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Sampson’s wild as hell.

At least two wild pitches.

Carter French with a line-drive that scores Reece Holbrook (who pinch ran for Angelo).

Sooners with another pitching change. Catalano (RHP).

11-3, Heels. Still B7.
 
Cam Padgett in for the Heels for the 8th inning. Throwing some heat.

Walks the 2nd batter. First walk of the game by UNC’s pitchers.
 
Kepley with an outstanding diving catch!

Two outs.

Padgett gives up a run, strands 2 (1st and 2nd), and closes out the 8th with a K.

11-4 heading into B8.

New pitcher for Oklahoma. Cameron Johnson. LHP.

Lead-off Luke makes 1st base.
 
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Tom Chmielewski, LHP, 11th appearance. GR transfer from the Ivy League, in to close it out.

Gives up a weak infield single and a bizarre bunt to put two on base.

So, it’s two on, no outs.

Here comes Ryan Lynch to end this game.
 
Lynch strikes out the 1st batter he faces with a wicked slider.

Single for the next OU batter and the runner at 2nd scores.

11-5, Heels. Men on 1st and 2nd.
 
Calheel said:
Yes, it would have been nice if ESPN treated this game as an ACCN-Extra game and just made it available for free on the streaming app like they do for our FCS football games.
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Given that it was supposed to be on ESPNU, it should have been cross-listed ACCNX/ESPN+. Sucks that it wasn’t.
 
It’s the Regional Weekend.

At least a plurality of locations, if not a majority, are in the Southeast…….weather in this area in late May/early June is UNPREDICTABLE.

It’s also College Baseball - not exactly the most popular TV sport.

My guess is that often the delayed game doesn’t start for hours. If Game X is being shown because of weather at Game Y’s location, Game X has likely garnered viewers. Many of Game Y’s viewers went to dinner, the movies, drinks with friends, etc.

ESPN isn’t conspiring against UNC or the ACC.

It’s not like the UNC-Oklahoma baseball game had millions of people clamoring to watch it.

Again, it’s college baseball. Which IS NOT a revenue positive sport.
 
Zoo_View said:
It’s the Regional Weekend.

At least a plurality of locations, if not a majority, are in the Southeast…….weather in this area in late May/early June is UNPREDICTABLE.

It’s also College Baseball - not exactly the most popular TV sport.

My guess is that often the delayed game doesn’t start for hours. If Game X is being shown because of weather at Game Y’s location, Game X has likely garnered viewers. Many of Game Y’s viewers went to dinner, the movies, drinks with friends, etc.

ESPN isn’t conspiring against UNC or the ACC.

It’s not like the UNC-Oklahoma baseball game had millions of people clamoring to watch it.

Again, it’s college baseball. Which IS NOT a revenue positive sport.
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Like Snoop said, at least cross list it in advance. No one knew until last minute where it would be shown.
 
Checking the guide today, college baseball is scheduled at noon on ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU, SECN & ACCN. So pretty much every ESPN station. Imagine several games will be streaming too. Lots of coverage for something hardly watched 😉
 
Zoo_View said:
It’s college baseball……

Hardly ANYONE watches it.

Count yourself lucky if you can watch a minute of any game.
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Cross-listing the game to ACCNX & ESPN+ would have cost ESPN nothing in terms of extra expenses and likely less than 10 minutes of some employee’s time setting up the extra code for there to be a second access for the digital stream. When ESPN determined that they weren’t going to be able to keep it on national TV, setting up a second stream opportunity to ensure the most folks had the chance to watch isn’t terribly much to ask.
 
SnoopRob said:
Cross-listing the game to ACCNX & ESPN+ would have cost ESPN nothing in terms of extra expenses and likely less than 10 minutes of some employee’s time setting up the extra code for there to be a second access for the digital stream. When ESPN determined that they weren’t going to be able to keep it on national TV, setting up a second stream opportunity to ensure the most folks had the chance to watch isn’t terribly much to ask.
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This isn’t new Snoop. ESPN has been dumping weather delayed baseball tournament games (and even some regular season games) to ESPN+ for years now.

All tournament games are on ESPN+ (which is a huge improvement over the way it used to be).

The bigger issue for me is that ESPN forced the entire game on ESPN+ because it didn’t want to miss a precious second of the LSU-Dallas Baptist game and it didn’t want to switch the UNC game to ESPN+ or ESPNnews in the middle of the game because people would have bitched.

So they forced UNC fans (who won’t spring for the $11.99) to get nothing rather than half.
 
Calheel said:
So they forced UNC fans (who won’t spring for the $11.99) to get nothing rather than half.
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I’ve not encountered this issue before with Heels’ baseball games. And it wasn’t the $11.99 or $4.99 for the special. It was doing it last minute. They had a box showing UNC-OU in weather delay. Would it have hurt to add that it Is moving to ESPN + in the same graphic? Today’s game is on ESPN + and while I’m not happy, I’m not necessarily frustrated. They’ve made it known well ahead of time. Can plan accordingly. 😀
 
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