grizzlyjournal
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Maybe, if stats matter.
After an encouraging weekend in Seattle, behind stellar pitching from Allie Brock and steadily improving pitching from frosh Grace Haegele, the GrizSB, solidly in last place, nonetheless compare decently against the other Big Sky teams.
Despite the unfortunate circumstances of pitching injuries to Allie and Dana Butterfield, and Montana’s frosh pitchers Haegele and Evelyn O'Brien thus being thrown to the lions, the Griz pitching era is 5th of the 6 teams at 7.18, almost a full point better than PSU at 8.08. UNC and ISU have eras of 4.37 and 4.63 while WSU is down a notch at 6.58.
Montana fares best defensively, with a fielding percentage of 0.952 (29 errors), tied for third with Sac (29 errors) and barely behind PSU at 0.955 (23 errors). Weber (967) is clearly the best defensive team with only 18 errors while UNC (.943 & 34 errors) and ISU (.938 & 41 errors) clearly lower.
Conversely Montana fares the worst (by far) in offense, with a batting average of .209, well below the other five teams. The Griz have lost four one-run games (1-0, 2-1, 2-1, 5-4) though, so their record might be slightly deceptive. Unless the bats come alive, I can’t see Montana being very competitive, even if Allie returns to form.
At this point, Sac State looks like the clear favorite.
I've watched every game that's been streamed (not very many) and rank Montana's outfield and catching as good as last season, the right side of the infield as very solid and the left side of the infield as a question mark. Ironically, two of Montana's close losses hinged on fielding errors by pitchers.What I've seen of soph Hannah Jablonski at 1b is very promising.
Most disappointing to me, which has no bearing on this team, is that there are only 10 home games this year. That compares to 17 last spring. Yikes.
After an encouraging weekend in Seattle, behind stellar pitching from Allie Brock and steadily improving pitching from frosh Grace Haegele, the GrizSB, solidly in last place, nonetheless compare decently against the other Big Sky teams.
Despite the unfortunate circumstances of pitching injuries to Allie and Dana Butterfield, and Montana’s frosh pitchers Haegele and Evelyn O'Brien thus being thrown to the lions, the Griz pitching era is 5th of the 6 teams at 7.18, almost a full point better than PSU at 8.08. UNC and ISU have eras of 4.37 and 4.63 while WSU is down a notch at 6.58.
Montana fares best defensively, with a fielding percentage of 0.952 (29 errors), tied for third with Sac (29 errors) and barely behind PSU at 0.955 (23 errors). Weber (967) is clearly the best defensive team with only 18 errors while UNC (.943 & 34 errors) and ISU (.938 & 41 errors) clearly lower.
Conversely Montana fares the worst (by far) in offense, with a batting average of .209, well below the other five teams. The Griz have lost four one-run games (1-0, 2-1, 2-1, 5-4) though, so their record might be slightly deceptive. Unless the bats come alive, I can’t see Montana being very competitive, even if Allie returns to form.
At this point, Sac State looks like the clear favorite.
I've watched every game that's been streamed (not very many) and rank Montana's outfield and catching as good as last season, the right side of the infield as very solid and the left side of the infield as a question mark. Ironically, two of Montana's close losses hinged on fielding errors by pitchers.What I've seen of soph Hannah Jablonski at 1b is very promising.
Most disappointing to me, which has no bearing on this team, is that there are only 10 home games this year. That compares to 17 last spring. Yikes.