What happens from a pitching standpoint is going to be interesting. Our five best pitchers are all probably unavailable today. That likely leaves us with either Ruhl (9.49 ERA) or Wintroub (5.93 ERA) getting the start. Have to give Hughes credit for getting us this far, but using Dean yesterday in the blowout against La Tech was a pretty dumb move (would have been better to use one of our weaker arms to save Dean given the cushion we had).
Regardless, if/when Ruhl or Wintroub get roughed up, we probably go to Slack (4.50 ERA) or Buss (4.26 ERA) and then the other after that. You probably have to save one of Ruhl/Wintroub/Frost to eat up innings tomorrow if we lose. MAYBE Boerma could come back for an inning or two if we play tomorrow.
If we play SEMO, their pitching has been stretched to its limit (and it wasn't great to begin with), so if we play them, hopefully our bats can look more like they did Friday vs. yesterday when we only had 5 hits. SEMO can most definitely hit (former K-State hitting coach Andy Sawyers is their head coach), so we could be looking at a high scoring game unless our pitchers throw the game of their life.
