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Saturday, May 24, 2008
Jackets lose, wait for NCAAs
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Georgia Tech left the ACC tournament without its 40th victory but with an ugly 10-4 loss to Clemson, instead.
I’ll be writing a story about how bad the Jackets’ pitching has been and what the situation is now with the NCAA tournament, whose regional sites are announced at 7 p.m. on Sunday and whose field is announced on Monday. A victory today cerrtainly would have improved Tech’s chances of hosting.
Here’s the as-it-happened blog of today’s game.
Derek Dietrich’s two-out single drives in Charlie Blackmon with the game’s first run in the Tech half of the first.
Eddie Burns on the mound for the Jackets.
It’s early, but Clemson looks like what it is, a not-very-good team with nothing to play for.
I’m perusing Baseball America’s list of the top 200 prospects for the draft. Blackmon is No. 142. David Duncan is No. 151. Blackmon is a terrific story; a year ago he wasn’t a prospect at all, but over the summer he switched from pitching to hitting. He’s got speed, he’s hitting .384 and now he could be gone as high as the fourth round.
Well, the storyline of this tournament, too many walks by Tech pitchers, plays out again. Burns loses Mike Freeman on a 3-2 pitch with two outs in the third, and Jeff Schaus makes Burns pay with a two-run home run. Clemson 2, Tech 1, through 2 1/2.
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