Florida State baseball run rules NC State to take the game and series over the Wolfpack
In a complete team effort, Florida State (19-4, 5-1) clobbered NC State (18-6, 3-3), 15-5 (F/7), on Sunday afternoon to take the game and series after dropping the Friday-night opener between the two sides. The story of the day for FSU was the offensive success up and down the lineup. Seven of the nine Seminole batters recorded a base knock, and five players had multi-hit afternoons.
Most impressively, Myles Bailey was not one of those seven hitters to record a knock as NCSU intentionally walked him three times and hit him another at-bat after Bailey got ahead, 3-0. However, Bailey scored four runs, a team-high, due to the protection he received from the rest of the lineup. Kelvyn Paulino Jr.
, batting in the two-hole, went 2-4 with a double, a home run and four RBI, while Nathan Cmeyla, batting fourth, went 3-5 with two doubles, three RBI and two runs scored. However, what will make head coach Link Jarrett happiest is the approach from his lineup. The Seminoles struck out only four times, a season low in ACC play and went 7-12 with two outs.
Florida State recorded seven two-out RBI and went 11-22 with runners in scoring position. The Seminoles drew first blood in the bottom of the first. Kelvyn Paulino Jr.
doubled down the right-field line, Myles Bailey was intentionally walked and Nathan Cmeyla reached base on an infield single to load the bases. In the ensuing at-bat, Eli Putnam drove in Paulino Jr. with a sacrifice fly, before John Stuetzer doubled the FSU advantage with a two-strike RBI single to score Bailey.
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