One day after the Nebraska baseball team needed a ninth-inning rally in order to beat the USC Trojans, the Huskers couldn’t keep the momentum.
On Sunday, a nightmare season for NU continued as it lost its third straight Big Ten conference series and cemented itself near the bottom of the standings. Once again, it was the lack of any timely offense or clutch pitching that combined to help the Nebraska Cornhuskers suffer from another lost weekend.
Even worse than another Nebraska baseball loss to USC was that the team was never really in the game. They looked flat all Sunday, which is a much bigger issue than it might be at first sight precisely because they seemingly managed to find a spark on Saturday night when they scored 2 in the 9th inning to beat the Trojans 6-5. When the smoke cleared, Will Bolt’s squad had a 7-1 loss.
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Against one of the newest Big Ten squads, starter Jackson Brockett was chased off after just 3.2 innings. Brockett allowed four runs, two earned, on six hits and a walk without striking anyone out.
The Trojans used three home runs to build a lead that would never be in doubt and then held the Huskers down until very late in the game.
An oddity of the early season schedule means that the Nebraska baseball team started conference play with three of the four new additions with the Big in Washington, UCLA and USC and all three squads made themselves feel right at home. NU won’t face Oregon in the regular season.
The next stop for the Nebraska baseball team will be a mid-week tilt against Kansas State, who they previously lost to, 9-6.