A Sea Of Red

The Hokies come to town for a 3:00 game on Tuesday, fresh off of taking two of three from 21st-ranked GA Tech over the weekend. For any of you with local ties (especially Rustburg, HMO), Tech features soph DH/3B Luke Padgett. This should be a pretty good test for the Flames as the new coach seems to have Tech playing some pretty good ball.

Students are gone so you guys in Lynchburg need to be out to support the Flames. I will be leaving the offcie at 2:45!!!!!!

Its suppose to be 75 tomorrow...perfect for baseball....I have to work at 5:30 tomorrow night, but I am thinking about checking out the first few innings anyways

I will be following the game on Gametracker while at work. Hopefully we can shake off the disappointing loss on Sunday and win. It will be tough vs Virginia Tech

i will bet atrain thinks it is a softball game...better yet, does he know VT has baseball?

bigsmooth wrote:i will bet atrain thinks it is a softball game...better yet, does he know VT has baseball?

You are rough on those Hokies!!!

Keep up the good work

Well, I'm leaving the office to head over to the game--Go Flames!

4-1 hokies bottom of the 4th

4-2 cody brown just homered for the flames.

5-2 hokies top of the 5th

Do any old timers remember Al "Bumblebee" Bumbry who was ROY for the Orioles in '73? His son Steve is starting in LF as a freshman for Tech, and has gone 2-3 with a HR today. Bumbry, Sr. was one of my childhood heroes, and he was at the game: I recognized him, introduced myself (by telling him I knew he hit .337 in '73), shook his hand, and got his autograph.

sorry- I was 3 that year and already a Phillies fan

(how's THAT make you feel )

That's okay, Medic. I bet Fumble is old enough to remember him.

I was a Mike Schmidt, Greg Luzinski, Bob Boone, "Bake" McBride, Steve Carlton, Manny Trillo, Tom Underwood and Larry Bowa fan though- among others.

if that helps any.

I KNOW

SORRY

Yeah, I remember those Phillies. They couldn't close the deal until they brought in the Reds has beens for that one title.

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Virginia Tech won today 8-2

former flame (red-shirt), Rhett Ballard threw one inning against the flames. They have dropped Rhett down side-arm after a pretty good year last year as well, but has a 1.93 ERA this year with 12 appearances with 25 K's in 23.1 innings. Earlier this year, Rhett was leading the ACC in K per 9 innings. I don't know now if he still has that title, but is definitely still top 5 or so.

How'd we lose him?

You took the bait, Tally.

I know I know... but my curiosity overtook me....

haha, Rhett didn't really fit at Liberty that well.....not everyone does, wasn't a big problem. Just wasn't the place for him.

did you play at LU sitemdown?

Just couldn't hit today. We did have two HRs and a Tech player hit a Home run but was out at the same time - I have never seen that before. Our SS got hurt - had ice on shoulder- hopefully he is OK

Yeah...Patrick went to dive for a ball and he landed pretty hard with his glove arm extended. I just hope he didn't dislocate it or worse