A Sea Of Red

Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Blacksburg, Virginia


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English Field
Opened in 1989 - Seats 4000



Pete Hughes
7th Season as VT Head Coach


2013 Schedule/Results

• UNC Wilmington Tournament
  Feb 15 - vs. Kent State ......................... W, 10-9
  Feb 16 - vs. Kent State ......................... W, 8-1
  Feb 16 - @ UNC Wilmington .................... W, 9-0 in 8 Inns
  Feb 17 - @ UNC Wilmington .................... W, 7-2
  
  Feb 23 - Temple ................................... L, 3-7
  Feb 23 - Holy Cross .............................. W, 7-5
  Feb 24 - Delaware ................................ W, 13-4
  Feb 25 - Delaware ................................ W, 5-3
  Feb 27 - Radford .................................. W, 14-10
  
  Irish Baseball Classic, USA Complex in Cary, NC
  Mar 01 - vs. Rhode Island ...................... W, 7-3
  Mar 01 - vs. Ohio ................................. W, 8-2
  Mar 02 - vs. #22 Notre Dame .................. L, 0-3
  Mar 03 - vs. Tennessee ......................... W, 7-3
  
  Mar 06 - William & Mary ......................... Cancelled
  Mar 08 - #14 Georgia Tech* ................... L, 1-11
  Mar 09 - #14 Georgia Tech* ................... L, 9-14
  Mar 10 - #14 Georgia Tech* .................. W, 6-2
  Mar 12 - @ Charlotte ............................ W, 6-1
  Mar 13 - @ Elon ................................... L, 3-4
  Mar 15 - @ Duke* ................................ W, 2-1 in 11 Inns
  Mar 16 - @ Duke* ................................ W, 14-7
  Mar 17 - @ Duke* ................................ W, 6-2
  Mar 19 - Liberty ................................... 5:30 p.m.

Does anyone know if tickets for UVA game on April 2, still go on sale tomorrow ?

It would be a nice to add another quality road RPI win to the resume. This is probably our highest remaining road non-conference RPI game at this point unless Maryland really heats it up.

Curious to see who will get the starting nod on the mound. This has the potential to be a huge plus at the end of the year.

I couldnt trust martin after that debacle last week. Id give fulgham and then work with parks for the second mid week starts. Toman is using mckelvey a lot in tight spots which scares me because hes erratic. He has plus stuff just hasnt completely harnassed it yet. Is marsh dinged up again havent seen him used in a while

Sly Fox wrote:Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

FTFY

Gracias. I though perhaps the school was going Trekkie.

jinxy wrote:I couldnt trust martin after that debacle last week. Id give fulgham and then work with parks for the second mid week starts. Toman is using mckelvey a lot in tight spots which scares me because hes erratic. He has plus stuff just hasnt completely harnassed it yet. Is marsh dinged up again havent seen him used in a while

Nick tweeted this afternoon that Matt had arm surgery this week and full recovery is expected by March of 2014. Definitely a tough loss as he was really throwing well.

Cue SJ and another post about Coach Quinn and mismanagement of pitchers (He could be onto something though)

Thats a big blow. He was really the guy we could to in trouble and get 3 innings of quality relief out him. He does have a bit of an unorthodox delivery so that could cause some arm strain but so do most pitchers these days. Hate that for him. Also i was a little too critical of willi after the uva game. It was a rough start and with marsh going down were going to need him down the stretch

Lang's gonna be there.

That means we'll lose.

Actually I think it means that a wormhole will open up at the field creating some parallax distortion in the space time continuum because Tech has had their issues since he became their beat reporter (look at the GT series and how the basketball team did there)

SuperJon wrote:Lang's gonna be there.

That means we'll lose.

Something's got to give.

Ok we officially have nothing for mid week pitching, just getting hammered. Today is aboslutely embarassing, glad i didn't waste my time and go to this. We won't win another mid week game this year if we don't find a starter that can get a single out, incredible. The rest of the pen isn't doing any better.

Well that's disappointing....

16-5 in the 8th wow, might be time to do the unthinkable and give alex a few days off. He's 0 for again and has like 24 strikeout's on the season with just 3 rbi's. This is way worse than the Tyler Bream slump of a couple years ago.

We must be throwing too many sliders. .

jinxy wrote:16-5 in the 8th wow, might be time to do the unthinkable and give alex a few days off. He's 0 for again and has like 24 strikeout's on the season with just 3 rbi's. This is way worse than the Tyler Bream slump of a couple years ago.

Just a quick observation. In watching Alex Close swing it's real obvious he's lifting his back foot and swinging like he has a tennis racket in his hand and is hitting a 2 handed forehand. His balance at the plate is not good to say the least. I'm sure the coaches are aware of this and are working on getting it fixed like looking at video from last year and this year and hitting off a tee just top get his brain connected to his feet.

wow we are struggling in these ooc games. Not good.

Chippy wrote:

jinxy wrote:16-5 in the 8th wow, might be time to do the unthinkable and give alex a few days off. He's 0 for again and has like 24 strikeout's on the season with just 3 rbi's. This is way worse than the Tyler Bream slump of a couple years ago.

Just a quick observation. In watching Alex Close swing it's real obvious he's lifting his back foot and swinging like he has a tennis racket in his hand and is hitting a 2 handed forehand. His balance at the plate is not good to say the least. I'm sure the coaches are aware of this and are working on getting it fixed like looking at video from last year and this year and hitting off a tee just top get his brain connected to his feet.

It's amazing how the the little mechanics at the plate can have such a large effect on a batter. He had such a great year last year. Hopefully, he keeps his head in the game and doesn't let this little slump get to him.

At this point... I'm more worried about the pitching. Even with Close having a year like last year, I don't see us coming back from that sort of deficit.

disappointing loss indeed, but we will rebound this weekend. the midweek pitching is a concern though

For what its worth VMI beat Tech 8-0 today

Looking forward to the April 2 game! Heard its going to be a huge crowd! Go Flames!