Speaker 1: Louisiana Baseball stays alive in the Starkville Regional as the
young Bulls come out and play extremely well against Lipscomb
in the elimination game. Let's recap it right here on
Raging Rundown. What's good, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome into
another episode of Rage and Rundown, the show where you
will know all things ul sports. I'm your guy, Ja
Marcus Fitzpatrick, but you know you can always call me fits.
And in today's episode, we will be recapping Louisiana baseball
beating Lipscomb in an elimination game in the Starkville Regional.
They would pick up a ten to four victory over
the Bison. As we always do, we will go through
game flow, we'll talk about the key players that stood
out in this matchup, and we'll start to look ahead
because as I'm recording this episode at ten eighteen, Mississippi
State and Cincinnati are currently playing. We'll give you a
score update talking about this and obviously potentially look ahead
and who their opponent will be on Sunday. So coming
into this one, obviously Louisiana was absolutely annihilated by Cincinnati
in their twelve to two loss, Cincinnati hit six home
runs and it made it look way too easy against
Uel's pitching staff. So coming into this one, Ul was
hungry to respond and boy Diday ever, they would come
out swinging immediately in the top of the first or
the bottom of the first, that is because Uel was
the home team batting. We would see Blaze Rodriguez come
right out with a single to right side and that
would put him on to first. Right after Opelusa's Catholic
native Mark Collins would hit a two run jacket. I
believe that was his fifth home run of the season.
So they go up two to nothing right out of
the gate, and they've already made it very difficult for
Lips right out of the gate. From there, in the
second inning, Rodriguez would once again single and would advance
the second on a throwing era Noah Lewis. After being walked,
he would be on third. So you have two runners
and score and position, and Mark Collins once again has
four RBI, which would be a career high for the sophomore.
He would hit a two run single to left that
drove in Rodriguez and Lewis. So now it's four to
nothing and the pressure has already been applied to Lipscomb
once again. Now, like we talked about in multiple episodes,
this has been the key for Louisiana. You have a
great pitching start from your bullpen, which ty Rowman got
to start in this one. He gave you three innings.
It did take him a little bit of a while
to get adjusted. He only went three innings for you,
and I think he was up to thirty pitches after
the first inning, so it took him a while to
try to get out of those jams early on for you.
But when you're able to give early run support, it
makes it. It takes the pressure off of your starting
pitcher to where he knows, hey, as long as I
can continue to play my game, well, my guys are
going to score, and it's not as much pressure saying
that I got to keep this a zero zero game
until my team can make it a one nothing game
or a two nothing game. And so it puts you
in a much better place, especially when you're an elimination game.
It takes off the pressure from everyone else and they
can play fast, hard and loose like what they normally
like to do. And obviously a young guy like Mark
Collins continuing to step up in this lineup. We've seen
him emerge more and more, especially here in the postseason,
as being a really consistent guy for you that if
you need someone to get on, if you need an
RBI driven in, he has been a guy that can
do that for you. Obviously, Noah Lewis and Blaize Rodriguez
have been table setters for you in the past, and
Blaze got you going really early with the leadoff, and
now you talk about Mark coming in right and behind him,
Mark Collins coming right in behind him being able to
drive those runs in as well. You get to the
third inning and Lipscomb comes with a response. Jeorde Thomas
answers with a two run homer that cuts the deficit.
Now far to two. Pressures back on you. Cole Brown
turns right back around, another young guy that's been tremendous
for you. He hits a solo home run. I think
that was the sixth of the season. You get an
immediate response. I've talked about response so many times on
the show. You know how I feel about it, and
that was important for them to be able to do that.
Championship teams are always going to be able to answer
whenever you need to. It doesn't matter the situation. It
doesn't matter how hard it is, or how great the
pitcher is that they're facing, or how the great the
defense is that they're facing. Championship teams respond, and if
Louisiana's going to continue to be the type of teams
that they believe they can be, they're going to have
to continue to be able to respond. Coke Brown's homer
prevented a huge momentum swing, because if you don't score
there now, Lipscomb can potentially come back in there in
the fourth inning and flip things around for you all
the way around you get there. In the fourth inning,
Blaze Rodriguez comes up once again very big for you
with an RBI single, And I think also that's when
Ty Roman would be taken out. Parker Smith comes into
the game. They're in the bottom of the fourth. Like
I said, Blaze Rodriguez would get an RBI single thanks
to after Josh Lim got a single to left field.
I'm looking at the box score of flowing falling down
there to make sure I stay in line. They actually
scored another run at some point in the third of
the Yeah, I talked about that with Coke Brown making
it five to two. Then you talk about it being
sixty two with Blaze Rodriguez is RBI single after Josh
Limb singled to left field, so it's sixty two at
that point. You get to the fifth inning and once again,
Coled Brown singles up the middle. Drew markle hits a
single to left, So now Colt Brown is at second,
Drew Marco is at first, Josh lim comes up. He
was big for you, right, Like the whole thing about
not just this lineup, but the young talent that you have,
the Cole Browns, the Blaze Rodriguez, the Mark Collins, the
Josh Liams, the Noah Lewis is like, all of these
guys have proven that the sky is the limit and
that the future is going to continue to be bright
for this program. But at the time is also now
because they are coming up big for you in big
moments despite being young in their careers. So you're now
up seven to two, and then after that, Josh liam
was still second, he advances the third, Marco scores on
a wild pitch. They're now of eight to two. Lipscomb
would come back and they would respond with a solo
home run. Of their own that makes it eight to three.
In the seventh inning, they would cut it once again
to a four run deficit. As they get an RBI single,
it'd be eight to four. And after that, Louisiana tacks
on a couple more runs. In the bottom of the
eighth Blaze Rodriguez single and then he is able to
get all the way around to third after a throwing era.
Noah Lewis scores as a result of that era that
made it nine to four. Liamade flies out on the
sax fly that brings in Blase Rodriguez to make it
ten to four, and that's how they were able to
pull away in this victory. So kudos to the cagents
for handling business, having their backs against the wall, knowing
that they needed to win a game in order to
continue their season. And Coach Diggs talked about in the
post game how it wasn't about staying alive, it was
about getting to win number forty for this team more
than anything else. So we're going to talk about some
of the guys that the spotlight players that really stood
out in this one, and we'll talk about the stat
lines that they had in this one. We'll discuss it
when we come back here on Raging Rundown. Hey, guys,
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the Cajun just pick up a ten to four victory
overlops him, and they handled the business that they needed
to in order to get this huge victory, and it
puts them down in a position where again it's win
or go home from here on out. But you saw
a lot of young guys step up. Big Mark Collins
we talked about already. He goes three for four for
RBI on the day, including a home run. Blaz Rodriguez
was four for five, He scored three runs and also
had an RBI. Cope Brown was three for four and
had an RBI. The home run that he hit in
this game, Josh Limb was two for four for you
as well. So all of the guys that came up
big for you in the lineup were young guys, right,
And when you're able to that, like I mentioned earlier,
when you're able to have young players that no matter
the stage, that they're able to handle business and understand
that whoever I'm facing that I'm going to come up
big in this moment, that makes you a very very
dangerous team because when you have older guys like Drew
Marco and Aliamine that continue to invote confidence in those
young guys, it continues to make them believe that they
can get the job done, and it makes you a
very dangerous team as you continue throughout your season. From
a pitching standpoint, Ty Rowman, like I mentioned, not necessarily
struggled as much, but some of his best stuff wasn't
there right off the bat, and Coach Daggs even mentioned
it a little bit in postgame. He goes three innings
for you. He throws out sixty seven total pitches. He
strikes out four batters, but he gets hit three times.
He walks three batters and allows two earned runs. So
he goes three innings for you after that, Parker Smith,
Ayden Pearson, and saw your crew all combined for allowing
just three hits and one earned run and two other
strikeouts and yeah, two other strikeouts and two walks. So
after Lipscomb kind of came in and tried to make
a little bit of noise after they cut the deficit
four to two. After that, they go scoreless in the fourth,
scoreless in the fifth, scoreless in the eighth, scoreless in
the ninth. So one, two, three, four out of the
final six innings they're left scoreless. Offensively, the Cajuns were
able to score in every inning except for the sixth
and the seventh, So from a relief pitcher standpoint, you
were able to get some really good moments for you.
Parker Smith earning the win, Hayden Pearson kind of being
the bridge, and those middle innings, and then saw your
crewer come in and being able to slam the door shut.
And sometimes that's what it takes, you know, when you
get to postseason baseball, especially with how the Cajuns had
to use a lot of their arms in the conference tournament,
playing seven games in six days, a lot of these
guys are going to be worn down, and so it
now puts them in an interesting predicament because as these
guys are continuing to throw more and more innings like
after Ty Roman in terms of the number of pitches
that you have. Parkersmith goes thirty nine, so we'll definitely
see him again. Hayden Pearson goes twenty three, will definitely
see him again. So your career goes twenty nine, and
I think we'll see him again as well. So you've
utilized some of those younger guys, but not to the
extent where they're done for the entire weekend. But now
you're going to have to figure out how you can
mix and match things in your elimination game on Sunday.
So again, like I mentioned, you were able to finish
things off. Kudos to all the young guys for being
able to handle their business for you on the offensive end,
and you being able to create separation, keep the distance,
and being able to ultimately slam the door shut to
keep your season alive. You get to forty wins, which,
if I'm not mistaken, Rimond Parks brought the stat up.
I think he said that it was the fourteenth time
or the seventh time somewhere in the last couple of
years that they have gotten the forty wins, and it's
the fourteenth time in the NCAA tournament that they've won
at least one game in a regional. So it's continuing
to keep a standard. Now. I know that a lot
of people are going to hear that and going to say, man,
we want to go back to the old days when
we're going to super regionals, we're hosting, and we're going
to the College Real Series. And I hear you. I
understand where you're coming from. Times are a lot different now,
and it's going to take time to continue to be
able to build this thing out. You have young pieces
that we've mentioned so many times, so many episodes that
we mentioned a bunch of them in this episode. You've
got to be able to keep these guys. You got
to be able to keep that bond together, and then
ultimately they've got to go out and put a winning
product on the field. So you get to forty wins
on the season, and you put yourself in a position
now where you will have to win two games tomorrow
and then win one on Monday in order to be
able to get out of this regional. We know that
Andrew Herman is going to start for the Cajuns in
Sunday's first game. That pitch will be at two PM.
And as I'm recording this episode, at ten thirty, Mississippi
State is leading Cincinnati eight to one in the top
of the seventh. So as it stands, this could change
as of me recording this episode. It can be completely different,
depends on when to upload it, all those things like that.
As it stands, you're going to have a remachig in Cincinnati,
so that means you're gonna have to face those guys
that hit all those tanks over and over and over
again in the initial game that you played in on Friday.
Andrew Herman is going to come out. Coach Digg said
that he's going to give him the ball and let
him go as long as he can. I expect him
to go a complete game. I expect him to throw
until he cannot throw anymore. He's not gonna want to
come off the mound. He is a senior. This is
his last year and he does not want this to
be his last game. He's going to give his own
and whatever happens from there happens. So you'll likely get
Cincinnati in the first game. If you're able to win
from there, you have to beat Mississippi State twice. And guys,
I'm not saying that, you know, they're this amazing team
that it can't beat. But on top of the atmosphere
that because I was there for the first three or
four innings of the game with Cincinnati, it's an electric atmosphere,
there are gonna be a lot of distractions around. These
guys are going to have to focus in early. They're
gonna have to score runs early. They if they get
to that game now, the formula is still the same.
Get great run support early, get great pitching, and then
hold the lead, slam the door shut on the back end.
Coach Digg said it in posts. I don't have the
post game sound because it was a little overmodulated on
my end playing it out trying to get sound bites
and everything. But I'm basically telling you he said that
if they are not able to get run support and
are not able to score runs, then they will go home. Now,
if you want to watch that full press conference, I
do have it uploaded on my social media accounts on
Facebook and Twitter at j Fitz TV. It's gonna be
a little overmodulated, but for the most part you can
hear what he was saying in that postgame press conference.
They're gonna have to come out. They're gonna have to
put their best foot forward. It's win or go home.
This is your season. This is an opportunity for you
to be able to answer the bell. If they're able
to do that, it would be a phenomenal feat and
it would be a great thing to be able to
see the rage and cage just to be able to
get it done. Like I said, Andrew Herman will get
the start tomorrow, likely against the Cincinnati Bearcats. He'll likely
go the distance. If he gives you seven, then you
probably think about a Tyler Pappenbrock. On the back end.
You still have Hayden Pearson and Parker Smith available. You
still have saw your Prewit available. But then after that,
it's gonna get really tricky with the amount of depth
that you have because a lot of guys have been
utilizing their arms throughout this postseason. So we'll be keeping
our eyes on that, and you know, we'll always be
talking about it right here on Rage and Rundown. That's
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