Friday: Jason DeCaro announced his self (again) to the country in front a rabid crowd. He took the crowd out of it pretty early with help from Erik and Cooper. Jason was successful with all 4 pitches, especially the change up and fastball. The curveball looked the best it has probably since Omaha or FSU last year. Really solid outing from him and something he should take and build on confidence wise. The lineup produced 1-9 with huge swings from Paulson and Cooper early, Gavin was all over Norby from the jump and capitalized with a big double.
Saturday: Folger didn’t have his best stuff from the get go of this one, but settled in pretty well. ECU executed some of Cliff’s patented small ball stuff early. I was impressed with the way we quickly battled back to tie the game and kept it there till the 7th. Walker looked fantastic to start his relief appearance but in hindsight we probably should’ve went to Matty to start that inning, it just snowballed from there. I was pretty disappointed in a few guys through the whole weekend, those guys being Hull, Hynek and Maginnis. Hull REALLY needs to get going, we can’t take him out of the lineup with his defensive ability so him living up to what the staff knows he can do will be huge the rest of the way. Hynek and Maginnis didn’t have the weekend they wanted, you can really see the difference behind the plate between Hynek and Macon.
Sunday: hate the game got called early in a tie, but always understand taking the health and safety of the players seriously, especially this early in the year.
Lynch was electric most of the day. Had a few get away from him, although I think he hit the first guy on purpose. Left a slider up which got tagged off the wall, but overall I thought he was impressive running the fastball up to 98 today. The slider wasn’t as good as we’ve seen so a good outing from him to build off of.
a few shout outs for Paulson, Howe and Gav. Those guys had really really good at bats all weekend. To start the year 6-1-1 (LOL) is very good. Have a fairly easy week ahead, hopefully guys can gain some confidence at the plate and we can get some guys on the bump who need work.
Go Heels
Saturday: Folger didn’t have his best stuff from the get go of this one, but settled in pretty well. ECU executed some of Cliff’s patented small ball stuff early. I was impressed with the way we quickly battled back to tie the game and kept it there till the 7th. Walker looked fantastic to start his relief appearance but in hindsight we probably should’ve went to Matty to start that inning, it just snowballed from there. I was pretty disappointed in a few guys through the whole weekend, those guys being Hull, Hynek and Maginnis. Hull REALLY needs to get going, we can’t take him out of the lineup with his defensive ability so him living up to what the staff knows he can do will be huge the rest of the way. Hynek and Maginnis didn’t have the weekend they wanted, you can really see the difference behind the plate between Hynek and Macon.
Sunday: hate the game got called early in a tie, but always understand taking the health and safety of the players seriously, especially this early in the year.
Lynch was electric most of the day. Had a few get away from him, although I think he hit the first guy on purpose. Left a slider up which got tagged off the wall, but overall I thought he was impressive running the fastball up to 98 today. The slider wasn’t as good as we’ve seen so a good outing from him to build off of.
a few shout outs for Paulson, Howe and Gav. Those guys had really really good at bats all weekend. To start the year 6-1-1 (LOL) is very good. Have a fairly easy week ahead, hopefully guys can gain some confidence at the plate and we can get some guys on the bump who need work.
Go Heels
