No. 10 Duke Drops Series Finale to Georgia Tech

Sunday, May 14

Durham, N.C.

1 PM

Duke University

34-15, 15-11

Georgia Tech

30-21, 12-15

Georgia Tech

Duke

No. 10 Duke Drops Series Finale to Georgia Tech

5/14/2023 5:18:00 PM | Baseball

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DURHAM – Georgia Tech (30-21, 12-15 ACC) scored in the first five innings of play on Sunday to defeat No. 10 Duke (34-16, 15-11 ACC), 8-5, in take the series from the Blue Devils on senior day. Freshman Aidan Weaver was pegged with the loss out of the bullpen, falling to 3-3 on the year.

Junior Alex Stone extended his hitting streak to 24 games on Sunday afternoon, doubling to center field. It is the longest hitting streak under head coach Chris Pollard.

HOW IT HAPPENED

Georgia Tech opened the scoring in the top of the first, 3-0.
Sophomore Alex Mooney advanced to third and scored on a wild pitch in the bottom of the first, 3-1.
The Yellow Jackets added a run in the top of the second, 4-1.
Graduate transfer Giovanni DiGiacomo grounded out to second base in the bottom of the second to score Luke Storm from third, 4-2.
Georgia Tech added a run in the top of the third, 5-2.
Junior Alex Stone doubled to center field in the bottom of the third to score Mooney from second, 5-3. MJ Metz flew out to right field to score Jay Beshears from third, 5-4. Storm grounded out to second base to score Stone from third, 5-5.
The Yellow Jackets regained the lead in the top of the fourth, 6-5.
Georgia Tech scored another run in the top of the fifth inning, 7-5.

NOTES

Junior Alex Stone extended his hitting streak to 24 games on Sunday afternoon, doubling to center field.
Duke's pitching staff has now fanned 555 batters this season, holding in fourth all-time in a single season.
Sophomore Alex Mooney tallied his 19th multi-hit game of the season, doubling in his first two at bats Sunday. He now leads the team by one in front of Stone who has 18.
The ACC series loss to Georgia Tech was the first series loss in league play since dropping two of three games at then ranked No. 15 North Carolina.

QUOTES

"I thought King and Busse threw well for them. We had our chances and had opportunities to apply a lot of pressure, but they made pitches, and we weren't able to get the big hit. I thought that game was a little bit of a stale mate from the fifth inning on. The job our bullpen did to keep it within striking distance was huge. We had our chances in that game, where one ball run out of the yard or into a gap and it's a different story." – Head coach Chris Pollard on his thoughts about the game today.
"It puts us in a position where we can lengthen the bullpen overall. We have a lot of baseball ahead of us and the chance to establish that depth is huge. The outing by Beasley was awesome and he is a guy we are going to have to rely on down the stretch and probably will pitch on Tuesday." – On the job the trio of arms did to extend the game for the Blue Devils.

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