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After a solid 6-1 start to the season, the Pitt baseball team has been struggling lately. The Panthers dropped games to the likes of Wofford, USC Upstate, Kent State, and Wright State even before they got into ACC play. Since then? They were swept by Louisville and managed to take only one out of three against Notre Dame.
At 1-5 in conference heading into this weekend, they really needed a positive showing. Fortunately, they got it with a sweep of Virginia Tech. The Panthers were impressive, outscoring the Hokies by a combined 20 runs to nine. That again put the baseball team up over .500 as they currently have an 11-10 record.
Pitt has been plagued for the past several years by plenty of bad losses and this year hasn't been any exception to that. And as we've discussed before, that's made it difficult for the program to make any real progress since the ACC schedule is extremely difficult.
Before the season began, I said that Pitt really needed to get over the hump and produce a record over .500 for the first time as an ACC member. They were close last season, but still fell short at 25-26. At only 11-10 at this point in the year, it will be an uphill battle to get there. But hopefully the series against Virginia Tech provided a bit of a spark.
Next up, Pitt faces West Virginia at home on Tuesday before a road series with Duke over the weekend.
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