Uncompetitive Pitches Doom UNC Baseball in UVa Opener

Posted Mar 7, 2026
The theme in the loss to Virginia for UNC was uncompetitive pitches and it began with the starting pitching. To coach Scott Forbes an uncompetitive pitch is a pitch that looks like a ball coming out of the hand, and the Tar Heels had way too many of them. The advanced analytics on Jason DeCaro vs. Stanford and DeCaro vs. Virginia look eerily similar. (Inside Carolina)

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