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June 10th, 2019 at 2:19 PM ^

I was just about to post this. If not for a baserunner getting tagged for the third out, Auburn could have broken the single inning scoring record for an NCAA tournament game.

Alton

June 10th, 2019 at 4:04 PM ^

Ha, yeah.  I'm trying to restrain myself from posting 5,000 words on the Michigan - Eastern Michigan baseball rivalry of the '70s and '80s.  And after game 2 of the super-regional I almost wrote a post starting "if you thought that was insane, let me tell you about the 1980 College World Series game against California..."

 

Alton

June 10th, 2019 at 2:25 PM ^

North Carolina's starter faced 4 batters, walked all 4, and only managed to throw 4 strikes among the 20 pitches he threw before he was pulled.

How does a team come back from 4 walks to start the game?  Even though it's only 1 run, that's pretty ridiculous.  They sent in a couple of relievers who I'm sure weren't fully warmed up, and it turned into an instant rout.

 

MichiganStan

June 10th, 2019 at 2:46 PM ^

Someone on twitter posted the strike/ball chart for the first 4 batters to start the game which were walks. BRUTAL. Ump was doing the UNC pitcher dirty as fuck

MichiganStan

June 10th, 2019 at 3:13 PM ^

I don't know how to post images on this site anymore but for the 3rd batter the chart shows the 3rd and 4th called Balls were strikes on the outside of the plate but still over the plate

PEACH

June 10th, 2019 at 3:44 PM ^

I may have been watching a different game. The first 3 pitches to the 3rd hitter were all inside. Looked like the pitcher was having release point problems. The pitch 4 was a called strike and pitch 5 was fouled off. The full count pitch was very low almost in the dirt. Not a big deal. But that is what I saw in the game I was watching.