Matt Skole Pushes Georgia Tech To Victory In Up And Down Baseball Against georgia
by Winfield Featherston on Mar 23, 2011 8:07 AM EDT
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PrintLast night kind of reminded me of college baseball before the latest bat regulations where every team's at-bat could drastically change the outcome of a game regardless of the scoring difference. After starting the game off in a tug of war of lead-taking (1-0 Jackets, 2-1 dog), the Jackets roared back and scored 8 unanswered runs in 3 consecutive innings. The 9 runs created mass doggie exodus out of Foley Field and led Jacket fans to take over the opposition with familiar cheers.
As the bottom of the 8th inning arrived, georgia took it upon themselves to make it into a game again and scored 4 runs, to make it a game again 9-6. Sudden thoughts of various NCAA Regional Round implosions jumped into my head as I received updates via my kid brother who was attending the game.
Fortunately, the Tech bats didn't go cold when called upon. In fact, they answered with resolve. Matt Skole connected solidly in the top of the 9th inning for a grand slam to put the Jackets up 13-6. Before the end of their last at-bat the Jackets put up two more runs to grab a total of 15 runs and put the dogs back into a deep hole. Georgia couldn't recover and make up the difference. Final Score: Georgia Tech 15 georgie 6.
Matt Skole stole the show last night without a doubt. He racked up 5 hits (5 - 5) and 8 RBI's, including the most important 4 in the 9th inning as a response to georgia's four in the 8th.
Georgia Tech has now won 13 games in a row and improves to 18-4 overall and 6-0 in the ACC. They will continue ACC play this weekend when they head to Coral Gables for a big conference matchup against the Miami Hurricanes, who are the only other unbeaten team in the ACC.
Did you attend the game last night? What are your thoughts?
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TO HELL WITH GEORGIA!!!
GO JACKETS!!!
by TangoHotelWhiskeyGolf on Mar 23, 2011 12:49 PM EDT reply actions
Thoughts
Early on, the back end of our rotation had me worried. Now, CDH has this team rolling and I feel confident that we’ll see yet another classic GT year barring any serious setbacks such as injuries.
During the thirteen game win streak we have averaged 9.15 runs scored and 2.69 runs allowed per game. In the nine games prior to that we averaged 5.67 runs scored and 4.33 runs allowed. During the streak we have scored 9+ runs nine times and held opponents to five or less runs eleven times. Prior to that only once did we score more than eight runs and held opponents to five or less only five times, all of which we won.
Our Sunday and midweek game record was 1-4 and we averaged seven runs allowed. Since then, it is 6-0 and we average 3.5 runs allowed.
It apears that the back end of the rotation has settled down from I can only assume were some early season jitters and that the young hitters are seeing the ball better. Granted, this isn’t against the toughest competition, but it’s still impressive considering the sheer number of freshmen on this squad (17 total, 50% of the 34-man squad) and that of those five are consistenly starting (4 batters, 1 as the fourth man in the pitching rotation) with two more getting significant starter time. That’s 40% of essentially your two deep that is new to the system and new to the college game.
Of course, CDH has always had a nose for talent so maybe on that end this really shouldn’t be a surprise to us. Let’s just hope they continue to get bettr together and are really bombing away by the end of the year when it matters most.
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