Maybe Ohio State shouldn’t let any of its sports teams play schools from the South. It hasn’t worked out well for the football team, pummeled twice in recent years in the BCS championship game. And it sure didn’t work for the Buckeyes baseball team, which lost to Florida State 37-6 in a first-round NCAA tournament game Sunday.
Obviously pitching depth was an issue for Ohio State, a solid team with a 42-19 record. The Buckeyes ended No. 22 Georgia’s season earlier Sunday and beat No. 19 Miami in March. But things tended to get ugly, too, against better competition. Ohio State lost to No. 18 Louisville 21-5, gave up 20 runs to unranked Ball State and last Friday lost 24-8 to Georgia.
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Florida State set or tied 18 NCAA, school or postseason records during the game and led 32-0 after five innings. The scary part? The Seminoles weren’t even trying to run up the score.
“A guy we’ve been platooning some goes 5-for-5,” Florida State coach Mike Martin told reporters Monday. “We started a freshman in left field and he gets three doubles.”
