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NC State plays its next four games on the road, opening the week at No. 8 East Carolina. Tuesday's matchup at the Pirates' Clark-LeClair Stadium is set for 5:30 p.m. and will be televised on ESPNU.

would we start Sam in this game just to go like 3 IP like Baker did last week?

ECU has been pretty bad mid week, granted against good teams like Campbell, Duke, etc.

The NC State baseball team opens a four-game road swing at No. 12 East Carolina on Tuesday night. Tuesday's matchup at Lewis Field at Clark-LeClair Stadium is set for 5:30 p.m. and will be televised on ESPNU.

A free audio stream will be available on the Varsity Network App for Tuesday's game with Andrew Sanders on the call. The midweek matchup will also be available on the radio on WKNC 88.1.

NC State (20-8, 5-7 ACC) holds a 70-41 record against East Carolina in the all-time series, winning four of the past five matchups over the Pirates.

PROJECTED STARTING PITCHERS
Tuesday RHP Baker Nelson (NCSU) vs. LHP Zach Root (East Carolina)

THE MATCHUP: SERIES AGAINST EAST CAROLINA
NC State enters this week's matchup against the Pirates with a 70-41 advantage in the all-time series, winning both matchups against East Carolina this past season. More notes from the series against ECU are listed below:

NC State outscored East Carolina 14-3 between a pair of victories in 2022. The Pack shut out the Pirates 2-0 in Greenville on March 29 before blowing out ECU 12-3 at The Doak on April 26.
J.T. Jarrett knocked in both runs for the Wolfpack in NC State's 2-0 win over East Carolina on March 29, 2022. Garrett Payne, Canaan Silver, Baker Nelson and Chris Villaman combined for the three-hit shutout in Greenville.
The Wolfpack completed the two-game sweep of ECU on April 26 this past season, scoring six straight runs twice in the 12-3 victory. The Pack fell behind 1-0 before scoring six straight to take a 6-1 lead. NC State then scored the final six runs of the game.
The Wolfpack has won four of its past five games against ECU, limiting the Pirates to just four runs in the Pack's four victories during that five-game stretch.

SCOUTING EAST CAROLINA
East Carolina (20-8, 1-2 AAC) has already recorded two victories over an ACC foe this season, winning both its games over then-No. 12 North Carolina by a score of 6-5 in February. The Pirates dropped three of their four games this past week, falling 9-3 to UNCW before losing its first AAC series of the year at Houston. East Carolina's pitching staff has impressed all season long, ranking top-25 nationally in strikeout-to-walk ratio (9th, 3.15), ERA (10th, 3.37), WHIP (11th, 1.22) and walks allowed per nine innings (23rd, 3.37). At the plate, the Pirates have six batters hitting .300 or better with 40 or more at-bats on the season. Josh Moylan paces the Pirates with 22 runs scored, 24 RBI and is tied with Jacob Jenkins-Cowart for the team-lead in doubles (10).

https://gopack.com/news/2023/4/3/baseball-wolfpack-opens-road-swing-at-no-12-east-carolina.aspx

College Baseball
North Carolina State at East Carolina ESPNU, 5:30 p.m.

𝐆𝐀𝐌𝐄 𝐃𝐀𝐘 in Greenville 🐺

⏰ 5:30 p.m.
📍 Clark-LeClair Stadium
🆚 No. 12 East Carolina
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— #Pack9 ⚾️ (@NCStateBaseball) April 4, 2023

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— #Pack9 ⚾️ (@NCStateBaseball) April 4, 2023

Why is Nelson starting this game?

It's a bull pen game. He was great for 3 innings last week. Probably only 2 today after throwing 40 pitches Sunday.

The evil genius breaking out some small ball lol

Ball was not in back of the glove yet.

Defense had been real good until that

Big yikes.

This is the **** that gets into a pitchers head.

Pitcher was looking good and starts to unravel because you can't catch a popup behind short.

Trice…

looked like the ball beat the man by a good bit but Cozart was really delayed on the tag attempt

Left fielder should get yanked immediately after that half ass effort

That sucks.

Trice needs to sit for Nixon going forward. That's inexcusable. *** is he doing?

What a disaster

One error just cost us 5 runs.

Five run error even though it was not scored as such

5 runs because you can't catch a pop up.

Alex Gee said:

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Had all the momentum you could want. Got great pitching from Baker. Definitely reached his limit in the at bat with the error. I can not for the life of me understand what Trice was doing.

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It was Green this past weekend. Trice had no business calling Green off. And once again Green just seems to watch the ball on the ground and decides to pick it up when he sees the runner heading home.

Nairo said:

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Left fielder should get yanked immediately after that half ass effort

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I don't think it was poor effort, but absolutely poor execution and poor decision making.

ncsuchris said:

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Nairo said:

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Left fielder should get yanked immediately after that half ass effort

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I don't think it was poor effort, but absolutely poor execution and poor decision making.

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He clearly doesn't know how to play outfield. Two mistakes on from him in this game alone.

Green couldn't make contact with a pitch on the outer half of the plate to save his life.

Payton is probably an amazing kid but in the words of the great Marshawn Lynch, he needs to work on his "mentals". Ain't no way in hell an OF is calling me off that ball right there. The ball literally drops exactly where Green was standing before he peels off hearing foot steps.

Hate to say this but Payton to 3rd next year, I think we've seen enough. Is there another Diaz brother or does Jose Torres have a brother or cousin that can play SS?

How many runs is that now off two errors? 6 total since Sunday? Yikes.

Borowolf10 said:

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Green couldn't make contact with a pitch on the outer half of the plate to save his life.

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Well he has to try and swing at something on the outer half first. None of those that last AB were even close to the black.

Great response.

Serrano is that dude.