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Peter Matt has not only been excellent, but excellently well-rounded as well to this point.
After being soundly beat Friday and Saturday night, Duke clung on to win 9-7 Sunday behind the bats of Peter Matt, Wil Hoyle and Michael Rothenberg.
There is no sport more agonizing than baseball, no sport more spiritually testing than the American pastime. That’s a fact the Blue Devils are becoming painfully aware of.
Coming off two straight losses, the Blue Devils needed a strong team performance to gain some momentum going into their midseason stretch. On Tuesday afternoon, that’s exactly what they got.
After inconsistent pitching plagued the Blue Devils last weekend against Boston College, it was a different story this time around.
Duke lost two out of three against the Eagles, subsequently falling out of the top-25 rankings.
In a weekend of baseball that included a walk-off grand slam and 50 runs scored, it was an eighth-inning bunt play in the rubber match that ultimately tilted the series in Duke’s favor.
When Duke takes the field against Coastal Carolina Saturday afternoon, it will have been 3,173 days since Chris Pollard was hired as the Blue Devils' next head baseball coach. Since that day, Duke has broken a 55-year NCAA tournament dry spell, been to two super regionals and transformed into a team on the cusp of the College World Series.
The senior catcher will return to the diamond rocking Duke blue for what will likely be one final season, with more to prove than ever before.
There’s a data revolution happening in college baseball, and Duke’s among those leading the charge.
The upcoming campaign poses some interesting questions regarding starting pitching and bench depth, but Duke looks ready to plunge into a heavy dose of ACC competition.
To really understand the magnitude of Jarvis’ impressive 2020 campaign, you have to know where he was a year before he cemented his name into the Duke record books.
Head coach Chris Pollard and seniors Joey Loperfido and Michael Rothenberg shared their thoughts on the summer, this fall and the coming season.
When the time came and the Diamondbacks called Jarvis to break the news that he was going to be their first-round pick, the All-American had to hold in a burning desire to smile.
With the MLB shortening its draft to only five rounds this year, many players who would've otherwise been guaranteed to get drafted didn't get to see their names called Wednesday or Thursday.
Jarvis becomes the highest-drafted player in Blue Devil history.
The Blue Devils reflect on their dominant start to this past season and look forward to next year with one goal in mind: making the College World Series.
Duke baseball came up one game short of the College World Series in 2019, making it even tougher to see this 2020 season cut short.
The Blue Devils delivered day in and day out, winning every series and posting a 12-4 record.
Thursday night, MLB and the MLB Players Association reached an agreement on a deal that may forever alter the course of professional and college baseball.