There is all kinds of talk about the flat bat being used in college baseball that they need to make a bat next year that puts more ump in a hit ball. Regardless of what bat is being used this year if the ACC wants another year of record breaking crowds North Carolina needs to hang on to a top ten spot and somehow or other the Pack needs to pass a couple and hope nobody behind passes them in the final month of the season.
The talk at the beginning of the season was that NC State was now a baseball school. You know the way WolfPack fans are if they somehow they make the ACC Tournament then there will be that we are getting hot at the right time and will flock to Greensboro. Rodon just might pitch the Tuesday game should Pack make it just because they will need to make the top eight to get three more games.
Carolina is within the top eight but still might have to play the Tuesday play in day. Their problem they have no wiggle room with Florida State and Miami to go in weekend series. They could still fall below 10th. Do you think that even if the Heels make the tournament they are going to flock to Greensboro to watch a team that is floundering. You know in the last ten years the Tar Heels have been almost automatic for Omaha but this team looks as far from Greensboro as Omaha.
I don't think it makes much difference what kind of bat they have if you can't even get a single when you have runners on. Carlos Rodon is 2-5 for the Pack in eight conference starts. He has average over eight innings pitched in each of those games and completed three of the eight.
Benton Moss for Carolina has had more run support but has had just as much trouble for the Heels holding leads. Saturday Moss goes seven innings and had a 5-4 lead when he left but for a change the Heels added to the lead and won 6-4. It makes Benton record at 3-2 on the season.
Carolina is now 12-11 in conference play and it looks as if it will take 14 wins to make top ten and 17 wins to not have to play on Tuesday in the 7-10/ 8/9 games. State is 9-15 and is at this point they can't lose another with any hope of evening making the top ten or watch the playoffs from the beach for the summer.
It would not hurt if both the Pack and Heels get to Greensboro but one thing the ACC can't afford is neither make the tournament.
Sunday, April 27, 2014
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