Seminoles Destroy Stanford

Today is my wife's birthday. She is amazing and another FSU grad. She also runs a zoo blog with me and runs another blog by herself. Today she is doing a huge giveaway on her blog, so I invite you to check it out. Anyways, the Seminoles baseball team gave her an early birthday present last night and I am going to write about it here.

Florida State won last night 17-1. They absolutely crushed the Stanford Cardinal. Not just that, but they did it against Mark Appel. Appel lasted only 4 innings against the Noles. He walked 4(with the Orioles walk problems out of starters, I am glad we passed). The noise at Dick Howser noticeably got to him and he was unable to adjust. Those Seminole bats didn't help out much either. Despite only giving up 5 hits, Appel gave up 7 runs in those 4 innings of work.

Then the bullpen entered for Stanford and got hammered. They gave up 10 runs over 4. Stanford didn't even pitch 9 innings and gave up 17. That is a true testament to the Seminoles ability to hit the baseball.

That offense was paced by Devon Travis. All the Seminoles were mashing, but none better than Travis. He went 3-5, scored 3 times, drove in 6, and hit 2 home runs. The home runs were his 6th and 7th of the season. Even taking out the RBIs, Travis beat the Cardinal by himself with 2 home runs. Absolutely an incredible performance by the 2nd baseman for the Seminoles. Hope he can keep it up.

Brandon Leibrandt was again fantastic for the Noles on the mound picking up the victory. He was also named to the Freshman All-American team earlier in the day. These Noles are not playing around. Now, these Noles are one win away from a trip to Omaha.

-Noland