BC baseball shows up and other tales of interest

Last week, you may have caught my statistical analysis of Boston College baseball in which I pointed out their offensive woes to this point.

Yesterday, against the Bryant Bulldogs, the Eagles shut every last one of us up when they took out their latent frustrations on the visiting team. In an incredible bottom of the eighth inning – one in which the Eagles entered trailing – BC scored 12 times and went on to win by a final score of 16-5.

For some perspective on how explosive this inning was for the Eagles, consider the following:

*Number of games in which BC has scored 12 or more runs: 3 (including yesterday)
*BC’s previous largest inning of the year: 5 runs, twice (against Bethune-Cookman and SIU-Edwardsville)
*Number of runs BC had scored in previous five games: 12

Not to take away from BC’s achievement, but those 12 runs were scored on only eight hits, and seven of those runs were unearned. Still, they cashed in appropriately and that will surely help the ol’ stat sheet.

In other news, there is word that Fenway Park wants to host more Winter Classic-style games featuring local college hockey talent. Naturally, Boston College, who have already done this in years past, would be invited to participate in said games in the future. I’ve always liked the Winter Classic idea and if I were in the Boston area, I’d pay to see the Eagles play outdoor hockey. Please, whatever you do, don’t complain about weather conditions: for one thing, it’s hockey: a sport spawned from the cold. Second, I’m an NFL season ticket holder, and I’ve been to games with sub-zero wind chills. Third, most of you are from New England, so toughen up, cupcakes. It’s hockey as it was meant to be and I, for one, endorse it. I don’t think I’ll get much of an argument from Eagles fans.

There’s also word that Fenway might be looking to host college football games. All I can say for it, if BC were to play in one, is that it’d certainly add a dimension to BC football games. I think more people would go/pay attention because of the novelty of seeing a football game at Fenway rather than due to the quality of the local teams involved, but hey, whatever gets people to the games. (On the minus side, I don’t even want to think about student attendance. We can’t even get half of them to walk five minutes to Alumni Stadium, though football is less of a problem than other sports.)

Speaking of football, today is one of their scheduled practice sessions, with the next session being the second intrasquad scrimmage.