Thoughts from game....
Reasons we lost the game.
(1) Pitch Count limitations
(2) Freshmen pitching
(3) VERY poor baserunning
(4) Missed signs at the plate
(5) Lots of 1 pitch at bats
Later in the year with greater pitch counts we win this game fairly easily. We lost because we pulled Carter Watson as planned after 4 innings.
Steckenrider had his worst game of the year at the plate. Which leads us to...
We had bases loaded in the 1st inning with no outs and scored only 1 run. Steckenrider was at the plate and the pitcher was obviously worried about that. Steck's swinging bunt to moundt for FC at plate. Then in the next AB, Steckenrider hesitates and gets thrown out at 2nd with a outfield throw that was well over the cutoff man's head.
Long story short, our baserunning and from what was obvious (missed signs) compounded with pitch counts lost us the game.
Our freshman pitchers are not quite there yet. Our upper classmen after years of undercoaching are thriving right now with far better coaching.
All in all, we should have gift wrapped that game to MTSU. Their offense was rather pedestrian coming in and they showed that again when we did not have freshmen in the game. The Raiders 1st basement tried to "regift" the game back. I'm not sure what Ethan Williams was thinking on both his errors.