Flames and Faith

Win or lose on the field, the mission is always the true victory. I remember Chadwell getting made fun of for wearing this shirt in a blowout. They missed the entire message. It wasn’t that Liberty would win because we have Jesus. Liberty gives glory to God even in defeat.

Last year Liberty started out 17-6 and life was good. But right around this time they fell off. Sucks when you have starters like Blair & Zayac but when you have a bullpen like this and an offense that is very streaky, this is what happens. Liberty is 3-5 their last 8 games 😬

After another hot start to the season, Liberty is just 3-3 in CUSA. Very easily could be 5-1 but Josh Swink has blown 2 CUSA games late. Season would feel much different if he just does his job. Instead, it’s feeling like a repeat of 2025. The bullpen outside of August is brutal.

@John_6__47 Meh, he pitched 4 innings vs putrid Harvard that helped his stats a lot. But in games that matter: he’s blown 2 conference games already. Blew it vs Missouri St and again today. Ask yourself why LeCroy had to pitch an exhausted August again.

@FlamesAndFaith Coming in to this game: 3.09 ERA, 3.41 SIERA, 15K/6BB

Here we go with Josh Swink again. Of course if it’s not Blair, Zayac, or August, you have no idea what you’re getting out of the rest of these pitchers.

@John_6__47 3 hits, 2 walks, and 2 runs in 1.2 innings is just your average Swink line. Blame bad luck all you want but this is what he does.

@FlamesAndFaith Blaming Swink here is ridiculous.

Landon Scilley has some pop in his bat. Opposite field power. He hits so many balls to right that look like routine pop ups that end up by or beyond the fence.

Wasn’t a coincidence we played our best game of the year when Metheny was out. Him and Porter have killed the Flames the last few weeks. When he gets super hot from 3 he can win you a game. But he’s a total liability everywhere on the court when he’s not red hot.

I understand they’re trying to get the right on right matchup. But Campos has been the clutchest hitter for the Flames all year and just hit a huge HR last night against them.

Intentionally walking someone to pitch to Josh Campos is a choice. An absolutely insane choice. But a choice, nonetheless.

Josh Campos is so clutch.

Love the fight the offense showed tonight. But it’s such a shame to score 12 off a top 10 team and not win. The pitching for Liberty baseball has officially reached nightmare level. Keller Bradford: what do you even do, bro? Absolutely zero development is happening.

Pretty cool that Liberty vs George Mason kicks off all postseason basketball this year. Tuesday at 6 PM on ESPN 2. Very first NIT or NCAA Tournament game 👀

Liberty NASCAR driver @WilliamByron brings home a third-place finish at Las Vegas Motor Speedway!

@LibertyBaseball Time for a new coach if we finish like we did last year. Second straight year where we fell apart vs conference games. Putting way too many resources into this program for us to have the worst pitching staff in the conference.

last game of the series tomorrow Final score presented by: abichfinancial.com

Looking back, that CUSA preseason poll that didn’t put us high was probably too generous. Wouldn’t surprise me if Liberty baseball finished near last. It’s the same exact thing as last year when we looked great for the first month before real baseball started. Pitching is a joke.

Liberty built an entire new pitching lab and the pitching got worse. It’s absolutely disastrous how bad the pitching is on this team. And we just started conference play. It’s gonna be a LONG season, folks.

Please never put Aydan Decker-Petty in a close game again. He’s terrible.

Also, not gonna lie, Missouri State absolutely owns Liberty so far. Football, basketball, & baseball. Clearly better, which is a problem when this is their first year in our conference and have 1/3 the amount of resources as us. Props to them, they use their resources way better.

Especially with the wind like it is, make the defense make a play. Don’t give them a free out. Bunting rarely works. There’s just so much less pressure on the pitcher when he has 1 out compared to 0 with a man on. And again, you took the bat out of your best hitter’s hands!?

Absolutely hate that our coach is so obsessed with bunting. You get a leadoff walk and all the sudden all the pressure is back on MOST. But then you immediately give them a free out & it takes the bat out of Tanner Marsh’s hands with 1st base open. Putrid.