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Wake Baseball

We will certainly be fun to watch. Seems like there will be a lot of high scoring games.
 
9-4 final. Record goes to 4-1. Game 2 tomorrow at 5 PM EST.
 
Baseball team picks up a nice 5-4 win at USC. Game was tied in the ninth and USC had 3 errors in the inning to allow Wake to score the winning run.
 
Great win for the Deacs! 2 out of 3 would be tremendous on the road against a ranked team. Good to see Wake win a grinder as opposed to a slugfest. Nice pen work from Craig and Sellers. Craig went 2 but he appears to ideally be the 8th inning man. Too early to tell.
 
I would imagine that if we win tomorrow to take the series we would get votes. If we then took 4 of 5 against relatively weak competition next weekend we would definitely be Top 25 sitting at 10-2.
 
Pretty bad call on that check swing. Don't think there was a chance he went around.
 
Damn good effort by Deacs. Gave up 6 hits but only got 4. That's a really good loss if there is such a thing.
 
Hate to waste such an outstanding start. Not sure about it being a good loss. Our offense was very pedestrian in this series. Very few opportunities today. Ben B. With a big K with runners on second and third. Big week for the Deacs. Lots of winnable games and more consecutive games than I remember in years past. Good opportunity for bats to wake up.
 
Hate to waste such an outstanding start. Not sure about it being a good loss. Our offense was very pedestrian in this series. Very few opportunities today. Ben B. With a big K with runners on second and third. Big week for the Deacs. Lots of winnable games and more consecutive games than I remember in years past. Good opportunity for bats to wake up.

It was an extremely suspect call on the check swing.
 
Baseball So Far:
Not seeing much different than last year. Probably 7-9 teams in ACC better than USC, IMO. Two wins out there with one being strong or a blowout would have made me more optimistic for the season.

Walter has been saying for 2 years how strong of a batting line-up we possess. Numbers just don't back it up. We average 5.26 runs last year in ACC games. This year, we've failed to really ring up an impressive run total even against non-P5 completion. I understand that baseball has more parity and it's a matter of who would win more in a series to determine the better team. But by comparison, look at some of the offensive output by fellow ACC teams so far: Clemson 19 vs Maine, FSU 19 & 23 vs Rhode Island, GT 13 vs W. Mich., NCSU 13 vs ODU 18 vs VMI (mutual opponent), ND 13 vs Incarnate Word, Pitt 19 vs Niagara, 16,14, & 18 vs Grambling, and UNC 14 vs #9 UCLA on their field (took series 2/3, as well).

After starting the first game with 2 HRs, freshman Aiello has been ineffective, batting only .167. This is not that surprising being a freshman. Breazeale (.174) and Fairchild (.150) are more concerning, especially compared to last season's avg. (Fairchild was well into the .300s IIRC).

Regarding pitching: We gave up a truckload of hits and runs vs USC. In their 9 run win, we gave up 16 hits and they left another 15 on base. Hit total for the series: WF 21, USC 33


Last year our inability to win mid-week games was telling. And look at how we finished our last 6 conference series games:

05/08/15 vs. NC State Winston-Salem, NC L, 19-1
05/09/15 vs. NC State Winston-Salem, N.C. L, 3-2
05/11/15 vs. NC State Winston-Salem, N.C. L, 9-6
05/14/15 at Duke Durham, N.C. W, 3-1
05/15/15 at Duke Durham, N.C. L, 7-0
05/16/15 at Duke Durham, N.C. L, 8-1

Gave up 19 to a mid-range ACC Pack team and lost 2 of 3 to a lower level ACC Duke team. One more Duke win would have put us in the ACC Tourney and we weren't close in the last 2 games.

So, in conclusion, right now I don't expect us to finish any better than 2015. I was hopeful after the VT and Clemson series last year, but the second half of the season was really a disaster.
 
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