VU - Duke Game Thread ESPNU

[charlestonalum]

Duke taking advantage of everything we give them. We need lots of runs. Duke fans making more noise than our sellout fans.

[Vufamily]

Need a spark

[roanoke]

Need to scratch some runs here. Badly.

[CLTDore]

Is Gross getting over the barrel. I couldn't tell. Good thing that Rich Walz has told me 43 times.

[Vufamily]

No plate discipline

[Vufamily]

Much better by Scott

[Vufamily]

Can Gross even throw 3 strikes before he throws 4 balls?

[VUDU]

Yeah, we're swinging on a lot of balls. Maybe we're starting to realize that?

[DivergentDore]

Fellows is off tonight but the home plate ump Barry Chambers was never a friend of the Vandyboys when he was in the SEC.

Please. Most of his misses are not even close.

...but several were, and several others called up that were below what the Duke pitcher is being given.

[Vufamily]

Surely we have someone better than Ray

[VUDU]

We swing and balls and stare at strikes. Probably not literally true, but it sure seems like that right now.

Of course, DiMarco swung at two fastballs straight down the middle and completely whiffed on both of them.

[charlestonalum]

3 consecutive innings with 2 on and we only get 2 runs. We are out hitting them. And their #9 hitter gets a triple.

[CLTDore]

Ok, time to get Fellows out

[commadore]

I can't watch this crap. Good night folks.

[Vufamily]

Fellows will be getting his first loss tonight I’m afraid

[wbl]

Well this is a tough climb...

[roanoke]

This is hard to watch.

The thing is: Fellows is not getting the edges - and is getting crushed when he puts them down the middle. It is hard to know what to do.

[Vufamily]

Who wants it more...

[CLTDore]

We need to get into Dukes bullpen. We can get back into this.

[Versus75]

Was that the first mound visit? I know there is a limit this year, but we never seem to get close to it.

All those throws to first should have given us time to get the bullpen ready.