{"id":466,"date":"2023-03-21T04:03:00","date_gmt":"2023-03-21T08:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/baseball\/?p=466"},"modified":"2023-03-20T18:29:49","modified_gmt":"2023-03-20T22:29:49","slug":"first-nsac-baseball-matchup-of-the-season-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/baseball\/2023\/03\/21\/first-nsac-baseball-matchup-of-the-season-today\/","title":{"rendered":"First NSAC Baseball Matchup of Season to Feature Top Pitchers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>HAMPTON, Va. <\/strong>&#8211; Defending Small College World Series Champion Apprentice will open conference play this afternoon as it hosts Mid-Atlantic Christian and features two of the top pitchers in the USCAA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The homestanding Builders (21-5 overall, 0-0 NSAC) will start true freshman Nick Redman, who through 29 innings is 5-0 with an ERA of 0.63, averaging 12.87 strikeouts a game. Additionally, he has allowed only six walks and two earned runs in his appearances so far this season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Mustangs (12-16, 0-0) will counter with junior Caleb Whitley, whose 48 strikeouts is second only to Redman&#8217;s 50.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Builders reach the halfway point of the season as the hottest team in the New South with a sparkling 21-5 record, including a 4-game sweep of St. Vincent over the weekend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Mustangs are glad to leave Florida where they struggled at 1-5.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>First pitch is scheduled for 3:00 pm at War Memorial Stadium in Hampton, Virginia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HAMPTON, Va. &#8211; Defending Small College World Series Champion Apprentice will open conference play this afternoon as it hosts Mid-Atlantic Christian and features two of the top pitchers in the USCAA. The homestanding Builders (21-5 overall, 0-0 NSAC) will start true freshman Nick Redman, who through 29 innings is 5-0 with an ERA of 0.63, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":468,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-apprentice","category-macu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=466"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":483,"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466\/revisions\/483"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}