By the Numbers- Arkansas baseball vs South Carolina, Missed opportunities

Game two pitching

The pitching staff at Arkansas is elite — no questions about it. But they're still human and have off days.

Game two might have been Mason Molina's worst performance this year. He only pitched 3 1/3 innings and gave up two hits, two earned runs, a season-high seven balls, and had a season-low three strikeouts.

Relief wasn't much better, with Parker Coil and Koty Franks combining for seven hits, four earned runs, a ball, and five strikeouts. Altogether, they recorded nine hits, six runs, eight walks, and eight Ks.

At this point, you might be asking yourself, "This post is about hitting. Why is this section about pitching?" The point is, it's baseball. No matter how elite one part of the team is, production will dip periodically. And the thing is, the stat line above isn't great, but it's not horrendous. 

Arkansas leans too much on pitching sometimes. So if the bullpen is moderately bad, the Razorbacks don't have good enough situational hitting to overcome it. It could come back to bite them as early as their series versus Texas A&M, who ranks in the top-5 in the SEC in hitting and pitching stats.