WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. \u2014 Despite a career-high 12 strikeouts from Jamie Arnold, the No. 8 Florida State baseball team fell 5-4 Friday evening at No. 12 Wake Forest. The Demon Deacons scored a pair of runs in the eighth inning to break a 3-3 tie.<\/p>\n
Arnold struck out 12 batters in 5.2 innings, matching his career-high strikeouts from earlier this season vs. Notre Dame. Wake Forest countered with Chase Burns, a projected top pick in this summer\u2019s MLB Draft, who struck out eight batters in a season-low 5.0 innings. Both pitchers allowed three runs.<\/p>\n
Max Williams was 3-for-5 for Florida State, his fifth consecutive multi-hit game, including a leadoff home run off Burns on the second pitch of the game. Cam Smith and Daniel Cantu added two hits for the Seminoles.<\/p>\n
Tied 1-1 in the fifth inning, Jaxson West gave FSU the lead with a sacrifice fly, followed by Marco Dinges\u2019 RBI single. Dinges added an RBI groundout in the ninth after Wake scored a pair of runs in the eighth inning, but Cole Roland earned his first save of the year with a strikeout to end the contest with Jordan Williams standing on second base.<\/p>\n
OF NOTE:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Max Williams hit a 400-foot home run on the second pitch of the game, his sixth of the season. It was FSU\u2019s first leadoff home run of the season.<\/p>\n Williams extended his hitting streak to eight games and his on-base streak to 10 games, both career highs. Williams was 3-for-5, his fifth straight multi-hit game. He has seven hits over his last two games.<\/p>\n Florida State has hit a home run in 33 of 37 games in 2024, including 12 consecutive.<\/p>\n Cam Smith was 2-for-5 with a run scored, extending his on-base streak to 47 games, the 14th-longest streak in Florida State history. Smith is hitting .410 on the season and has multiple hits in six consecutive games; Smith leads FSU with 22 multi-hit games this year.<\/p>\n Jaime Ferrer was 1-for-4 and was hit by a pitch. Ferrer leads FSU with 13 HBP on the season and 42 for his career, the fifth-most in Florida State history.<\/p>\n James Tibbs was 1-for-2 with two walks and two runs scored. Tibbs leads Florida State with a .411 batting average. Tibbs and Smith are the only Power 5 teammates batting over .400 this season.<\/p>\n Starting pitcher Jamie Arnold tied a career high with 12 strikeouts. His previous 12-strikeout performance also came in just 5.2 innings pitched.<\/p>\n Tibbs, Ferrer and Daniel Cantu stole bases for FSU. For the season, FSU is 44-for-48 on the basepaths. Cantu\u2019s stolen base was his first of the season.<\/p>\n Wake Forest starting pitcher Chase Burns had allowed four stolen bases on the season before Friday; all three of FSU\u2019s swipes were off Burns.<\/p>\n Cantu was 2-for-5 with a double and his first stolen base. Cantu\u2019s 12 doubles are third on the team, behind Drew Faurot (15) and James Tibbs (14).<\/p>\n UP NEXT:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Florida State and Wake Forest will play game two of the series Saturday at 4 p.m. at David F. Couch Ballpark. LHP Carson Dorsey will make his third start of the season for the Noles.<\/p>\n *Talk about this story with other die-hard Florida State baseball fans in the FSU Baseball Forum<\/strong><\/a>*<\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/p>\n The post Seminoles drop opener at Wake Forest despite 12 Ks from Jamie Arnold<\/a> appeared first on On3<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. \u2014 Despite a career-high 12 strikeouts from Jamie Arnold, the No. 8 Florida…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48366"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48388,"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48366\/revisions\/48388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}