Winning 57-1
Apr
2007
I’m trying to ponder exactly how I’m supposed to feel about Bridgewater State’s 57-1 win against Newbury on Monday afternoon.
Newbury was playing its third varsity baseball game ever, having lost the previous two by the eminently reasonable scores of 5-1 and 5-3 to Maine-Presque Isle. But the Lincoln basketball analogy and the Rockford football analogy continue to ring in the back of my head.
For the hoops-challenged, Lincoln poured it on against Ohio State-Marion in December to the tune of a 201-78 win. The Rockford football game was a 105-0 shellacking of Trinity Bible in 2003.
Both of those were games against severely outmanned clubs, as apparently was this one. (Not much of a stretch to assume a team playing its third-ever varsity game joins that group.)
Wouldn’t it have been possible, somehow, to limit the damage to something in the 40s? The low 50s? Shouldn’t the number of runs be lower than the attendance, or the game time temperature? I’m fully aware that Bridgewater State emptied its bench quite a bit and one pitcher got his first two innings of the season to protect a 47-0 lead, but I couldn’t help but wonder if perhaps the heart of the Eagles’ order might’ve taken a seat as well. (The starting No. 2-3-4 hitters went a combined 18-for-24 with 26 RBI.) There are four pitchers who have thrown three innings or fewer through 14 games that might’ve been able to manage a couple innings in the outfield.
Even if you don’t want to risk a pitcher, perhaps just make sure the heart of the order comes out before the bottom of the order.
I know, I wasn’t there. An SID friend of mine earlier tonight who has been through a 70-plus-to-nothing football score reminds me that it’s hard to know what that’s like sometimes. And I’ve been to some 60-plus-to-nothing football games. This just strikes me as being worse.
But I’d like to hear what you think.
April 10th, 2007 at 8:26 am
It’s hard to make the comparison between this and the basketball and football games for a couple of reasons. For the basketball and football games, you can have a running game clock since both of those sports are timed.
You can’t do that in baseball, the team needs to get the outs required.
Also, you can put in the 3rd and 4th string in football and run out the clock that way, and you can put in the 12th and 13th guy on the bench in basketball and it works the same way.
Is there a rule the game had to go seven innings? Could it have been stopped at 5 innings after the score is like 35-0? There had to be some other way to limit the mess that occurred.
April 10th, 2007 at 12:57 pm
The NCAA rules state that the 10-run rule applies after 7 seven innings. The rules also state “Speed-up, optional substitution, or any other optional rules may not be used for official NCAA contests or NCAA Championships since they are considered conduct rules. By definition (points of emphasis section), conduct rules are those rules that have to do directly with the playingof the contest. No conduct rule may be changed by mutual consent or agreement.” By rule there wasn’t anything the teams could do to shorten the game.
Bridgewater got 44 hits, 34 of which were singles. They also received 20 walks, 4 HBPs, and Newbury committed 5 errors. Bridgewater played all of its position players except for 2 catchers. The only other roster players who didn’t play for Bridgewater were 10 pitchers. From the box score it looks like Bridgewater was going station-to-station after hits, and wasn’t stealing, bunting or hit-and-running after it got a big lead.
Newbury is a club team making the jump to varsity ball. Of the 16 players on the roster, only 6 are listed as pitchers, and even they are P-OF, P-IF, P-1B, so until Newbury gets itself some pitching, they are going to get thumped.
I agree with budcrew that a comparison between timed games like football and basketball, and baseball isn’t easy. Like Earl Weaver once said, “You can’t sit on a lead and run a few plays into the line and just kill the clock. You’ve got to throw the ball over the damn plate and five the other man his chance. That’s why baseball is the greatest game of them all.” In this case it looks like an unfortunate combination of really bad pitching and defense rather than a case of Bridgewater pouring it on.
April 10th, 2007 at 1:21 pm
Below is an earlier post of mine on this subject from the ODAC board. After giving it a little more thought, perhaps my post is a tad harsh but I truly feel that way. I think the best solution would be a staggered mercy rule. That way it takes it completely out of the hands of the players. I suspect some conferences do have mercy rules but I doubt that many, if any have a staggered system.
Sorry folks. Going to have to disagree with you on this one. It is much more humiliating to me as a former player/coach for a team to deliberately not try in order to shorten the game. As long as a team is not playing overly aggressive (stealing bases/ taking the extra base on a hit) and all their players are playing, I think you just have to take your lumps. Perhaps there should be a 15 or 20 run rule after five innings and a 10 run rule after 7 like there is in some slow pitch softball leagues. (or something to that effect) Bridgewater St had 12 guys with multiple hits which would indicate to me that most likely, everyone played.
In 1984, the Maryville College baseball team was pulled off the field in the middle of a blowout win by Lynchburg College. The Hornets AND frat guys were having a field day with us and the game was a little heated. I do know that I personally was quite embarrassed. The concensus of our players was that we should have finished the game no matter what. The score was not 57 to 1 but it was quite bad. Something like a 20 run loss with about 4-5 innings played if memory serves me. I would rather lose 100 to zero than have another team quit playing.
April 10th, 2007 at 1:25 pm
Agreed that you can’t run out the clock, but looking at the box score I wonder if some of the guys who were put in at the lower end of the batting order should’ve been put in for the guys in the heart of the order instead. I mean shoot, once you’re up 31-0 wouldn’t you think a backup shortstop or second baseman could get the job done for a few innings in left field or center field?
I saw an ECAC game once where most of one team’s kids were ether in finals or graduating, can’t remember which. So the backup catcher played left and the No. 2 starter played center field. I wonder if it might have made sense to do that here, just in the off chance you need that later.
Here’s that box — the Bridgewater/Newbury game that is.
http://www.bridgew.edu/athletics/DIRECT/Stats/baseball2007_stats/bscbb14.htm
And the cumulative stats
http://www.bridgew.edu/athletics/DIRECT/Stats/baseball2007_stats/teamcume.htm
You guys have done a good job detailing the rules in the previous comments. I would like to think more could’ve been done within the rules. Instead, I see No. 3 hitter Steve Smith left in to go 7-for-8, raising his average from .422 to .491, if I do my math right. Kinda makes his All-Region or All-America candidacy look a little different, huh?
Just my two cents. Or probably five or six cents, from the look of it.
April 10th, 2007 at 3:14 pm
Bridgewater winning 57-1 over a glorified club team is bad enough. Issuing a press release bragging about it is worse:
http://www.bridgew.edu/athletics/direct/GameReleases0607/htm/BB040907.pdf
April 10th, 2007 at 4:01 pm
Perhaps I should resign my position, register at Newbury and play? I have full NCAA eligibility……
Except I’ve been part of those teams (in soccer, mainly) and it really does hurt.
OxyTigerBob, How would you write the release differently? I cannot imagine it’s an easy thing to do, I have a hard time editing my photos from a 66-0 tromp (SJU vs. Monmouth in Nov 2005) into something respectable of both teams, or the Macalester vs. Principia game this past fall (48-0 at the half I think?) and I left it early to go back to shooting volleyball.
These things make my stomach spin and my heart ache. But for every “good” team you have a “bad” team.
April 10th, 2007 at 5:48 pm
Ryan:
How would I write up the game as the Bridgewater SID? Maybe something a little more low-key, like this…
Bridgewater State College defeated Newbury College, 57-1, in a non-conference game, which was shortened from 9 to 7 innings under the NCAA 10-run mercy rule. Newbury was playing only its third varsity game in its first year as an independent NCAA Division III team, after making the transition from club team status. BSU took advantage of Newbury’s limited experience and lack of pitching depth to set set NCAA single-game records for most RBIs (54), most runs scored (57), and margin of victory (56), and tied the single-game record for most hits (44). Newbury pitchers helped Bridgewater along by issuing 20 walks and hitting 4 batters. Newbury also committed 5 errors. BSU scored 16 runs in the 4th inning, a new school record.
Steve Smith was 7-for-8 at the plate, including a grand slam homer, scored 7 runs, and had 10 RBIs. He tied the NCAA D-III single-game record for hits, and set a school record for hits and RBIs. Mark Claffey was 6-for-8, scored 7 runs, and had 7 RBIs. Smith and Claffey set a new school single-game record for runs scored. Andrew Dillon was 5-for-8 with 2 HRs, 9 RBIs, and 6 runs scored.
Winning pitcher Ben Altman pitched 5 strong innings. He gave up 3 hits, struck out 7, and walked one. Pat Higham pitched the final two innings, and gave up one unearned run on 2 hits, struck out 1 and walked none.
On Wednesday, BSU travels to play a doubleheader against Wheaton College.
April 10th, 2007 at 6:09 pm
http://deadspin.com/sports/college-baseball/it-seems-difficult-to-lose-57+1-251113.php
When you get over 250 comments to a Deadspin story then you know this was an u-g-l-y beatdown.
April 10th, 2007 at 6:23 pm
I cannot say I have seen a PR where it states that a team “took advantage” of another school’s lesser team.
And writing something like that could cost the SID his or her job.
April 10th, 2007 at 7:51 pm
I am an alumnus of Bridgewater State, and I have to agree that perhaps the Coach could have been a little more forgiving with their substitution strategy. Also, I would argue that due to the inexperience of Newbury’s program, the statistics need to be taken with a grain of salt… or perhaps an “asterisk” as they so often say these days.
Either way, I agree with Ryan… and as someone that personally knows the SID at BSC, I have to say that he’s a person who probably did everything within his power to make that press release as tactful as possible. To flaunt the weaknesses of the other team would have probably resulted in a great deal of flak, both from public outcry and from the Administration. I think he did as best as he could considering the circumstances.
Furthermore, the box score can only tell us so much. It can tell us that the hitters got a great deal of hits in their at-bats, it can tell us that they drew 20 walks on the game, and that BSC only stole one base.
I don’t think that criticism can ultimately be fair of the end result of this game if we were not there to begin with. You can’t just go up to your players and say “go up there and don’t swing.” Or, even worse, “go up there and strike out.” This is something that needs to be addressed by the NCAA in a rules committee, and not by coaches or players to try and remedy the situation in-game.
If you remember, there was a football game a couple years back in which Fitchburg defeated Framingham 75-0. Fitchburg received a great deal of criticism for that outcome, but if you were actually at the game, you would have seen that they only ran one play from the third quarter on - FB Slam. They weren’t trying to bomb the ball downfield and score as many points as possible, they were trying to run the clock as best they could.
So, too, I would contend, were the BSC Baseball players yesterday, insomuch as they did not try to steal bases or take unnecessarily gratuitous chances on the basepaths. Furthermore, I think they deserve a great deal of praise for releasing a tactful press release - the SID does have a job to do, part of which is to create and distribute these press releases.
Anyhow, I’ll get off my Alumnus soapbox. I do agree that the stats could be called into question, as could the substitutions in the big picture, but ultimately, you play with the hand your dealt, and as long as your not consciously trying to embarrass the other team, you can only do so much to mitigate the damages. Finally, it’s easy to play Monday Morning Quarterback, but in this case, nobody will know what truly happened until someone comes on here and comments on what they actually “saw” at the game.
April 10th, 2007 at 8:10 pm
As a parent of one of the BSC Baseball players, I regret not taking a moment to commend BOTH coaches personally on the way their teams conducted themselves throughout an “u-g-l-y” beatdown. I was at this game. If there was a way to shorten it up, it would have been done. NO ONE takes pleasure seeing anyones kids go out inning after inning and take a beating. Newbury should take pride in the way they played their game when they knew it going to be a long afternoon. Both benches should be proud of the way their teams behaved. Sure there were a few things that could have been done differently but this was not an “in your face” game nor was it nasty or unsportsman like. It was simply….a mismatch.
April 10th, 2007 at 8:59 pm
Compare and contrast…
http://pioneers.marietta.edu/baseball/archive/statistics/1999/GAME25.HTM
http://www.bridgew.edu/athletics/DIRECT/Stats/baseball2007_stats/bscbb14.htm
Marietta was up 11-0 after 2, Bridgewater State up 22-0. So there’s one difference. Another difference is that LaRoche had 15 errors, and probably could have been more. FYI, LaRoche had been through some turmoil and had several players quit the team midseason.
A similarity is that both teams did not substitute all of their starters. Marietta left their 1, 4 and 8 hitters in. My guess is that’s all that were dressed…I don’t remember if there was a JV game the day before or after or something. Matt Burgbacher set the school record for runs in a game he did not start though.
If the Ol’ Man were still around, I imagine he would have been glad to see the 48-0 game get wiped out of the record books, though he wouldn’t have been happy to see someone get beat worse, especially not a young guy trying to start a program.
April 11th, 2007 at 9:52 am
I can see both sides of the argument here.
Having covered Division III baseball for almost 10 years, I’ve seen my share of blowouts. I can remember sitting through a pair of 25-1 and 16-0 squashes on one Saturday afternoon in particular. I’ve seen lopsided summer league games where one team is completely outmatched and it gets to 13-0 levels.
On the one hand, you can’t fault Bridgewater. The coaching staff can’t tell their kids to go half-speed just because of an inferior opponent. You have to treat each game the same way. What if someone’s going half speed, and they end up getting hurt? The kids have to go out there and do their best to win. The same with the subs that come in when the game gets out of hand. They can’t go half-speed, they need to play their best. As long as Bridgewater’s going to station-to-station and not trying to run up the score, there’s no problem.
That being said, Bridgewater’s staff knew Newbery wasn’t going to be able to compete with them. So why not start all the pitchers in the field or try some different things like having players play out of position? It’s a little bit of a slap in the face to Newbery, but scoring 57 runs is too. A slap in the face because Bridgewater wouldn’t think enough of them to play their starters. Maybe keep the starters in the first two innings, then put the pitchers in the field. But, you don’t want any of them getting hurt doing something stupid either.
It’s a tough slippery slope however you look at it. In the end, maybe Bridgewater shouldn’t have scheduled them at all. There’s plenty of other teams at BSC’s level, in New England, that the Bears could have played. Why beat up on a much, much weaker team?
April 12th, 2007 at 12:55 pm
There is never an excuse for a score like that. 57-1 means you have a coach with no class at all. There should have been a big fight about the time the score hit 25.
April 13th, 2007 at 12:04 pm
oldpa…..you must never have played competitive sports. How are you suppoed to tell a college player to “stop competing” when the score hits 25, or whatever you seem to think is reasonable? you can’t.
The only thing you can do is make sure that everyone gets to play in the game, by putting in the reserves. At that time you make sure that they still compete while at the plate, but only take one base at a time. That’s all you can do without hurting the integrity of the game. I’m sure the other coach understood.
I was part of Marietta’s 47-0 win over LaRoche and it wasn’t very much fun. I’m sure the players on Bridgewater felt the same way the other night.
April 14th, 2007 at 10:28 am
It’s tough when people post on sites like this with no knowledge of the topic. Mideastfan, thank you for your post that obviously has some validity considering you played at Marietta during that game.
The coach for BSC is one of the most respected guys I know. Many people would agree with that statement, including the coach for Newbury College. I played for Coach Smith and I was a part of many blowouts, both in our favor and against. I commend both coaches for the way this game was handled and I commend the players on both teams for playing the game. Let’s not forget that we are talking about a team that is 9-7 right now and has a pretty tough schedule coming up. If Coach Smith put in his pitchers just to “even” out the playing field it would have been a.) a slap in the other coaches face who obviously is working extremely hard to put this team together and b.) should have been fired for risking a pitchers health when he has a double header coming up against the 7th ranked team in the nation and a game a week later against ECSU who has won more National Championships than I can remember. This is all in addition to 4 conference games in between those games. In my opinion, there are only 20 or so people in this world that have an opinion that really matters and they are all either a player on Newbury College or a coach. They obviously have no problem with the outcome, so why should anyone else. I don’t know the other coach personally, I’ve met him a couple of times. But from what I understand he was a great player at Eastern Connecticut. He knows what the game is all about and if he doesn’t think the game was a tragedy then neither should any of us.
April 14th, 2007 at 1:55 pm
Well, this is why we asked for reactions and information, BSC28. In this case, it’s second-hand information, but we’ll have to make do.
April 14th, 2007 at 6:18 pm
You folks are all missing the point! There is NO good reason to beat another team 57-1. The coach at Bridgewater is a disgrace!
April 14th, 2007 at 7:43 pm
I’m not sure those two sentences actually follow each other logically, actually. Talk about overreaction?
April 14th, 2007 at 8:56 pm
Second hand information? As I said earlier, the only people whose opinions matter about that game are the folks who took part in it. The problem with mesasage boards like this are that you get the stereotypical soccer mom like cleanuphitter who has probably never even seen herself or any of her children perform well at a sport and then they formulate an opinion and start changing people’s opinions about a certain person. I’m not saying that soccer moms and softball dads aren’t entitled to there opinion, but let’s be serious here for a second. I have to sit here and read a nobody soccermom who probably has two or three kids that constantly get stuck “playing right field” in tee ball talk about a man who has made a positive impact on so many peoples lives and call him a disgrace. That is simply slander.
I understand you can’t filter these boards properly, but as I said before, we need to make sure that we are listening to the opinions of someone like mideastfan far and above that of cleanuphitter. Until Greg Sullivan comes out and says that Rick Smith went overboard in his coaching for that game I shouldn’t hear another bad word about the great man that is Rick Smith. BSC Alum has already brought up two great points that a.) no college coach that is deserved of an NCAA coaching postion should ever tell a kid to intentionally get out and b.) they went base to base. Those are the only facts that are relevant and if you have a problem with any of that, please find something better to do with your time than pick apart a man whom you have never met and that has thousands of people that refer to him as a great baseball coach.
April 14th, 2007 at 10:42 pm
Can’t filter these boards properly?
No offense, but that’s not our role. Nobody’s violated our Terms of Service or anything. This is a blog and we welcome opinions from everyone, even if they’re in the minority (as cleanuphitter certainly is) or unpopular. You’re in the majority here, but someday you might be in the minority on another topic and I’m sure you’d want us to not “filter” you out.
The only comment that has been filtered on this blog came from a Bridgewater State alumnus who was clumsily trying to pass himself off as a Newbury player.
April 15th, 2007 at 7:13 am
Filter was certainly a poor choice of word there. I would never want anyone filtered out who has an opinion unless they were passing themselves off as someone else. The word I should have used was “qualify”. What I was getting at is that it’s tough for a webhost to qualify who has first hand knowledge and who has second hand knowledge. I can certainly see how what I wrote came across with a different meaning from what I had intended.
April 15th, 2007 at 8:14 pm
BSC28….First off, I’m not a soccer mom, I’m a former college athlete, and currently a high school coach. And how do you possibly come into a forum like this, where free speech and debate are the norm, and state, “the only people whose opinions matter about that game are the folks who took part in it?” So now, I’m not entitled to an opinion? I am sorry that I am not a Bridgewater State fan but if the man you speak so highly of is truly a “great” coach, then perhaps he could have found a way not to run up 57 on a team playing their third game ever!
April 16th, 2007 at 1:35 pm
Well, I certainly feel bad that there are actually kids in this country that have a coach that would tell them not to get a hit. If my son went to play for a high school like that he would probably have to transfer. Running up a score is taking extra bases, its bunting guys over, etc. etc. anyone who actually played “college athletics” like you say you did knows that. It’s not running up a score when you go up to the plate and hit a ball off the fence and stop at first and every other baserunner only goes one base. In my opinion a team doing what BSC did is more humiliating than when a team “runs up” the score, but that’s a different discussion. But the general public still insists that not scoring on a passed ball is “the right thing to do”, but I think its extremely humiliating. I can say that because I have certainly been on both sides of that battle.
You are certainly entitled to your opinion, just the same as I am. I am simply stating that your opinion as well as mine doesn’t mean anything unless we play for Newbury college. It doesn’t mean we can’t voice it, it just means that it doesn’t really carry any weight when judging a coach or an entire team.
The college game is much different than the high school game. I am not sure whether you coach in public or private school, but odds are that your players didn’t “choose” your school. This isn’t right or wrong, it’s just that 13-14 year old kids have their parents make up their mind on where they attend high school. College players choose their schools and typically they choose to play for a certain school because they were recruited at a specific role. To take a person out of their role (i.e. pitcher) and place them in a position that they haven’t played in years is not exactly a wise decision when you are already having a bad season. Bridgewaters pitchers didn’t play in that game because they had to think about the future of these players that they recruited to play as pitchers… not outfielders. To risk injury for these guys is simply unintelligent. The bench was cleared with the exception of one player as any intelligent baseball coach would have done. I am sure you would rather have seen BSC forfeit just so the game didn’t continue, but that’s not how the college game works… coach.
April 16th, 2007 at 8:54 pm
BSC28…thank you forat least altering your previous point and allowing me my opinion. I think we can both agree that if either of these teams had their choice, they certainly would have preferred not to have a 57-1 score! It was unfortunate. I wish the BSC team good luck in the future. (And I’m not too bad of a coach!)
April 16th, 2007 at 8:58 pm
Before the game gets that out of hand, you have your players bunt the ball to the pitcher and jog to first. To continue to score just to pad your stats puts you ahead of the game. There is never an excuse for a score like that except lack of class and no respect for the game.
April 17th, 2007 at 3:56 pm
Purposely making an out (bunting to the pitcher) is a slap in the face to the other team. It’s as bad as not swinging and taking three strikes on purpose. All you can do is compete at the plate and take one base at a time….and hope the game ends quickly.
April 17th, 2007 at 11:13 pm
Oldpa, I’m with you. We may not know as much about college sports as these self-proclaimed experts, but we do know about something called “sportsmanship!” Apparently, that has been lost on this generation!
April 18th, 2007 at 8:11 am
newbury bunted in the sixth inning… that alone should tell you how serious theywere taking the game, and the kid ran to first with a smile on his face, reports from bridgewater duggout say that they (newbury) were laughing and joking around so i’m not so sure that newbury was taking this loss too much to heart
April 18th, 2007 at 8:13 am
sportsmanship??? it could have been 80-1 if bridgewater hadn’t gone base to base, even when the ball was thrown out of play.
April 20th, 2007 at 5:26 pm
Why even bunt the ball back to the pitcher? Why not go up blindfolded? Would that be better? This isn’t a generational thing cleanup, this is baseball. Slapping the other team in the face by bunting the ball back to the pitcher is the exact opposite of sportsmanship. My grandfather would tell you that, my dad would tell you that and I would tell you that. Heck, the coach’s business partner is 86 years old and he’s played baseball all his lengthy life and he knows that.
April 20th, 2007 at 10:23 pm
Getting beat 12 to nothing is a slap in the face. Beyond that is obsene.
April 21st, 2007 at 6:38 pm
hahahahah
April 21st, 2007 at 7:06 pm
As a former collegiate baseball player, I can see both sides of this issue. On the one hand, no one wants to see a blow-out of this magnitude, but on the other hand it is still a game. For the most part, the athletes playing (for both teams) are not having fun. And you must remember, that the substitutes that are put in want to do well, and not sacrafice their playing time because many of them probably have limited roles with few at bats. It is not fair to take a competitive athlete, who hardly gets to play and tell him to sacrifice his chance. One option that we often used in blow out, for both are starters and subs was to work specifically on certain things. Tell you team that everyone must go oppo against a pitcher, or play it as a hit and run situation. That way you are continuing to work on skills, yet not directly trying to run up the score.
On another note, although Newbury was highly outmatched in the game, they are building a program. This sucked for them, I am sure it did, so they will work hard to get better, and if they lose next year in the same game by 20 runs, they have improved! They have a ton of room to improve, and many teams can. I will give you two examples of teams who have been at the bottom in years past, and now are having success in part because they didn’t want to be at the bottom any further. Presentation College of South Dakota, started their program about 5 years ago and were much the same as this Newbury team sounds, but they have improved immensely. Second, is U of Wisconsin Superior who won a total of 3 games last year and are having much more success this year than in the past. The one thing that I don’t know, is how the athletes handled themselves on that game day. If all participants handled both victory and defeat with respect, and dignity, for each other, than although it was a blow-out, one of the major purposes of college athletics was a success.
April 21st, 2007 at 8:35 pm
That is honestly the most classless display I have ever heard of, I recently witnessed a game in which Newbury college was playing a opponent and the score was 11-0 after two innings, just a couple days ago. What did the coach due? pulled out basically the entire team except for two players, one coming back from injury who needed the innings. The final was 13-1 after the game was called in 6 1/2 innings. Im sure this game could of got out of hand but the coaches, and players respected the game of baseball unlike bridgewater state. This is absolutely no excuse to have a game get out of hand like that, also witnesses at the bridgewater/newbury game mentioned how the bridgewater players we giving each other high fives, and taunting the opposing team. The high fives are completely disrespectful, after knocking in the 40th run. Kicking the other team when their down, especially a team who was playing their third game is utterly disgusting. Bunch of cowards.
April 21st, 2007 at 8:46 pm
I give up.
April 23rd, 2007 at 5:35 pm
are you kidding me??? as a coach when you put all your players into play, that includes pitchers, at the time bridgewater had 10 games in the coming 8 days….lets just say two guys go down… smart move coach. youd be writing and asking why a coach would put in all his players knowing his upcoming schedule….if you dont know the whole scenario….dont talk!! simple as that.
April 24th, 2007 at 11:27 pm
Bridgewater’s win was absolutely repulsive. There is no way to justify that win, especially when they keep their top three hitters in. It just reiterates something many of us in Division III baseball already know: Bridgewater State’s baseball “program” has absolutely no class.
April 26th, 2007 at 12:17 pm
I agree with what you all are saying, however, I would much rather have a team keep playing rather than making a joke out of us by having guys switch hit, and making it a laughing matter. We were on the losing end of a 21-5 whooping, but Webster U. didnt make it a joking matter. We arent a bad team by any means, they just hit the ball wherever it was pitched.
Allsky7, was the Maryville College, now Maryville University? I did not know that they took the guys off the field. You know thats bad when that happens. Thankfully, we havent had that bad of a beating.