Welcome in, everyone, to another edition of Pump It Up, a Kentucky baseball podcast, and there's a lot to get into today.

Adam Luckett coming here with Derek Terry, as always.

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Derek, last time we met here, it was, you know, Kentucky was coming off a couple one and twos, but it's on the road.

You know, we were talking a lot about the pitching in the bullpen and all that.

And then we meet less than a week later.

It's another one and two, but this time it's probably the worst one and two you could have in the league at home.

That insult to injury.

And the team got turned up on its head a little bit to me with the pitching actually kind of holding up its end of the deal,

but the offense, really kind of the offense in the shadows

has just been kind of a looming kind of problem for them.

And I think we saw that kind of play out over the weekend

at Kentucky Proud Park in a tough series loss for Kentucky to Missouri.

Yeah, I got to say in any kind of preseason projections that I was doing or even here

recently, a series loss in this spot was not something I'd really considered.

So it was a surprise, a fairly big surprise.

Missouri was one and eight coming into this weekend.

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