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ECU takes hard-fought series win to open 2025 season

·1 hr 6 min·1 clip

Pitching is significantly ahead of our hitting right now.

February 17 sets up the recap. ECU has taken two of three from George Mason, and the room lands in a pretty honest place: good weekend, messy parts, no parade. The show has its usual local feel. They mess around with the live stream, Wagner's lag, the new panel boxes, and Scott Lorbatcher popping into the comments before the baseball talk tightens up. Norby is where the episode really settles. He hit batters, looked off, and did not give them the clean opening-game feeling anyone wanted. The panel still keeps it fair. It was the first game, and it was not the role he was expected to have. So the read is not panic. It is more about whether one run against live hitters helps him look calmer and sharper next time. UNC is the reason that matters so much. The panel treats that series like the first big temperature check of ECU's season, with Norby expected to set the Friday night tone. They admit UNC looks more talented, even if nobody on the ECU side seems thrilled to say it out loud. Still, the mood is not scared. It is more that the older Pirates have to show the younger guys what this kind of weekend demands. Colby Wallace gets the same kind of read. He had two hits against George Mason, but one left the yard and the other was ECU's only double of the weekend. The panel wants more, and because Wallace has been through UNC before, they do not treat the moment as too big for him. By the end, Austin Irby gets floated as a possible walk-off pick, which fits the episode: baseball analysis, live-chat chaos, and ECU nerves before a much bigger test.

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