Losing is no fun.
If it’s to the North Avenue Trade School in any aspect of competition, it’s even worse.
In one respect, it was a let-down that two top-five teams faced off Tuesday night at Truist Park and that it was not able to be watched on TV.
On the other – perhaps it was for the best that Georgia fans did not have to see what looks to be the weakness of this team – the depth of the bullpen in a 14-4 loss.
It’s tough to swallow as fans of The University of Georgia, but at the end of it, games like
this don’t really matter. It’s why in the past when Georgia and Tech had games impacted by weather, little effort was made to reschedule them.
What does matter? Big conference series’ that’ll decide whether or not Georgia can gain a national seed. Both Georgia and the Rebels are slotted in at least one recent projection to be regional hosts. I’m pretty sure that a series win helps a lot more than a pedestrian midweek series.
Per Baseball America, the Dawgs are currently in line as a regional host and No. 7 national seed. Five spots lower, though, and that national seed goes away as well as hosting a super regional.
Florida lost to Jacksonville this week for the second time this season, but odds are fairly good that if you stack them up weekend starters vs. weekend starters, UF prevails.
In the end, midweek games are a good chance to do things well and be in good shape for when it matters – weekend series in the nation’s toughest conference.
Go Dawgs!
