Jackets win 10-9; Pack needs a miracle to advance

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The Pack lost a heartbreaker today. They were up 7-2 after the seventh inning, but the Yellow Jackets scored eight runs the rest of the way to win the 1st game of this year’s ACC tournament 10-9. The Pack did score two runs in the eight inning to retake the lead 9-8, but State’s shortstop was thrown out at home in a collision with the catcher. On the play, the umpire ejected shortstop Tommy Foschi due to a crazy rule in college baseball that protects fielders who make a choice to block the path of the runner.

That ejection led to NC State putting in a new 2nd baseman (Russell Wilson) and moving the starter at second base over to shortstop for the top of the ninth inning. To start the inning, errors were made by the first baseman, the second baseman and the shortstop consecutively which led to Georgia Tech’s decisive two runs in the inning.

While NC State should have won the game even with the questionable judgment by the umpire, this call certainly didn’t help us defensively in the pivotal 9th inning.

Updated

Miami beat Clemson today 8-1. For the Pack to advance, Miami must beat GT, NC State must win its last two games and Clemson must beat GT on Friday.

Scenario to advance:

Pack 2-1 (beats Miami and Clemson, loses to GT)
Miami 2-1(beats GT and Clemson, loses to NC State)
Tech 1-2 (beats Pack, loses to Clemson and Miami)
Clemson 1-2 (beats GT, loses to Pack and Miami)

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Morning writeup

State opens the ACC tournament at 10am (hope the boys had their coffee) against Georgia Tech. This will be the one and only meeting of the season against GT, so this is a critical game for both teams as they aspire to host an NCAA regional. I would say State is in a “power bracket” in the ACC tournament, but there are top 10 RPI teams all over the place, and Wake Forest is the only team in the Round-Robin event that has virtually no shot at the NCAAs. It will be interesting to see how much emphasis Avent places on this game– does he play for 1 win, or play for the bracket. Surkamp is likely to take the ball in game 1– he is coming off a stellar pitching performance against Florida State in a 12-2 Thursday victory. The offense needs to get back to swinging the bats; after the 12 run outburst against FSU they were stifled by FSU pitching in the last two games.

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72 Responses to Jackets win 10-9; Pack needs a miracle to advance

  1. Dr. BadgerPack 05/21/2008 at 11:37 AM #

    “F”ing A… Ferguson and Foschi have combined for 6 of 11 state hits so far today…

  2. Dogbreath 05/21/2008 at 11:50 AM #

    Foschi reminds me of Jeff Blauser.

  3. SaccoV 05/21/2008 at 11:55 AM #

    Walking in runs isn’t cool. Keep up the lead Pack!!!

  4. wufpaxno1 05/21/2008 at 11:58 AM #

    Top of 8th, Bases loaded with Jackets and Taylor walks one across. Joey Cuttler is now on the mound. Bases still loaded, 7-4 Pack.

  5. wufpaxno1 05/21/2008 at 12:01 PM #

    Cuttler strikes out GT catcher, one down, bases still loaded. He now faces GT’s lead off man and top hitter, Blackman. We need a double play ball here.

  6. wufpaxno1 05/21/2008 at 12:02 PM #

    Blackman jacks out a single and drives in 2 runs. 7-6 Pack with Jackets on the corners and only one out.

  7. wufpaxno1 05/21/2008 at 12:03 PM #

    Another base hit, score tied 7-7, one out and runners on the corners.

  8. ruffles31 05/21/2008 at 12:06 PM #

    Come on PACK! We need to get some outs and then score some runs. Thanks for all the updates.

  9. kyjelly 05/21/2008 at 12:06 PM #

    god almighty

  10. wufpaxno1 05/21/2008 at 12:07 PM #

    Another base hit, 8-7 Tech, one out, and runners on first and second. The damn has broken and we need some help to stop the free flow of runs.

  11. packfan4ever 05/21/2008 at 12:10 PM #

    Completely fell apart.

  12. Dr. BadgerPack 05/21/2008 at 12:10 PM #

    Why Drew Taylor came in to pitch is beyond me… You don’t save arms in a friggin’ tournament.

  13. wufpaxno1 05/21/2008 at 12:11 PM #

    Catcher drops the ball on the third strike, the batter makes it to first safely and the runners advance. Bases loaded again on what should have been the third out.

  14. Dr. BadgerPack 05/21/2008 at 12:11 PM #

    Not only a bases loaded walk, but they walked a guy that couldn’t hit water if he fell out of a friggin’ boat.

  15. PackerInRussia 05/21/2008 at 12:13 PM #

    Please tell me that my computer is malfunctioning and that they didn’t just give up a 4 run lead in one inning.

  16. wufpaxno1 05/21/2008 at 12:17 PM #

    P-N-R, Yep they gave up 5 runs in the top of the eight. We do have two on and nobody out in our half of the eight, maybe we can get it back.

  17. catchme16 05/21/2008 at 12:21 PM #

    I would like to know why avent just pinch hit a guy who hadn’t swung a bat all day over the guy who had an RBI double his last at bat…..retarted…….and yes the batter struck out

  18. wufpaxno1 05/21/2008 at 12:25 PM #

    Nick Stanley just drove in two, Foschi plows into the catcher trying to score from first but is called out, inning over, 9-8 Pack!!! And we go to the nineth. What a game!

  19. catchme16 05/21/2008 at 12:26 PM #

    and how could they eject foschi for that I was a catcher and if you ask me that was a clean play

  20. wufpaxno1 05/21/2008 at 12:28 PM #

    Foschi was ejected for running into the catcher, which you can not do in touch football or NCAA baseball.

  21. catchme16 05/21/2008 at 12:28 PM #

    and showing the replay the pitcher instigated the little fight by saying something to foschi so that ejection is total BS

  22. PackerInRussia 05/21/2008 at 12:29 PM #

    Whew (wiping sweat from brow)! 3 outs to go!

  23. wufpaxno1 05/21/2008 at 12:34 PM #

    Pat Fergason makes a fielding error, followed by a fielding error by Russell Wilson, followed by a fielding error by Dallas Polk, two runs in, no outs. Tech 10 State 9. We are really trying hard to give this game away.

  24. PackerInRussia 05/21/2008 at 12:43 PM #

    sweat back on brow

  25. wufpaxno1 05/21/2008 at 12:45 PM #

    Bottom of the nineth and its the Killer “P”s in order for the Pack. Polk, Pond, and Paine. Polk grounds out.

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