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Wolfpack Baseball hits the road to Winston-Salem this weekend to take on the Demon Deacons of Wake Forest (26-21, 11-13 ACC). The Pack9 made the most
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Need to win at least 2 of 3 this weekend and then just don’t get swept by Louisville to have a good shot at making the NCAA. But forget that, let’s try to go no worse than 4-2 over the last 6 games. They are playing well lately. In the last few games, they have done better at manufacturing runs. I saw some good sacrifices against Longwood and Campbell. That will be needed throughout the duration of the year. It was good to beat Campbell (heck anyone) in a no doubt no sweat type of game. Haven’t had that in a while.
Good luck to the ladies as well.
Wufpacker, not sure if you saw this but I was watching 60 Minutes Sports on Showtime the other night and they had on a clip about the Cape Cod League. In it, one of the main players interviewed was Jake Fincher. Cool stuff.
Very cool indeed, ruffles. I always thought that when I eventually do my weeks/month(s) long road trip taking in as many MLB and MiLB parks as possible, complete with the Winnebago and such of course, catching a few Cape Cod games would be a fun sidetrip as well, mostly because of the atmosphere I’d been told about at those games.
Looks very fun.
Incidentally, the Ladies took an early 3-0 lead today vs FSU in the semis, but ultimately they couldn’t make it stand up as the top seeded ‘Noles exploded in the late innings to make the difference in an 11-4 final.
They’ll now await their NCAAT draw.
Pack sends 17 to the plate in the 7th, 13 of them score…including four on this Preston Palmeiro grand slam…
Pack up 16-1 at the stretch in W-S.
When there was:
The Alaskan Panhandle League
The Cape Cod League
…And the REAL Shenandoah Valley League…
That was where you saw the best night in and night out. Three leagues, 30 some towns.
Curses to the watered down versions all over the map.
A somewhat different animal, but I’m going to miss the AZ Fall League again this year. Always enjoyed it more than spring training.
I forgot to mention that overshadowed by the Pack’s offensive outburst tonight, freshman starter Brian Brown had a stellar-ish outing tonight going 6 innings, giving up 1 run on 4 hits, K’ing 6 and walking only 1…upping his record to 5-3 and dropping his ERA to 2.03. Kid’s gonna be a gamer. Orwig finished things out with 3 scoreless innings.
Palmeiro had 2 additional RBI’s aside from the grand slam btw, upping his total on the yr to 47. He also scored 3 times. The grand slam was his 7th HR of the year. Riley and Shepard the elder both had 4 RBI’s on 3 hit nights.
The only starters to not hit safely tonight were Ratledge and Dunand, but both reached twice on BB’s, and Rat reached a 3rd time when he got plunked.
Would have been a fun away game to go to, and I almost did. Still considering going tomorrow, but am a tad worried the baseball gods will decide to level the karma tomorrow.
As an aside, Fincher had an RBI on a bases loaded squeeze turned bunt single. Cool as shit. 🙂
If you win Game 1 by 18, the losing team should have to forfeit the remainder of the series. A slaughter rule of sorts.
PIR, are you proposing just totaling up the runs from the series and let that be who wins the series. I like that thought process!
Smarter than the average bear
The Wolpfack thing to do would be to lose at least one of the last two games 2-1 or 3-2 now. Perhaps even both.
Clutch (although they tried to make it interesting with two plunked batters in a row). Based on stats, looks like Britt had a solid game, to: 7IP 5H 2R 1ER 6SO 1BB. Good stuff. And in a show of consistency, all three pitchers hit a batter.
BJD called the 1 run game, fortunately the good guys were on the right side of it. 8Th straight win, ACC record back above .500 (13-12).
Pack goes for the road sweep Monday in primetime if Ana says it’s OK.
When there was:
The Alaskan Panhandle League
The Cape Cod League
…And the REAL Shenandoah Valley League…
That was where you saw the best night in and night out.
Back in the day… The Carolina League saw as many future major leaguers as these, I suspect…
As a kid growing up in the Sock Capital of the World, we rode our bikes to old Fairchild Park where the “Indians” played the “Yankees” and the others…
And North Carolina “baseball historians” will attest that in the 1940s there were as many as 50-60 semipro teams located around the Old North State …
Back before Basketball became King …
#NCSU-North Carolina's #1 FOOTBALL school!^ Pack has the #5 seed currently. A win tomorrow and we keep sole possession of it (1/2 game back of ND for #4), a loss and we drop into a 3 way tie with Clemson and Carolina for 5th. 4th and 5th are essentially interchangeable and we’re not likely catching the top 3 (mathematically, we could theoretically overtake FSU for #3 if we win tomorrow and sweep ‘Ville, and FSU gets swept at home by Clemson and BC sweeps ND…so yeah, unlikely).
With the pool format of the tourney, you take your chances either way facing ‘Ville, or both FSU and Miami. The biggest thing continuing to win does is up the RPI and give us the best shot at not falling past #6 and avoiding the play-ins.
So with ‘Ville coming into town next weekend, winning tomorrow is important.
A win tonight is very important-looks like we would have a head-to-head tie-breaker for final ACCT seeding over Wake, UVA, and Clemson and lose out to ND (who broomed the Cheats, LOL) and the Cheats. Don’t know about GT and VT-Go Pack!
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