Six is a number that stands out for NC State as it opened the 2017 baseball season with a weekend set in Hawai’i. The Pack enter the season ranked #6 in D1Baseball.com’s poll, but they also will run out three starters over the weekend who finished last year with an ERA over six. Only one of those three, Sean Adler, made a start a year ago.
Adler got the opening day nod and did not look like the guy who posted a 6.94 ERA last year. The senior lefty combined with two relievers to scatter five hits in a 4-0 shutout for the Pack, their first opening day shutout since a 1-0 win over Old Dominion in 1973.