North Carolina State University Athletics
Surkamp Wins For Giants, Brackman Recalled By Yankees
9/7/2011 12:00:00 AM | Baseball
Sept. 7, 2011
RALEIGH, N.C. — Teammates for two seasons at NC State and at Cincinnati’s Moeller High School for three seasons prior to that, righthander Andrew Brackman and lefthander Eric Surkamp each had a big day in Major League Baseball on Tuesday.
Surkamp, who played for the Wolfpack from 2006-08, made his second appearance for the San Francisco Giants and picked up his first big league “W” with five innings of work in San Francisco’s 6-4 victory at San Diego. Surkamp allowed three runs on five hits to get the win. He struck out two and walked one.
“This is everything you dream of, especially when you’re trying to catch Arizona,” Surkamp told the Giants’ official website, sfgiants.com. “It’s awesome to think that they believe in you.”
The Giants are six games behind the Arizona Diamondbacks in the National League West following Tuesday’s win over the Padres.
Surkamp was promoted to San Francisco on Aug. 26 after tearing up the Double-A Eastern League for the Richmond Flying Squirrels. He went 10-4 with a 2.02 ERA in 23 appearances, 22 of them starts. He made his first start Aug. 28 with a six-inning no-decision vs. Houston, then made a start with the Class A San Jose Giants five days later as the big league team was able to skip his spot in the rotation.
Brackman, meanwhile, has yet to make his major league debut, but got called up by the parent Yankees after a late-season turnaround at Scranton/Wilkes-Barre, the Yankees’s Triple-A affiliate in the International League.
Brackman, who pitched at NC State from 2005-07 and was New York’s first-round pick in the 2007 June draft, made some late-season mechanical changes to his delivery and turned a miserable season into a bad one. He went 1-0 with a save and a 2.35 ERA in 12 appearances after the All-Star break for Scranton/Wilkes-Barre. His final numbers: 3-6 with a 6.00 ERA in 33 games, including 13 starts.
“I finished the season pretty strong,” Brackman told the Yankees’ official website, yankees.com. “It was a rough season again, but I feel pretty confident with where I’m at and how I’m throwing the ball.”
