Duke closer Thomas Girard (Aaron Fitt)

Duke, Louisville Ride Pitching And Momentum Into Week Five

DURHAM, N.C. — Duke baseball coach Chris Pollard called it “a real gut-check moment on Sunday morning.” Pollard’s Blue Devils were suddenly reeling a little bit, having lost back-to-back midweek games at home against Penn last week, then losing the first game of their ACC-opening series at Virginia 11-3 on Saturday. It was time for Pollard and his staff to find out what their team was made of.

“We talked about embracing it a little bit. We had two tough losses midweek, both ballgames that — not to discredit anything Penn did — but we didn’t execute things that we[…]