Georgia baseball predictions for the Athens Regional
Georgia baseball predictions for the Athens Regional
The Athens Regional features the No. 7 national seed Georgia Bulldogs along with the Duke Blue Devils, Oklahoma State Cowboys and Binghamton Bearcats.
Georgia leads the nations in home runs with 133 and has the No. 2 RPI in the country. The Bulldogs have not lost a series at home all season despite playing in baseball's top conference, the SEC. Georgia is going to be a tough out at home, but the Bulldogs are far from invincible. Georgia does not have an elite pitching staff and has struggled hitting against left-handed pitchers this season.
Oklahoma State left-handed pitcher Harrison Bodendorf, a first-team All-Big 12 selection, is someone Georgia would like to avoid having to face. Duke and Oklahoma State both won their respective conferences last season and made the NCAA Tournament, so the Athens Regional has a lot of experience and talent.
Athens Regional prediction
We predict that the No. 1 seed Georgia Bulldogs (42-15, 18-12 in SEC) will beat No. 4 seeded Binghamton (29-24, 13-11 in American East) on Friday, May 30 to open the regional. Later on Friday, we predict that No. 2 Duke (37-19, 17-13 in ACC) will beat No. 3 Oklahoma State (28-23, 15-12 in Big 12) in a tightly contested game. Weather could cause a few delays on Friday, but it should be good for the rest of the weekend.
On Saturday, we project that Georgia will defeat Duke and that Oklahoma State will eliminate Binghamton. On Sunday, we predict that Duke beats Oklahoma State to stave off elimination and then defeats Georgia to hand the Bulldogs their first loss of the regional. We have Georgia winning in a winner-take-all Game 7 against Duke on Monday to advance from the regional in dramatic fashion.
We predict that Georgia will play the No. 10 national seed Ole Miss Rebels in the Athens Super Regional in the next round of the NCAA Tournament.
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