UMaine pitcher Nick Sinacola a strikeout master
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Maine pitcher Nick Sinacola is averaging more than 18 strikeouts per nine innings and has allowed just three runs and 12 hits in 26 2/3 innings.
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Nick Sinacola, the junior right-handed ace of the University of Maine baseball team, has reached a level of excellence all pitchers strive for but few reach. Batters know what Sinacola is going to throw, but they still can’t hit it.
In Sinacola’s start against Maryland-Baltimore County on March 27 – a game in which Sinacola struck out 16 in a seven-inning, 4-1 win – one hitter looked at two fastballs that painted the outside corner to fall behind in the count 0-2. Maine catcher Ryan Turenne watched the hitter step out of the box and psyche himself out.