The Diamond Deck Blog

This blog will be less a series recap and more an SEC Tournament preview, but to quickly recap the Georgia series, LSU finally won another SEC series after dropping the previous two. LSU is now 7-2-1 in SEC series, 19-10 in SEC games, and 42-13 overall. LSU offense went off this past weekend scoring 21 runs over 3 games (averaging 7 runs per game), 14 of those runs came off of 11 homeruns. In other news, pitchers not names Paul Skenes continue to blow. Not everyone else had a bad weekend, but no one else besides Nate Ackenhausen who didn't pitch has an ERA below 3.00. Riley Cooper surprisingly did not allow a single run... he also did not record a single out in 2 appearances either, but I'm more of a glass half full kinda guy. Gavin Guidry and Griffin Herring were the only two pitcher to go at least 1 full inning and not allow a run. I won't go through all the stats, but the series MVP is believe it or not Josh Pearson. He hit a very clutch homerun in game 1 to take the lea...

Boy oh boy where do I even begin? I don't even know what to say. I am... embarrassed, ashamed, confused, angry, and a million other emotions. I can go through stats, I can do whatever, but nothing will make this make sense. This offense is talented enough to win a College World Series, the pitching however, not so much. Honestly not even close. It's a homerun derby out there. We would be better off putting position players on the mound. They could probably get 3 outs before allowing multiple runs. As I am writing this, my brain is so scrambled thinking about what to say, because I have no words. I thought the Auburn series was a fluke and that our pitching staff wouldn't be worse than our offense is good again. But apparently I was wrong. Our pitchers gave up a combined 24 runs over 3 games, which doesn't seem so bad until you realize in game 1, we only gave up 1 run in 7 innings thanks to Paul Skenes throwing a "complete game". So if you only count games 2 an...

LSU loses their first SEC series of the year. What makes this even more painful is that it was to an unranked team. Not only that, but we got walked off on Sunday getting 10 run ruled. I had a lot going on this weekend, so I didn't get a chance to watch much of this series, but what I did notice is the pitching- or lack there of. There was none. The only pitching we had was by the same guy who has been doing it all year- Paul Skenes. If only we could give him a robotic arm and have him pitch all 9 innings every game. Our offense is great, but when you need them to score 10 or more runs a game, you're not going to win many games. With this series loss, our SEC series record is now 6-1-1, SEC record is 16-7, and overall record is 37-10.  Usually I jot down some bullet point notes on the series, but all I have to talk about is the pitching. It's MIA. We would be better off pitching position players. We had a 6.92 ERA over the weekend. This even includes Friday in which we shut...

It was so fun sweeping our "rivals" even though you can't even call it a rivalry in baseball when it's not even a series. LSU was practically in control the entire weekend except for a few moments... well every game. But the point is we won the game, every game. And we're still and will remain #1. I just wish Alabama was ranked 25 or something because I would like to believe that we would have broken the attendance record again. Imagine breaking the attendance record twice in one season.  Paul Skenes once again had a very impressive game going 6 innings, striking out 9, and only surrendering 1 run. He also didn't walk anyone. His pitch count was 109 which I would have liked to see less. It is only a matter of time before he loses velocity by the postseason and he can't lose his velocity; it's what he relies on. You expect starting pitchers to lose velocity by the end of their outing, but only by a couple MPH. Skenes is losing almost 4 MPH by the end of...