Newsstand: Notre Dame baseball loses season-opening series to Lipscomb
The 2023 Notre Dame baseball season did not get off to a hot start in Nashville. The Fighting Irish lost two games out of three to Lipscomb.
The Bisons beat the Irish 5-4 in game one. The Irish used a seven-run seventh inning in game two to win 8-4. In game three, Lipscomb scored three runs in the bottom of the eighth and shut things down in the top of the ninth to win 4-2.
The Irish struggled from the plate all series long. They went 10-of-91 (.110) across the three games. No Irish player had a multi-hit game in any of the three.
On the mound, the starting pitching trio of Blake Hely, Radek Birkholz and Jackson Dennies pitched 3.0 innings apiece. Hely and Birkholz both gave up 3 runs in their starts. Dennies did not give up any and struck out 5 batters with 0 walks. Freshman Rory Fox gave up 3 runs, 2 earned, in the bottom of the eighth in the rubber match.
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AP Poll Shakeup
New Top 25 shows big fallout from Saturday
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JuJu Lewis
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Irish pitching combined to strike out 31 batters through the weekend, but the Blue and Gold bats did not do enough to back it up. Head coach Shawn Stiffler‘s team is right back on the road this weekend for a three-game series at North Carolina Greensboro starting Friday at 4 p.m. ET.
Notre Dame tweets of the weekend
Gerad Parker is officially the Fighting Irish offensive coordinator.
Irish football chooses hard.
Benjamin Morrison is a no fly zone.
Quote of the weekend
“For the last two offseasons we’ve been working on hip placement and really syncing up my throwing motion as a whole. We’ve really synced it all together and it’s creating new habits and making it a part of my normal throw. Arm care and getting more strength in my arm are a couple things we work on.”
— Irish quarterback commit CJ Carr on how he has physically improved recently
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