Looking up just how awful Furman's pitching has been this season got me thinking about my senior year, 1993, and how awful our pitching was. My fading memory said we were a pretty good hitting bunch that was derailed by giving up nine runs every game, but I had no idea. On both fronts.
We hit .300 as a team that season, which is one of only five times since '63 that a Furman team has managed to do that (it had happened only once prior to '93). Wow. Props to us. Yet we finished only 17-22 and did not qualify for my senior year SoCon tourney because of an injury-riddled pitching staff that managed an ugly 6.64 ERA - sixth worst in school history (soon to be seventh).
I'll never forget standing in center field trying to catch my breath between line drives in the gaps, watching lead after lead evaporate. It was miserable, and I know what this current Paladin crew is going through. Still, it's pretty amazing they're 21-23 with that pitching and only a .282 team average.
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