BC baseball loses to HC, resume takes a blow

Boston College baseball had the lead on a dreary, cold day in Worcester, but the Holy Cross Crusaders came from behind to give the Eagles a 3-2 loss on Wednesday evening. The defeat pushes BC’s record so far this season to 8-10 (2-4), while Holy Cross are 8-8-1.

Andrew Lawrence, today’s starting pitcher for BC, plated the only two Eagle runs of the day when he hit a two-run homerun off of Josh Hauser in the 3rd. The Cross would come back, however, scoring twice in the fifth to tie the game and eventually pushing the winning run across in the 7th, giving reliever Matt Brazis the loss for the Eagles. Brendan McCrea got in the win column for the first time this year for the Crusaders.

Being completely blunt, this was a crappy loss for the Eagles. Holy Cross isn’t that good of a team, and evidently, neither is BC at this juncture. BC has played some strong teams early on (and lost to all of them), but now we’ve gotten a loss to one of the lesser teams on the non-conference schedule. The rest of the defeats on the schedule aren’t so bad, so it can be absorbed, but now we are starting to see the hill which BC baseball will have to climb in order to make something out of their season. The ACC is a tough conference to win games in, and Boston College doesn’t have the elite talent that some of the southern programs do, so losing to a team like the Crusaders really doesn’t help matters much. Each loss as such means they’ll have to win that many more games in-conference to balance it all out and make their resume respectable.

If you were planning on attending any of the three games between Boston College and Virginia Tech up in Chestnut Hill this weekend, then I hope you know your way down to Kingston, RI. BC isn’t ready for baseball, so the series has been moved to the campus of the University of Rhode Island. The Eagles will still be the home team, but, you know.