Sports Superstitions…gotta love ’em. Once again, this is a quick and dirty special “Don’t f**k with a win streak” edition. Was even gonna change up the block S baseball pic up there, but nah. 😀
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Wolfpack Baseball overcame a somewhat sluggish night at the plate to survive a visit from Davidson tonight by a final score of 4-3.
Unable to get much going offensively for much of the game, the Pack found itself down 3-1 to the Wildcats (12-27, 7-14 SoCon) after six innings. But in the bottom of the 7th, Jake Fincher would come up clutch with a 2 out 2 RBI single to score Jake Armstrong and Trea Turner to knot the score at 3 apiece.
Then in the bottom of the 9th with the score still tied at 3, a Logan Ratledge leadoff single and a Trea Turner walk with one out set the table for Fincher once again. After falling behind 0-2 he would work the count to full, including a wild pitch which moved Ratledge to 3rd.
Getting a pitch he could drive, Fincher lifted it to deep center for the sac fly to push Ratledge home for the game winner.
Trea Turner continued to make opposing batteries sweat, reaching base safely four times (1 for 2, double, 3 BBs, stolen base, 2 runs scored), while Grant Clyde and Jake Armstrong each had multi-hit efforts, each going 2 for 4.
Grant Sasser would pitch a scoreless 9th inning to get the victory, but the entire bullpen came up big for the Pack tonight yielding only a single run on 4 hits (7 Ks, 2 BBs) over the last five innings to allow the bats time to finally awaken late.
With the win State is now 33-10 overall (14-7 ACC).
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No. 6 Wolfpack Walks Off, Extends Winning Streak (GoPack.com) (Video Highlights)
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Carolina invades Raleigh this weekend.
And oh yeah….they lost to UNC-W tonight to snap their win streak at 14. So sad 🙁
State now owns the longest current streak in the nation at 15. I’d consider donating a body part to get that streak up to 18 by Sunday night (while simultaneously stretching Carolina’s losing streak to 4 and tripling their losses for the year…A man can dream, right?).
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