We had to wait one hour, 42 minutes for this one to start as a rain storm hit the midtown-Atlanta area an hour before the regularly-scheduled first pitch.
Once things got started, the Virginia offense unloaded on Tech's Jonathan King. The Cavaliers, ranked No. 22 by Baseball America, scored seven runs in the top of the third and picked up a 14-4 victory in the first game of an Atlantic Coast Conference weekend series.
The inning started ominously for Tech as King hit Ernie Clement with a pitch and Robbie Coman bunted for a hit with Clement moving to third on a throwing error by third baseman Brandon Gold. That began a string of six consecutive batters to reach base for the Cavaliers, including a three-run double from Matt Thaiss to make it 5-0 and after RBI hits by Pavin Smith (single) and Clement (triple) it was 7-0 following an 11-batter frame.
* And that was probably the first time I've ever used the word ominously and it certainly took me long enough to get it right. Four misspellings: ominiously, ominisly, ominisley, omonously.
* We're going to start tracking home plate umpire strike calls. Tonight we had Jacob Asher:
HRike!
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