Indiana's pitching seems to be in better shape than ours heading into the final game - not too surprising since we had to play an extra game going through the loser's bracket. Perhaps it's time for one of our frosh pitchers to return to his early season form.
Indiana has not yet used the guy who was their Sunday starter the last half (or so) of the season, Brian Korte. I would assume we will see him today to start. The guy is 3-0 with a 2.11 ERA and a 0.232 BA against. He doesn't seem to go very many innings (6.1 was the most I could find, usually 3-5), but obviously has not been allowing a lot of runs while he is in. He is a senior, who has been in and out of their starting rotation over his career.
They got to this point (i.e. having a Sunday starter available) by starting their designated closer in game 1 - his first career start. He went 4.0 innings and hasn't appeared since. Presumably he is ready to show up in relief again.
Not sure what Stanford will do. The guy with the most work this season who hasn't pitched much yet in the regional is Chris Viall, though he did pitch to 1 batter (2 pitches) to finish the first Indiana game. Not sure where he stands at the moment in the pitching pecking order - he last started in the late mid-week game vs SJS that we lost (went 3.0 innings facing 2 batters in the fourth) then pitched as part of the end-game meltdown in game 3 vs WSU. He was quite strong in the early season, getting the win vs Rice, had good starts vs Texas, Kansas (didn't go long enough to get the W), and pitched 6 good innings in a loss vs USC. He then had a couple of tough outings vs UO and OSU and dropped from the weekend starter role for Hochstatter.
Another frosh, Tyler Thorne, has 5 starts on the year and has only pitched one inning (20 pitches) in Bloomington. I don't think that any of those starts were during a weekend series.
The guys who seem almost certainly out are Hanewich (113 pitches yesterday), Vanegas (80 pitches yesterday), and Hoschstatter (114 pitches Saturday). Quantrill had 104 pitches in his complete game on Friday.
Indiana has not yet used the guy who was their Sunday starter the last half (or so) of the season, Brian Korte. I would assume we will see him today to start. The guy is 3-0 with a 2.11 ERA and a 0.232 BA against. He doesn't seem to go very many innings (6.1 was the most I could find, usually 3-5), but obviously has not been allowing a lot of runs while he is in. He is a senior, who has been in and out of their starting rotation over his career.
They got to this point (i.e. having a Sunday starter available) by starting their designated closer in game 1 - his first career start. He went 4.0 innings and hasn't appeared since. Presumably he is ready to show up in relief again.
Not sure what Stanford will do. The guy with the most work this season who hasn't pitched much yet in the regional is Chris Viall, though he did pitch to 1 batter (2 pitches) to finish the first Indiana game. Not sure where he stands at the moment in the pitching pecking order - he last started in the late mid-week game vs SJS that we lost (went 3.0 innings facing 2 batters in the fourth) then pitched as part of the end-game meltdown in game 3 vs WSU. He was quite strong in the early season, getting the win vs Rice, had good starts vs Texas, Kansas (didn't go long enough to get the W), and pitched 6 good innings in a loss vs USC. He then had a couple of tough outings vs UO and OSU and dropped from the weekend starter role for Hochstatter.
Another frosh, Tyler Thorne, has 5 starts on the year and has only pitched one inning (20 pitches) in Bloomington. I don't think that any of those starts were during a weekend series.
The guys who seem almost certainly out are Hanewich (113 pitches yesterday), Vanegas (80 pitches yesterday), and Hoschstatter (114 pitches Saturday). Quantrill had 104 pitches in his complete game on Friday.