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Takeaways from Miami’s reality check against Florida

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The Florida Gators have dominated the Miami Hurricanes in baseball over the past two decades, winning 16 of the last 20 series.

Hurricane fans often looked towards this annual series with utter disdain, but this year had a bit of hope as the Canes came into the series undefeated at 10-0.

That hope was short-lived, as the No. 10 Gators stamped their authority over Miami for the fifth-straight year, securing the series win by taking the opening two games of the series before Sunday’s game...

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I said let’s wait for this series like every other year. And the outcome will tell us where we are. Well we are in the same place like the last several years. Just no good enough…..We went 10-0 against two average teams and a bunch of scrub teams.. they just don’t have the fire power against good pitching throwing 90 plus.
 
Both games were winnable with a little timely hitting. Likely would have helped to have the experience of Galvin and Sheahan instead of depending on true freshmen.
 
Yes we lost it hurts but let’s face it their pitchers for the most part were elite they won’t see much better than that in the entire season. They compete and if is not for some errors and horrendous umpires we might have gone 1-1 in the series. I don’t think for the most part they were tight they were facing some serious heat and everyone knows pitching dominates this game. We are going to be ready for ACC play. We have to better our defense and our pen the offense I think it will be alright. Heads up and GO CANES!!!!
 
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Yes we lost it hurts but let’s face it their pitchers for the most part were elite they won’t see much better than that in the entire season. They compete and if is not for some errors and horrendous umpires we might have gone 1-1 in the series. I don’t think for the most part they were tight they were facing some serious heat and everyone knows pitching dominates this game. We are going to be ready for ACC play. We have to better our defense and our pen the offense I think it will be alright. Heads up and GO CANES!!!!
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Agreed, heads up. Sofl is a hot bed for HS BB, priority is pitching and closers, especially thru the portal. We’re building a good program. But it’s got to be from the foundation up, pitching and hitting. The blueprint is the FB program. Brick by brick, the house stands bc of its bricks. Go Canes🙌🏽
 
Great writing but analysis is off.

Starting pitching for us was pretty good like you said. Relief pitching was subpar like you stated. What I don’t agree with is the hitting. We didn’t hit. Our bats will be silenced all year against top pitching. That’s what top pitching does. We don’t have the arms or the coaching to compete at a high level. The things I noticed while at the games this weekend:

1. Our lineup lacks discipline like always under Dimare/Arteaga. Swinging at pitches we shouldn’t be swinging at, and not ready for pitches we should expect to see coming. Copeland, Watkins, and at times West look overpowered at the plate. Copeland and Watkins aren’t D1 baseball players. It’s upsetting that we trotted them out there against a team full of legit studs. Embarrassing

2. Pitching isn’t there. It will never be there. How much more time do you give a guy to show you who he is? Not only do we not have the body types or the arms, we don’t have an identity or philosophy. Evans gets a guy 0-2 last night and throws him a fat pitch right down the middle for a base hit. How fits that happen? That’s lack of philosophy.

3. Questionable calls made all weekend regarding relief pitchers and pinch hitters. Had Alvarez sitting on the bench while Copeland was out there swimming with the sharks all night. Used Collera too late on Friday and didn't have him for Saturday.

4. Every kid on that Gator team we played seemed to be from either FL, GA, or another southern state. We have guys from NY, MA, and KS on our squad. Nothing against those states, but that’s not where I would be looking for top talent. UF has a lock on FL and that’s a huge problem for us. Tampa is gator territory, and that’s a major problem for us. Between Tampa Jesuit, Berkeley Prep, Calvary Christian, Tampa Catholic, Plant HS, and Durant/Plant City…there is talent in Tampa that we don’t have a **** at right now. That has to change for us to compete.

5. Finally, on the balk…your team has just had the wind knocked out of their sails. We went from a super high, to a super low. At that point, you have to put up a huge fight, get tossed, and hope that energizes your team. Good coaches know how/when to do this. He was a zombie through it all. Embarrassing.

The problems we have are deep. I expect us to win some ACC series, play better down the stretch when we get healthy, and then flop again like we have the past couple decades. We don’t have the talent. It doesn’t take long to see that we aren’t even close. We look more like U.Tampa than we do UF. Embarrassing
 
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Last year we were 16-16 at one point and finished 2 runs from Omaha. I worry this team is actually going to have a better regular season but crap out early post season with hitting too easily silenced by good pitching.
 
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