It's the Locked On Podcast Network, your team every day. just no ads. There's also a members only group chat for fans of your team. Plus a lot more. You can check it out by tapping the everyday or club link in the show notes. Oh my goodness. Bob Terrell walks it off. You are locked on Auburn, your daily podcast on the Auburn Tigers, part of the locked on podcast Network, your team every day. Yes. Welcome on in the Locked on Auburn, your daily Auburn Tigers podcast. I'm your host, Zach Blacker. Thank you so much for hanging out with us tonight. Lindsey Crosby, baseball's Lindsey Crosby of the bar in Auburn with us. Auburn walks it off in dramatic fashion. What was going to be such a disappointing discussion was totally changed by Auburn's approach in the bottom of the ninth. We'll talk about everything that led up to it, but Bub Terrell is the guy who walks it off. He scores Bingham in from second, and that's all she wrote. Lindsay Crosby. What a way to finish this one. Auburn has never played a normal game in any sport. It never will. What I love, you mentioned the approach and I'm, I'm so proud of you for noticing this in the ninth inning. Yeah. In the ninth inning, Auburn's just kind of like, Hey, we just got to get balls in play we got to put balls in play we need to stress them and they weren't afraid to go backside they weren't afraid to just like rather than trying to pull the ball in the air which is how you hit for power it's how you get extra base hits they said we just need to kind of slash quick swing get the ball the opposite way and you saw west georgia kind of not be prepared for that they were they were shifting heavily all game they were trying to get over there bam just get it and play get it and play run the bases even bigaman played first base today and he scores from second on a single the ball was released right after he turned around third like he was close to the third base bag when that ball came out of the hands and he was safe because the throw was high well you gotta be at what he hit third yeah when he hit third lindsey i'm like okay hold off hold off and they said okay we're doing this we're doing this and uh i actually didn't think he was safe the first time and then the the replay he clearly clearly was so that is a college send that is the higher that you go the less likely you are to send the guy in that scenario there is not a single pro team in baseball that sends him there but in college like the odds are that throw is gonna be off especially when you've got a lower conference opponent you can take the risk they took the risk the first baseman busted his tail and hey right in sd freshman of the year of the week apparently makes you run faster uh yeah i mean he might be on base to get it again we'll see we'll see as far as i mean i mean it's just crazy what one half inning can do to like how you talk about this this game and maybe even arguably how you feel about this team but I mean even um I guess it was I guess it was two at-bats before Bob Terrell came to the plate but Eric Guevara I mean that was like the long I assume that was the longest at-bat of the game I mean it was just a 2-2 count for like so many pitches eventually grounds out but does advance you know does advance Bingham into second there um and he had he had just missed his own backside single like one or two foul balls before he missed it by like inches and ended up just being a little bit in front of it they took a little bit off i think it was a change up that he ground out on because he was a little ahead of it so it just ended up getting the short i i can't believe after that that they didn't pull their reliever i can't i can't believe they didn't change their pitching out you see this a little bit in these type of midweek games against an opponent i'm not going to call them overmatch because they absolutely held their own against Auburn but you see this was everything for them this game winning this game is like the highlight of their season if they see yeah yeah they they go with the guy when the pitching change happened I'm sorry not the pitching change the mound visit happened in the night and the pitching coach was walking up there with some speed I was like okay yeah no they're not pulling this is a pep talk they want him to finish this typically that happens because they didn't trust anybody else he was their best bet they were saving him for a lead they had a lead they wanted a two inning save and he was not able to deliver no three runs and three hits and two walks yeah he got to the mid 30s on his pitch count and we just making contact after contact after contact and eventually got the ones that we needed so and some of that was the approach change just trying to not do too much just going for putting the ball in play again a wild pitch there that that set things up i mean there's a lot wrong for them and a lot that went right for us down the stretch there yeah and and that's that's a butch thompson team we saw this a little bit of different way against florida state right like you they got down early and they just kept chipping away kept chipping away kept chipping away this game you score four runs three of them come in the final two innings um i do want to give kind of special credit ty thompson i don't i think i'm allowed to say this um he might be the fastest white kid on campus like they they i don't know if you can say that or not i'm gonna be honest with you cool they put him in for chase fralick and uh shout out to friend of the show sonny de shara my partner on the bar baseball show they put ty thompson in motion on Guevara ground out to shortstop And so because of that there not a game ending double play right there Right. It's all of the little things. Auburn handled this final inning, two innings, as well as they possibly could have. The only thing I think you could quibble about, you could be a little frustrated about, is I believe it was Mason McCrane who had the RBI in the eighth, and he probably should not have tried to go to second base when he stumbled coming around first. He should have put on the brakes on and come back, but he tried to make it second and got thrown out. The run still counted, but absolutely, that's probably the only quibble you have with the final two innings and how that went. But lots of issues about what happened earlier in the game. Just some poor approaches and some going for the big swing and not just trying to get the ball in play and make West Georgia beat themselves. Yeah. Now, and we'll get to the discussion of like, it should have never gotten to that point in a second, but let's give some love to our guy, Brad Law. On the call, I'm so glad they just put his call on the TV broadcast cast um what a moment for him i mean electric factory i mean that dude powered every house that guy's a power plant god the mvp of this game shout out to the albinator in the chat for calling it that brad law mvp of this game um i always love getting to hear brad's baseball i i embarrass him with this like once every other week on the barn baseball show he's i i am a baseball on the radio connoisseur and i think brad law is one of the best that i've heard do a baseball game on the radio he's a legend he just killed it tonight that final call the energy the electricity he knew when to lay out kind of at the end there uh it's a little bit of a different feeling with the review like they're celebrating center field and gabe's trying to call them back to the dugout because there's a review and all that but uh but no like he you know getting ripped back up after that i really just kind of love what um what brad did with that and i'm glad he got the national audience of everybody doing stuff. Yeah, that'll be electric. That'll be electric. That'll be used all week and stuff. And I am here for every bit of that. I'm going to ask him about that on tomorrow's Village Vice as well. So that'll be fun. Yeah, that'll be fun. So we shouldn't have gotten into that situation at all. And I think there's a few different angles to tackle this. I think some are good and some are bad. And maybe some are orange and blue glasses and some aren't. aren't. Lindsay, we'll take a stab at that in just a moment right here on Locked on Auburn. Today's show brought to you by our friends at TurboTax. We all hate doing taxes. Tax season doesn't have to take over your life. This year, TurboTax is making it easier than ever to just hand things off and move on with your day. With TurboTax full service, you can have your taxes done for you by a trusted local professional start to finish without the stress or guesswork. For a limited time, you can have your taxes done for just $150 all in. 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This should have, in theory, been a game that would have been a threat to go to a run ruling. Clearly it was not. I guess the big question here is, okay, what's up with Auburn's bats in these midweeks? We can't just say it's, oh, well, it's Cincinnati. Maybe they're better than we thought. That last midweek, that was embarrassing. Eight to nothing. This would have been embarrassing if it was not for the bottom of the night. It would have been dreadful. You and I were talking hypotheticals of like, how bad would this be? It would have been pretty bad. It would have been pretty bad. Yeah, we could stop having those hypothetical conversations. But is it a hitting at home thing? Is it just a midweek mindset thing, Lindsay? Is it like, I mean, a lot of the top ranked teams in baseball this week lost in midweeks. I was looking that up early. Yeah. Yeah. So is it just the nature of that? Or like... What do you think it is? How do we get to this point where we needed a dramatic bottom of the ninth to win this thing? The good news is when you look at RPI late in the year nobody going to know this was the ninth inning comeback I do think there a situation here and I not just up front I'm not making excuses for Auburn baseball. I'm just kind of explaining the mindset of some of these kids. I think some of this is you're in a stretch of a lot of really good teams. You had Cincinnati, who obviously beat you. You have the tournament in Arlington, which you swept. You played some really good teams there. You have Nebraska coming this weekend. And I think some of it is maybe a little looking too far ahead or underestimating your opponent, combined with the fact that baseball is not the same as basketball and football as far as it's small sample, it's fluky, all of that good stuff. but I do think too some of this is just Auburn guys trying to do a little too much and I think you nailed it the very beginning when you talked about the approach change in the ninth inning because a lot of what these guys were doing was there's a ton of compliments for me I could throw up on the screen I'm not doing it right now okay you got called a special potato I did get called a special potato and talked about me and brad doing a game together uh a lot of these swings early in the game were guys going for the fences right i think bub had three fly outs to the corner outfield like two of them he was just trying to lift and pull the ball for a homer and then he had one i think he hit at the right but like a lot of swinging for the fences i'm just gonna take care of this right here i should be able to take advantage of this pitcher i will say when you're in a stretch of really good teams and you faced a team like this that is somewhat pitching a little bit lower velocity a little bit less stuff it's not as easy as you would think it is to go from facing mid 90s to facing high 80s and then go back to it so there is a little bit of that but this is mostly our own guys and I guarantee you Butch right now in that press conference is saying he didn't love the approaches tonight he didn't love these guys trying to do too much and he's glad they remembered late in the game that their at-bats belong to Auburn not to themselves and they've got to do their jobs get the ball in play pass the baton thing he loves to say get the runners over get them in right right and you saw that pretty much to perfection in the ninth you did not see that in any of the other innings no no and and i think that was just they were thinking hey this dude's throwing high 80s i can take advantage of him and no you couldn't right yeah and i mean some of it is like the guys that you had in the plate and the ninth is exactly what you wanted i mean top of the order we were talking about that when we were watching it together going into it's like well this is what you want this is what you want going into a you know a walk-off situation on the way just what i guess this would have been like the fourth time through the order like thankfully you know they they got it done that time west george did a lot of stuff right in this game go into different pitchers to try to like give them different looks every time through um west george had nine hits in this game i believe i counted six of them came with two outs i remember butch telling me a little while back the most dangerous situation for a college pitcher is nobody on and two outs. Because there's a very strong natural reaction to just kind of breathe a little bit and relax. And you can't let your guard down. I think you saw that tonight. There was a couple of these actually where it was two outs and two strikes. And they just couldn't put them away. And I want to say both of the home runs I know were two out home runs. I think one of them at least may have been a two out and two strike home run. And that's just going to be, that's just that's just really tough um but yeah the timing was off they were trying to do a little too much with those swings it just didn't really work out there yeah is this is is this me wearing orange and blue glasses lindsey that we learn more about this team this team grows more from this game with the bub terrell walk-off being in that situation late versus winning this game seven to two like a lot of us would have predicted do they possibly get more out of this rep this game early in the season winning it this way knowing Gabe Gross like I'd like to think that I do I'm gonna say yes simply because I know Gabe wasn't telling them to go out and crank bombs like it's not it's not what he's gonna doing out there and being able to go back and look at the approaches in their first couple at-bats and then the last at-bat and say like hey when you start doing the things we told you to do you see how you scored these runs late and we won this game so I do think it helps from that perspective and then kind of like in the Florida State game you got down four nothing early and then you rallied um I think Jackson said you're sitting allowing another hit until the fifth inning you started chipping away at all of that I do think it also helps with the confidence of knowing that like, hey, there's no situation so far this year really other than Cincinnati that we've not been able to dig ourselves out of the hole that we put ourselves in. Correct. I do think that helps a bit especially for some of the young players you have in the lineup. Ethan Bingaman obviously going to be big for him. That guy's a dude, man. I mean, two home runs on Sunday. He scores from second to the winning run. Again, as a first baseman, he can play multiple positions, but still. Um, like this team's not a finished product. I think they left 10 runners on base, nine or 10 runners on base. Um, you know, a lot of just poor approaches kind of when it mattered, but they figured it out. I do think this helps. I do think you learn a lot. Um and these are the kinds of games where again end of the season we not going to remember this was a one run ninth inning comeback We just going to remember but they going to remember the lessons they learned from it and I think that a big deal Yeah. The walk-off is the friends we made along the way. Yes. I think is what they say. Yes. What a moment for Bob, too. I mean, that's just great. Give him more confidence going into this weekend. I'm 100% okay with that. He's had some struggles a little bit early. He's been pretty good this season, but he's had some struggles this game. He was 0-4 going into that final inning. I think the big thing to think about, too, and I saw a couple questions in the chat. I was trying to get to it eventually. You're doing all of this without some of your best players, right? You're doing this without Chris Rimber. The initial time frame the program gave us that day of the doubleheader is they were shooting for SEC play. We talked on here about if you have to miss Missouri, it's not a big deal because it's Missouri's Missouri. i've i've heard a little bit of whispers they think they may be able to get him back earlier they don't know that's not like confirmed or anything but they think yeah eddie madrigal who's you know been playing you know first base or would have been um he's dressing out he's doing some work they think they might be able to get him back a little bit earlier um you don't have Griffin Graves, who they thought going into the year was going to be their best pitcher, not because of the alliteration, but just because of his stuff and his ability to throw strikes. You haven't had him the first couple weeks. So, like, you've got a little bit more that you can do here. Like, you're holding serve without these guys. If you add these guys in, combined with who stepped up, Brandon McCrane has shown, we talked about this last week, he's got to be in the lineup somewhere when Chris Rembert comes back. Ethan Binghamman looks like he needs to be in the lineup. you feel good you feel good about the future of this team and where they can go there is a question in the chat is Eddie related to Nick Eddie Madrigal is the cousin of current big leaguer Nick Madrigal yes he has his cousin they're not siblings but they're cousins so kind of the same genes yes similar they have they have they they do share some genes and then the question about what happened to Griffin Graves. He has an oblique issue, I think. And there was a question whether or not they would be able to have him for this weekend, but they believe, worst case scenario, he's backed by SEC play. Oblique's a big deal. A lot of twisting. Especially for a pitcher. Especially for a pitcher. It's a hit or a pitcher. Obliques are pretty important to play in the sport of baseball. That's right. Got to be able to twist. So, all in all, not the prettiest game. I don't think anybody's going to shy away from that. but you'd rather have the bottom of the ninth that you had than not. And hey, three errors by West Georgia, you'll absolutely take that. They had three errors late in the game. You'll take that too. Yeah. And I think I saw that four of the top five teams lost midweeks this week. So, like, just take it. Just take the win because other folks did not do this. Yeah. So LSU lost to, I think it was McNeese state. Like you had, you had multiple losses that arguably should not have been losses teams that we would have been really close up real quick. But I say, I, I was looking at the list earlier. It was, um, Troy, Troy beat Georgia. They're ranked five. And that's after somebody from Troy got ejected during the game. Um, four, I believe Arkansas beat Arkansas state by one. looking at Tuesday real quick we'll put a bow on this one Arkansas State beat Arkansas yesterday they played two games McNeese beat LSU as we mentioned San Diego State beat the top ranked team in the country UCLA so it wasn't pretty Arizona State beat 13th ranked Oklahoma Alabama Alabama yep southern miss beat alabama that's right that's right so can you imagine losing your midweek not me it's still funny that you point that out i just i you knew i was gonna put that out come on we all knew we're gonna put that out yeah so whatever whatever we'll take it congratulations oh and georgia state beat georgia tech oh there we go nine to four there we go So, like, we can all, you know, say it wasn't pretty. It's like, but, I mean, most of the teams in the top, like, they lost these games. So, Auburn, did Auburn lose these games? No, because Bub Terrell walked it off, baby. Let's go. There you go. Let's go. Lindsey Crosby, how can people check out everything you've got going on? I'm on social media at Crosby Baseball. The Auburn baseball stuff, obviously, here after every game, as well as the bar and Auburn.com, the barn baseball show. We have another show coming out on Friday, me and Brad Law. We're going to talk about his call, and then we'll talk about Nebraska over the weekend. And then the Atlanta Braves content, bravestoday.com. We've been going hard on that in the last couple days with the announcement of Braves Vision and the Chris Sale extension. All right. Auburn walks it off. They win 4-3 against West Georgia. Lindsey and I will be live after the Friday Nebraska game and after the Sunday Nebraska game. Saturday is too close to basketball. So I'll just go live with Daryl after the basketball game Saturday night. Once again, Auburn wins four to three. Please like the video. Please subscribe. We'll see you next time. This has been locked on Auburn. 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