Rebel Ramblings

The question of the day, at least as far as I’m concerned, is whether or not the Rebel baseball team can end their hitting woes against Vanderbilt. We’ve seen this team slumping at the plate for the past several weeks and, quite frankly, it’s time for this team to prove that they’re as talented as Mike Bianco has claimed and end that slump today.

I’ve said all along that we’ve looked like we have been trying to play the “Gorilla Ball” of the mid-90’s LSU squads. With the new bats, it seems like the better choice would be to take advantage of our abundant speed on the basepaths and try to manufacture runs whenever possible. Yes, with hitters like Overbeck, Power, and Matt Smith in the lineup, we’re going to try to hit some homeruns. That’s ok with me as long as the other batters in the lineup do their part and hit for contact, get on base, sacrifice runners over, and manufacture some runs.

We know the pitching is solid, now it’s just time for the bats to wake up and help us win some baseball games.