When we talk about the ACC in any sport, we go to the one undeniable evaluation of performance – results. We don’t do Greg Sankey here, and point to metrics, recruiting rankings, TV ratings, and close losses instead of results. We’re not Brett Yormark calling his football league the deepest in the country despite the Big 12 scoring the same number of college football playoff points, that I did. There’s league promotion, and there’s a point where it sounds just absurd.
Friday’s results for one of the best baseball leagues in the regular season were an unmitigated disaster.
If you are Georgia Tech you are exempt. The offense, which was the nation’s best, dropped 22 runs on UIC and chased their best arm out of the game. That offense just looks inevitable.
If you are UNC, you are exempt. One of the country’s best pitching staffs threw a shutout against VCU. It was the only the only shutout of opening day so far.
Miami is up 4-0 early on Troy, but after that, it was all downhill.
Wake Forest blew a 3-0 lead to a mediocre Kentucky team and lost 6-5 by wild pitching a run in.
FSU blew a 5-2 6th inning lead to 4 seed St. Johns.
Boston College had a 3-2 lead, and gave up 2 runs in the 9th to lose to Liberty.
Virginia gave up 15 runs to Jacksonville State and lost.
NC State and Virginia Tech are down 6 and 5 runs late in their games to UCF, and Cal Poly and are headed towards likely losses.
Wake Forest and FSU still have some chance to come out of their loser bracket and advance, but I can’t see any of the others pulling the trick.
The proud baseball league had a nightmare day, and there’s no conference commissioner sugar coating to it.
Let’s see if Georgia Tech and UNC can continue their fine play, if Miami closes out Troy, and whether any ACC teams can fight their way out of the losers bracket.
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