Weekend Review: Beckham and Strasburg Continue to Excel

Who can stop Gordon Beckham? The junior shortstop blasted two more home runs over the weekend, with his total now at 19 and the Bulldogs moved to 10th on Baseball America’s top 25 this week. Beckham has more home runs than strikeouts (13) and is slugging at a .903 clip.

After a 23 strikeout performance last week, sophomore right hander Stephen Strasburg struck out the first six UNLV batters he faced on Friday. He lasted seven innings, walking none and striking out thirteen. His ERA is now sitting at 1.73.

On Friday, Brian Matusz won his seventh game in a row while striking out ten in eight innings. The candidate to go #1 in this year’s draft surrendered just two unearned runs in the 9-2 win over Saint Mary’s College.

UNC Freshman right hander Matt Harvey won his second game of the week on Sunday to improve to 6-2. He struck out eight in 5 1/3 innings while allowing just one earned run on six hits and three walks.

Miami first baseman Yonder Alonso smacked two home runs Sunday in an 11-10 win over FSU, including his first career grand slam. Buster Posey drove in three runs for the Seminoles.

Grant Green extended his hitting streak to 13 games on Sunday after a 1-4 performance. The sophomore is now hitting .403 after a slow start with six homers, thirteen doubles, and two triples. He’s also been striking out less, with 24 in 32 games.

Ryan Flaherty his two home runs Sunday to lead the Commodores to a 9-5 victory over Auburn. The shortstop now has ten homers on the season. He had this to say after the game, “I spent a lot of time in the off-season working on hitting and that has really helped… I just try and continue to develop as a player and hitting the ball the other way has also helped as well as getting good counts to hit in."

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