Today's Poll: Your Washington Expectations
by ConnorOSU on May 6, 2009 6:22 PM PDT
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PrintIt's going to be a big weekend for the Oregon State baseball team, as they go up north to face a red hot Washington Husky ball club.
I think the Beavers can sweep the Huskies, but I wouldn't be surprised if they only won two games or only took one game. I think it will all come down to our pitching. As of late, our starting pitching has been pretty bad, and our relievers have carried us to victories. We will need both our starters and our bullpen if we want to get another series win this weekend.
So here's my question. How many wins do the Beavers get this weekend?
Vote below in the poll and then defend your picks in the comments section.
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While it hasn't been "good"
I don’t know, “pretty bad” seems a bit too harsh to me for the starting pitching. I don’t know I might have said something to that effect in my other posts, and yes really the pitching has been struggling for sure, but “pretty bad” to me seems more like a team such as ASU would be getting a ton of hits and runs and as such knocking the Beavs out of contention in the first couple innings. I think the worse was Reyes and he is difficult to figure out. He seems like a very much either he’s in the rhythm or not and no middle ground. But don’t know what it is, does he get the ball too much up in the zone? Or can’t get the break on the breaking ball? I’d be interested to hear thoughts, for at other times he’s almost unhittable.
Peavey was not great (or even good I guess) Saturday, no arguments there, but he also did keep it close enough for the relievers to come in and then the offense to pick at the lead and win it finally. But a strange game for him for sure in that he didn’t strike anyone out yet only allowed two earned runs and four hits. Defense was helping but at the same time ASU wasn’t hitting him out of the park.
Starting pitching the last weekend good enough to win the CWS? I personally very much doubt it, but at the same time it ended up not horrible enough to lose the series against ASU.
But alas you are correct that in the end the relievers really won it during the ASU series, and yes that the starters need to crank it back up and they have to go longer than two to four innings! But honestly I am not as worried for the short term as in this series as much as I am with the longer term picture when we really start playing high caliber offenses in the CWS.
Did that make sense? I might have seemed to go a bit back and forth about it. Just not sure I’m ready to label it all as “bad” yet, but I am concerned about it.
-RVM
It could be just me, but I think we have been spoiled with starting pitching the last few years
Guys like Stutes, Nickerson, Buck, freshman Reyes. These guys allowed us to win games by only scoring 4 runs. Now, it’s not happening. So while the pitching hasn’t been great, I don’t think it’s necessarily been bad. I think what needs to step up is our offense, because the pitching can only do so much when the team isn’t scoring.
I support Takimoto in his effort to support Roger Kieschnick in his quest to becoming the best Kieschnick ever to play professional baseball.
Yep, I mean look at the Sunday ASU game and sure the relievers did a really good job, but really what ended up winning it was the offense went crazy those last couple innings (especially the eighth).
But at the same time, and I’m sure this will seem like I’m backing up a little, is that the starters do need go more than two to four innings. The relievers (who are pretty young over all) won’t bail us out all the time, and the starters need to give the team a good six to seven innings. And there are going to be times when we will need a game like the 2007 1-0 win over Michigan or 3-2 win over Cal St. Fullerton when losing one game means the difference between a championship or no championship/moving on to Omaha or not.
-RVM
by rvm on May 6, 2009 8:24 PM PDT up reply actions
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