Charleston Beats NC State 9-6

by Akula Wolf on Jun 4, 2010 10:38 PM EDT

Jake Buchanan didn't have his best stuff tonight and got into trouble immediately. Charleston's leadoff hitter lined an 0-2 pitch into center field and Buchanan plunked the next guy; both came around to score. In the fourth, the Pack blew up in all too typical fashion with a mix of poor pitching and poor defense. A four-spot there put the Cougars up 7-0.

Drew Poulk made things interesting with an eighth-inning grand slam that brought the margin to 8-6, and State had two runners on with one out in the 9th before succumbing.

State will play Stony Brook at 1 PM tomorrow with its life on the line and I think the proper move now is to start Alex Sogard. While he doesn't give us the best chance to win tomorrow, we're already well behind the eight-ball and I think that calls for the high-risk play. Put our weakest starter up against the weakest team we're going to see this weekend, and if it doesn't work out, so be it. We'll need Mazzoni on Sunday if there is to be even the slightest hope of climbing out of the loser's bracket and winning this thing.

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Well, that was short-lived (the hope, I mean)

If there’s one thing I know, it’s that sbas knows more about Pack baseball than me. And his refrain for the past 5 days has been “we can’t win it from the losers’ bracket”… aka, we’re toast now…

Meanwhile, a well-rested unc-ch cruises in their opener. SIGH

by wolfonthehill on Jun 5, 2010 7:37 AM EDT reply actions

also: UNC's radio crew took a nice shot at us

So that’s cool.

And yeah, we’re toast. One quality starter left and four wins to pick up.

Backing The Pack

by Akula Wolf on Jun 5, 2010 12:03 PM EDT up reply actions

l love and support the baseball team,

but i very seriously doubt there is any way State is coming out of the loser’s bracket. too hard of a road now in that State has to win four in a row against very good teams.
while i was surprised Jake didn’t have it, one fear i had was an ACC tournament hangover for the team-which i think the team had. when pitching struggles and hitting is lacking, the infielders press to make plays that might not be there leading to errors-such was the bottom of the fourth inning.
except for Drew’s home run, Kyle, Drew, Andrew and Harold just did not hit last night.
another interesting note is that the Citadel handled Va Tech pretty easily. the Citadel won both the regular season championship and the conference tournament for the Southern Conference baseball. Charleston was second in the regular season. the two top teams in the Southern conference handled two middle of the road teams in the ACC.

by sbas2 on Jun 5, 2010 7:40 AM EDT reply actions