D1 Baseball: TCU’s Pitching Becomes Strength Again
By Aaron Fitt
OMAHA — Ever since the fall, TCU coach Jim Schlossnagle has been blunt about the composition of his roster. He said repeatedly over the course of this season that this might be the most talented group of position players he has coached at TCU, but it was natural for the pitching staff to regress after losing the entire weekend rotation and top two bullpen arms from last year’s Omaha club. As recently as late April, when the Frogs lost a series at Oklahoma State, Schlossnagle said, “We’ve just got to get our pitching right.â€
“We’re a better pitching club than we’ve shown to this point, but we’re not elite,†he said in Stillwater. “So we need to swing it until we get to the postseason, then we’ll have to put it all together.â€
And that’s exactly what the Frogs have done, in remarkable fashion. A TCU team that was supposed to be light on pitching has managed to hold three of the nation’s most explosive offenses — Texas A&M, Texas Tech and Coastal Carolina — to just seven runs in four victories in super regionals and the College World Series. After beating the Red Raiders 5-3 in their CWS opener, the Frogs stifled the Chanticleers in a 6-1 win Tuesday that propelled them to Omaha’s final four for the second straight year, and the third time since 2010. But this is the first time TCU has gone 2-0 in Omaha, and a big reason the Frogs are in the bracket’s catbird seat is the stellar work of a pitching staff that has been overlooked for most of the season.
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