Troy finishes DH with sweep, winning 6-1
February 23, 2008
Junior lefty Travis Burge was very good for Troy, allowing just 3 hits in 7 innings. His two-seam fastball induced a lot of weak grounders in the 6-1 win.
“The movement on it (was good),” Burge said. “I couldn’t really tell, I was just trying to hit my spots.”
Senior Bryan Miller was the hitting star, hitting a 3-run homer in the fourth that broke a 1-1 tie and a two-run double to deep left-center in the fifth that just missed being a home run.
“He had been getting me on the curve ball all day, so I guessed a little bit and I guessed right (on the home run),” Miller said. “He hung it pretty good.”
Troy’s pitching has been very good through the first three games. URI has just scored in 2 of 27 total innings - two runs coming off a home run Friday and one in game 2 Saturday. The Trojan pitchers have been getting a lot of ground balls, so you figure they’d be doing well in a little league park at this point.
However, Rhode Island is going to be one of the worst teams they face all year, but the walks have been minimal and pitch counts have been low.
“We do have some guys throwing some pretty good two-seam fastballs that are sinking,” Troy head coach Bobby Pierce said. “There will be some tests down the road, we know that, but to open the season with guys getting the ball in the strike zone and getting good break on their secondary pitches is a good sign for us.”
AJ Howard and Neal Jordan each pitched scoreless innings in relief of Burge.
