Eight days after the Blue Devils defeated the Fighting Camels 4-0 in the teams’ meeting in Durham, the Duke bats fell silent Wednesday on the road.
Right-hander Kellen Urbon tossed seven scoreless frames Tuesday night as the Blue Devils beat Davidson 9-2 at the Durham Bulls Athletic Park, running his personal scoreless streak to 13 innings.
It’s that time of year again—baseball season. Yes, college basketball is entering the stretch run of conference play and a top-10 team loses seemingly every day to create an interesting continuum of parity as March Madness approaches.
Coming off two close losses Saturday and Sunday, the Blue Devils have the chance to bounce back right away with a busy week that will test their depth.
The Blue Devils jumped out to a quick 3-0 lead in the second inning against No. 19 Coastal Carolina, but the Chanticleers responded with nine runs in four innings to claim a 10-6 victory Sunday at Springs Brooks Stadium in Conway, S.C.
The Blue Devils' four-game win streak ended with a 1-0 loss to Liberty at TicketReturn.com Field in Myrtle Beach, S.C. Duke went 0-for-10 with runners in scoring position and the Flames manufactured a run in the seventh inning.
Center fielder Evan Dougherty entered Friday's game against Ohio State with zero home runs in his Duke career. He left with three.
After losing several of its top contributors from a season ago, questions surrounded the Blue Devils as they prepared for their 2016 campaign.
On a cold, drizzly night at Durham Bulls Athletic Park, the hot bat belonged to a Blue Devil freshman at the bottom of the order. Freshman catcher Chris Proctor posted two hits and two RBIs from the ninth spot in the order and three Duke pitchers held Campbell to three hits as the Blue Devils got over the hump Tuesday night, shutting out the Fighting Camels 4-0.
After two dramatic walk-off wins to close out the Golden Bears Saturday and Sunday, Duke returns to the diamond Tuesday at 4 p.m. to take on Campbell at the Durham Bulls Athletic Park.
Griffin Conine slapped the ball just inside first base, and moments later found himself being mobbed by teammates between first and second, having just delivered the Blue Devils' second game-ending hit in less than 24 hours.
After Zack Kone and Jimmy Herron put the winning run 90 feet away with a single and a double, sophomore Evan Dougherty lined a single into left-center field, scoring Kone for a 6-5 walk-off victory to even the series.
With pitchers and catchers reporting to major league camps all across the country this week, the Blue Devils are getting ready to lace up their spikes for games that will actually count.
A year later than expected, Trent Swart is ready to be an ace on Duke’s pitching staff in his final season.
Tuesday’s exhibition contest lasted more than three hours and went 10 innings, but it was not enough to determine a winner. The Blue Devils were facing the Czech Republic as a part of its second U.S. tour, which runs from Oct. 2-11.
After recently renovating the field at Jack Coombs Stadium, the Blue Devils will be moving off campus for the majority of their home games for the foreseeable future. Duke announced Friday that it has come to a new, seven-year agreement with the Durham Bulls Athletic Park that will allow Duke to play up to 36 exhibition and home games there starting during the 2016 season.
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