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My best guess is the game on Tuesday at Western Carolina gets cancelled or moved to a single....Tennessee needs to get healthy
 
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Hey I thought we were negative on here but I saw some comments on Twitter on the post of the final. One said we would save time and effort cause this weak team would lose one game and be out of the postseason. My other favorite was why waste the effort to come back just lose and get it done, quit basically. I know we don’t think Georgia is great but they are a top 25 who just beat Oklahoma in a game. I will back any Vol team that digs in and fights. Exactly what we did today.
 
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EZE said:
Give me the team with the pitching in the postseason.
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3 is built for tournament play, one Ace is a bad day away from taking it home early. As we saw yesterday, Ashley got in a jam early and Turner didn't plug up the damage and no other options on the bench. Ashley came back in and looked great but not sure our offense if built to make comebacks like we did yesterday.
 
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Majors said:
Ashley came back in and looked great but not sure our offense if built to make comebacks like we did yesterday.
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We made our comeback because UGA's pitching staff is not very good. Avant is a solid pitcher, but nowhere close to elite. All their other pitchers are garbage.
 
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Majors said:
3 is built for tournament play, one Ace is a bad day away from taking it home early. As we saw yesterday, Ashley got in a jam early and Turner didn't plug up the damage and no other options on the bench. Ashley came back in and looked great but not sure our offense if built to make comebacks like we did yesterday.
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Depends on how far back from being an ‘Ace’ the other pitchers are. One Ace can get a team thru as long as the offense can put enough runs across to give your pitching staff without the Ace a fighting chance.
 
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OriginalCoach said:
Depends on how far back from being an ‘Ace’ the other pitchers are. One Ace can get a team thru as long as the offense can put enough runs across to give your pitching staff without the Ace a fighting chance.
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The #1 should get you through the majority and the 2-3 should be able to hold serve and eat innings without the wheels falling off. Run support has been lacking for us to be able to run a 2-4 out and feel comfortable in a meaningful game.
 
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briancrice said:
I'm not sure what you mean here. When a game is supposed to be on TV, then is bumped because it's rain delayed, the options are limited. ESPN can't just set aside whatever they had scheduled for later to go back to the rain delayed game. So then it's up to the school to do the best they can.

UT only has one primary control room where they can produce a full broadcast. So when the game was rescheduled to the same time as the O&W game, the options for presenting the broadcast were limited because the primary control room had to be used to produce portions of the O&W game for the SEC+ feed for it. So the only option is what's called a "passthrough," which is a one or two camera production with the radio call on it. I can't speak to the camera angle because I don't have a monitor, but I understand there were issues with the high home camera. I'm not in communication with the camera person, so I couldn't pass that along.
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My comment was not about the scheduling or change of network w/rain delay. something's gotta give on that.
A lot of comments, including mine, were regarding the limited single camera view. Yup, two would have been nice. Hey, you know, we Vol fans always want expect the best...
BTW, we were commenting Sunday about how our softball & baseball announcers do a great job calling the games. Reinforced when we hear another host school broadcasting our games.
Thx!
 
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therealitytheory said:
0.12 ERA and she has struck out 72% of the batters she's faced. Have we ever had an incoming pitcher with these kind of numbers since Monica?
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Hosfield set the national record for strikeouts in a year with 659 in 257 innings. That would be more than 80% for that season. That season she had 7 no hitters, 3 perfect games,17 one hitters and 31 complete game shutouts.
 
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larjoranj said:
Hosfield set the national record for strikeouts in a year with 659 in 257 innings. That would be more than 80% for that season. That season she had 7 no hitters, 3 perfect games,17 one hitters and 31 complete game shutouts.
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It was a damn shame her college career was so lackluster, partially because of her severe ankle injury her senior year of HS.
 
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Majors said:
Most playing Power 5 should have those K numbers, 2.3+ per inning. Her ERA is a outstanding even for HS ball.
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Rachel Garcia averaged 2.38 Ks per inning her senior year of HS ... and she was the NPOY both in HS and college. I believe Kelly Barnhill and Montana Fouts, who also earned HSNPOY awards of some kind, had similar numbers. Only the most elite HS pitchers would have those K numbers, so your comment has me perplexed.

For reference, both Renfroe sisters averaged just barely over 2 Ks per inning their senior years at Trinity Christian, with Ellen being the state HSPOY her senior year.
 
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volman128 said:
She has struck out 148 of 195 batters, which is 76%, not 72%. That’s in 58 innings which is 2.55 Ks/inning.
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volman128 said:
Rachel Garcia averaged 2.38 Ks per inning her senior year of HS ... and she was the NPOY both in HS and college. I believe Kelly Barnhill and Montana Fouts, who also earned HSNPOY awards of some kind, had similar numbers. Only the most elite HS pitchers would have those K numbers, so your comment has me perplexed.

For reference, both Renfroe sisters averaged just barely over 2 Ks per inning their senior years at Trinity Christian, with Ellen being the state HSPOY her senior year.
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Believe we are saying the same thing, most Power 5 pitchers will come in or have similar numbers. HS hitters will have only a few that can hit these types of kids. Not counting the cupcakes games that get loaded up on stats. Pulled the numbers of a 2022 TN kid and 157K/201 outs 78%, she’s committed elsewhere.
 
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Majors said:
Believe we are saying the same thing, most Power 5 pitchers will come in or have similar numbers. HS hitters will have only a few that can hit these types of kids. Not counting the cupcakes games that get loaded up on stats. Pulled the numbers of a 2022 TN kid and 157K/201 outs 78%, she’s committed elsewhere.
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Hopefully that gets taken care of in the coming years with better in state recruiting overall, it seems to be trending that way.
 
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kregman said:
Pickens is just over the mountains in NC so she is virtually an in state recruit and we will take her!!
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Good in theory and I get where you are headed with the thought. She'll be good as long as she has time, limited expectations early and let her ease into it.
 
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Majors said:
Good in theory and I get where you are headed with the thought. She'll be good as long as she has time, limited expectations early and let her ease into it.
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The weekly's used to be able to do that....I can remember pitchers starting the game and only going for 3 or 4 innings
 
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