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Chase Burns in ACC play:
Duke - 6 IP, 14 K
Virginia - 7 IP, 13 K
Louisville - 7 IP, 12 K
North Carolina - 6.1 IP, 14 K
Virginia Tech - 7 IP, 15 K
Totals:
🔥33.1 IP (6.2 IP/G)
😳68 K (13.6 K/G)
🔥K/9: 18.36
Nick Kurtz hardest hit balls from this weekend:
🔥115 MPH Triple
🔥114 MPH 411” HR
🔥113 MPH 407” HR
🔥109 MPH 438”
🔥109 MPH 2B
64% of his balls in play were >97 MPH🎮
Rhett Lowder in the WIN against NC State:
⚡️9 IP (first ever complete game)
⚡️5 H
⚡️2 R
⚡️6 K
⚡️0 BB
⚡️89 pitches 🤯🤯
Averaged less than 10 pitches per IP🚨
@lowderrhett
@WakeBaseball
#GoDeacs
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Introducing the 2023-2024 Wake Forest Baseball Analytics Team!
We have many new members on the staff who have been working very hard this fall to prepare the Deacs for the 2024 season. We are all ecstatic and can’t wait for another great year!
Rhett Lowder's LAST pitch in his complete game win against NC state was his 4th fastest pitch of the ENTIRE outing at 95.4 MPH
Dominant from beginning to middle to end...
#BuildTheHouse
#GoDeacs
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Despite the tie against
#10
Louisville in the series finale, the outing by Camden Minacci should not go unnoticed.
He entered the game in the 8th inning and finished with:
🚨4.1 IP (71 pitches)
🚨2 H
🚨0 R
🚨3 K
He lowered his season ERA to 1.46
@WakeBaseball
#GoDeacs
Our bullpen was STELLAR this weekend!🔥
11.1 IP, 1 ER, 5 H, 12 K
Some standouts:
Josh Gunther 2 IP, 3 K
Zach Johnston: 2.1 IP, 2 K
Will Ray: 1.2 IP, 2 K
Cole Roland: 1 IP, 2 K
Rhett Lowder was unbelievable in his first career start on Tuesday: 6 IP, 2 H, 1 R, 0 BB, 10 K.
Lowder induced a median launch angle of 1.83 (50% ground ball rate), threw 67% strikes, and had just TWO 3-ball counts all night. He got a strikeout and a ground out in those counts.
With the regular season coming to a close, here is an interesting fact about the
@WakeBaseball
offense:
The 17 hardest hit balls in the ENTIRE season came by two players...
Nick Kurtz 🕸️
Brock Wilken 🚀
#RakeForest
#BuildTheHouse
#GoDeacs
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Ryan Cusick last night:
6 IP, 3 H, 0 R, 2 BB, 10 K
Cusick was up to 99mph, threw 71% strikes, and had a 32% whiff rate on the fastball. Median exit velo on his fastball was 75.75mph, and 88.15mph on the CB
#shoving
Jack Winnay is our Wake Forest Analytics Team hitter of the week!
Stats from this weekend:
.455/.500/1.364
Hard Hit% : 71.4%
-> 5 balls hit above 99 MPH
-> All 3 home runs hit above 103 MPH and 390 ft!
wOBA: 0.704
Mid-Fall biomechanics/analytics meetings going down with each pitcher today! Each guy is getting about 15 minutes of video breakdown and 15 minutes of metric analysis.
Change the movement, change the metric.
Early morning Week 3 Pitch Velo leaderboard consisting of the FASTEST pitch of the
@WakeBaseball
season thus far with
@camdenminacci
hitting 98.7 mph on Tuesday against UNC Wilmington
#GoDeacs
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