The final week before Conference USA play starts. Should be a fun week.
Tuesday- Longwood 4:00
Friday- App State (Truist Field) 6:05
Saturday - App State (CUSA -TV) 3:00
Sunday- App State (ESPN+) 1:00
https://twitter.com/KnightsBaseball/status/1500884647424704517?s=20
clt doesnt like the forecast for friday nite
Tomorrow’s game time has been moved up to 2:00
Matt Brooks on the mound.
Uptown game gonna get rained out?
Games of interest this week:
| TEAM | 2022 RPI | 2022 Record | WEEK 4 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CHARLOTTE | 111 | 7-4 | Host Longwood & App State (3) |
| LOUISVILLE | 123 | 8-3 | Host TCU, Host Michigan (3) |
| UCONN | 17 | 8-1 | Host Hartford, At Pepperdine (3) |
| SOUTH FLORIDA | 141 | 7-4 | Host Boston College & Bradley (3) |
| WEST VIRGINA | 65 | 7-4 | Host Rider & Ohio State (3) |
| GARDNER-WEBB | 264 | 3-9 | Host UNCG & Brown (4) |
| PURDUE | 84 | 12-0 | Host Bellarmine (3) |
| WESTERN ILLINOIS | 235 | 1-9 | At St. Louis, At Butler (3) |
| LONGWOOD | 253 | 3-9 | at CLT, Host St Peters & Bryant (3) |
| APP STATE | 106 | 5-6 | at Davidson, at CLT (3) |
| PRESBYTERIAN | 250 | 6-5 | Hosting Western Carolina, at Georgia State (3) |
| WESTERN KENTUCKY | 286 | 7-4 | At Eastern Kentucky, Hosting Illinois (3) |
| CAMPBELL* | 175 | 5-7 | Host UNCW, At Liberty (3) |
| DAVIDSON^ | 120 | 9-3 | Host App St, Host Norfolk St (3) |
| OLD DOMINION | 103 | 9-1 | Host Princeton (2), Host Stony Brook (3) |
| COLLEGE OF CHARLESTON | 256 | 7-4 | Host Penn (2), Host Umass-Lowell (3) |
| UTSA | 149 | 9-2 | Hosting UIW, At Oklahoma (3) |
| WINTHROP (H/H) | 169 | 3-8 | Host Xavier, Host Penn (3) |
| SOUTHERN MISS | 44 | 8-3 | Host USA & Tulane, At Dallas Baptist (3) |
| MTSU | 241 | 4-9 | At Alabama, At Auburn (3) |
| COASTAL CAROLINA | 51 | 7-5 | Host Wake Forest & Xavier (4) |
| UAB | 196 | 8-3 | Host Samford, Alabama St, & Belmont (3) |
| UNC ASHEVILLE | 243 | 3-9 | Host High Point, Vs Rider, At ETSU |
| NC A&T | 232 | 6-6 | vs UNCG, at Davidson, Host Holy Cross (3) |
| MARSHALL | 126 | 9-4 | Hosting EKU & Merrimack (4) at YMCA |
| NORTH CAROLINA | 38 | 11-1 | At Liberty, Host Georgetown & Pitt (3) |
| RICE | 182 | 3-9 | Hosting Houston & Texas Tech (3) |
| FAU | 162 | 9-4 | Vs Seton Hall, Host Sacred Heart (3) |
| SOUTH CAROLINA | 53 | 7-4 | Host Xavier & #1 Texas (3) |
| LOUISIANA TECH | 30 | 7-5 | At Nichols St, at Southeastern, at McNeese St (3) |
| FIU | 201 | 7-6 | Host Miami & Jacksonville (3) |
2:00 start time sucks for working people !
Yes it does, but looks like a storm coming this afternoon. Hope they can get it in.
Niners up 6-2 heading into the 7th. Been a bit of a snoozer since the 2nd inning. Dragum got hit in the head by a pitch I believe, but his helmet took the brunt. 2 batters later he came home on a 3 run Bomb that put us up 5-2. We added another 1 a couple innings later.
Final
Longwood 4
Charlotte 8
Shaky bullpen gives up 2 in the 9th. Had to bring in Bruce to close it.
Our PBP guy (Dan?) is from wherever they pronounce words that start with CO as “key-yah” and there were a ton of names today: Collin, Colby, plus the typical Count… etc… Like nails on a chalkboard to me.
He does a good job otherwise. But I have a thing about accents like that.
Bullpen seems to be having problems
The bullpen threw 6.2 shutout innings. It just took us 3 pitchers to get the final out.
It allowed Bruce to pick up another Save to move to t-5th all time with Sam Pierce.
The App transfer and was there another guy who pitched to a couple of batters before him (?) were not effective. The guy who came in early after we gave up 2 runs in long relief and basically became the starter did a very nice job. Really settled things down.
I’m just questioning how reliable our hold / setup guys are? I think we have some solid long relief and Bruce seems to be a solid closer. Rest of the bullpen needs to be figured out though, so we can start stacking Wins and improve that RPI.
We are still finding out who will be effective in different roles as we head into conference play next week. There were so many positives to take away from this game, but let’s talk about the only minor issue.
Hale Sims struck out the first 2 batters in the 9th which was great to see. He just couldn’t close the door and walked 2 after that. Thats not going to work, so a pitching change was made. Martinez came in and gave up 2 hits in a row so we went to Colby. He walked the first batter, but got the fly out to end it. We are much better at not giving free passes this year, but that has still popped up from time to time. We have some quality arms in our bullpen, but as with most teams the deeper you get, the less effective they can be. Overall I think we are pretty solid there. Especially the top end.
Game notes have been great this year!! Lots of good info and graphics!!
