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LSU drops a Tuesday night game at the box to Bethune Cookman 10 to seven. And Bethune Cookman is a good swag team. They're leading the swag at 10 and seven. They came into this game at 22 and 10 overall, actually a game better than LSU is 22 and 11. Still the talent differential with these two teams is so stark. What it shows though is that even if you're a more talented team, you don't show up and play well. You can get beaten. And Bethune Cookman's a team that coming in had only 16 homers on the season. They're a team that thrives on singles and you making mistakes a lot like Kentucky and LSU made plenty of mistakes in this game, which allowed Bethune Cookman to turn a six, five deficit in the sixth to a 10 to seven win at Alec box stadium. I'll talk about the game readily, but the most important part of this isn't that LSU lost the game. The most important part of this is what happened in the top of the seventh inning when Chris Stanfield was chasing chasing down a ball in right field and he collided with the wall. Now, it went down as a, believe it went down as a triple. I'm trying to see not that it actually matters. Yeah. So it was the second hitter of the inning Rivera popped up, then lead triple to left field on a two, two pitch. If you were watching Stanfield, I was going toward the wall and his left hand, that's the hand that, that he injured sliding into home in the second game of the season, sort of collided with the wall first. Um, he continued that inning. He did not continue in the game. Daniel Harden replaced him in left field and hit for him. And there the camera showed Stanfield with an ice pack on, on his wrist. Um, we saw LSU for 16 games without Chris Stanfield and what that looked like and it's not good. Uh, remember there was a rotating, um, a revolving door and left. You had some Daniel Harden. You had some Braden Simpson. You had some Tanner Reeves. I mean, they were playing infielders in the outfield, just trying to get a consistent bat in the lineup and it hurt. I don't want to be presumptive. I don't know the severity of the injury. Hopefully it's nothing, but Stanfield right now is at 273 on the season, but coming into last weekend, he was your leading hitter in SEC play. So, and he's also your best left fielder. I mean, he's a center fielder playing left field. So, um, that whatever the result is with Chris Stanfield is the most significant part of this game, far more than losing the game. Uh, happening before that, we got a big scare with Seth Dardar as well. So Dardar was in the bottom of the sixth was sliding into second base. It was a fielder's choice. Aaron Bede hit the ground ball. Dardar was at first after he walked and he slid late and you see it happen. Sometimes it's devastating. Happened to a kid from Florida State last week where he disloak, clearly broke, dislocated something. His leg was pointing the wrong directions. Felt really badly for the kid, but thankfully it didn't seem to affect Dardar that much the way he was laying there. Look terrible the way he slid late. And when he slid into the bag, it was his left leg. Trainers came out. They checked on him. He popped up, stretched it out and continued in the game until they pinch hit for him later in the game. Uh, not anything to do with the, um, with, with the ankle or the knee, whatever it was, but those are two veteran players. Those are two starters for you that, uh, gave you sort of heart stopping moments in a Tuesday night game against Bethune Cookman that was ugly for so many reasons. So, um, we'll talk about the game, but the most important thing is going to be whatever J Johnson says after this game about Chris Stanfield and Seth Dardar, um, and the injuries they suffered. Okay. Uh, since we're talking about the Stanfield injury that happened in the seventh, let's start with the seventh because that's when the entire game changed. If you weren't following up into this point, Jake Brown hit a solo homer on the bottom of the six to give LSU a six to five lead. So LSU is up six to five and a, what was a back and forth game. And the top of the seventh was just disgusting. And we've talked about this so much with this team, but whenever this season ends and it's going to end in disappointment because I don't think any of us believe this team is capable of winning a national championship at this point. So the season's going to end in disappointment wherever that may be. Regional supers Omaha, whatever you can roll your eyes and laugh, but we see crazy things happen at baseball and ending like the seventh is what is going to cost this team. It's season eventually, whenever that is. Um, and it started with the pop-up by Rivera and then the triple that we just talked about and then Martinez single to tie it. So it's a tie ball game in Santiago Garcia had been okay. Um, but at that point they bring in Danny Lock and Meyer and they bring in lock and Meyer to face one hitter. This is a lefty, lefty matchup. This is what J Johnson has been leaning on lock and Meyer for is because that was Garcia. Now they're letting Garcia extend a little bit out of necessity, but the Cooper more injuries that are looking for length. And so lock and Meyer was the guy that they're sort of trying to trust in the, the situational lefty role. So they bring lock and Meyer out of the bullpen, boom, one pitch hits Roger, he gets, they go get Rizzy, Rizzy comes in, boom, hits a batter, gets a fly out and then goes walk, walk with the bases loaded. Said this for a few weeks now. I think many of you probably agree. I'm going to say it again. I cannot give Maverick or is he the baseball in any type of important leverage situation. That's, that's done. I'm not saying he's not going to pitch again this season. What I'm saying is if you're in an SEC game and it's four to three and those runners on second and third, but two outs Maverick Rizzy cannot have the ball. He has not shown the ability to consistently throw strikes now. Maverick Rizzy is an exceptional arm talent and you see the potential. I mean, he's a giant. He's six, nine, he throws upper 90s. He's got eight, 12 inch run on his fast, but it's incredible to watch the stuff. It's equally as incredible to watch his complete and total lack of command. And so you're going to keep running Maverick Rizzy out there to try to get him comfortable and to find the command because if the command ever comes to match the stuff, then he's trouble. He's chased shores from a year ago, but in the meantime, he is going to be relevated to throwing on Tuesday nights against Bethune Cookman and as an up 10, down 10 guy in SEC games. I just don't know how you can continue to give him the baseball and trust him to go make pitches for you when he's consistently shown the inability to do that. So after he walks in two runs and gives up the lead, now LSU is down eight to six after he walks in two runs. Then by the way, a great play by, by Jake Brown on, on the fly ball before the two walks to charge and make the play at home kept the runner at third. That's going to be a loss playing the game cause you lost, but in any event, right after that was the back to back walks with the bases loaded. So they go get Dax Dothi and Dothi induces a ground ball to second base and Dardar kicks it. It's a ground ball that should have gotten you out of the inning in an eight to six ball game instead. Dardar kicks it and two more run score and you're down 10 to six. I mean, you look at, at how that inning went and it is just disgusting. You hit a guy, you hit back to back hitters, you walked two guys with the bases loaded and you committed a two run error. You gave them four runs. You, you gave them four runs in the top of the seventh and you lost the game 10, seven. There's your game. I can go through everything else that happened in this game. It doesn't matter because that in a nutshell is, is this LSU baseball season and everything that is wrong with this LSU team is what happened in that seventh inning. You hit two, you walked two with the bases loaded, you committed two run error. You're just not a good enough team. You're not. So we could talk about the rest of this game, some of the other things that transpired. There were some things in this game that I liked. 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That's fan, dual.com, fan, dual, play your game. Man, this game started so encouraging. Marco's pause got the start. He got through the first on five pitches and you're going, that's more like it. And then in the bottom of the first LSU strikes for two runs, but asterisk, LSU struck for two runs and they also ran themselves out of an even bigger inning. And then you had, you had Kuriel who was out at second on a caught stealing and then Dar-Dar was thrown out at third base for the final out of the inning. You can be seven years old and you learn you never make the first or third out of an inning at third base. You're already in scoring position. So LSU ran themselves out of an even bigger inning potentially right there. And you just sort of tip your cap to Bethune Cookman because every time that LSU took a lead, they came right back. LSU's up two nothing, bottom of the second, Bethune Cookman comes back with six singles in the inning. And I can live with that, man. And none of them were cheap. They hit the ball hard and I can tip my cap because what I want from LSU pitchers is throw the ball over the plate, make Bethune Cookman single six times in an inning to get a crooked number. Don't go hit guys, walk guys and then give up a single and give up two runs because you gave them base runners. They earned them in that inning. Six singles, three runs, hat tip. That should have been it, but it wasn't. Brown came up with a two out RBI in the second to tie the game at three. He banged it off the top of the wall and right, missed a home run by five feet. But again, you tie the game. Then Zion Theophilus gets a one, two, three, third. Awesome. Aaron Beattie continues his torrid street doubles off the wall and center. He missed a Homer dead center by five feet and LSU's got the lead. And then you give up a solo shot to tie it at four. You come back in the bottom, Curry, I'll get some RBI single to take a five, four lead. And then you go hit by pitch error, double and you're tied again. Again, you gave them a base runner. You committed an error and it was throwing error on the pitcher and then a double and they score and you're tied again. You wasted the lead off walk in the fifth. You got a one, two, three, six, then Brown Homer to give LSU the six, five lead. And then it went back to what we just talked about in the seventh, what was disgusting. And then the bottom of the seventh was devastating. They loaded the bases for you in the bottom of the seventh. And then they went to their reliever and you were turning over the top of the lineup with Mylon Brown Pearson and he struck outside with the bases loaded with the top of your line, the top of your order up. That was your opportunity. Any one of those guys to come through, any one of those guys put the ball in play and they all struck out. So Tigers added one in the, in the ninth to make it 10, seven, which was the final, but really the results, what it was, it's disgusting. I hate to see it. LSU losing to a swag school that's vastly inferior. It's baseball and you don't play your best. Things like that can happen. What we did see in this ball game, however, I mentioned that I liked, we saw Eddie Ammon and Mason Braun start. And that was something that we've talked about here. And I know a lot, I know you, a lot of you have said and called for the exact same thing. Zach York has not been very good at first base and I've been calling for Braun to start. And Braun was one for three in the ball game with a walk. So he was on, on base twice. And he came up with, with a, with a single and scored a run. So I, I liked to see it. He was good enough defensively at first base. There wasn't anything egregious there. So you're talking about a guy with a super high ceiling. I would love to see him get a start and game wanted Ole Miss. And we'll talk about this as we get closer, but Ole Miss is another bitty ballpark. They're 365 to the alleys, three 90 to straight away center. Everything Ole Miss does, they hit 250 as a team. They try to elevate the baseball. It's going to be another weekend where you have a lot of balls leave the yard. So Braun, big power bat from the left side. I'd love to see him get another start against Ole Miss this weekend. And then how about Yaman? I'm going to tell you the thing that I liked the most about Yaman in this game. He was on base a ton. He got hit by pitch twice. He walked once and then he was one for two. He had a single. I loved in the ninth when Yaman got hit by a pitch. He threw his bat and yelled at the dugout like, let's go. You're down. It's a Tuesday night. You're down four runs to a swag school. And that guy cares. I love that he cares. I love the emotion in that moment. I love that he turned his back, took the pitch off his shoulder and took his base because when you're down four in the ninth, you need base runners. And he didn't do the thing where he goes butt out and trust you, get, let the ball go underneath him. He didn't duck out of the way. He turned his shoulder and he took his base and he yelled at his teammates, employing him. Let's go. I love the emotion. The single he had was a solid at bat and was a solid knock. I don't know that he's a game changer in any way in anything that he does, but I love the emotion. I love the, the give a darn and I love the fact that he was on base four times in this ball game. So I still think Kate Aaron Bede is your best option defensively a catcher. I think he's the best of a lot of not great options. I'm looking forward to seeing Omar Serna back in the lineup, but if you want to DH, Yaman and Serna alternate them, or if you want to play Yaman or Braun at first and alternate Braun or Yaman and Serna at DH, however you want to do it. We've been seeing Serna catch game two. Maybe, you know, maybe that's when Aaron Bede, you're not taking Aaron Bede out of the lineup right now. He DH. So I, I don't think, I think Yaman's earned the opportunity to get more A Bs and more playing time. He's earned it and you know, it's been a small, a small sample size, but he's earned the opportunity to get more opportunity. And so I'd like to see that this weekend as well. And then how about Kate Aaron Bede? It's why we talk about Aaron Bede. You know, I know none of you want to hear this, but like at the beginning of the season, when we talked about this, the talent on this team, that's a great, Aaron Bede is a great example of that. You know, four home runs on, on Sunday. And then in this ball game, he goes three for five. He had to double off the wall. I mean, the double off the wall was to straight away center, like hit the four, oh five sign. I mean, he missed a home or a straight away center by five feet. He's, he's got that in, in there. You know what I mean? Like not everybody has that in them. Some guys are like, like Chris Danfield, Chris Danfield is a, is a singles hitter. He's a, he's a really good college baseball player. And I want him in the lineup, his patience, his presence, his ability to run on the basis. He's a really good left fielder. He is a good college baseball player, but he's not going to be a good pro. Like he doesn't have, Stanfield doesn't have the skill set to be a major leader. Kate Aaron Bede does, which is why the Omar Serned does, which is why you want those guys in the lineup. So great to see Aaron Bede. And then how about Derek Currielle continues his hit streak and he's got his average now all the way up to three 68. He was three for six in the ball game. And the thing I loved about, like he grounded into a double play, his last three outs were the ground and the double play. And then the other two outs, including the final out of the game were all to the right side. Actually the final out of the game was grounded up the middle, but his three hits were all singles and they went to all fields left, right and center. So we've talked about it with Currielle. He's at his best when he's staying middle away, hitting the ball on the ground and on a line when he's elevating the baseball. That's when he's out of his game and out of his element. Even the three ground ball outs were balls on the ground. Now two of them were dead poles, but that's when Derek Currielle, it looked the, the, the last one was up in a, what the second, the last one to the right side was up in a way and he dead pulled a ball that was up in a way. He needed to go the other way, but nonetheless he's raised his batting average. He was three for six in this ball game, three singles, hit him to all fields. That's what we got to see from Derek Currielle. When he's doing that, he's in his element. He's at his best. That was great to see the pitching. So many pitchers. I mean, just, I design the awful is had a clean inning. I thought Reagan, Rick and came in and threw up zeros, which if you're going to make a comeback, you got to have someone throw up zeros and Rick and did that went two and a third, which was nice to see. Hey, Garcia gave you two and a third. He actually took the loss in the ball game, but you know, a lot of that was Lock and Meyer and Rizzy coming behind him and just completely letting him down. So love to see Marcos pause, you know, get out there in the first and, um, and have a clean inning. And then he just imploded in the second, didn't record an out and then, you know, binge and, um, and Williams followed to get out of it. But in any event, um, so what it is this point, you know, you know who the guys are on the staff, you can count on in SEC weekends and mid weeks are going to be a lot of what you saw. Keep running guys out there until you find somebody can throw it over the plate and get guys out tonight. That was Reagan, Rick and, um, and I'll tell you this too. If you're hoping that this loss kind of stokes the flame, you know, motivates the team. I'm not so sure I, I believe that's going to happen. We've seen this team lose midweek games. Um, you know, they lost the midweek game earlier this year to McNeese and then, you know, they, they played the round robin after that, maybe Dartmouth, North Eastern Dartmouth and lost that Monday to North Eastern. And then on Wednesday went to Lafayette and lost. And then after the lost UL Lafayette, they lost two out of three at home to Sacramento State. So, you know, when you've had the midweek struggles, it hasn't really this year stoked the flame in the ensuing weekend. Uh, we'll see if this does anything for the team head into Oxford. Ole Miss is a, um, is a team that relies on the long ball, man. They are, uh, they hit about 250 as a team. They, they have a, a park that is conducive to home runs. They try to elevate the ball and hit homers. That's what they do. So if LSU cannot go walk, walk, three run homer and make Ole Miss consistently string together, hit, solve great chance to go win this weekend. Um, but your pitching's going to have to be a lot better than it was in this ball game. The defense behind them will have to be a lot better than it's been all year, but this is a really bad defensive team. I like the one we saw in J Johnson's first year, which field at about nine, nine, 60, nine, 62, nine, 63, something like that. And it was a major Achilles heel. 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