At the one-quarter mark of the baseball season, the Braves record stands at 22-21, 2 games behind Florida in the NL East and 3 games behind St Louis for the wild card. Chipper Jones leads the NL with a .410 batting average. Brian McCann, Yunel Escobar, and Mark Kotsay are regulars that are batting over .300. Gregor Blanco and Omar Infante are also over .300 in limited plate appearances. Tim Hudson is 3rd in the NL in wins. Jair Jurrjens has a 2.82 ERA and 44 K's in 54 IP. Now if they could play better on the road (6-16) and in close games (2-12 in one-run games) maybe they could get back to the playoffs after a two-year absence. I wouldn't mind having a closer to shut down the game either, but that should be taken care of when John Smoltz and/or Rafael Soriano gets off of the DL. It's been a little rocky to start the season, but I think it can only get better.
Ball State plays in the MAC tourney on Wednesday against Northern Illinois at 4pm. BSU lost twice to Northern Illinois a few weeks ago (4-1, 7-6). The third game of that series got rained out. According to www.mac-sports.com, all games of the baseball tourney will be streamed free on their website.
I assume that the Brownsburg/Pike baseball game was rained out last night as it was pouring rain from about 3pm to 6pm. Brownsburg will travel to Terre Haute South today for their final non-conference regular season game. Senior night is tomorrow night against Fishers.
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