The Official #1 Tennessee vs Campbell Regional Game Thread Saturday 6/4 (7PM EST SEC NETWORK)

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AllVolinGA said:
I'm gonna say this and come off as an ass, but I don't care. These drive by posters that come in here a spew their hatred for our players and coaches are certifiable idiots. One Jack wagon doggin Courtland and then another taking shot at Chuck. Totally uncalled for and not needed.
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Glad I missed chunks of the thread, my response to those posts might have gotten me in a little trouble.
 
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youcancallmeAl said:
All good points. I think he doesn't throw tomorrow if Beam pitches well into the game and gives us a lead to work with. Joyce might pitch to a batter or two the way he did Friday nite, using him like a specialist against right handers.
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Yup, if Beam gets you 6. I could see MM for the 7th, Joyce starts the 8th but gets pulled if he gets into trouble, and then you have to go back to Redmond to finish it tonight.
 
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taylorvol said:
This didn’t age well.
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So many fair weather fans don't understand baseball. Most at bats fail 65 to 70 percent of the time. Bat above 300 you have a chance to be great. It's amazing when you see someone strike out twice in a row and then knock one out the next at bat . Love this game and what a team our VOLS have.
 
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volsagain said:
So many fair weather fans don't understand baseball. Most at bats fail 65 to 70 percent of the time. Bat above 300 you have a chance to be great. It's amazing when you see someone strike out twice in a row and then knock one out the next at bat . Love this game and what a team our VOLS have.
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Agreed. I just don’t get running down our players. Baseball is a game of failure and this team has over delivered all season. Fans should be supporting the players instead of dragging them down. 👍🍊😀👊🍊
 
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mr.checkerboards said:
Yup, if Beam gets you 6. I could see MM for the 7th, Joyce starts the 8th but gets pulled if he gets into trouble, and then you have to go back to Redmond to finish it tonight.
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This pen is still deep . I really like we have Cam left, he can do what ever is needed. You can bet they will use what ever is best to end this tonight. GBO 🤠
 
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volsagain said:
This pen is still deep . I really like we have Cam left, he can do what ever is needed. You can bet they will use what ever is best to end this tonight. GBO 🤠
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Correct. I also think all the worrying about tomorrow is much to do with nothing anyways. I would be really surprised if they dont finish it tonight. Even if Beam struggles. GT and Campbell have no pitching left and thats before they play the first game today.
 
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fryeguy93 said:
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"Lawson comes through for pantone 151."

Even JW gets in on the soul feast.

That's one of the greatest calls ever. We are blessed to have JW.

On another note, I trust no one else was cursed to have to listen to the losers bracket game on GaTech radio yesterday. Announcer wasn't bad at all but he can't dream if being JW. Also, I was on the stream of WREK atlanta. I guess it's their schools station. You could tell it was ran by a bunch of intelligent wokely youngins.

I need an eardrum replacement just listening to all the promos for their normal programming.

Thankful for 99.1 and for J-Dub.
 
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mr.checkerboards said:
Correct. I also think all the worrying about tomorrow is much to do with nothing anyways. I would be really surprised if they dont finish it tonight. Even if Beam struggles. GT and Campbell have no pitching left and thats before they play the first game today.
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We got it tonight. I think we drop the hammer down on whoever we play. Sweeping tournaments is what we do.
 
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Sophomore Shortstop Zach Neto On Kirby Connell’s performance on the mound for Tennessee… “He was just getting us off our timing. He settled into a nice groove and we fell right into it. We started figuring it out and starting slowing down, playing our game of baseball. Once we got him out of the game, we knew that we just needed to keep digging into the bullpen and we made things happen. It didn’t go our way at the end of the day, but we just kept fighting like we always do. We’re going to see them tomorrow.”

Campbell Head Coach Justin Haire: On Campbell’s pitching availability for the rest of the weekend… “I feel good about it, I think the biggest thing is that all hands will be on deck tomorrow against Georgia Tech. Ty (Cummings) and (Ryan) Chasse should be fine to come back. Chasse probably for a shorter stint, but Ty Cummings will have a chance to come back out of the bullpen tomorrow. We have some other bullets in the chamber and we’re going to go all hands on deck. I feel good about the stuff that we have and if we can make sure that we maximize that, I think we’ll have a chance to do some good things.”

On if Campbell felt the pressure of needing to play a perfect game Saturday… “I think any time you face offenses that are at that elite level, Georgia Tech is in that same realm, I think there have been plenty of times that we’ve taken advantage of other mistakes and extra outs. Any time that you face an elite level team, you have to play your best. Honestly, in college baseball right now, Tennessee’s staff may say different, but you can lose to anybody on any given day. You can’t just go out and out-talent people. You have to out-perform them and play at or near your best, day in and day out to give yourself an opportunity to win. That’s how good college baseball is right now. It’s fun, but there is that constant pressure. I think in our program, we talk about pressure being a privilege. If we weren’t good enough, we wouldn’t be in this Regional. We wouldn’t be playing in front of 4,400 fans. Pressure is a privilege and we want to run toward that pressure. We don’t want to run from it. We want to enjoy that, embrace it and fight through the struggle of it.”

On the attempted steal of home plate in the fourth inning… “It’s a play we’ve worked on and we’ve had some success with it, just trying to force a little bit of pressure and see if we could get the lefty off balance a little bit and try to distract him. Like I said, we’ve used that play before and Connor (Denning) was down two strikes and didn’t look that comfortable versus Kirby (Connell) there, so we’re not just going to sit back and let the game take it to us, we’re going to try to impose our will and they played it perfectly and did a great job with it.”

Game 4 Tennessee vs. Campbell Quotes (PDF) - University of Tennessee Athletics (utsports.com)
 
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mr.checkerboards said:
Also I think another thing that hasn't been brought up. For a start Dollanders pitch count was pretty low. He just had a super long stressful inning. He could probably give some work tonight or tomorrow if needed.
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I think the inconsistency from the umpire got him frustrated and off his game. Certainly didn't see a performance like that coming from him.
 
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Volstylexx said:
What did their fans NOT say… they were right behind my section and they said a few classless things. For instance, “We’re not scared of you rednecks,” “Rocky Flop TN” *when they went up 4-0, “Here comes Peds boy back into the game (when Evan re-entered). I heard more but it was maninly just random obnoxiousness with some stupid “defense” ”defense” chants.. like it was a basketball game. Lol
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Its exactly the same everywhere, classless rednecks calling the other team classless rednecks! Very ironic.
 
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CAVPUT said:
I think the inconsistency from the umpire got him frustrated and off his game. Certainly didn't see a performance like that coming from him.
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Nope. It's just baseball. There's an old saying usually you get 20 starts in a season you have 5 really good ones and 5 really bad ones, but the 10 in the middle decide what kind of pitcher you are. It was just one of those days for Chase where he didn't have it. Campbell can hit the fastball so to face them you have to have the feel for your curve/slider or its going to be a long day, Chase didn't have those two pitches. Did the ump help certainly not but it was just one of those days.
 
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WillisWG said:
Sophomore Shortstop Zach Neto On Kirby Connell’s performance on the mound for Tennessee… “He was just getting us off our timing. He settled into a nice groove and we fell right into it. We started figuring it out and starting slowing down, playing our game of baseball. Once we got him out of the game, we knew that we just needed to keep digging into the bullpen and we made things happen. It didn’t go our way at the end of the day, but we just kept fighting like we always do. We’re going to see them tomorrow.”

Campbell Head Coach Justin Haire: On Campbell’s pitching availability for the rest of the weekend… “I feel good about it, I think the biggest thing is that all hands will be on deck tomorrow against Georgia Tech. Ty (Cummings) and (Ryan) Chasse should be fine to come back. Chasse probably for a shorter stint, but Ty Cummings will have a chance to come back out of the bullpen tomorrow. We have some other bullets in the chamber and we’re going to go all hands on deck. I feel good about the stuff that we have and if we can make sure that we maximize that, I think we’ll have a chance to do some good things.”

On if Campbell felt the pressure of needing to play a perfect game Saturday… “I think any time you face offenses that are at that elite level, Georgia Tech is in that same realm, I think there have been plenty of times that we’ve taken advantage of other mistakes and extra outs. Any time that you face an elite level team, you have to play your best. Honestly, in college baseball right now, Tennessee’s staff may say different, but you can lose to anybody on any given day. You can’t just go out and out-talent people. You have to out-perform them and play at or near your best, day in and day out to give yourself an opportunity to win. That’s how good college baseball is right now. It’s fun, but there is that constant pressure. I think in our program, we talk about pressure being a privilege. If we weren’t good enough, we wouldn’t be in this Regional. We wouldn’t be playing in front of 4,400 fans. Pressure is a privilege and we want to run toward that pressure. We don’t want to run from it. We want to enjoy that, embrace it and fight through the struggle of it.”

On the attempted steal of home plate in the fourth inning… “It’s a play we’ve worked on and we’ve had some success with it, just trying to force a little bit of pressure and see if we could get the lefty off balance a little bit and try to distract him. Like I said, we’ve used that play before and Connor (Denning) was down two strikes and didn’t look that comfortable versus Kirby (Connell) there, so we’re not just going to sit back and let the game take it to us, we’re going to try to impose our will and they played it perfectly and did a great job with it.”

Game 4 Tennessee vs. Campbell Quotes (PDF) - University of Tennessee Athletics (utsports.com)
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I truly hope they come back for another beating tonight. They think they are in the same class with us but they are lucky to be in the same ballpark. We still have several strong arms and the bats are getting really hot (as if they haven’t been all season)
 
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WillisWG said:
Sophomore Shortstop Zach Neto On Kirby Connell’s performance on the mound for Tennessee… “He was just getting us off our timing. He settled into a nice groove and we fell right into it. We started figuring it out and starting slowing down, playing our game of baseball. Once we got him out of the game, we knew that we just needed to keep digging into the bullpen and we made things happen. It didn’t go our way at the end of the day, but we just kept fighting like we always do. We’re going to see them tomorrow.”

Campbell Head Coach Justin Haire: On Campbell’s pitching availability for the rest of the weekend… “I feel good about it, I think the biggest thing is that all hands will be on deck tomorrow against Georgia Tech. Ty (Cummings) and (Ryan) Chasse should be fine to come back. Chasse probably for a shorter stint, but Ty Cummings will have a chance to come back out of the bullpen tomorrow. We have some other bullets in the chamber and we’re going to go all hands on deck. I feel good about the stuff that we have and if we can make sure that we maximize that, I think we’ll have a chance to do some good things.”

On if Campbell felt the pressure of needing to play a perfect game Saturday… “I think any time you face offenses that are at that elite level, Georgia Tech is in that same realm, I think there have been plenty of times that we’ve taken advantage of other mistakes and extra outs. Any time that you face an elite level team, you have to play your best. Honestly, in college baseball right now, Tennessee’s staff may say different, but you can lose to anybody on any given day. You can’t just go out and out-talent people. You have to out-perform them and play at or near your best, day in and day out to give yourself an opportunity to win. That’s how good college baseball is right now. It’s fun, but there is that constant pressure. I think in our program, we talk about pressure being a privilege. If we weren’t good enough, we wouldn’t be in this Regional. We wouldn’t be playing in front of 4,400 fans. Pressure is a privilege and we want to run toward that pressure. We don’t want to run from it. We want to enjoy that, embrace it and fight through the struggle of it.”

On the attempted steal of home plate in the fourth inning… “It’s a play we’ve worked on and we’ve had some success with it, just trying to force a little bit of pressure and see if we could get the lefty off balance a little bit and try to distract him. Like I said, we’ve used that play before and Connor (Denning) was down two strikes and didn’t look that comfortable versus Kirby (Connell) there, so we’re not just going to sit back and let the game take it to us, we’re going to try to impose our will and they played it perfectly and did a great job with it.”

Game 4 Tennessee vs. Campbell Quotes (PDF) - University of Tennessee Athletics (utsports.com)
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I was watching their dugout during the final moments of the TV broadcast and their faces looked shocked. I believe they thought they were truly going to win. There was a look of disbelief I can't completely describe.

Edit: I will add these post game comments kind of confirm that they were all in and believed they would win.
 
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