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Game 53: 5/15/25 Notre Dame (7pm)

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At home against another bottom feeder. Saying to expect a big turnaround isn’t going out on a limb really!

Finish strong and maybe they shock us with a positive result in our tourney and then Regional somewhere.
 
CaneDawgCrew said:
At home against another bottom feeder. Saying to expect a big turnaround isn’t going out on a limb really!

Finish strong and maybe they shock us with a positive result in our tourney and then Regional somewhere.
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Notre Dame has been incredibly hot and is playing for their postseason lives. A series win will be huge.
 
IndayArtHauz said:
Notre Dame has been incredibly hot and is playing for their postseason lives. A series win will be huge.
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All series wins are huge.

Playing for your lives may mean less in baseball than any other sport.

Incredibly hot vs Cal and Stanford? Bowling Green? 2 of 3 from a less than mid-table Louisville. They have had a JD’esque job saving schedule also at the end.

We should sweep them. A series win being huge says it all.
 
CaneDawgCrew said:
All series wins are huge.

Playing for your lives may mean less in baseball than any other sport.

Incredibly hot vs Cal and Stanford? Bowling Green? 2 of 3 from a less than mid-table Louisville. They have had a JD’esque job saving schedule also at the end.

We should sweep them. A series win being huge says it all.
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Notre Dame has most certainly been hot.
 
S.CarolinaCane said:
Notre Dame has most certainly been hot.
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Important to note who they are hot against.

We were “HOT” too but then ran into a team mid table with a freakin pulse. On the road too…

Like maybe Notre Dame is doing now?

If we swept sisters of Mary Christian people in here would go nuts and call us hot
 
CaneDawgCrew said:
Important to note who they are hot against.

We were “HOT” too but then ran into a team mid table with a freakin pulse. On the road too…

Like maybe Notre Dame is doing now?

If we swept sisters of Mary Christian people in here would go nuts and call us hot
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Lmao, when most of the country says your team is hot, there's more than smoke.

But we definitely cooled off
 
S.CarolinaCane said:
Lmao, when most of the country says your team is hot, there's more than smoke.

But we definitely cooled off
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No sir. Maybe most of the country thinks as some on here and doesn’t look at teams played during the hot streak. I did.

Some in here pointed to the schedule and said it’s a JD saver. Others said no man we are on fire.

We didn’t cool off it’s who and what we are. 180th give or take in hitting and 50th or worse in pitching. Notre Dame isn’t great so let’s see. Hey we are stuck with him now so I hope we make one heck of a run.
 
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Lumpkin should be moved into a relief role now that midweeks are done.

Smith, Giroux, Fischer, Walters have been up and down. If we need a 4th starter come tournament time then we'll cross that bridge but we need bullpen help.
 
They have taken care of below to mid teams to put themselves in position to make the post season...sounds an awful lot like Miami.

We are mirrors of each other. 1 monster bat that makes them go (Tinney). 3 solid Conference arms. A usually reliable closer. Both teams stats are basically in the same realm from hitting, to pitching, to fielding

So you'd assume this will actually come down to coaching. Making the right moves at the right time, pulling arms at the right time, etc. Which is where they have a big edge. Shawn Stiffler (not from the movies) is legit. He built VCU up into a yearly contender for regionals and he is starting to get ND rolling. I think Miami faced them in 15 or 16' and probably should have beat us game 1.

Hopefully we can score some early runs, get decent starts and take 2/3. (Cuvet staying ridiculously hot would be nice too).
 
HurricanePhilly said:
They have taken care of below to mid teams to put themselves in position to make the post season...sounds an awful lot like Miami.
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Sounds very similar but at the same time - their last 4 weekends they are 11-1 (8-1 in conference) against Cal, Stanford, Louisville, and Bowling Green.

Doesn't really sniff the run Miami went on at 12-2 in 5 weekends (A rainout from probably being 13-2) all in conference against Pitt, Duke, GT, BC, and NCST

Miami did it against 2nd, 3rd, 5th, 13th, and 14th place teams in the conference. ND did it against 16th, 15th, and 9th place teams.

By all means, if we pay attention to who their run is against, hot or not, this should be a sweepable series.
 
Yeah ours is better...I dont think its by as much as some would like to believe.

I expected the top half of the ACC to have a clear separation from the bottom and at this point FSU seems to be the only team that nearly every weekend has gone out and taken care of business vs good/bad/mid. We should win 2. Lets hope we have a little bit of juice left from that hot streak and UVA didnt knock us back to reality.
 
CaneDawgCrew said:
No sir. Maybe most of the country thinks as some on here and doesn’t look at teams played during the hot streak. I did.

Some in here pointed to the schedule and said it’s a JD saver. Others said no man we are on fire.

We didn’t cool off it’s who and what we are. 180th give or take in hitting and 50th or worse in pitching. Notre Dame isn’t great so let’s see. Hey we are stuck with him now so I hope we make one heck of a run.
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Here's to hoping. The freshmen have a lot of pressure and you have to have ice cold veins to maintain as a freshman.

We can be streaky, and our roster is good enough to win against good teams. But I dont think we're good enough to beat good teams in a tournament situation. We just dont have the dogs right now.

And I dont think we'll ever have a roster full of them with JD.
 
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We are realistically looking at 32-22 16-13 in ACC play with a mid to high 20s RPI. Warren Nolan has our rpi increasing by just 1 if we win and falling 5 spots to 33 with a loss.
 
JayCane20 said:
Sounds very similar but at the same time - their last 4 weekends they are 11-1 (8-1 in conference) against Cal, Stanford, Louisville, and Bowling Green.

Doesn't really sniff the run Miami went on at 12-2 in 5 weekends (A rainout from probably being 13-2) all in conference against Pitt, Duke, GT, BC, and NCST

Miami did it against 2nd, 3rd, 5th, 13th, and 14th place teams in the conference. ND did it against 16th, 15th, and 9th place teams.

By all means, if we pay attention to who their run is against, hot or not, this should be a sweepable series.
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Also…outside of Clemson and FSU the ACC is not all that. Liberty can’t beat Sam Houston State but outside of Clemson had their way with the ACC.

Would be nice to make a run like those old Canes teams.
 
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