Baseball faces first real test of the season at UNC

by Winfield Featherston on Mar 26, 2010 12:01 PM EDT

The biggest series of the season is upon us as Georgia Tech heads to Chapel Hill for a 3-game series. This is big because UNC is not an ACC bottom feeder like Wake or Maryland. The Tarheels currently sit at 16-6 on the season and 2-4 in the ACC. They are unranked in the latest Baseball America poll but are ranked as high as 17th in other polls. Tech currently sits atop the Coastal Division in a three-way tie with Virginia and Miami and is ranked in the top-5 in multiple polls.

North Carolina's pitching staff will attempt to hold Tech's offense to a minimum as the Jackets have already hit 40 home runs in 18 games. The Tarheels' pitching staff averages just under 9 strikeouts per game and a 3.65 ERA. We will of course try to start the series off right with Deck McGuire on Friday, our 2010 National Pitcher of the Year candidate, who boasts a 1.15 ERA, a consistent mid-90s fastball and an overall vibe of complete awesomeness. He averages a strikeout an inning and is looking for more K's against the 'Heels.

This weekend will be a battle of North Carolina's pitching vs. Georgia Tech's bats. It will be a grand series and the weekend will tell us what to really expect from our team this year. Go Jackets!

Gametimes:

Friday: 7pm

Saturday: 6pm

Sunday: 1pm

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Ted sucks.

Winfield and Bird have offered you a lovely opportunity and Winfield is stuck doing your job for you with the baseball previews. Tisk Tisk, sir.

by Yellow Jackette on Mar 26, 2010 1:07 PM EDT reply actions

haha

Tedward “working man” 09 makes up excuses. So you’re stuck with my attempt to put together baseball previews. Hey, I love baseball, especially GT baseball but I just don’t have the magic of Ted’s “Danny Hall turns me on” grammatical expressions.

Come back Ted!

FromTheRumbleSeat: Where Georgia Tech and statistics go hand-in-hand.

by Winfield Featherston on Mar 26, 2010 1:12 PM EDT up reply actions

Ted posted already

…it’s just lost in time. Whenever people in CST post, it gets lost in the ether. No telling when/where Ted’s ideas will show up. My bet is Ted will end show up on an East Coast radio show in the next couple days but it’ll be his 70 year old doppelganger. That movie “Time Traveler’s Wife” was based on Ted moving to the Central time zone.

I spun around... and there I was, face-to-face with a six-year old kid. Well, I just threw my guns down and walked away. Little bastard shot me in the ass.

by BirdGT on Mar 26, 2010 1:26 PM EDT reply actions

It’s so true… I freely admit that I suck for not writing one baseball preview. Allison, I give you permission to take my neck at the clemson series.

by Tedward09 on Mar 26, 2010 3:04 PM EDT reply actions

GT wins 2-1

by FuzzyB17 on Mar 26, 2010 11:34 PM EDT via mobile reply actions

Another great victory

Tech won 13-5. It was the first series win versus UNC since 2006. If Tech can pull the sweep, it will be the first time UNC has been swept by an ACC team since 2005 (FSU) and the first time they’ve been swept at home by an ACC team since 2001 (Wake).

Also, game time for tomorrow has been moved to noon. Go Jackets!

by Yellow Jackette on Mar 27, 2010 10:42 PM EDT reply actions

SWEEP

I spun around... and there I was, face-to-face with a six-year old kid. Well, I just threw my guns down and walked away. Little bastard shot me in the ass.

by BirdGT on Mar 28, 2010 3:47 PM EDT up reply actions