Much needed sweep for the baseball program at Pittsburgh over the weekend (8-1, 7-1, 7-3,) after being swept in their last two series against Louisville and Virginia.
Sophomore pitcher Ryan Smoyer threw 4 1/3 scoreless innings in Sunday's win to improve to 4-0 on the season, after just pitching a complete game shutout against Eastern Michigan last Tuesday.
"All of our pitching did a great job this weekend," head coach Mik Aoki told UND.com "Obviously Evy struggled a little bit early, but I'm proud of the way that he got himself composed and got a few outs for us. Obviously Ryan's (Smoyer) outing was really important for us to stem the tide until we could string some quality at-bats together.
"I've been saying to the guys all along that we're fine, we don't need to worry about it and I don't think we really needed to. We just need to be who and what we are and when we do that we are pretty good. Obviously with the series against Louisville and Virginia it would have been nice to come away with a win or two in those series, but I thought we played well. There was no need to hit the panic button. We came out here and played to who and what we are, and that's a team that pitches pretty well and defends at a high level. And when we are stringing together quality at-bats we can be a pretty good team offensively as well."
Smoyer allowed just three hits and no walks during Sunday's outing. Additionally, all nine players that took at-bats for the Irish earned hits.
Notre Dame's now back to 10 games above .500, sitting at 20-10 overall but 6-9 in the ACC.
Next up, they'll play an exhibition game Tuesday night against the South Bend Cubs at Four Winds Field. First pitch is scheduled for 6 p.m. ET.
This post was edited on 4/6 5:54 PM by Jordan Wells
Sophomore pitcher Ryan Smoyer threw 4 1/3 scoreless innings in Sunday's win to improve to 4-0 on the season, after just pitching a complete game shutout against Eastern Michigan last Tuesday.
"All of our pitching did a great job this weekend," head coach Mik Aoki told UND.com "Obviously Evy struggled a little bit early, but I'm proud of the way that he got himself composed and got a few outs for us. Obviously Ryan's (Smoyer) outing was really important for us to stem the tide until we could string some quality at-bats together.
"I've been saying to the guys all along that we're fine, we don't need to worry about it and I don't think we really needed to. We just need to be who and what we are and when we do that we are pretty good. Obviously with the series against Louisville and Virginia it would have been nice to come away with a win or two in those series, but I thought we played well. There was no need to hit the panic button. We came out here and played to who and what we are, and that's a team that pitches pretty well and defends at a high level. And when we are stringing together quality at-bats we can be a pretty good team offensively as well."
Smoyer allowed just three hits and no walks during Sunday's outing. Additionally, all nine players that took at-bats for the Irish earned hits.
Notre Dame's now back to 10 games above .500, sitting at 20-10 overall but 6-9 in the ACC.
Next up, they'll play an exhibition game Tuesday night against the South Bend Cubs at Four Winds Field. First pitch is scheduled for 6 p.m. ET.
This post was edited on 4/6 5:54 PM by Jordan Wells
