We are a week into the high school baseball season and pitching is the talk of the baseball world. Rocky Mount has played once and got a pitching shutout. During that seven inning outing only one walk and two hits were given up and yet it took 97 pitches 64 from Ben Seracki and 33 by David Harrison.
Nash Central opened their season against Smithfield Selma winning 7-4. Bulldog veteran Zach Patterson threw 79 pitches. Cameron Taylor tossed 9 and Trey Whitley tossed 35. 123 pitches total. It is obvious from the early results that pitch counts are going to have a bigger say in who wins high school baseball than ever before.
Rocky Mount plays at South Johnston today at 1pm. Monday they are at Corinth Holders. Then Wednesday they are home against Bunn. Three games in five days. In a game where there wasn't any stress opening day they still threw almost 100 pitches. What's going to happen if they throw 125 pitches in all Three games next week. Looks like they could need six pitchers to get by.
The big question for Rocky Mount or any other team that plays three games in week where are they going to find six pitchers?
The first week of the baseball season has been a good one for Southern Nash. Last night they bested East Wake 8-7 to start the season 3-0. Earlier in the week they knocked off Princton12-2 and whipped SouthWest Edgecombe 11-0.
Nash Central has started 2-1 after falling to Rose Friday 9-2. They won twice earlier in the week 7-4 over Smithfield Selma and 11-1 over Tarboro.
The team suffering the most this first week is Northern Nash. Last night they suffered their third loss of the week to C B Aycock 7-1. Earlier they fell to Roanoke Rapids 14-2 and Bunn 3-2. They have given up 24 runs in their first three games.
Rocky Mount starts their first stretch of three games in a week. By Wednesday we will have some idea of how much pitching they have.
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