After a rough game on Tues, Uconn travels up to Boston College and wins 12-1 in a mercy rule 7 inn. game.
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He's back !....#44Huskies were down 2 All-BE starters with the Albino Rhino missing his 9 strait games and now speedster David Smith out....
This year is much more perplexing though. Uconn did loose 3 starters to the MLB draft from last years team that had a 3.78 ERA. This year the team ERA is up to a whopping 4.97.The history for UConn the last few years in the NCAA tournament is that their pitching has been exposed and raked as they have advanced and played better teams in the tournament. We will see what happens this year, but that has been their historical weakness.
In depth breakdown from The Uconn Blog of why Uconn baseball playing in the Big East with really bad teams like Butler and Nova is a detriment to the NCAA's. Also mention on pitching situation.Kinda surprising (top 10) with the bad RPI loss to Butler.....
You can expect that ERA to jump once you get in the postseason and if you look at UConn's regular season vs. postseason stats the last few years, there has been a huge jump in ERA from regular to postseason. When this becomes a pattern and the pitchers you brought in to rely on are not showing development or the ability to adjust to a higher level, you have to start questioning the coaching of the pitchers. It's something they need to look at if the pitching is once again shellacked in the postseason. Baseball is a game of continual adjustments. You look for improvement, the making of adjustments in pitch selection or usage, etc. Either it will happen or not.This year is much more perplexing though. Uconn did loose 3 starters to the MLB draft from last years team that had a 3.78 ERA. This year the team ERA is up to a whopping 4.97......With starting pitching like that no wonder the team needs to ave. 8.3 runs and hit .303 to be 38-12 and in the top 10.
Yeah the more we see it, the more the Uconn pitching staff is starting to resemble the Boston Red Sox..... with 5 of their 6 starters with ERA's over 5.40 , SMH !The team as a whole needs to start pitching better. As you pointed out above:
Well Sears gave Uconn his game of the year giving up just 1 run (on 5 hits/ no walks with 8 K's). He saved the pitching staff for SAT....eliminating Georgetown 10-1.... they move on to Xavier ( 2pm) and the Championship round (Huskies need to win 2 games )......Oh and the Albino Rhino got the party started for the offense.Another guy Andrew Sears (8-1/ 2.29 ) who was brought in from D-2 as a Friday starter is even worse at 6.62 in 12 starts.