The Nebraska baseball team’s offense showed up against Cal Poly. The pitching staff, on the other hand, had its worst day of the year.
For the Nebraska baseball team, home cooking tasted just as bad as what they were eating on the road. The Cornhuskers opened up play at Haymarket Park for the first time this season.
The game, against Cal Poly is the first of a nine-game homestand. After spending the first few weeks of the season out in Arizona, the return to Lincoln was supposed to be a way for the team to hit the reset button.
In the Thursday loss, it just looked like more of the same. For the fifth time in six games, the pitching staff gave up six or more runs. To the surprise of no one, for the fourth time in six games, the Huskers lost.
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This time, Cal Poly managed to hammer out 14 runs against a Cornhuskers bullpen that hasn’t been particularly good this season. They managed to get those 14 runs thanks to 13 hits and 10 walks.
Walks, as any Nebraska baseball fan will tell you, has been a problem for the staff for a while now. At the beginning of the year, it looked like there might be a chance pitching coach Ted Silva had dealt with it.
Now the issue, along with the one that involves just being able to get people out has reared its ugly head again. There is a piece of good news for the season moving forward.
The Cornhuskers offense, an offense that looked awful pedestrian to open the year has been heating up. Following a game where they beat Wichita State by scoring 10 runs, the Nebraska baseball team scored eight on Thursday.
Darin Erstad and the rest of his coaching staff are going to have to find a way to make those kinds of runs stand up, before this season spirals completely out of control. The Cornhuskers play Cal Poly (6-7) again tomorrow and will attempt to move their record back over .500 on the year.