Georgia Tech pitcher Ben Parr said his left-handed hitting teammates were known to be susceptible to side-arming left-handed pitchers. Not on Tuesday.
Daniel Spingola took one of reliever Austin Lord's side-arming deliveries in the seventh and deposited a three-run home run over the right-center field wall for the difference in Tech's 4-3 victory over Mercer at Russ Chandler.
Parr allowed three earned runs - one of which came in the third when he was late covering first on a two-out infield single and the other two were aided by a pair of errors and two singles allowed after Parr had left the game in the eighth - in 7 1/3 innings of work to pick up the win. And it was an important win for the Yellow Jackets heading into an Atlantic Coast Conference series with Virginia this weekend in Atlanta.
"They bring in a side-armer, which is supposed to be kind of lethal on our lefties (and Spingola) just put a big swing on one," said Parr, who improved to 5-1.
"That's a big hit, it's a huge hit," said Tech coach Danny Hall.
* Nice start for Mercer's D.J. Johnson, who went five innings and only allowed A.J. Murray's solo home run in the fourth. Johnson's had a tough senior season (9.36 ERA coming in), but made his first start since March 7 and scattered four hits.
* Parr called Spingola "Spingy", a nickname we discovered back on March 20. Some other nicknames that aren't really nicknames from Tuesday's game:
Mercer
Danny Edgeworth - "Edge"
Conrad Cornell - "Cor", "Rad"
Matt Meeder - "Meeds"
Jose Hernandez - "Hose"
Georgia Tech
Brandon Gold - "Big G"
Tanner Shelton - "Shelt"
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