{"id":613628,"date":"2026-03-08T17:54:21","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T17:54:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/613628\/"},"modified":"2026-03-08T17:54:21","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T17:54:21","slug":"hoos-earn-weekend-series-win-at-7-north-carolina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/613628\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Hoos earn weekend series win at #7 North Carolina"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/uva-baseball.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=\" http:=\"\" alt=\"uva baseball\" width=\"555\" height=\"312\" data-lazy- data-lazy- data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/uva-baseball.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p><\/a>Photo: UVA Athletics<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"general-link\" href=\"https:\/\/virginiasports.com\/sports\/baseball\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Virginia<\/a> was thisclose, twice, to finishing off a weekend series sweep at #7 North Carolina, which rallied in the ninth to force extras, then scored two in the 11th to salvage Game 3 of the series with an 8-7 win on Saturday night in Boshamer Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>The \u2019Hoos (13-3, 2-1 ACC) rode to an easy 9-2 victory in Game 1 of a Saturday doubleheader, behind a stellar outing from starting pitcher Max Stammel (1-0, 3.24 ERA, 1.02 WHIP), who held the Tar Heels (13-3, 1-2 ACC) to a run on three hits, striking out four and walking one.<\/p>\n<p>Sam Harris (.353 BA, 1.170 OPS, 4 HRs, 16 RBIs), Zach Jackson (.333 BA, 1.117 OPS, 4 HRs, 12 RBIs) and Noah Murray (.182 BA, .833 OPS, 4 HRs, 16 RBIs) each homered in the doubleheader, and Joe Tiroly (.306 BA, .808 OPS, 1 HR, 14 RBIs) was 5-for-10 at the plate, with two runs scored and two RBIs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am just really proud of them,\u201d first-year Virginia coach Chris Pollard said. \u201cI said, I know that you\u2019re tired, and you\u2019re hungry. It has been a long week. We have been on the road for eight days with six road games, and I just wanted them to know that I am really proud of them. Going 4-2 on the road, going back to Sunday versus VCU. I think during the eight-game road trip, they have handled it really well, they have grown up a lot.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Photo: UVA Athletics Virginia was thisclose, twice, to finishing off a weekend series sweep at #7 North Carolina,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":613629,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2290],"tags":[5,14309],"class_list":["post-613628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-baseball","tag-baseball","tag-uva-baseball"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116194840663031406","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=613628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613628\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/613629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=613628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=613628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=613628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}