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Wednesday, May 21, 2008
Miami eliminates Tech 15-12
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
It has been two wild days of baseball for Georgia Tech. On Tuesday, the Yellow Jackets beat N.C. State with two amazing comebacks — a five-run eighth to take the lead, and then a two-runs-on-no-hits-and-three-errors ninth to re-take the lead.
Tonight, Tech gets the tying run on a wild pitch and the go-ahead run on a throwing error on the same play in the eighth inning, then sees Miami win thanks to a three-run homer in a four-run ninth.
That eliminates Tech from the tournament. Miami will finish no worse than 2-1 in the four-team round-robin, and Tech will finish no better than 2-1, and Miami would have the head-to-head tie-breaker. In the event three teams finish 2-1, the tie-breaker is best regular-season conference record, and Miami would win that tie-breaker.
If N.C. State loses to Clemson later tonight, Miami clinches. N.C. State could finish no better than 1-2, Miami could finish no worse than 2-1, and Miami would have the head-to-head tie-breaker over Saturday’s Clemson-Georgia Tech winner, which would finish 2-1.
Tech’s loss tonight also eliminated Clemson.
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McGuire no-decision sets up tourney rotation
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Georgia Tech coach Danny Hall confirmed what the statistics suggested: He really has a four-man rotation. Freshman Deck McGuire, a midweek starter during the regular season, started today’s ACC tournament opener against N.C. State.
McGuire got a no-decision in his shortest start since March, just 4 2/3 innings. He allowed only one earned run but five overall, and he walked four.
David Duncan, Eddie Burns and Zach Von Tersch started ACC games during the season, and they will all get starts if Tech makes it to Sunday’s championship game. Rather than bring back Duncan on five days’ rest, Hall chose to go with McGuire today. Now, Tech has its normal rotation for the rest of the tournament, with Duncan pitching today against Miami.
Would Hall use the same approach in a regional? Probably not. Asked about it, Hall said that with Duncan pitching today he’ll have eight days until the opening game of the regional, one day more than his normal rest.
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