The luck of the Irish wasn’t with the NC State baseball team on Sunday afternoon, as the 19-game win streak that the team had enjoyed to start the season came to an end. Despite the loss, the Wolfpack won the series against a highly-ranked and uber-talented Florida State team and moved up the national rankings in the process, earning some long-overdue respect in the process.
Thanks to a run of ineffective pitching, NC State found themselves in a 7-1 hole heading into the bottom of the 6th inning on St. Patty’s Day. The Wolfpack plated three runs in the frame to cut the deficit to three, added another run in the 8th to make it a 7-5 ball game, and then got the lead-off man aboard in the bottom of the 9th.