The Official Tennessee vs Stanford College World Series Thread ( Mon. 6/19 2PM EST) ESPN

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Jax_Vol said:
No rules. Just up to coach on how ethic it is to throw a kids arm off.

If would guess that he will go again on Thursday if LSU is still in the tourney. Doubt they are still around.
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Pitchers used to sling heat for 9 innings and their careers were long 🤷🏽‍♂️. I think the modern way is just to keep fresh arms in there and switch up styles, but I’d say they still have the stamina.
 
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Volrocketman said:
As for the umpire, he definitely had a larger zone than any of the SEC umps we’ve seen this year. Overall, was he more favorable to Skenes than to our guys? Hard to say, although I do think he gave Skenes a bunch of high strikes that our hitters were used to letting go for balls during the SEC and regional games. Our pitchers mostly threw a lot of sinker balls and very few (that I can recall) high strikes. Very few of our “low” pitches were called strikes, which may be why those of us with orange colored glasses felt like Skenes was getting the favorable calls. I do think his zone got a little larger for Skenes in the later innings.

For our hitters, I thought this was another one of those games where some of our guys actually made good contact a few times, but they always seemed to be right at someone. Not sure why LSU didn’t play the shift against us like most of our other SEC opponents, but it seemed to work in their favor several times. Dickie’s hard liner in the first might have been an RBI double down the line if their 3rd baseman had shifted over a little. Skenes didn’t hang many pitches, and when he did our guys couldn’t do anything with them. The LSU hitters definitely launched a few of our hangers.
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The zone was definitely larger than what we have seen in the SEC. Not only “high” but he was calling strikes a ball width or two off both sides of the plate. As many have observed, some of these pitches called strikes were literally unreachable by the batters. Also that said, Skenes has spectacular command of his pitches and once he learned he was getting balls called strikes off the plate, he just kept pumping them to those spots and kept getting the calls. You can’t blame him for that.
 
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What does the score last night have to do with what I said? I wasn’t talking about closeness of scores. I was talking about how close the next best team is to LSU with Skenes.
 
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kptvol1 said:
Pitchers used to sling heat for 9 innings and their careers were long 🤷🏽‍♂️. I think the modern way is just to keep fresh arms in there and switch up styles, but I’d say they still have the stamina.
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Trackman is changing the game. Pitchers are chasing qualitative metrics like spin-rate, movement, and velo. Deceptive deliveries and other "immeasurables" are being "de-emphasized".
 
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Vtonerider said:
Trackman is changing the game. Pitchers are chasing qualitative metrics like spin-rate, movement, and velo. Deceptive deliveries and other "immeasurables" are being "de-emphasized".
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Spin rate, movement and velocity are quantitative metrics. Not sure pitcher’s and staffs are “chasing” these variables as much as tracking them against other metrics. Analytics gets deep quickly with new measures coming out continually. Tunneling has taken on new value also, a deceptive delivery.
 
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Volfan1000 said:
I believe that this is the first time that Stanford and Tennessee have squared off on the diamond and the Lady Volunteers have a long history against Stanford while the men have played once against Stanford.
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So is this the first time or the second time 🤔
 
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Zues1 said:
Agreed, but they'll need a minimum of 5 runs on the board each game.....
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Yes!!! We need five runs per game. Not sure that we can get it against this level of pitching.

It will be difficult to get 2-3 runs against this Stanford left hander.

Bet Maui opened the game with a K.

I would let Zane bat leadoff; put Maui in the seven hole.
 
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kptvol1 said:
Pitchers used to sling heat for 9 innings and their careers were long 🤷🏽‍♂️. I think the modern way is just to keep fresh arms in there and switch up styles, but I’d say they still have the stamina.
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I agree and those pitchers also didn’t have 5 arm surgeries as well. At some point medical staffs are going to say maybe we should reevaluate what we are doing.
 
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kptvol1 said:
Pitchers used to sling heat for 9 innings and their careers were long 🤷🏽‍♂️. I think the modern way is just to keep fresh arms in there and switch up styles, but I’d say they still have the stamina.
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The arm mechanics today are much more "athletically devastating" to one's physical well being then they were in the 60s, for example. There will never be another "Bob Gibson" season, etc.

Different looks are indeed part of the plan but it's much more for the longevity of the pitchers that managers don't let them throw 156 any more. Usually. 👀
 
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