The lowdown: Even if you don’t know much about Stanford (you probably should by now, especially considering that this is its third straight trip to the MCWS, after all) you probably have seen how the Cardinal got to Omaha in the first place, if you’re reading this. How they got here: Won Stanford Regional 4-1, won Stanford Super Regional vs. ![]() Whether or not it can carry them to bringing a long-awaited baseball title back to Winston-Salem is up for debate, but the Deacons clearly have made their case.įirst game: vs. That destructive combination has led to an undefeated postseason, in which Wake has hit the double-digit runs mark four out of a possible five times. 556, but the Deacons have the distinction of being the only team in Omaha with a pair of teammates who’ve smashed at least 24 home runs apiece in Brock Wilken (30) and Nick Kurtz (24).ĪCC HOME RUN KING □ □™️ /JORXKvTddO- Wake Forest Baseball June 11, 2023 Only LSU has a higher team slugging percentage of teams left standing than Wake’s. He has a sizzling 11-2 record and is even with Lowder on strikeouts with 131 entering Omaha.Ĭollectively, the Deacons’ pitchers have the best strikeouts-per-nine-innings rate in the country at 12.2.Īs for the offense, there’s juice in the batter’s box. Then there’s left-handed sophomore Josh Hartle, who’d be the ace on nearly every other staff in college baseball, butting in as a first-team All-ACC nod. Now a two-time ACC Pitcher of the Year after repeating the feat from 2022, Lowder’s been near-unconquerable as the nation’s wins leader with a 15-0 record and 1.92 ERA – one of two hurlers in America, and the only one still playing, with at least 10 wins and zero defeats on the year. Wake’s team ERA of 2.84 this year isn’t just the lowest in the country, it’s the lowest by over 7/10 of a point, and highly touted right-hander Rhett Lowder is the ringmaster. The engine behind that history, meanwhile, is the best pitching staff in America – by a long shot. Tom Walter, /poyE3ns0ZT- Perfect Game USA June 15, 2023 Wake won the Atlantic Coast Conference regular-season crown for the first time since 1963 this year and became the first team in the league in six years to emerge victorious in every single conference series in the process, hitting the 50 wins mark for the first time in program history on top of it all. That patience, if things go according to plan in the program’s grand return to the MCWS, may be rewarded with a national championship that’s seven decades in the making. Who would’ve thunk it?Īlas, the Demon Deacons' renaissance under longtime coach Tom Walter required time and patience in order for it to take place. 1 overall seed and the on-paper favorite to win it all in Omaha this year hadn’t made the MCWS prior to this season for 68 years. How they got here: Won Winston-Salem Regional 3-0, won Winston-Salem Super Regional vs. NOTE: All first-pitch times are listed in Eastern Time and are subject to change. Here’s a look at the teams in Bracket 2 at the 2023 College World Series, as the fight for a national championship gets going Friday at Charles Schwab Field in Omaha, Nebraska. Over a week of play leads to the title series, and of the eight teams that remain, only one can survive.Īnd, in Bracket 2, the four teams set to do battle all have their own reasons for how they can potentially surge their way to glory. □ OMAHA, NE #MCWS /K0PEBoFILi- NCAA Baseball June 13, 2023Īnd in the College World Series, where there’s usually a bit of magic going around the place in some form, one team from Bracket 2 will capture it and find itself playing for a national title because of it. And then there’s the top-seeded team in the chase to take home a national title that’s neither of those things.īut here they all are on the hallowed grass in Omaha, just several victories away from bringing back history to their hometowns. There are the classic Southeastern Conference representatives – two of them. What names do you see? What do you know about the programs in the field? ![]() Look through the college baseball programs playing in Bracket 2 of this weekend’s College World Series.
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