting would have a little better not only would we possibly upset LSU but our Big12 record would have been better this might have allowed us to have gained a better seed/host and who knows where that leads.

Anyhow it was a good season. Congrats to the 2013 Big 12 Champs!!

[Collier11]

we have some good hitting recruits coming in, if they can step in as freshmen and produce (which cant be counted on of course) we will be pretty good again. Lots hanging on Overton and Oberste, both likely gone but if one or both were to come back and surprise us, we would probably be the Big 12 favs

[TumbleweedDoom]

Don't forget that many of our hitters this year were freshmen (Aikin, Carpenter, Hermelyn, Haley) or first-year players (Lorenzana, Alspaugh, Bickerstaff). That's a core group that should only get better.

[RUSH LIMBAUGH is my clone!]

This Senior Class tied the OU record for most wins over a 4 year period, our bats were far too inconsistent all year. Great Season, proud of our baseball fellasInconsistent catches up with ya. College baseball is SUCH a tricky thing, with the major league draft always a major factor.

[Lott's Bandana]

LSU beat us the first game.

OU beat us the second.


Errors and mistakes happen, but last night was an entire season's worth. It never stopped.

[Soonerjeepman]

I'll give lsu credit as being a better team. I knew it would be an uphill feat to win down there..but I cannot stand their fans. I went to the Sugar Bowl and what a bunch of backwards a## drunk rednecks...

I didn't have the sound on but thought they were yelling their bulls(&t Tiger Bait crap...what a bunch of losers. I hope they get KSU and KSU knocks them out.

[Lott's Bandana]

I'll give lsu credit as being a better team. I knew it would be an uphill feat to win down there..but I cannot stand their fans. I went to the Sugar Bowl and what a bunch of backwards a## drunk rednecks...

I didn't have the sound on but thought they were yelling their bulls(&t Tiger Bait crap...what a bunch of losers. I hope they get KSU and KSU knocks them out.


You missed an ESPN slurp-fest, but I tempered my disgust with the fact that OUr girls pretty much got the same treatment last week in OKC.

Still, there was one play where their shortstop fielded a grounder where you would have thought Louie Aparicio had returned from the dead. They couldn't stop talking about it, even to the point where they brought it up again after the near-hourlong rain delay.

[King Crimson]

I'll give lsu credit as being a better team. I knew it would be an uphill feat to win down there..but I cannot stand their fans. I went to the Sugar Bowl and what a bunch of backwards a## drunk rednecks...

I didn't have the sound on but thought they were yelling their bulls(&t Tiger Bait crap...what a bunch of losers. I hope they get KSU and KSU knocks them out.

i tend to agree about LSU fans. i was also at the Sugar Bowl. horrible people in a way. some great fans but for every 1 there is 2 horrible. i didn't get it. i guess that's how they do.

[LSUdeek]

Lsu baseball fans != Lsu football fans

[8timechamps]

Lsu baseball fans != Lsu football fans

Very true. LSU is one of the few baseball programs in the country that can pack the house in the middle of the season. Unfortunately, that can't be said for OU (although there are plenty of loyal OU baseball fans).

Congrats to the Tigers. Now, if LSU does anything less than make it to the semifinals, I'll be disappointed. I was thinking NC would be the team to beat, but they are getting everything they wanted (and more) from SC. Could be another LSU championship.

[badger]

good season, guys. good luck to our future MLBers and everyone else not coming back next year.

[tulsaoilerfan]

Put it into perspective it's not like we lost to a sorry *** team; LSU is pretty damn good and has outstanding pitching; sometimes the pitchers are just better than the hitters!! Still a great season IMO

[tycat947]

I have to agree. If our hitting would have a little better not only would we possibly upset LSU but our Big12 record would have been better this might have allowed us to have gained a better seed/host and who knows where that leads.

Anyhow it was a good season. Congrats to the 2013 Big 12 Champs!!

This ^^^^^!

[Collier11]

Put it into perspective it's not like we lost to a sorry *** team; LSU is pretty damn good and has outstanding pitching; sometimes the pitchers are just better than the hitters!! Still a great season IMO

Look at all of the national seeds who have lost at home too, Vandy, Florida State, Cal State Fullerton...in hindsight we had a really great year

[Collier11]

I will say this for LSU fans ( I was at the Sugar Bowl as well and didn't have a bad time although I see where some did) They took up donations in the crowd for the Tornado victims so they do have some decent folks

[colston15]

http://www.soonersports.tv/video/play.jsp?content_id=27872895

Max White's a good Sooner. I wish him the best of luck in whatever he pursues.

[S.PadreIsl.Sooner]

BOOMER!!!!!

Thanks for a great season! Let's get ready for next year!

[hvhurricane]

What? We scored 1 run in two games, and you're complaining about our pitching?

I am thinking you might want to read over the quote one more time. I am saying we are going to have to find some great pitchers out there because we are losing a first rounder and a second rounder, although I didn't think DO really pitched like a second rounder much of the season. I don't think we have the pitchers on campus who will be able to fill those roles. As far as hitters, we obviously need to improve our offense, but I think due to the bats, recruiting is hitters is just luck. The KSU players were not highly recruited at all and they all can mash. SG usually does a good job of bringing in players, so I am sure we will field a quality team again next year. I am just not sure it will be an Omaha worthy team. You have to have quality pitching to win in the postseason, but you also have to have an above average hitting team as well. When we went to Omaha, it was because our hitters carried us there. Clutch hitting is the name of the game in June.

[C&CDean]

It was a frustrating end to a semi-frustrating season. That said, our pitching was absolutely good enough to get us to Omaha. Our hitting? Not so much. I think the freshmen struggled, and so did our big bats when it counted. Our tendency to commit errors also bit us against LSU.

All-in-all though it wasn't a bad year. Putting it into perspective, it's about what/how we should have done. Hope Sunny can get a couple good arms, and I seriously hope our hitting improves next year.

[badger]

I will say this for LSU fans ( I was at the Sugar Bowl as well and didn't have a bad time although I see where some did) They took up donations in the crowd for the Tornado victims so they do have some decent folks

I saw that on TV and thought slightly higher of them after that.

I was also at the Sugar Bowl and most of the stereotypical bayou cajun redneck coonarse tigahbaiting that everyone hears about occurred, as least to me, before the game. Bourbon Street and surrounding, there were LSU flags and fans everywhere giving anything dressed in crimson a lot of crap.

Duirng the game, they were loud and such, they had 90 percent of the tickets after all, but they didn't seem any worse than what you get in the Big 12 from opposition during games.

[Fraggle145]

I saw that on TV and thought slightly higher of them after that.

I was also at the Sugar Bowl and most of the stereotypical bayou cajun redneck coonarse tigahbaiting that everyone hears about occurred, as least to me, before the game. Bourbon Street and surrounding, there were LSU flags and fans everywhere giving anything dressed in crimson a lot of crap.

Duirng the game, they were loud and such, they had 90 percent of the tickets after all, but they didn't seem any worse than what you get in the Big 12 from opposition during games.

LSU baseball fans are much better overall than their football fans. They gave both Gray and Overton a standing O when they were taken out of their respective games. They are a very knowledgeable baseball fanbase. I personally think they are the team to beat going in to Omaha. That said I wont be rooting for them. The SEC can go **** up a rope.

[Lott's Bandana]

I watched the NCState / Rice dual yesterday/evening/night, into the 17th where State won their first trip to the CWS since 1968!


Indiana is going for the very first time and the first Big10 team in quite a while.

[Bourbon St Sooner]

I saw that on TV and thought slightly higher of them after that.

I was also at the Sugar Bowl and most of the stereotypical bayou cajun redneck coonarse tigahbaiting that everyone hears about occurred, as least to me, before the game. Bourbon Street and surrounding, there were LSU flags and fans everywhere giving anything dressed in crimson a lot of crap.

Duirng the game, they were loud and such, they had 90 percent of the tickets after all, but they didn't seem any worse than what you get in the Big 12 from opposition during games.

We were in a local Buffalo Wild Wings watching the game Friday night and some LSU fans bought us a round of beers because they felt sorry for us having to sit there surrounded by LSU fans. I've also been to a game in Tiger Stadium wearing opposing team gear (Tennessee, because I went to UT for grad school) and had no problem. You have to remember that Bourbon Street attracts a questionable crowd anyways and when you add it it's their first title game in 50 years, every drunk coonass within 100 miles of Bourbon Street was flocking there.

The tiger bait thing didn't bother me. If it was hot chicks giving me the tiger bait, my strategy was Yes, I'm tiger bait. Take me and abuse me. Somehow it didn't work.

[badger]

some LSU fans bought us a round of beers because they felt sorry for us

i love southern sports fans. pac 12, b1g et al would probably jeer you till you left and these purple bastards send sympathy beer :)