Baseball at TX, Sat 5/10 - re-start 5:30

Everything went our way Friday night. Now with our ace on the bump Saturday, we need to keep our momentum going. Get the top of the order swinging the bats and keep getting key outs and we can win this series. Go Gators!

 

Keep it rolling Gators!

 

Lets get the series. Go Gators!!!

 

11-2 last 13 SEC games
Those Gator boys stay hot

 

Great day for a baseball game. Let’s get this done Gators!

 

Go Gators!!
Keep the MO rolling.

 

Being on SEC+, I can't record the game and I have to be somewhere from 2 - 4. Hope I come home to a healthy lead late in the game!!!

 

ARE YOU READY FOR GATOR BASEBALL???

 

Got to thinking about Peterson the other day and how he's a bit like Brett Favre or Bert Blyleven in that he'll make lots of great throws, but will chuck up a couple each game that can be picked/belted, too. Then I start thinking about Blyleven, his 12-6 curve, and the few curves (maybe more 11-5, but still) Liam broke off last year.

Any of our pitching experts have an explanation of why we don't see that pitch more in 2025? Is it analytics/Kopp focusing on spin-rate and "rise" on Liam's 4SFB? Or maybe that particularly shape of curveball only works when used rarely?

 

The 12-6/11-5 curveballs take a little more effort or polish to consistently be able to drop into a pitcher’s strike of the strike zone as opposed to the slider/cutter IMO.

All properly executed pitches are based on the ability to leverage your mechanics throughout the pitch from start to drive to release to finish and follow through. There are no shortcuts or skipping a step that will both work and allow the maximum execution of any pitch.

With the curveball the driving through the pitch with your fingers on the face of the baseball (towards the hitter) and pulling down hard with your release “in the circle” is critical for accuracy of the pitch 60’6” later. That rotation of your hand while at the same time pulling down to snap the pitch off is much more complicated than just throwing the slider. Short version of throwing the slider is basically the ball comes out of your hand very similarly to the way a football comes out of your hand when you throw it.

 

SP—Earl Harrison—NEVER heard of him….

 

Atta boy Bobby!

 

Always appreciate the expert insight -- is the curve more likely something we might see some game this year (if he's "got the touch" that day), something to look towards in 2026, or something to check out during his trek through MiLB?