A Sea Of Red

The Flames play their first road conference series this weekend down in NC. High Point is 5-10 on the year and in their first BSC series were swept by Winthrop.

Flames survive a WILD HPU 7 run 6th inning to defeat the Panthers 9-8. Justin Richardson doubled home Trey Wimmer with the winning run in the top of the 9th. Andrew Wilson goes 3 1/3 innings to close the game and get the win.

Cool. After the JMU game it is good to post a series opening win.

So at what point in the season do we start to admit we barely have any pitching? When we played a good team, with good pitching, we're not going to win.

Flames up 5-2 in 5th of game 2

Flames hold on for the win, going for the sweep on Sunday.

Final score LU 7 HP 3. Steven Evans went the distance, spreading out 9 hits. Tyler Bream 3-5 with 3 RBI.

Flames up 3-0 early in game 3

once again our lack of pitching depth shows up in the bottom of the 1st.

TheLouder wrote:once again our lack of pitching depth shows up in the bottom of the 1st.

So just because a guy gives up two runs, it's a lack of pitching depth?

Shawn might not be our ace but he's one of our starters and he's not terrible.

ToTheLeft wrote:

TheLouder wrote:once again our lack of pitching depth shows up in the bottom of the 1st.

So just because a guy gives up two runs, it's a lack of pitching depth?

Shawn might not be our ace but he's one of our starters and he's not terrible.

It was just the way he did it, the walk, two hit batsmen and the 2 passed balls. Maybe "lack of pitching depth" was the wrong way to say that.

Terrible control to start the game, yes. But High Point's is even worse. Two pitchers have combined to hit 5 batters in 2 innings!

Up 9-2 in the 3rd...

14-4 in 4th

Tyler Bream with EIGHT RBI in the first 4 innings.

Now let's see if we can hold this lead. If we can, it will prove a lot to me. I know we have a couple of great weekend starters, but we've gotta make sure our bullpen can hold leads like this throughout the year. Giving up a run or two is no big deal, but we can't give up 6-7 runs to close the game.

19-5 now as we are still pooring it on. Tyler Bream having a good game. Not sure where HP fits in the Big South standings but this series has been a good one for us.
Why are we bringing in Browning now with things well in hand. He is our top closer but maybe it is to get him some experience.

19-5 final. Browning and Dullivan give up no runs and 1 hit over the final three innings

ToTheLeft wrote:Tyler Bream with EIGHT RBI in the first 4 innings.

He finished with nine.

With Coastal LOSING 2 of 3 to Winthrop...a 4-1 start in conference for the Flames is looking nice.

Fumblerooskies wrote:With Coastal LOSING 2 of 3 to Winthrop...

I just crapped my pants.