BASEBALL - 4/22/17 - Pitt vs UNC .......

[goalieman]

After 7 innings ..... UNC 0 runs 0 hits 0 errors ....... Pitt 0 runs 2 hits 1 error

Josh Falk on the mound for Pitt !

 

[goalieman]

UNC opens the top of the 8th with an infield hit to break up Falk's no hitter.

 

[goalieman]

2nd batter is hit with a pitch ...... runners on 1st and 2nd with no outs for UNC.

 

[goalieman]

Single to right ..... bases loaded with no outs for UNC.

 

[goalieman]

Pop up to 2nd .... bases loaded with one out.

 

[goalieman]

Struck him out swinging ..... 2 outs, bases loaded.

 

[goalieman]

Wild pitch ...... run scores ....... 1-0 UNC.

 

[goalieman]

Double down the left field line ...... 2 more runs score ..... 3-0 UNC.

 

[goalieman]

3-0 UNC going to the bottom of the 8th.

UNC won the opener of the 3 game series yesterday, 5-2.

 

[goalieman]

3 up and 3 down for Pitt in the 8th ..... 3-0 UNC end of 8 innings.

 

[goalieman]

UNC wins 3-1 to take the 1st two games of the 3 game series.

 

[Joe the Panther Fan]

I went down today and while I knew the Pitt offense isn't very good it really is a whole lot worse than I thought. This team is simply pathetic on offense. And I don't just mean today, when they were playing one of the best teams in the country and faced a pitcher with an ERA in the low 2s heading into the game. But here is the slashlines for the lineup that Pitt put out on the field today, which is basically Pitt's standard lineup (all numbers from the game notes for the weekend, so they don't include yesterday and today):

.236/.376/.394
.256/.364/.357
.240/.308/.364
.181/.336/.362
.230/.291/.410
.204/.274/.301
.250/.357/.283
.265/.369/.294
.233/.331/.291

Good god, that's awful! Three guys in the middle of the order with on base percentages of .308 or worse. Four guys in a row at the bottom of the order with slugging percentages of .301 or worse. Your clean up hitter is hitting .181 and is only slugging .362, and that's not because he hasn't played a lot, he has more than 100 at bats on the season. Heading into this weekend, as a team Pitt was hitting .227/.331/.330. To put those numbers into some sort of context, Pitt's opponents were at .260/.344/.398 coming into the weekend. That means that the average batter against Pitt so far this season has a better slugging percentage than all but one player on Pitt's roster. Wow.

And then to compound that, heading into the weekend Pitt has attempted 64 steals. They were only successful 26 times. They got thrown out again in both of their attempts today. After a single in the first Pitt tried to steal on the first pitch to the next batter and the runner was out by 10-15 feet. And that's not an exaggeration. The second baseman was putting the tag down right as the Pitt runner was starting his slide. And in the 7th the same thing happened. A guy gets a walk and tries to steal on the first pitch to the next hitter. The play on him was a little closer, he was probably only out by 8-10 feet. When you are as offensively challenged as this Pitt team is you simply cannot throw away baserunners like that on such a consistent basis.

Tough to waste such a good start by Falk today, but when you can't hit you can't score, and when you can't score you can't win.