[d4cohn]

I thought we didn't have enough pitching to win it all, and it turned out to be true, but was surprised that our offense sputtered so much.

We didn't have the clutch hit with runners on base as we needed. I'm at peace with going with Mathews as much as we did today. If we were to go down, I wanted to go down with Mathews on the mound.

The runs scored generally inherently goes down as the tourney starts and advances, because a higher percentage of the innings become "high-leverage". So every team is throwing their best arms.

The pitching (specifically the bullpen) is going to have to take massive steps forward for Stanford to once again compete for a national seed and a trip back to Omaha. Three trips to the MCWS in a row should be celebrated and is a great achievement, but it can also be said that there is a lot of room for improvement in the pitching department.

[d4cohn]

I thought we didn't have enough pitching to win it all, and it turned out to be true, but was surprised that our offense sputtered so much.

We didn't have the clutch hit with runners on base as we needed. I'm at peace with going with Mathews as much as we did today. If we were to go down, I wanted to go down with Mathews on the mound.

The runs scored generally inherently goes down as the tourney starts and advances, because a higher percentage of the innings become "high-leverage". So every team is throwing their best arms.

The pitching (specifically the bullpen) is going to have to take massive steps forward for Stanford to once again compete for a national seed and a trip back to Omaha. Three trips to the MCWS in a row should be celebrated and is a great achievement, but it can also be said that there is a lot of room for improvement in the pitching department.