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Wake Baseball 2017-Regional Champs! On to Supers!

Clemson has not made it out of the regionals for the past 7 years (3 of which they have hosted and another 2 in Columbia). Clemson baseball gets a lot of credit for very little in actual accomplishments.
 
State giving this game away like crazy. 7 runs on 5 hits allowed. A 4 and 3 run innings allowed due to walks, errors, hit batters. Not going to get it done
 
Also, this 3rd base ump has missed 5 calls in UKs favor so far on check swings. Unbelievably bad.
 
SC DEAC said:
Clemson has not made it out of the regionals for the past 7 years (3 of which they have hosted and another 2 in Columbia). Clemson baseball gets a lot of credit for very little in actual accomplishments.
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They had some nice runs to Omaha but Kris Benson had crazy girlfriend issues and Khalil Greene literally cut himself under pressure.
 
bluefish said:
Long Beach State's pitching is absurdly good.
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Ya it is. ITs offense is kind of like Wakes, lots of power, can pour on the runs (though not as good) and Long Beach shut them down. It why I'm worried about Wake going forward, solid pitching is usually what carries a team in CWS, not mashing runs
 
Agree with above. Not to be a downer, but our lack of quality starters will be our undoing. Super solid pitching will slow down our offense at some point a couple of times- enough to lose out of the tourney. I just hope that doesn't happen until Omaha.
 
SC DEAC said:
Clemson has not made it out of the regionals for the past 7 years (3 of which they have hosted and another 2 in Columbia). Clemson baseball gets a lot of credit for very little in actual accomplishments.
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Their last big run was 2010 where they were in the drivers seat in Omaha going 2-0 the first 2 games but then running into the South Carolina buzz saw courtesy of a sophomore phenom named Michael Roth.
 
Dunshee's made four starts against top 25 RPI teams this year (Houston in his first start, Louisville, Clemson, Florida State). All four of these have been on the road. In these games he's gone: 23.0 IP, 27 H, 13 R, 20 K, 4 BB. That's a 5.09 ERA.

However, removing his start against Houston, which as mentioned was February 17, his last three starts against top 25 teams (and in this case all top 15 - Clemson at 15, FSU at 9, Louisville at 5) his stats change to 18.0 IP, 18 H, 7 R, 15 K, 4 BB. So that's a 3.50 ERA against three top 15 teams, on the road.

Florida averages 5.6 runs a game, which is almost a run lower than the averages of Clemson, FSU, or Louisville.

Dunshee for seven and Roberts for two is a winning pitching combination for game one for the Deacs. Pitching depth certainly has potential to present an issue for Wake, but only having to take two games and play a max of three creates a totally different scenario than the potential double-elimination ringer we just went through and would potentially face again in the CWS.

Kiss of death for the Deacs, but I don't think this is a bad matchup for Wake.
 
Gets a little dicier with Johnstone, three starts against top 15 teams: 15.0 IP, 21 H, 13 R, 6 K, 8 BB (7.80 ERA). He did throw a complete game three hit shutout against Miami (43rd) though.
 
Buckwild said:
How many runs will Wake have to score in the series to win two games?
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Good question. Figure out how many runs Florida will score in two of their games and add +1 to each of those run totals. Note, run totals must be specific to each game and runs cannot be shared between games.
 
Five runs on Saturday can get it done if Dunshee and Roberts are on. Add a couple for Sunday. 13 or 14 could get it done. They scored 23 and gave up 14 this weekend in four games (plus three extras against South Florida) and none of those four teams are in the top 20.
 
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