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Deacs Run Rule Boston College in Series Opener
4/12/2024 7:16:00 PM | Baseball
Juniors Nick Kurtz and Seaver King both homered for the fourth-straight game while Kurtz continued his streak of seven-straight games with a home run.
BRIGHTON, Mass. – With hits from all nine starters and a dominant outing from junior Chase Burns, No. 14 Wake Forest picked up their first run-rule win of the season, defeating Boston College 13-1 on Friday afternoon at Harrington Athletics Park.
Offensively, the Deacs were led by junior Seaver King's three hits, including his 11th homer of the year and fourth-straight game with a homer. The transfer added his second triple of the year, finishing a double shy of Wake's first cycle since 2000. The Athens, Ga. native has multi-RBI in the last four games and is the first Deac to hit the 40 RBI mark this season.
First baseman Nick Kurtz homered for the seventh-straight game and grabbed the team lead with 14 on the year, finishing 2-for-5 with a pair of extra-base hits and a team-high three RBI.
Sophomore Jack Winnay stayed hot with a two-hit, two-RBI day, adding a pair of singles.
With the eight strikeouts, junior righthander Chase Burns became the first pitcher in the country to go over the century mark with an NCAA-leading 105 strikeouts on the year. Burns improves to 7-1 on the year and the Deacs are 8-1 this season when he takes the mound.
HOW IT HAPPENED
IN THE SPOTLIGHT
FROM COACH WALTER
"That's a good team win with a really good offensive day from Nick Kurtz, Seaver King, Adam Tellier and Jack Winnay. They all had big days for us to get three less out and save our bullpen.
Chase Burns was really good again today and Crawford Wade really came in and threw the ball well. I was really happy with our defense today. Seaver, Nick and Tellier all made a couple of plays with the gloves that helped Burns and allowed him to extend his outing.
I was happy with the way we played in all three phases of the game." - head coach Tom Walter
UP NEXT
The Deacs will look to take the series against the Eagles tomorrow on ACC Network Extra at 2 p.m.
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Offensively, the Deacs were led by junior Seaver King's three hits, including his 11th homer of the year and fourth-straight game with a homer. The transfer added his second triple of the year, finishing a double shy of Wake's first cycle since 2000. The Athens, Ga. native has multi-RBI in the last four games and is the first Deac to hit the 40 RBI mark this season.
First baseman Nick Kurtz homered for the seventh-straight game and grabbed the team lead with 14 on the year, finishing 2-for-5 with a pair of extra-base hits and a team-high three RBI.
Sophomore Jack Winnay stayed hot with a two-hit, two-RBI day, adding a pair of singles.
With the eight strikeouts, junior righthander Chase Burns became the first pitcher in the country to go over the century mark with an NCAA-leading 105 strikeouts on the year. Burns improves to 7-1 on the year and the Deacs are 8-1 this season when he takes the mound.
HOW IT HAPPENED
- Shortstop Marek Houston earned a leadoff walk to start the contest, but the Deacs were unable to scratch a run across in the top of the first.
- Starter Chase Burns picked up a pair of strikeouts in his first inning of work against the Eagles.
- Junior Seaver King lifted a ball off the wall in right field for his second triple of the year and would come home a pitch later on a single from Javar Williams to put the Deacs up 1-0 in the top of the second.
- Burns became the first pitcher in the country to reach the 100 strikeout mark this season with his first punchout in the second.
- He quickly grabbed 101 for the third out of the inning.
- With one away in the fourth, second baseman Adam Tellier roped a pitch to right field for a single, and came home on a perfectly executed hit-and-run from junior Nick Kurtz to make it 2-0 in favor of Wake Forest on the double from Kurtz.
- Playing minutes from his hometown, Newton, Mass. native Jack Winnay plated Kurtz with an RBI single to left center to stretch the lead to 3-0.
- Boston College picked up their first hit of the afternoon in the bottom of the fourth but a lineout, strikeout and flyout got Burns back in the dugout.
- For the fourth-straight game, King left the yard, depositing a 1-2 pitch over the wall in left field to extend the lead to 4-0.
- Burns picked up his sixth strikeout of the game in a three-up, three-down bottom of the fourth.
- The Eagles got on the board with an unearned run to make it 4-1 after five complete innings.
- Wake Forest immediately answered back with three runs in the sixth.
- Winnay laced a leadoff single to right field.
- Reinisch doubled to left field to plate Winnay and immediately got the run back for the Deacs.
- King collected his third hit of the afternoon with a single to left field and advanced to second on a sac bunt from freshman Javar Williams.
- After King stole third for his seventh bag of the year, catcher Cameron Gill drove him in to make it 7-1 on a fielder's choice.
- Burns made quick work of the Eagles in the sixth with another 1-2-3 inning.
- Homering for the 11th time in seven games, Kurtz launched a hanging breaking ball 411-feet just to the right of the batter's eye in center field to make it 9-1 going into the stretch.
- The Deacs added four runs in the eighth to push the lead to 13-1.
- Williams made it to third on a three-base error by the B.C. shortstop to start the frame and scored on an RBI single back up the middle by Gill.
- Freshman Cam Nelson singled to center field to move Gill to third and went to second on a passed ball.
- Boston College's second error of the plated Gill to make it 11-1.
- Tellier's second hit of the day plated Nelson for an even dozen for the Deacs.
- The Deacs final run of the day came on a Winnay sac fly to left to play Houston.
- Leftie Crawford Wade picked up the final five outs of the ballgame to seal the 13-1 win for the Deacs in eight innings.
IN THE SPOTLIGHT
- After going yard in his fourth at-bat on Friday, junior Nick Kurtz has now hit 11 home runs in the last six games. Over the last three games, Kurtz is 8-of-13 (.615) with seven home runs, 15 RBI and eight runs scored.
- Over the last seven games, Kurtz has raised his batting average .106 points. For the season, he is now hitting .323 at the plate with 14 home runs and 34 RBI while also holding over a .500 on-base percentage.
- With his two-run shot in the top of the eighth inning, Kurtz has now homered in seven-consecutive games and has 11 total during that span.
- His 14th home run of the season moves him within two home runs of third place in program history as he is just the fourth Demon Deacon to reach the 50-career home run mark.
| Rank | Name | Career Home Runs |
| 1. | Brock Wilken (2021-23) | 71 |
| 2. | Jamie D'Antona (2001-03) | 58 |
| 3. | Jake Austin (1989-92) | 55 |
| 4. | Nick Kurtz (2022-Pres.) | 53 |
- Additionally, Kurtz is the only player in Division-I to play more than 100 career games and have a career OBP of .500 or better.
- This season he has a team-best .512 on-base percentage, following up his sophomore campaign where Kurtz had an eye-popping .525 on-base percentage.
- Kurtz is currently tied for the active Division-I career lead with 146 career walks.
- The junior has now walked 146 times in 137 career games played (1.1 walks per game) and ranks third in program history for his career.
- In 209.1 career innings pitched, Chase Burns has now struckout 322 career batters. The righty finished last season ranked third nationally with 14.3 K/9 and currently sits at 16.6 K/9 through his first nine outings.
- With 322 career strikeouts, Burns surpassed South Carolina's Ty Good (303 career strikeouts) last Friday as the active Division-I baseball strikeout leaders, and currently hold a 13 strikeout lead for the top spot.
- The righty also ranks inside the top-five in strikeout-per-nine among active career players, sitting at 13.92 prior to Friday's start.
FROM COACH WALTER
"That's a good team win with a really good offensive day from Nick Kurtz, Seaver King, Adam Tellier and Jack Winnay. They all had big days for us to get three less out and save our bullpen.
Chase Burns was really good again today and Crawford Wade really came in and threw the ball well. I was really happy with our defense today. Seaver, Nick and Tellier all made a couple of plays with the gloves that helped Burns and allowed him to extend his outing.
I was happy with the way we played in all three phases of the game." - head coach Tom Walter
UP NEXT
The Deacs will look to take the series against the Eagles tomorrow on ACC Network Extra at 2 p.m.
Follow The Deacs:
GoDeacs.com | Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
Team Stats
Pitching:
W: Burns, Chase (7-1)
L: Michael Farinelli (0-3)
Batting:
2B: Kurtz, Nick 1 ; Reinisch, Jake 1
3B: King, Seaver 1
HR: Kurtz, Nick 1 ; King, Seaver 1
RBI: Kurtz, Nick 3 ; Winnay, Jack 2 ; Reinisch, Jake 1 ; King, Seaver 2 ; Williams, Javar 1 ; Gill, Cameron 2
SH: Williams, Javar 1
SF: Winnay, Jack 1
Base Running:
RUNS: Houston, Marek 1 ; Tellier, Adam 2 ; Kurtz, Nick 2 ; Winnay, Jack 1 ; Reinisch, Jake 1 ; King, Seaver 3 ; Williams, Javar 1 ; Gill, Cameron 1 ; Nelson, Cam 1
SB: King, Seaver 1
Batting:
RBI: Patrick Roche 1
SH: Sam McNulty 1
Base Running:
RUNS: Connor Dreyer 1
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