Opening Weekend: Minnesota / Bradley / UConn

[THWG]

Radcliff must have had a really good spring to get the starting nod as well as batting 5th.

I really like the influx of lefties this year. We have been missing that dimension of the lineup over the past couple of years.

 

[FredJacket]

My over/under for runs this weekend is 27.5.
...I'm into my 2nd cold brew, though.

 

[Stinger90]

 

[Deleted member 2897]

Well the good news is Minnesota only has 1 hit so far. The bad news is that it was the 2nd batter, and it was a home run.

 

[tatertot1]

A bloop hit by Radcliff he's going to be good for us first hit as a Jacket! Let's go Jackets let's get some runs

 

[GTNavyNuke]

DP. Nice. BUT Curry pitch count 33 after 2 and two walks.

Love English at first.

Like Kel with 8 pitch at bat to tie game. If he has discipline all year it'll be great.

 

[FredJacket]

If you guys are watching on the stream... Radcliffe is HUGE. When he helped Wilhite up in right center after that good running catch by Wilhite... reminded me of Big Ennis & Little Ennis. ... Smokey & the Bandit reference... sorry.

 

[FightWinDrink]

GT 3-2 Minnesota Final

 

[THWG]

The probables for the weekend are Curry, Hughes, and Lee. I'm interested to see if Thomas will be used out of the pen or if he has the weekday spot nailed down.

Well that answers that question.

 

[FredJacket]

Minnesota has a good offense... experienced with good numbers in 2017. Curry gives up 2 solo homers. Thomas pitches through their order... plus some & gives up ZIPPY. Game ball to Thomas!!! Tonight... our weakness was our strength!!

One error! ...but borderline hit.

Feels good!! Baseball is back. One down... 54 to go!

 

[GTNavyNuke]

Great defense, ok starting pitching, great relieving pitching and good hitting.

Damn a win in a close game feels good. Didn't even have to use Datoc.

 

[Stinger90]

If you guys are watching on the stream... Radcliffe is HUGE. When he helped Wilhite up in right center after that good running catch by Wilhite... reminded me of Big Ennis & Little Ennis. ... Smokey & the Bandit reference... sorry.

Was saying the same thing with my brother (NC State grad) as he was watching both games.

Agree with @FredJacket on that error.

All in all, it was our opening day game win without being too ticky tack.

 

[65Jacket]

Carter Hall has a bad back. I wonder if he will veer be durable enough to play much for us.

 

[awbuzz]

Georgia Tech baseball got eight strikeouts and 124 pitches from the sophomore tandem of Xzavion Curry and Connor Thomas to defeat the Minnesota Gophers 3-2 in the two teams' 2018 season opener on Friday evening at Russ Chandler Stadium.

Tech starts off the season at 1-0 for the sixth-straight year.

 

[OldJacketFan]

Sounds like a very good start to the seas0n! Keeping my fingers crossed the pitching continues to be solid

 

[awbuzz]

Hey, 1 and 0, sure beats 0 and 1 !!!

 

[Stinger90]

Bradley lost their season opener to Georgia St. 3-1. They did out hit the Panthers 9-7 but the difference were timely hits. They were 3-17 with runners on and 0-6 with runners in scoring position. Their only score came in the ninth by RBI double.

 

[GTNavyNuke]

OK, I was thinking about flights to Omaha after yesterday (tic)

Here's what I really liked:
1) We played good defensive baseball. The one error on Wade really wasn't an error IMHO. And there were multiple tremendously good defensive plays ... 3rd base Luke Waddell had two, Nick Wilhite had one and English had one. Two DPs. I only watched about 5 innings of the game ....
2) We won the game from another team that played well. They didn't give it to us.
3) Connor looked really sharp especially in comparison to Curry. 34 of his 42 pitches (81%!!!) were strikes. 5 SOs and no walks against a good hitting team.
4) English at first base just feels right and he is very smooth there. The best play was on a bad throw to him where he was pulled off the base and tagged out the runner.

In the don't know category:
1) Curry wasn't sharp. Only 44 strikes in 82 pitches (54%). The 2 DPs in his 5 innings saved us. Can't give up walks - 4 walks and 3 SOs. But I think Curry will get in a groove as time goes on. His ball had ridiculous movement.
2) Kel had no hits and one SO in 4 at bats. His RBI was on an 8 pitch at plate so he may have more discipline this year.

 

[FredJacket]

Coach Howell in pregame interview said... Will Shirah (sp?) will pitch in relief today. ...& they want to give English a "clean inning".

 

[GTNavyNuke]

Howell in pre-game just said that he'd like to get English in for an inning. English is DH and McCann at first.

Hope "John-Boy" Hughes throws strikes and is sharp!