So, the baserunning tonight was an abomination. Baserunning, to me, is like special teams. Usually it doesn’t matter, but when it does it will bite you in the ass and really ruin your day. I’d like to see it cleaned up as you’d think we need to play airtight in Omaha if we are going to dogpile, but when you have another team overmatched like we do here or like I’d expect to in our super you just kinda cross your fingers and hope it doesn’t get you at an inopportune time.
It seems to have been a problem all year so just have to hope it doesn’t get you at the worst possible time.
Pitching and defense make up for a lot of sins otherwise. We seem to have all of that we need which is the real hallmark, imo, of Texas baseball. @troph wasn’t wrong when she said that wasn’t playing to our standard in the 4th. It just didn’t ultimately happen to matter today.
Not bringing in guys from 3rd with less than 2 outs is irritating, but the other guy is on scholarship too so sometimes you tip your hat. Giving away outs on the base paths and not taking candy like waltzing home when the infielder is on his back, or going 2 seconds too late on a delayed steal is about us, not them. You’d like to think you don’t fuck up what’s totally and completely within your control.