Pitt Baseball
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Contrary to my earlier post, pitching has looked much better this series. Another good win tonight!
Pitching basically imploded in a loss to wv at PNC tonight.Jumped out to a 4-0 lead but down hill from there.
Seems like the situation is that they have enough arms that they trust for the weekend series (which are obviously the most important) but it makes the weeknight games pretty ugly. That’s borne out in the results.
This seems to have been a problem for 20 years. You could argue dropping these midweek games has costs us a couple NCAA bids during that time.
They most certainly do not have enough arms for the weekend series. Pitt's three starters this weekend have ERAs of 6.95, 7.48 and 6.11. That is, to put it mildly, awful. By way of comparison (and yeah, they are the number two team in the country so the comparison is somewhat unfair), Wake's three starters this weekend have ERAs of 2.47, 1.72 and 2.44.
Or here's another way to look at it. If we add up the ERAs of the three pitchers who are starting for Wake this weekend that number would almost be less than the lowest ERA of the three guys starting for Pitt this weekend.
This year, other than maybe Bryan, Pitt doesn't even really have good relievers. Bryan's ERA is 3.33. Simmons' ERA is the second best among the relievers, and it's 4.82. Fernandez is third best at 5.19. That is, well, not good. Not good at all.
Before today's games Pitt's team ERA was 13th (out of 14) in the ACC at 6.57. After today's shellacking by the end of the day it might be 14th. If the Pitt pitcher with the lowest qualified ERA would drop their ERA by exactly 1.50 runs per nine (which would be a huge drop) they would be 20th in the league in ERA. That is how far from having good pitching Pitt is this season.
Wednesday was disappointed on how the pitching seems to blow leads when at PNC. Remember last year against PS. Was happy with the great win Friday and don’t know the details of the win. Yesterday I was excited for the middle game of the series on ACCN. Knowing Lowder was pitching didn’t have much hope but this was an old fashioned beat down. He seems to be the real deal, but according to the announcers (Roddy and the female) he was second coming of Cy Young! Truly our pitching and hitting are an issue and I’m hoping we can rebound and take the series against a great WF team today!
Dont get me wrong, I’m not a fan of the mercy rule,but in high school and college it has been used for obvious reasons.But if any game needed to end early it was yesterday’s.I read the current rule and it met the criteria.
I think (but am not positive) that the ACC does not use the run rule in conference games, except in the conference tournament where they typically are playing multiple games on the same field on the same day and therefore a 23-4 game that takes over four hours to play can screw up the schedule for the rest of the day.
I saw this weekend Va Tech was 24-9 over FSU in Tallahassee
And FSU was batting in the bottom of the 9th
And FSU was batting in the bottom of the 9th
A loss to a MEAC team 5-8 years back cost us a bid. Then there was another year where I felt a few midweek losses cost us. Our record in midweek games has been, seemingly, not much better than our ACC record which is perplexing because you figure the Kent States and Youngstown States are also throwing their 4th and 5th pitchers.
Beat the Bears 5-3 this afternoon.
A couple of unusual plays today, including Pitt scoring two runs on a sacrifice fly, Cal having a runner score from first on a single and Pitt pulling off a squeeze play.
Logan Evans struck out a career high 10. And maybe the craziest thing of all, the Pitt relievers only gave up one run in 2-2/3 innings!
A couple of unusual plays today, including Pitt scoring two runs on a sacrifice fly, Cal having a runner score from first on a single and Pitt pulling off a squeeze play.
Logan Evans struck out a career high 10. And maybe the craziest thing of all, the Pitt relievers only gave up one run in 2-2/3 innings!
The Pitt weekend staff against Non-ACC (or SEC obviously) lineups would probably fare pretty well.
Against non-ACC teams this season:
Jack Sokol: 18 ip, 13 earned runs, 6.50 ERA
Logan Evans: 7.1 ip, 2 earned runs, 2.45 ERA
Kyle Mosley: 13 ip, 10 earned runs, 6.92 ERA
Really small sample sizes, obviously.
Hard to really say because Sokol is (mostly) a very different guy now than he was in February and Evans was hurt this year before ACC play started.
