Prior to Saturday night’s baseball game between North Carolina and N.C. State, there was perhaps no better starting pitcher in the ACC than the Wolfpack’s Brian Brown.
He was 6-0 in 10 starts and had a sub-one ERA (0.99). In the 63-plus innings he had pitched this season, no one had hit a homer against him.
Until Saturday night.
The UNC Tar Heels (30-13) hit three — two in the fourth inning — off Brown, and held on to beat the Wolfpack (31-10) 8-6, taking the second of its three-game series. The Tar Heels also took the first game 6-5 on Doak Field at Dail Park on Friday.