I've never felt dirtier

For all who feel dirty about the win they need to remember in tournament play the only thing that matters is win and advance. Nothing else has any bearing on anything.
 
It may have been ugly, but not dirty.
This was a Cliff Gustafson memorial win via the walk game.
He did that many times by taking pitches when a pitcher tired, and the crowd would get more and more on the guy, usually resulting in less and less control. There's nothing wrong with winning via the rbi walk.
I have sympathy for their retiring coach, but as the saying goes, "better them than us."
This is what makes baseball interesting. There are so many ways to win. It doesn't take a home run to get the winning run across, it can be a balk, a walk, a hit batter, a sacrifice, a run-down play, an error-it all counts as a run when the player steps on the plate.
 
Seven innings of Damn Good Game, and two innings of Bonzo Ball.

Definitely ugly... but maybe some new slogans came out of it?

"Texas - Our bullpen's not as bad as yours!"

"Texas - We're less inept!"
 
It is times like this I am just glad all that matters is winning games not winning some stupid popularity contest like in football. Otherwise we would be screwed.
 
The two second pause after the last ball was just crazy. I think everyone was shocked that the pitcher would not just throw a watermelon right down the middle. It was definitely a ball, but just a weird feeling after it crossed the plate. Everything stopped for a second. Funny thing is, I just think the pitcher could not hit the strike zone. He just did not have anything.
 
I think everyone was shocked that the pitcher would not just throw a watermelon right down the middle.
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Easier said than done when the pressure is on and you know he's not gonna swing
 
It was kind of a surreal ending, but I don't feel 'dirty.' It was like we got the benefit of a bad call or a lucky bounce. We can't help it if the other team is into their 4th or 5th pitcher and can't find the strike zone.

Showing patience at the plate is just as important as getting a hit. Who is to say that if MSU had gotten it over the plate that our guys wouldn't have made the clutch hits.
 
I agree, and I said the same thing after we won the regional with 8-run 9th inning. People were saying we got lucky, the long ball bailed us out, blah blah blah. Our patience at the plate in that inning won the game for us. One batter after another, our guys walked up there and refused to bite on crap pitches, and that forced Army to stay honest. When they did, Preston Clark took advantage. That's what baseball is about, especially at this level.
 
Why was USM trotting out pitchers with so little college experience? I know you have to do it in some situations but this surely did not seem like the time to do it (when your ace closer melts down).
 
Great win. Take 'em any way you can.
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Having the discipline to lay off pitches is a skill and part of the game just like swinging for the fences. Not as dramatic but still part of the game. Kudos to the players who laid off and walked. I'm sure their hearts were racing and the adrenaline flowing! I don't know of any coach, who sees that the other team's pitcher is struggling, tells his players to swing the bat. You take advantage of what you are given. It is just part of baseball and part of the cruelty of the game Augie talks about.
 
Bassale, I really liked your initial post of your observations of the game.

I was on the mound when my little southeast Texas high school won district. I had to to throw strikes in the last inning with the bases loaded and did.

The next week I started the bi-district game and walked the first two batters and was pulled. I was trying just as hard both times.

I've pitched well feeling crummy warming up and pitched crummy feeling great warming up. I've been listening to former major league pitchers turned announcers say for forty years that some days it works and some days it doesn't.
 
I don't give a damn about pretty. The W is all that matters. And hell no I do not feel dirty. "To hell with them pilgrims, buzzards gotta eat, same as worm." Josey Wales.

Next.

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Well, all I can say is I would have felt dirtier if we had lost the game by letting the winning run walk home. I would have felt like an extremely dirty girl.
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I will take the win even if the winning run walked home.
 
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