UConn baseball dropped its season-opening series to Virginia, losing two games to one in a weekend that fluctuated between hardscrabble pitcher’s duels to wild, mistake-filled shootouts and back again.
Game 1
The UConn lineup got off to a slow start against Virginia on Friday, running into a pitcher who was on his game, to say the least. The Hoos closer-turned-starter Andrew Abbott demonstrated immense control and mixed up his stuff as he sat down 17 of 19 Husky batters faced, despite multiple well-worked at-bats by UConn to drive his pitch count up.
Ben Casparius had a similarly great start to his UConn career.