TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – The Pitt baseball team (7-7, 0-1 ACC)) battled for 12 innings but dropped its 2023 Atlantic Coast Conference opener to Florida State (10-3, 1-0 ACC), 3-2, on Friday at Mike Martin Field at Dick Howser Stadium.
The Seminoles walked off the Panthers in the bottom of the 12th inning on a single through the left side by Jordan Carrion that scored Cam Smith from third.
Jack Sokol gave the Panthers another strong start, going 5.1 innings and striking out nine while permitting just two earned runs on seven hits and two walks. He gave way to a bullpen that yielded just one earned run on four hits and three walks the rest of the way. Dylan Simmons struck out one in two-thirds of an inning. Jonathan Bautista went two scoreless innings and struck out two without allowing a hit. Nash Bryan struck out three in three innings.
Pitt broke a scoreless tie in the top of the fourth as Noah Martinez led off with a double down the left field line and scored two outs later on a single to left by AJ Nessler.
Florida State answered in the sixth and took a 2-1 lead with two runs on three hits.
The Panthers tied the game up in the eighth on an RBI ground out by Kyle Hess that scored CJ Funk, who had led off the inning with a base hit to right.
Both the Panthers and the Seminoles stranded the go-ahead run on base in the ninth. Pitt threatened in the 11th with runners at first and third and in the 12th with runners…
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