Duke has bases loaded with no outs in the 8th. Liberty pitcher walked three straight Blue Devils.
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Duke has bases loaded with no outs in the 8th. Liberty pitcher walked three straight Blue Devils.
A fourth straight walk gives us a 4-0 lead.
6-0 Duke after sac fly from Rothenberg.
Conte in to pitch the 8th.
Duke scored 4 runs on NO hits in 8th. 4 straight walks, SF, throwing error on SF, WP. After that got two singles but left them stranded. Really odd scoring, but we'll take it.
7-0 final. Really solid win.
Duke drops Liberty to 5-2 against the ACC this year.
Duke ends Liberty's long home winning streak.
Duke jumps to 45 in the Live RPI with that win.
That's almost exactly how the Yankees beat the Braves last night, scoring 2 runs in the 8th to go up 3-1. A single, a walk and another hit to load the bases (Judge hit his single to left so hard that Hicks on 2nd was held at third), then a wild pitch scoring Hicks and then two more walks to force in the last run. Hey, a win is a win! :cool:
Duke now plays UVA at 4:00, 4:00, and 2:00 due to weather. You can find at least one game on ACCNX even though Duke hasn't linked it yet. Sunday is on ESPN-U.
Source if you scroll down: https://virginiasports.com/sports/baseball/schedule/
Chris Crabtree homers in T3. Virginia 2, Duke 1.
Rothenberg homers in T4 to tie it up 2-2.
Virginia opens it up in the 4th with a grand slam. Cavaliers up 8-2 and still batting.
Three run homer makes it 6-0.
Through five complete innings, Virginia 8, Duke 2. Need to heat up the bats.
Rothenberg homers again to cut the lead to 8-3.
9-3 final for UVA. UVA Pitcher Andrew Abbott with 14 K's in 7 innings.
Duke is playing at 10AM Saturday due to weather. Duke currently trails 4-3 B8.
Duke loses the series to UVA. The final was the same margin as above.
Luke Fox continues to impress....only a frosh
Through three complete innings in Charlottesville, Duke leads 4-3.
7th inning stretch in Charlottesville, Duke leads 5-4. Can the pitching hold up for three more innings?
Rothenberg hits a 2 run bomb in the top of the 8th, his 2nd HR of the game. 7-4 Duke in the 8th
That’s a Blue Devil winner. Duke 7, Virginia 4. Marcus Johnson was impressive out of the bullpen.
Our next opponent is feared everywhere outside Chapel Hill: Final Exams.
Duke has a 3.5 lead over Wake Forest for the final ACC Tournament spot thanks to a Clemson sweep. We have 9 games to go.
Duke passed UVA, GT, and FSU in the RPI with today's wins, but 2 ACC series wins explains why we are not on the bubble.
First pitch at 6:32 according to Duke Baseball Twitter.
RJ Schreck homers to give Duke a 2-0 lead.
Duke 6, W&M 0 at the end of 1st.
9-3 after 4.
Duke wins 11-6.
ACCT watch: I count #12 Duke's magic number is 6 over #13 BC. It's the same for #14 Wake. This assumes no rainouts and no change to format (#12 = in).
Duke: @Louisville, VT, @Clemson
BC: Exams, @Pitt, UVA
Wake: Exams, @UVA, Pitt
Louisville is probably the best ACC team we'll see this year. With the week off, I'm hoping we get closer to our normal weekend rotation (Stinson, Williams, Carey). I'm hoping Stinson regained some of his stuff and stamina with the week off, and I have no idea about the injury to Williams.
Peter Matt gives Duke a 3-0 lead in top of 1st inning. Murray singled and Schreck walked before Matt homered.
Headed to T2: Duke 3, Louisville 0.
Carey on the mound for the Devils. He hits the leadoff man in the 2nd on a 1-2 count. Then our left and center fielders let an easy fly ball drop between them. Then a wild pitch advances the runners to 2nd and 3rd. And yet we escape unscathed. We need a big game from Carey.
Now 6-1 headed to the bottom of the 6th.
Duke up 9-1 in the 7th.
Make that 11-1. Nichols with a 2-RBI double.
5th home run of the game for the Devils!
12-1 Devils, top of 8th
12-1 after a Duke HR.
RJ Schreck makes it 12-1 with a solo homer in the 8th.
Jimmy Loper in to pitch the 8th. Helluva game by Carey.
And that's a Duke Blue Devil victory - 13 to 3.
That was fun!
That's a blue devil winner, 13-3. Best game of the year.
Magic number should be 5. A series win here goes a long way to making a postseason case. Louisville has a bad RPI but respect of the pollsters.
5 Home Runs for Duke in the win.
Playing Long Ball in Louisville -- has a nice ring to it.
Doubleheader today at 1 and 4:30.
Never a good sign when an in-game thread goes silent. I can see why from the box score.
Louisville 15, Duke 6
Ewwww
Joey Loperfido wins ACC Player of the Week:
https://theacc.com/news/2021/5/10/at...ly-honors.aspx
Loperfido hit .667 (10 for 15) last week.
The Devils host a good Wofford team today at 6.
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What's up with the belt buckle?
And Duke is currently leading Wofford 7 - 4, top of the 6th.
9-6 win for Duke over Wofford.
https://goduke.com/sports/baseball/s...boxscore/19754
That's actually correct. College baseball has switched to calling a 3-digit pitch system from the dugout. Position players use a wristband or chart.
We really need to win at least 2/3 from VT this weekend. VT is inconsistent, but they've been good at sweeping the bottom teams.
Carey on the mound in game on at home against VPI. The second batter hits a home run for the hokies.
Duke scratches for a run in the 2nd and we go to the 3rd w/ VPI leading 2-1.
Carey doesn't have it tonight. 4-1 VPI.
Duke has crept back/, now 4-3. Loper in to pitch the 8th.
Duke takes the lead 5-4. Bases still loaded and no outs.
11-4 now. We go to the 9th.
11-6 is your final. Great comeback.
An eight-run 8th. Yowser!!
ACC Tournament Watch
Duke worst % = 0.33 (0-5 remaining)
BC best % = 0.36 (3-0 remaining; bye this weekend)
Wake best % = 0.375 (5-0 remaining)
I count Duke's magic number as 2 with no rainouts. When/if we get in, I'll start looking how far above #12 we can get. We need this series win badly.
https://www.ncaa.com/news/baseball/a...hip-host-sites
NCAA selected 2 ACC sites as potential hosts: ND and Pittsburgh. No southern ACC sites were selected, but the closest ones to Duke are UNCC, ECU, TN, and SC. I recognize we're just happy to play @Gonzaga this year.
VT loads bases with no outs but Duke gets them out without giving up a run.
Duke scores in B1 to take a 1-0 lead.
FYI, the game is on BSSOD (used to be Fox Sports South, I think). Comcast Channel 848 in Atlanta.
1-1 in the top of the 7th. Loper on in relief.
WE go to the 8th. We are getting outhit 8 to 4.
Duke erupts for three runs in the bottom of the 8th. Still nobody out w/ runners on 1st and 2nd.
Marcus Johnson in to pitch the 9th.
That's a Blue Devil winner. Marcus Johnson closes it out. Big series win for the Devils!
ACC Tournament Watch
Duke worst % = 0.363 (0-4 remaining)
BC best % = 0.363 (3-0 remaining; bye this weekend), but BC holds the tiebreaker.
Magic number is 1.
The Hokies lead 1-0 after 3. Luke Fox on the mound for Duke.
Still trail 1-0 after 5. Luke Fox has been brilliant w/ 10 Ks.
Turn the game on. Duke has tied it in the 9th and has the bases loaded w/ no outs.
Duke sweeps VPI!!!!!!
Magic number 0.
Nichols w/ the game winning rbi.
On Senior Day.
Broom time.
Duke with 2 in the bottom of the ninth for 2-1 win.
That was a blue collar win.
Late-inning magic the name of the game for both baseball and softball this weekend.
Timely sweep 🧹 of VT. I was following box score while working in the yard.
Glad to come here and see the final - silly work got in the way.
I had to leave at the top of the 9th to go to the lacrosse game. :( I'm proud of our guys for the much-needed sweep; I just wish I had gotten to see it.
Congrats on making the ACC tournament. I have a feeling we will be 12th, but the difference between 5th and 12th in the standings is pretty slim. Winning our pod is probably more important than how we fare @Clemson next week (Th-Sat). We rarely play well down there, and I'm aware we swept them there in 2019.
From what I can tell about the ACC Tournament:
Duke is in a pod with ND and TBD unless it sweeps Clemson. If Duke sweeps Clemson, then Duke can be anywhere from 7th to 11th.
Davidson game starts early--4PM.
Now t hat Duke has qualified for the ACC Tournament, I looked into TV coverage and unfortunately found out that pool play will be broadcast by RSN which means many of us will not be able to watch the games. Most streaming services like mine, youtubeTV, don't carry RSN and streaming via watchespn will be blacked out. Somebody please tell me that I am wrong.
It is 5-1 Duke now and Davidson is changing pitchers.
Umpire undergoing concussion protocol. I've never heard of a 2-man umpiring crew in baseball.
In the bottom of the 4th Davidson made a cardinal baseball sin by making the third out at third base by trying to stretch a double into a triple. 5-1 after 4.
Stephen Wiseman
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ACC changes attendance policy for its baseball tournament in Charlotte later this month. Full capacity will be allowed.
Duke leads 8-1 in the 5th.
It is now 8-1. Chris Crabtree has 4 RBIs.
10-1. Runners at the corners with nobody out.
14-1 Duke lead.
18-1. 13 in the 5th.
18-2. Davidson is COMIN' BACK!
Duke goes 12-3 vs non-conference opponents in the regular season, with 2 losses to perennial power East Carolina, and one loss (vs 2 wins) to Coastal Carolina, another NCAA tournament fixture and former national champ.
Playing well going into the Clemson series and ACC Tournament.
Sigh. I've been around one-man umpiring crews a very, very long time ago. I admit that I should have added "at this level" to my post. It was irrelevant given the score.
5 in a row. Clemson is inconsistent, but the game is down there. We might have left campus for an extended road trip (Davidson-Clemson-ACC Tournament).
D1 baseball has one of its writers located in Durham. He's not a foreigner to our team, but he doesn't have us in the "first out" category. While I will argue with his choice of VT there, I can't argue leaving both teams off the "first out" list.
https://d1baseball.com/postseason/pr...-of-64-may-18/
3-7 in ACC series is the biggest thing keeping us out. RPI is a little low (35 is better in the COVID-19 version). Making the ACC tournament semifinals is doable and probably what we need (guess only). The #12 seed, our likely destination, has had a big advantage and has won its pod the last 2 times. Win two games the first two days and then rest your staff until Saturday. That will change if it happens again.
Big game tonight at 6 at Clemson. Really need to win this series. Go Duke.
Thanks for the heads up. I did not realize it was a Thursday - Saturday series.
2-0 Devils after 2. Jack Carey on the mound.
Carey gets out of a bases loaded one out situation giving up just one run and duke leads 2-1 heading to the 4th.
Does Duke have a realistic shot at an NCAA bid apart from winning the ACC Tournament?
Chris Crabtree hits his second homer of the game. 3-1 Duke in the 6th.
Carey is through 6 at 85 pitches. Really great job.
Carey is thru 7 at 99 pitches and likely through for the night.
Loperfido goes yard in the 9th. 5-1.
That's a blue devil winner. 5-1.
Duke can be seeded 8th-12th in the ACC Tournament. Don't ask me to think of tiebreakers or fill in slots until Saturday. It's really close.
Duke is the 4th highest ACC team in the RPI (#37). Only 5 have top 40 RPI; unfortunately UNC climbed to #40 with late-inning heroics @GT.
Duke has the #1 non-conference RPI ranking with a top 20 SOS in both overall and non-conference SOS.
Great games by Carey and Crabtree tonight.
Duke with the early 2-0 lead in the first.
Make that 3-0.
I just tuned in. 4-0 Duke.
Cooper Stinson on the mound.
Good time for a double play. 4-0 Duke at the end of 1.
A Rothenberg RBI double followed by a Crabtree 3-run homer makes it 8-0 Duke.
3R homer by Schreck. Duke leads 11-1 T3.
Cool story the announcer had about Cooper Stinson's parents attending the Duke game today after attending older brother Graeme Stinson's game pitching for the Charleston RiverDogs yesterday. I believe Charleston is a Tampa Bay Rays minor league affiliate.
Duke leads 13-3 after 4. I want to see Cooper pitch one more to possibly get the W.
I'm not sure the ACC allows mercy rule games the weekend before the ACC tournament, but they should consider it.
Cooper hits his 4th batsman of the game - going for the record.
We have a ballgame again after a Clemson GS. 13-8 Duke.
Clemson grand slam cuts the lead to 13-8 in the 6th.
Clemson hits a grand slam. 13-8 now. Our pen sux.
HR Schreck 14-8 Duke.
Schrek gets one back by going yard, 14-8 in the 7th.
14-8 final for the Blue Devils.
http://stats.statbroadcast.com/statmonitr/?id=328055
14-8 Final. The series wins helps a lot.
Duke is currently #34 in the live RPI and #1 in the non-conference RPI. Schedule is top 20 in both categories.
Duke will be between the 9th and 12th seed in the ACC tournament. Only 1. ND and 3. NCSU have locked in their seeds.
Finally Duke's first hit today in the third Clemson game. Down 2-0 in the T5.
Schrek ties it at 2 w/ a 2 run HR in the 6th!
Cheek 2 run homer. Bottom of the 9th 4-2 Duke
Chase Cheek 2R HR. 4-2 Duke in the 9th. Go Marcus Johnson.
Johnson closes the door. Let's go home a winner,
Helluva way to end the regular season...MOmmmmmmmentummmm!!
Two straight sweeps!
Duke clinches the #9 seed with the sweep. It is highly likely that our pod will be Miami-FSU-Duke. (4-5-9)
Live RPI is up to #30, which might be enough for us to get in if we go 0-2. I wasn't expecting Clemson to boost our RPI that much.
8 in a row to end the season. Last game of the VPI series may well prove to have been the turning point.
Here are the Pods. [sounds like a '50s horror movie]
Yes, I know it's Pool. But Pod sounds much cooler. :)
Duke with the two Florida schools.
https://theacc.com/news/2021/5/22/se...mpionship.aspx
So assuming I understand the baseball tourney format, Duke needs to go 2-0 to advance no matter what due to being the lowest seed in the pod.
I'm miles away from being an expert, but our RPI won't be 29 if we go 0-2 in pool/pod play. :p
RPI 1-30 get in ~99% of the time.
31-40 get in but do get left out if there's a flaw in the resume. Bad momentum is usually the culprit here.
41+ usually require something in your favor. Duke, Michigan, and FSU fell into this category in 2019. All 3 of them had pretty good runs, and Vanderbilt's 2 NCAA losses came from that group en route to the title.
Duke's flaw is 4-7 ACC weekend series with wins over Pitt (10), Clemson (11), VT (12), and Wake (NA). There's a lot to balance that out in terms of good momentum and consistent non-conference play.
This is the live RPI site I use if you're interested: https://www.warrennolan.com/baseball/2021/rpi-nitty
Duke draws two 11AM games on W/Th.
https://theacc.com/news/2021/5/23/sc...mpionship.aspx
I'm glad we play on off-days for the heels, particularly since the tournament is in Charlotte.
And again, this year, we have the world's dumbest bracket for the ACC baseball tournament. Why do the powers that be insist on continuing this format year after year? We have:
- Four play-in games (5 vs. 9, 6 vs. 10, 7 vs. 11, 8 vs. 12)
- Four quarterfinals (1-4 vs. winners of play-in games)
- Four meaningless exhibition games (1-4 vs. losers of play-in games)
- Semifinals
- Finals
We know *right now* that the Clemson-GT game tomorrow night is irrelevant, as it's the #2 vs. the loser of 7 vs. 11 (the 11, in this case). The winner of Louisville-GT will go to the semifinals...guaranteed. If Louisville wins, their 2-0 and win the pool. If GT wins, they can do no worse than 1-1, Louisville will be 1-1, and Clemson can do no better than 1-1. If all three teams go 1-1, GT advances. We do this four times, for...what reason? If the goal is to ensure that every team gets to play 2 games in the tournament, then let the losers of the play-in games play. The tournament selection committee won't be fooled by a bubble team going 1-1 in the tournament due to winning an exhibition game against an eventual semifinalist...
It's obvious that the creators of this bracket know what they're doing, because they play the 4 play-in games first, allowing the four top seeds to know which game matters and which doesn't. If they wanted the top seeds to take both of their games seriously, they'd play the play-in games last. But they don't...
In addition, what's with having 5 vs. 9 rather than 5 vs. 12 like every other reasonable bracketed tournament? Why reward the #1 seed with the weakest play-in favorite *and* the weakest play-in underdog? They're the #1 seed - they should be able to beat anybody.
Also, get off my lawn!
Thanks, I hadn't seen that. But the bigger issue is whether any of the games are irrelevant. My understanding is that all 12 teams have an equal opportunity for 2 wins to win their pool. The only tie situation is if all three teams in a pool go 1-1, then the highest seed advances.
This morning, there were two possibilities:
1) Louisville defeats Clemson. (This happened...) - Louisville-GT matters, Clemson-GT is irrelevant
2) Clemson defeats Louisville. (This didn't...) - Clemson-GT matters, Louisville-GT is irelevant
It's exactly because of the scenario where all three teams go 1-1 that one of these games must be irrelevant. There are only two possibilities:
1) One team goes 2-0, one goes 1-1, and one goes 0-2. The team that goes 2-0 advances.
2) All three teams go 1-1. The high seed advances.
If Louisville defeats GT, we have scenario 1, and Louisville advances.
If GT defeats Louisville, either:
- GT defeats Clemson (scenario 1), and GT advances
- Clemson defeats GT (scenario 2), and GT advances
Therefore the Clemson-GT game is irrelevant. Because of the set-up of the tournament, this must happen four times. So, so dumb...
ETA: Just to clarify...this morning, we didn't know which 4 games would be irrelevant, just that there would be 4 of them. Tomorrow at 3 PM, we'll know which 4 games of the 8 pool play games that are yet to be played are irrelevant.
Sure, and I mentioned that above. But it's really unfair to Miami to make them play that game (and burn some of their pitching). I do believe that the only sensible rationale here is that Miami might (should?) tank in such a scenario and give Duke another quality win, but is the selection committee that gullible?
I actually agree with that. It may benefit Duke this year, but I still think the construction of this tournament is fundamentally flawed. If you want to maintain the whole top four seeds get in with 1-1 records thing, fine (I guess), but at least make the Duke-FSU game 3rd so that Miami has to take both of their first two games seriously...
I agree. The ACC has come up with a different formats every few years and nobody is completely happy with any of them. For the record, ACC coaches are adamantly opposed to double-elimantion because then don't want to shred their pitching staffs the week before the NCAAs.
So ... do we really need a conference baseball tournament? The nature of baseball, with the heavy load placed on pitchers, to me does not seem to lend itself to a tournament that is not a season-ending event. There are enough games played as it is during the year to be adequate for determining a conference winner and also for determining NCAA tournament spots.
Billy Seidl is listed as the starting pitcher for Duke today vs FSU. That's a surprise.
Duke jumps out early on FSU. 5-0 in top of first with grand slam by Rothenberg
http://stats.statbroadcast.com/statmonitr/?id=351455
Grand slam by Rothenberg in the T1. Duke leads 5-0.
Rothenberg scores after a triple to make it 6-0.
LOL Rothenberg has been in a slump. Quite a breakout.
I still can't believe we started Bill Seidl on the mound in this critical game, but you can't argue with the results so far.
Seidl pitched well but was yanked pretty quick after 3.1 innings. Dockman in to pitch. Duke still leads 6-1.
Coverage is a joke. ACCNX which I pay for is blacked out, I don't get any RSNs because streaming TV (Youtube). Links to live stats are broken, ESPN has the score but no live play by play. ACC web site is even a bigger joke with another borked link to live stats. And the link I followed to the "live game" from their site goes to NCAA.com which has Duke and FSU switched - wrong icons next to team names and players and score reversed. Got it going on on TuneIn radio. College baseball is not popular, I get it - even looking for the game on Watch ESPN is ranks below College Softball.
WP scores Crabtree, 7-1
9-1 Duke. I'm really cheering for us to finish the 7th inning 11-1.