Official 2025 Nebraska Cardiac Beaver Slayers Baseball Thread (5-8) - Huskers Salvage, May Win Out

[Ironwardog]

 

[Samkellers_69]

We're about to lose the series to the team picked dead last in the conference. Team is a bunch of fucking losers.

 

[...TrueColors...]

So….

Caleb Clarke doesn’t understand the situation and he doesn’t even glance at the runner on 2B. He steals third without a throw. On you Caleb.

A pick off attempt by Caleb Clarke to first goes about as well as you’d expect it to go. So of course it ends up in right field. Runner scores. Now we’ve got a runner on 3rd.

He at struck the next guy out.

Two outs.

Routine play at 3rd ends up in right field.

Washington now up 6-2 and it is purely the result of Nebraska being a very bad baseball team at this point.

You had runners on 1st and 2nd with nobody out last half inning and you liked your chances of tying the game. Now because you just played a terrible half inning of baseball filled with ridiculous mistakes that simply can’t be made, this game might be out of reach.

 

[...TrueColors...]

We're about to lose the series to the team picked dead last in the conference. Team is a bunch of fucking losers.

That half inning was absolute shitty baseball. Nobody was unlucky there. That was bad and they deserve to hear about it from their head coach.

 

[tedfordtony]

Bolt ball sucks

 

[PonyBoy]

Caleb Clarke doesn’t understand the situation and he doesn’t even glance at the runner on 2B. He steals third without a throw. On you Caleb.

On Childress. He calls looks with each pitch.

Bad baseball today. Extremely disappointing.

 

[ZJSARENOTFREE]

We fucking suck dick

 

[...TrueColors...]

On Childress. He calls looks with each pitch.

Bad baseball today. Extremely disappointing.

The approach at the plate appears to be “Sit fastball, adjust off-speed.” That’s nothing new and anyone who’s played at a high school level has heard that.

I’m not seeing a good enough adjustment to the off-speed stuff. We are way out in front of even some of the worst off-speed stuff and it’s resulting in some soft pop ups.

I could be wrong. But that’s what my eyes are telling me.

 

[Benard Thomas]

Bolt sucks; this team is hot garbage

 

[PonyBoy]

The approach at the plate appears to be “Sit fastball, adjust off-speed.” That’s nothing new and anyone who’s played at a high school level has heard that.

I’m not seeing a good enough adjustment to the off-speed stuff. We are way out in front of even some of the worst off-speed stuff and it’s resulting in some soft pop ups.

I could be wrong. But that’s what my eyes are telling me.

It's been like that for years, dating back to the Erstad era. Our approach is to take FB's away and make someone beat us with their secondary pitches. I agree with the initial approach, it's across college baseball. And, no different than the LSU game, in game 1 today their starter couldn't get his secondary stuff close enough to the zone, we smashed his FB, but their bullpen arms were able to mix it up. They shut us down. Go back to the LSU game and their starter, we took away his FB early but once he settled in, we were fucked...

...same with game 2 today. ++ slider from the starter and we struggled in the first 6 innings.

Whether we adjust our 2-strike approach or not is up for debate. It's where I'd start, beginning Sunday against UW and force it for the next 3-4 games. We are way too experienced to be sitting at 4-8. We're -3 minimum in the win column. Get right Sunday, sweep this midweek and ride the momentum to an 11-day trip to California for 8 games.

 

[...TrueColors...]

It's been like that for years, dating back to the Erstad era. Our approach is to take FB's away and make someone beat us with their secondary pitches. I agree with the initial approach, it's across college baseball. And, no different than the LSU game, in game 1 today their starter couldn't get his secondary stuff close enough to the zone, we smashed his FB, but their bullpen arms were able to mix it up. They shut us down. Go back to the LSU game and their starter, we took away his FB early but once he settled in, we were fucked...

...same with game 2 today. ++ slider from the starter and we struggled in the first 6 innings.

Whether we adjust our 2-strike approach or not is up for debate. It's where I'd start, beginning Sunday against UW and force it for the next 3-4 games. We are way too experienced to be sitting at 4-8. We're -3 minimum in the win column. Get right Sunday, sweep this midweek and ride the momentum to an 11-day trip to California for 8 games.

I fully believe that approach is much more about an individual’s mindset than anything else. That’s why I talk about Hallmark a lot from this standpoint. At the end of the day, hitters have to step into the box with the mentality that you’re simply not going to get beat. The best advice I was ever given with hitting was “Baseball is a series of uncomfortable situations. The guy who gets comfortable first is going to win.”

Baseball, in my opinion, is the game where you have to always be flirting with the line between confidence and arrogance and sometimes throw your whole body over that line.

I want guys who hit a bomb in the most hostile environment in college baseball, stomp on the plate, and then jaw with the crowd. I’ve never seen a tone set better for a baseball game than that right there and I’ll never forget it.

 

[That SOB Van Owen]

I thought we were supposed to be good this year…..?

 

[HuskerDocCo]

I thought we were supposed to be good this year…..?

we were & then our dicks got bumps

 

[Kaladin]

 

[HuskerDocCo]

fire up the grill Kal, we are feasting today

 

[Kaladin]

Carey 3 run blast

Huskers lead 4-0...for now

 

[HuskerDocCo]

Carey 3 run blast

Huskers lead 4-0...for now

I told ya to fire up the grill Kal!

 

[Ironwardog]

Welp….. at least we got one win this weekend.

 

[Kaladin]

 

[PonyBoy]

Salvaged, now ride it to 2 weekday dubs heading to California.