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La Gargola OP
Mar 29, 2026 at 04:30 PM ET
Omg. 0 for 6 with bases loaded

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BackInTheBurg BackInTheBurg
4mo
Did Szefc suicide squeeze on any of those opportunities?
U2Hokie U2Hokie
4mo
He did and if it stayed fair we win in the bottom of the 9th! Is anybody
watching? (I mean I get it if your not - but...?)
laphroaig laphroaig
4mo
Certainly somebody was "due for a hit". :-)
Whenever that baseball concept comes up "due for a hit", it reminds me of the George Will book "Men at Work". It's a very common baseball concept that fans use even when a career .200 hitter is up with runners on base. Will say, No way" - a .200 hitter is never due for a hit - that's precisely why he's a .200 hitter - he doesn't get many hits. Maybe VT coach believes his team was "due for a hit" all those times with the bases loaded. If "due for a hit" had any truth to it, there would never be any no-hitters thrown. I know your comment to this post is going to be "Wait, you read a book?"
BackInTheBurg BackInTheBurg
4mo
Reason I asked, is I went to the home UVA series last yr. Szefc bunted his
clean up hitter early in the game to move a runner in game that I think was scoreless/very low scoring at the time. Yes, just to move runner. I actually audibly yelled, “What are you doing.” Some Hokie fans were yelling at, that it was a good baseball play. I obviously disagreed. Let your clean up hitter hit the d$!n ball. So hence the question. When a suicide squeeze or bunt is actually called for, did he call for it? Yes, we hosted in ‘22, but the goodwill from that year is wearing thin…on me, anyway 🤷🏻‍♂️.
U2Hokie U2Hokie
4mo
I never would have bunted early in a game - but bottom of 9th and we are
not getting hits and its my #9 hitter Gibson, surething...
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Gobbler-100
4mo
Bunting early in a modern college baseball game should be...
...something beyond a fireable offense, there should be charges brought up or something lol.
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VTSweaterMan
4mo
Pathetic.