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Originally Posted by Huckleberry
Texas played terribly in the field the entire CWS. It was as night and day from the rest of the year as the home runs were. LSU definitely deserves the title because they outplayed Texas, but Texas didn't make LSU play their best in order to win due to their own subpar performance in the field.
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What errors really cost Texas? I think the superhuman efforts at the plate far and away canceled out any bad fielding. How many good pitches did Texas foul off at the plate? Almost anytime a LSU pitcher made a bad pitch, and a few times they didn't, Texas jacked it.
Again, I have been watching CWS action since the late 80s, even when LSU wasn't there, and I have never seen a more disciplined group of hitters and pitchers.
If anyone/anything "gave away the series" it was the managerial decision to overplay the bullpen and make too many defensive subs in the first game. If Texas didn't play a good series against LSU, I have never seen a good team against a LSU championship team in Omaha.