OMG: Bub Terrell, Auburn Baseball WALKS OFF West Georgia, INCREDIBLE FINISH

0:00Oh, my goodness, Bob Terrell walks it on! You are Lockdown Auburn, your daily podcast on the Auburn Tigers. Part of the Lockdown Podcast Network, your team every day. Yes, welcome on into Lockdown Auburn, your daily Auburn Tigers podcast. I'm your host, Zach. Thank you so much for hanging out with us tonight. Lindsay Crosby, baseball's Lindsay Crosby of the Barn Auburn with us. Auburn walks it off in dramatic fashion. What was going to be such a disappointing discussion was totally changed by Auburn's approach in the bottom of the knife. We'll talk about everything that led up to it. But Bob Terrell is the guy who walks it off. He's got a big, big watch for fours being a men from second, and that's all she wrote, Lindsay Crosby, what a way to finish this one.

1:00Auburn has never played a normal game in any sport and never will. Um, you mentioned the approach, and I'm so proud of you for noticing this. In the ninth inning, Auburn's just kind of like, hey, we just got to get balls and play. We gotta put balls in play, we need to stress them. And they weren't afraid to go backside. afraid to just like rather than try to pull the ball in the air, which is how you hit for power, it's how you get extra base hits. They said, we just need to kind of slash quick swing, get the ball the opposite way. And you saw West Georgia kind of not be prepared for that. They were, they were shifting heavily all game. They were trying to get over there. Bam, just get it and play, get it and play run the bases. Even Bigam and played first base today. And he scores from second on a single. The ball was released right after he turned around third. Like he was close to the third base bag when that ball came out of the hands. And he was safe because the throw was high. Well, he hit third. Yeah,

2:03when he hit third, Lindsey, I'm like, okay, hold off, hold off. They said, okay, we're doing this. We're doing this. And I actually didn't think he was safe the first time that the replay he, he clearly, clearly was. So that is a college send that is the higher that you go, the less likely you are to send the guy in that scenario. There was not a single pro team in baseball that sends him there. But in college, like the odds are that throw is going to be off, especially when you've got a lower conference opponent, you can take the risk. They took the risk. The first base been busted his tail. And hey, writing this to see first one of the year of the week apparently makes you run faster. Yeah, I mean, he might be on base again again. We'll see. We'll see as far as, I mean, I mean, it's just crazy. What one happened and can do to like how you talk about this, this game and maybe even arguably how you feel about this team. But I mean, even, I guess it was, I guess it

3:07was two at bats before Bob Tarell came to the plate. But Eric Guevara, I mean, that was like the long, I assume that was the longest at bat of the game. I mean, it was just a two to count for like so many pitches eventually grounds out, but does advance, you know, does advance being them into second there. And he had, he had just missed his own backside single like one or two foul balls before he missed it by like inches and ended up just being a little bit in front of it. They took a little bit off. I think it was a change up that he ground out on because he was a little ahead of it. So it just ended up getting it short. I can't believe after that that didn't pull their reliever. I can't, I can't believe they didn't change their pitching out. You see this a little bit in these type of midweek games against an opponent. I'm not going to call them over match because they absolutely held their own against Auburn. But you see this every time. This game, winning this game is like the highlight of their season. If they super ball. Yeah. Yeah. They, they go with the guy, when the pitching change happened, I'm sorry, nothing pitching change,

4:11the mound visit happened in the night. And the pitching coach was walking up there with some speed. I was like, okay, yeah, no, they're not pulling. This is a pep talk. They want him to finish this. Typically, that happens because they didn't trust anybody else. He was their best bet. They were saving him for a lead. They had a lead. They wanted a two inning save. And he was not able to deliver. No, three runs, the mid 30 walks. Yeah, he got to the mid 30s on his pitch count. And we just make you contact that for contact, that for contact and eventually got the ones that we needed. So in some of that was the approach change, just trying to not do too much. Just going for putting the ball in play again, a while to there that that set things up. I mean, there's a lot for them a lot for us down the stretch there. Yeah. And and that's that's a bunch of Thompson team. We saw this a little bit of a different way against Florida State, right? Like you they got down early and they just kept chipping away, kept chipping away, kept chipping away. This game, you score four runs, three of them come in the final two innings. I do want to give kind of

5:14special credit, tied Thompson. I don't I think I'm allowed to say this. He might be the fastest white kid on campus. Like they think I don't know if you could say that or not. I'm going to be honest with him. Cool. They put a different chase Freilich and shout out to friend of the show Sony DeShara. My partner on the bar baseball show. They put tie Thompson in motion on Guevara's ground out to shortstop. And so because of that, there's not a game ending double play right there. Right. It's all of the little things Auburn handled this final inning two innings as well as they possibly could have the only thing I think you could quibble about. You could be a little frustrated about is I believe it was Brandon is it was Mason McRain who had the the RBI the RBI in the in the eighth. And he probably should not have tried to go to second base when he stumbled coming around first. Yeah. You should have put on the brakes on and come back. But he

6:16tried to make it second and got thrown out the run still counted. But absolutely like that's probably the only quibble you have with the final two innings and how that went. But lots of issues about what happened earlier in the game. Just some poor approaches and some some going for the big swing and not just trying to not just trying to to get the ball in play and make make West Georgia beat themselves. Yeah. Now and we'll get to the discussion and like it should have never gotten to that point. Yeah. In a second. But let's let's give some love to our guy. Brad Law. All the call I'm so glad they put just put his call on the TV broadcast. What a moment for him. I mean, electric factory. I mean, that dude power. I got power plant. God. The MVP of this game. Shout out to the obinator in the chat for calling it that Brad Law MVP of this game. I always love getting to hear Brad's baseball. I I embarrass him with this like once every other week on the bar and baseball show.

7:19He's I I am a baseball on the radio connoisseur. And I think Brad Law is one of the best that I've heard do a baseball game on the radio. He's a legend. He just killed it tonight. That final call, the energy electricity. He knew when to lay out kind of at the end there. It's a little bit of a different feeling with the review. Like they're celebrating center of field and Gabe's trying to call them back to the dugout because there's a review and all that. But uh, but no, like he, you know, getting ripped back up after that. I really just kind of love what what Brad did with that. And I'm glad we got the national audience of everybody doing stuff. Um, yeah, that that'll be electric. That'll be electric. That'll be used all week and stuff. And I am, uh, I'm here for every bit of that. I'm gonna ask him about that on tomorrow's village vice as well. So that'll be fun. Yeah, that'll be fun. So we we shouldn't have gotten into that situation at all. And I think there's a few different angles to tackle this. I think some are good and some are bad. And maybe some are

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10:21would have, you know, been a threat to go to a run ruling. Clearly it was not. I guess the big question here is, okay, what's up with Auburn's bats in these midweeks? We can't just say it's, oh, well, Cincinnati, maybe they're better than we thought. That last midweek, I was embarrassing eight to nothing. This would have been embarrassing if it was not for, you know, at the bottom of the night. It would have been dreadful. You and I were talking hypotheticals of like, how bad would this be? We've been pretty bad. Yeah, we could stop having those hypothetical conversations. But is it a hitting at home thing? Is it just a midweek mindset thing, Lindsay? I mean, a lot of the top ranked teams in baseball this week lost in midweeks. I was looking up. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So is it, is it just the nature of that? Or like, what do you think it is? How do we get to this point where we needed a dramatic bottom of the ninth to win this thing? The good news is when you look at RPI late in the year, nobody's going to know this was

11:24still the ninth. I mean, come back. I do think there's a situation here. And I'm not just upfront. I'm not making excuses for Auburn baseball. I'm just kind of explaining the mindset of some of these kids. I think some of this is you're in a stretch of a lot of really good teams. You had Cincinnati who obviously beat you. You have the tournament in Arlington, which you swept. You played some really good teams there. One, you have Nebraska coming this weekend. And I think some of it is maybe maybe a little looking too far ahead or underestimating your opponent combined with the fact that baseball is not the same as basketball and football as far as it's small sample, it's fluky, all of that good stuff. But I do think to some of this is just Auburn guys trying to do a little too much. And I think you nailed it at the very beginning when you talked about the approach change in the ninth inning. Because a lot of what these guys were

12:27doing was there's a ton of compliments for me. I could throw up on the screen. I'm not doing it right now. Okay. You got to call it a special potato. I did get called a special potato and talked about me and Brad doing a game together. A lot of these swings early in the game were guys going for the fences, right? I think Bubb had three fly outs to the corner out. Two of them, he was just trying to lift and pull the ball for a homer. And then he had one. I think he went at the right. But I think a lot of swinging for the fences. I'm just going to take care of this right here. I should be able to take advantage of this pitcher. I will say when you're in a stretch of really good teams and you faced a team like this that is somewhat pitching a little bit lower velocity, a little bit less stuff. It's not as easy as you would think it is to go from facing mid 90s to facing high 80s and then go back to it. So there is a little bit of that. But this is mostly our own guys and I guarantee you butch right now in that press conference

13:31is saying he didn't love the approaches tonight. He didn't love these guys trying to do too much and he's glad they remembered late in the game that they're at bats belong to Auburn not to themselves. And they've got to do their jobs. Get the ball in play. Pass the baton thing. He'd loves to say get the runners over. Get him in. Right. Right. And you saw that pretty much to perfection in the ninth. You did not see that in any of the other innings. No, no. And I think that was just they were thinking, Hey, this dude's throwing high 80s. I can take advantage of him and know you couldn't. Right. Yeah. And I mean, some of it is like the guys that you had in the plate and the ninth is exactly what you wanted. I mean, top of the order, we were talking about that when we were watching it together going into it's like, well, this is what you want. This is what you want going into a walkoff situation. I guess it's what have been like the fourth time through

14:34the order. Like thankfully, you know, they got it done at the time. West George did a lot of stuff right in this game going to different pictures to try to like give them different looks every time through West Georgia had nine hits in this game. I believe I counted six of them came with two outs. I remember butch telling me a little while back, the most dangerous situation for a college pitcher is nobody on in two outs because there's the very there's a very strong natural reaction to just kind of breathe a little bit and relax and you can't let your guard them. I think you saw that tonight. There was a couple of these actually where it was two outs and two strikes and they just couldn't put them away. I want to say both of the home runs. I know we're two out home runs. I think one of them at least may have been a two out and two strike home run. And that's just going to be that that's just that's just really tough. But yeah, timing was off. They were trying to do a little too much with those swings. It just didn't really work out there.

15:36Yeah. Is this is is this me wearing our blue glasses, Lindsey, that we learn more about this team. This team grows more from this game with the Bob Terrell walkoff being in that situation late versus winning this game seven to two. Like a lot of us would have predicted. Do they possibly get more out of this rep this game early in the season, winning it this way? Knowing Gabe Gross, like I like to think that I do, I'm going to say yes simply because I know Gabe wasn't telling them to go out and crank bombs. Like it's not as not what he's going to do and out there. And being able to go back and look at the approaches in their first couple at bats and then the last at bat and say like, Hey, when you start doing the things we told you to do, you see how you scored these runs late and we won this game. So I do think it helps from

16:36that perspective. And then kind of like in the Florida State game, you got down four nothing early and then you rallied. I think Jackson said you're sitting on another hit to the fifth inning. You started chipping away at all of that. I do think it also helps with the confidence of knowing that like, Hey, there's no situation so far this year, really other than Cincinnati that we've not been able to dig ourselves out of the hole that we put ourselves in. Correct. Do you think that helps a bit, especially for some of the young players you have in the lineup, Ethan Binghamen, obviously going to be big for him. He like I say, dude, man, I mean, two home runs on Sunday. He scores from second to for the winning run. Again, as a first baseman, he could play multiple positions, but still like this team's not a finished product. I think they left 10 runners on base, nine or 10 runners on base. You know, a lot of just poor approaches kind of when it mattered, but they figured it out. I do think this helps. I do think you learn a lot. And these are the kind of games where again, it ended the season. We're not going to remember this was a one run,

17:40ninth inning come back. We're just going to remember, but they're going to remember the lessons they learned from it. And I think that's a big deal. Yeah. The walkoff is the friends we made along the way. Yes. I think is what they say. Yes. What a moment for Bob, too. I mean, that's just great. He's more often it's going into this weekend. I'm 100% okay with that. He's had some struggles a little bit early. He's been pretty good this season, but he's had some struggles this game. He was over four going into that final inning. I think the big thing to think about too, that's all a couple questions in the chat. I was trying to get to it eventually. You're doing all of this without some of your best players, right? You're doing this without Chris Rimmer. The initial time frame the program gave us that day of the double header is they were shooting for SEC play. We talked on here about if you have to miss Missouri. It's on a big deal because it's Missouri's Missouri. I've heard a little bit of whispers. They think they may be able

18:40to get him back earlier. They don't know that's not confirmed or anything, but they think Eddie Madrigal, who's been playing first base or would have been he's dressing out. He's doing some work. They think they might be able to get him back a little bit earlier. You don't have Griffin Graves, who they thought going into the year was going to be their best pitcher, not because of the eliteration, but just because of his stuff and his ability to throw strikes. You haven't had him the first couple of weeks. You've got a little bit more that you can do here. You're holding serve without these guys. If you add these guys in, combine with who stepped up, Brandon McCrain has shown he, we talked about this last week, he's got to be in the line up somewhere when Chris Rimmer comes back. Ethan Binghamin looks like he needs to be in the lineup. You feel good. You feel good about the future of this team and where they can go. There is a question in the chat. Is Eddie related to Nick? Eddie Madrigal is the cousin of current big leader, Nick Madrigal. Yes,

19:43he has this cousin. They're not siblings, but they're cousins. So kind of the same genes. Yes, similar. They have, they have, they do share some genes. And then the question about what happened to Griffin Graves, he has an oblique issue, I think. And there was a question whether or not they would be able to have him for this weekend, but they believe in worst case scenario he's back by a CC play. So oblique is a big deal. A lot of twists, especially for a pitcher, especially for a pitcher. It's a hit. Yeah, pretty important to play in the sport of baseball. So that's right. Got to be able to twist. So all in all, I mean, not the prettiest game. I don't think anybody's going to shy away from that. But yeah, you'd rather have the bottom of the knife that you had than not. Three errors by West Georgia. You'll absolutely take that. They had three errors late in the game. You'll take that too. Yeah. And I think I saw that for the top five teams lost mid weeks

20:46this week. So like, just take it. Just take the win because not everybody of the other folks did not do this. Yeah. So LSU lost to, I think it was McNeese state. Like you had you had multiple losses that arguably should not have been losses. Teams that we wouldn't really close up real quick. But I say I was looking at the list earlier, it was Troy, Troy beat Georgia. They're ranked 11 and that's after somebody from Troy got ejected during the game. Four. It's very dark and so we'd Arkansas state by one. I'm looking at Tuesday real quick and we'll put a bow on this one. I was about to say a lot of Arkansas state beat Arkansas yesterday. So they played two games. Yeah, they make me speak LSU as we mentioned. San Diego state beat the top ranked team in the country, UCLA. So it wasn't pretty. Arizona state beat 13th ranked Oklahoma.

21:49Like Alabama. Yep. Southern Miss beat Alabama. That's right. That's right. So can you imagine losing your week? Not me. It's still fun at the point. I just I knew I was going to put that out. Come on. We all do. We're going to put that out. Yep. So whatever, whatever, we'll take it. Congratulations. Oh, Georgia state beat Georgia tech. Oh, there we go. Nine to four. There we go. So like we can all, you know, say it wasn't pretty. It's like, but I mean, most of the teams in the top like they lost these games. So Auburn did Auburn lose these games? No, because Bob Tarell walked it off, baby. Let's go. There you go. Let's go. Lindsey Crosby. How can people check out everything you've got going on? I'm on social media at Crosby baseball. The Auburn baseball stuff. Obviously, here after every game, as well as the bar and Auburn dot com. The bar and baseball show. We have another show coming down on Friday, me and Brad Law. We're going to talk about his call. And then we'll talk about Nebraska over the weekend. And then you'll let it braves content.

22:52Braves today dot com. We've been going hard on that in the last couple of days with the announcement of Braves vision and the Chris sale extension. All right. Auburn walks it off. They win four to three against West Georgia. Lindsey and I will be live after the Friday Nebraska game and after the Sunday, Nebraska game Saturday is too close to basketball. So I'll just go live with Darrell after the basketball game Saturday night. Once again, Auburn wins four to three. Please like the video. Please subscribe. We'll see you next time. This has been locked on Auburn.