The Official #1 Tennessee @ Kentucky Thur-Sat Game Thread (Thur. 7PM EST SEC NETWORK) (Fri. 6:30PM EST SEC NETWORK+) (Sat. 2PM EST SEC NETWORK +)

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txbo said:
We’ll get our approach at the plate fixed quickly I’m sure…..but I didn’t see good pitching just bad at bats.

Base running errors cost us game 1 and ultimately our first series.

The fact that we can’t hold runners on base means anybody that gets on first will be a runner in scoring position.

Losing this series and forcing us to address our weaknesses might greatly improve our chances of doing something special.
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Holding runners has been an issue all year. That's cost us and will continue to do so. With Tony V and Anderson, if it could be fixed, it would have been by now.
txbo said:
They did and it only gets harder every week. We won’t play anybody that’s not well prepared.
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And we'll get everyone's best shot.
 
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vol66 said:
Now that things have died down a bit…Obviously, no one can keep up with game day threads and still watch the game. I read enough posts to understand the complaints, concerns, etc…I’m sure someone else probably pointed it out, but my thinking going into this weekend went like this…

UK’s pitching ain’t great, their record isn’t great, they can hit though, catcher is good. My concern was, is the series starting on a Thursday while traveling a day early gonna mess with us? The good news is that will be the routine for the rest of the regular season.

Tip of the cap to UK, pitching and fielding was great and they got hits when they needed ‘em.
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I think the pace of Friday nights game, really took us out of rhythm. We started pressing hard and haven’t done that but a time or two, all season. Hitters have realized that our pitchers are going to throw strikes and are swinging away. We will give up some runs but will win more battles than we will lose.
Kentucky’s defense really showed up this weekend and their bats were timely.
1-2 hits in the first 3 innings Friday night and It’s a double digit win.
I give the cats credit, they did not back down, stayed aggressive in tough situations and went toe to toe with the #1 team in the country, for all 3 games.
I like the mindset of this team and am confident they will bounce back against the dawgs.
GBO!!
 
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txbo said:
We’ll get our approach at the plate fixed quickly I’m sure…..but I didn’t see good pitching just bad at bats.

Base running errors cost us game 1 and ultimately our first series.

The fact that we can’t hold runners on base means anybody that gets on first will be a runner in scoring position.

Losing this series and forcing us to address our weaknesses might greatly improve our chances of doing something special.
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I think we can fix the base running errors, but holding runners is our Achilles heel. I’m surprised more teams haven’t stolen bases on us. It’s been an issue ever since the Baylor game. Quite frankly, I don’t think it’ll be fixed. Will it cost us during the postseason? We’ll find out.
 
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