The Game
I took the opportunity to see a 12:00 game on April 12, 2002 between the Seton Hall Pirates and the Rutgers Scarlet Knights. It was the first game of a doubleheader, and only went seven innings. I�m glad I didn�t stay for the second game. There was a 92-minute game delay.
Pitching for Rutgers was Bobby Brownlie, 2001�s Baseball America Summer College Player of the Year. Brownlie pitched well for Rutgers in 2001, finishing in the top 25 in ERA (2.36) among NCAA Division I pitchers (minimum 60 innings) and helping Rutgers finish in the top 25, with a 42-17 record. He had an even better summer, with a 7-0 record and a 0.84 ERA for Team USA. He was drafted by the Chicago Cubs in the first round of the 2002 draft and will not return to Rutgers for his senior year.
Seton Hall�s starter, Matt Skrypack, matched Brownlie inning by inning. Seton Hall loaded the bases with no outs in the 6th, but Brownlie was able to shut them down. Not so in the bottom of the 7th, when the Pirates scored a run on a single and stolen base by Garret Weir and an RBI single by pinch hitter Chris Carter.
Brownlie�s line was 8 Ks, 6 hits, no walks and 1 run in 6 2/3 innings. Skrypack pitched 7 innings, allowing 4 hits, 1 walk, striking out 7 and did not permit more than one runner to reach base in an inning. |
