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Definitely not a confidence-inspiring start to ACC play for our bullpen...

Crowl did a nice job to get out of the jam from Exum but the two walks from Craytor were the obvious back-breakers. I thought Sentlinger might have a shot to work out of it after getting Burress to pop up but he grooved an 0-2 fastball for a hit and then got a bit unlucky on a hit against a decent off-speed pitch. Unfortunately I think Craytor is probably going to be up-and-down from a command perspective. If he's throwing strikes, he'll be fine but he'll probably also have some outings like this where he throws only 5 strikes in 16 pitches. Also, a little disappointed in the offense. Just 4 hits and 3 runs isn't going to cut it so hopefully they can figure things out and rebound in the next two games. GT's Saturday and Sunday starters have struggled a bit with control so hopefully we can mix in more walks the rest of the weekend. And hats off to Patel of GT. He pitched on Tuesday of this week throwing 40 pitches and comes in today and goes 4.2 innings of hitless ball and allows just one walk. He had made only 1 weekend appearance this year and with him throwing earlier this week I didn't think we would see him but they clearly got a lot out of him this week.
Posted: 03/07/2025 at 07:59 PM ET
(In response to this post by hokiepro)

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Is this Bullpen meltdown season part 3?
hokiepro 03/07/25 07:31 PM ET
Pretty harsh. Teams win, and teams lose, not individual players**
N2VT2 03/08/25 07:42 AM ET
That's how he rolls**
HokiePWC 03/08/25 10:49 AM ET
Definitely not a confidence-inspiring start to ACC play for our bullpen...
QCP 03/07/25 07:59 PM ET
Patel was great. Amazing when a guy (without overpowering stuff) just gets
HokiePWC 03/08/25 10:55 AM ET
Patel's performance was very Maddux-like. Crazy to compare Patel's...
QCP 03/08/25 02:06 PM ET
Hardly no fastball either bunch of breaking crap ugh **
StautonHokie 03/07/25 07:47 PM ET
Bullpen was bad again, but offense was not good either. Two earned runs on
Nortazhokie 03/07/25 07:41 PM ET
If you don’t score 5 or more you lose something like 75% **
justolerable 03/08/25 06:27 PM ET
If you don’t have a closer you don’t have a good baseball team
hokiepro 03/07/25 08:42 PM ET
Agree. This also mean something different in college ball vs. MLB. Good
HokiePWC 03/08/25 11:01 AM ET