Game 52 - Carolina 9 State 4

[TommyAshley]

Carolina at State
Thursday, 7pm
Doak Field, Raleigh, NC

TV - ACC Network
Live Stats

Probable Starters - RHP Jason DeCaro (9-2, 1.91 ERA) vs RHP Heath Andrews (3-3, 6.66 ERA)

Andrews on the season - 50IP, 57H, 37ER, 29BB, 41K, .288BAA

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[TommyAshley]

FYI, State going TBA Friday and Saturday. Carolina with Lynch and Boaz in game 2 and game 3

 

[unc80]

Let's GO!!

 

[heels2012]

Surprisingly tickets are still available for the series. Going to head over tonight and hope to see us get weekend off to a good start.

 

[Forever 52]

Sweep these fools will be alright with me…

 

[tylerhol]

Great opportunity to dominate a down year state team. Pour it on boys!

 

[Heelexplorer84]

State has a freshman hitting .404?? That’s really good. Good hitting team. Pitching usually beats good hitting. Let’s hope that trend holds true!

 

[unc80]

They were a pretty decent team before their top 2 starters went out. They still have an explosive offense. Need DeCaro to go long and save the taxing bullpen work for later.

 

[uncbornbred]

LFG boyz

GO HEELS

 

[goheels1117]

Consiglio's numbers are bad because of one horrible start at Wake. 3.8 ERA outside of that.

Him and Nance are their 2 best arms available, regardless of what the numbers say. Not sure when Nance will be available because he threw 87 pitches Sunday when Stanford roughed him up.

 

[premn]

I would expect our coaches to have a solid game plan for this one

 

[Chooch]

Hoping to see the Diamond Heels & our lady Lacrosse team take on Stanford but they are both going to be playing tonight, a half hour start difference. Best wishes to both!
Recording both to watch.

 

[unc80]

Hoping to see the Diamond Heels & our lady Field Hockey team take on Stanford but they are both going to be playing tonight, a half hour start difference. Best wishes to both!
Recording both to watch.

Women's lax tonight.

 

[Chooch]

Of course, thanks.

 

[BigJulius94]

Series Preview courtesy of Pearratings

 

[unc80]

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Series Preview courtesy of Pearratings

That 21% sweep chance percentage for UNC is a good bit lower than Warren Nolan's predictor, which calculates to 37%. But got to win the first one first.

 

[premn]

I think about state having a high powered offense and our offense being anemic, but we have basically equivalent RPG numbers

 

[BigJulius94]

I think about state having a high powered offense and our offense being anemic, but we have basically equivalent RPG numbers

I still have a hard time believing that we are a top 2 team in the country every time I watch us play because of it. But somehow we always find ways to win and put up runs.

Been an awesome year and obviously very good team, just sometimes the eye test does not match it but I will take it being 41-9-1 in the middle of May. I think that is pretty decent

 

[TommyAshley]

State has a freshman hitting .404?? That’s really good. Good hitting team. Pitching usually beats good hitting. Let’s hope that trend holds true!

Rett is not a big HR or XBH guy either.....OPS is 993, but he has about 70 hits on the season....kid just puts the ball in the grass day in and day out......

 

[unc80]

I still have a hard time believing that we are a top 2 team in the country every time I watch us play because of it. But somehow we always find ways to win and put up runs.

Been an awesome year and obviously very good team, just sometimes the eye test does not match it but I will take it being 41-9-1 in the middle of May. I think that is pretty decent

True Carolina doesn't have the eye-popping hitting numbers that make the experts all swoon, but the Heels are just really good in the most important stat... winning. In fact, they've only had back-to-back losses once all season and nobody else in the country has done that. You have to be really tough and talented to do that. Only UCLA has done better.

 

[unctarheel1984]

Game Day!

I love a game day!

Go Heels! Beat State!

 

[dondon21]

Always a tough series, let’s win the first one

 

[Heelexplorer84]

Rett is not a big HR or XBH guy either.....OPS is 993, but he has about 70 hits on the season....kid just puts the ball in the grass day in and day out......

Maybe we dare him to hit it over our heads a little?

 

[UNC76]

Consiglio's numbers are bad because of one horrible start at Wake. 3.8 ERA outside of that.

He also got lit up pretty well by VT and GT. Not 11 runs in 3.1 IP lit up, but a combined 13 H and 12 ER in 9 IP. Expanding on your point, his ERA in the other 43.1 IP is an impressive 2.08. Let's hope we get bad Cooper instead of good Cooper.

 

[bluebooksandbluecups]

Just win the series. A sweep would be amazing. A series win wraps up a national seed. That’s got to be the goal this weekend.

And inflated ERA or not…the Game 1 pitching matchup favors us. We need to take advantage of that.

 

[goheels1117]

He also got lit up pretty well by VT and GT. Not 11 runs in 3.1 IP lit up, but a combined 13 H and 12 ER in 9 IP. Expanding on your point, his ERA in the other 43.1 IP is an impressive 2.08. Let's hope we get bad Cooper instead of good Cooper.

And all 3 of those starts were on the road in what I'd consider hitters ballparks. He only has 2 conference starts at home but both of them are pretty good.

 

[goheels1117]

Just win the series. A sweep would be amazing. A series win wraps up a national seed. That’s got to be the goal this weekend.

And inflated ERA or not…the Game 1 pitching matchup favors us. We need to take advantage of that.

The guy I'm talking about will probably throw tomorrow. Andrews isn't very good. We need to win tonight.

 

[ranzino4three]

Rett is not a big HR or XBH guy either.....OPS is 993, but he has about 70 hits on the season....kid just puts the ball in the grass day in and day out......

Fast as lighting!

 

[ranzino4three]

States starter has a devilish era!

 

[Chooch]

Apart from the opener with ECU, we don’t often get the “bad” outings from opponent pitching.
I’m thankful two of their best have been out for a good portion of the season. They have deepened their pitching staff as a result but not always the results they desired.

 

[Heelexplorer84]

Curious to see if Macon is ready to resume some catching duties tonight.

 

[TommyAshley]

UNC

Schaffner
Hull
Gallaher
Winslow - DH
Paulsen
NIcholson
Howe
Hynek - C
French

DeCaro

 

[TommyAshley]

State

Johnson - LF
Nixon - 2B
McHugh - 1B
Head - CF
Johnson - 3B
Wiggins - RF
Bargo - DH
Serrano - SS
Lanphere - C

Andrews - P

 

[sweetcaroline1874]

Yikes. I thought that for sure there would be more Carolina fans here. This is brutal!

 

[GraceNugent]

He's got the need, the need for speed

 

[premn]

JAKE AND BAKE

 

[BlueHeels02]

He is so good

 

[unc80]

SCHAFF!! Let's Go!

 

[premn]

I’m surprised hull’s lineout got that far. He’s strong

 

[TommyAshley]

Hull and Gallaher barrel up Andrews, but right at defenders....Hull lines out to left, Gallaher into the semi shift at second....4-3, 2 outs