Georgia Baseball: Bulldog pitchers sparkle

Georgia baseball head coach Scott Stricklin stirred up a classic baseball brew with excellent pitching the key ingredient, ending the Bulldog NCAA drought.

The Georgia baseball teams hosts an NCAA regional tournament this weekend. With a couple big hits and a double play here and there, the Dawgs will host a Super regional the following weekend.

Georgia baseball coach Scott Stricklin engineered this number 8 national NCAA seed with a simple formula. Win on the weekends, win big during the week.

“The goal is to win every time you compete,” Stricklin told Chip Towers told Dawgnation.

Simple sounding, but college baseball followers know better.

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Classic conundrum overcome

All college baseball head coaches face the same problem. The weekday games are important, but it’s a college baseball law that weekend pitching is never sacrificed for weekday wins. This season’s Diamond Dawg secret sauce is weekday pitching success, and credit for that concoction goes to new pitching coach Sean Kenny.

Kenny has not only upgraded the Dawg weekend efforts, giving the Dawgs a second place SEC regular season finish. The Dawgs posted a 19 – 7 non-conference record, sweeping Clemson, and sweeping Georgia Tech for the second consecutive year.

Georgia baseball fielders sparkle.

Dawg pitchers sport a 3.78 ERA, down from last seasons 5.02. Credit the Bulldog fielders as well. The pitching efforts of Kenny’s staff are backed up with a .979 fielding percentage.

The fielding percentage only tells part of the tale, however. Regular Foley Field attendees are treated to sparkling defensive plays when Bulldog pitchers need them most, and this brings us to what sets this Bulldog bunch apart.

A flash of leather to end the inning follows ball four. This is what these Diamond Dawgs do.

Championship players pick each other up. Strike outs follow fielding errors. A flash of leather to end the inning follows ball four. This is what these Diamond Dawgs do.

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Georgia baseball will showcase its arms and leather in the sociable restrictions of Foley Filed this weekend. And with a pitching staff built to win five games in a week, the Dawgs are looking good at home in an NCAA regional that could stretch to five games in four days.