Triple Play NC State Baseball
On Tuesday I went to see NC State play ECU in baseball, and enjoyed a very good game. For the 3rd time out of 4 games that I have been to this year NC State came from behind to win. They were down 3-2 for most of the game, and in the bottom of the 9th with 2 outs they scored one to tie it, and in the bottom of the 10th with two outs they scored one to win it. Very very exciting.
On top of the excitement of the game there was the ECU factor. For every ECU game tons of ECU fans come out and completely fill a couple sections of the stadium. We were sitting next to one of these sections and there was a little crowd of rowdy ECU fans standing down a little ways in front of us. They were doing chants and taunts for almost anything that the NC State players did, and generally being obnoxious. To make up for it all of the State fans in our area picked up their noise a couple notches and eventially we started doing the ECU chears too, just to make fun of them. It was a lot of fun. On top of that, comming from behind to beat them felt so much more satisfying because of the fans.
The play of the game occured in the top of the 7th. ECU had a man on 1st and 3rd with no outs. The batter hit a fly ball to the outfield which was caught for one out. The runner at 3rd tried to tag up and score but couldn’t get ahead of the cannon from the outfield, so he tried to go back to third and got caught in the rundown for a second out. Meanwhile as the runner at 3rd is getting caught, the runner at 1st decides no one is paying attention to him and tries to make it to second. Unfortunately for him someone was paying attention, and he got caught in a rundown as well for the third out. Pretty awesome to go from runners at 1st and 3rd with no outs to getting out of the inning with no runs scored, in one long play. Very exciting.
