Oklahoma baseball: OU pitching among nation’s best creating strikeouts

Oklahoma baseball won four of five games last week, improving its 2020 overall record to 13-4 and is doing it by combining a productive offense with solid pitching and stellar defense.

Sooner pitchers have struck out 210 batters in 152.0 innings this season, an average of 12.4 per nine innings, which ranks third in the nation among Division I teams. Junior right-hander Cade Cavalli is leads the Sooners with 37 strikeouts in 23.2 innings and is one of four OU starters with at least 28 punch outs. Cavalli struck out nine in a seven-inning start against San Diego State this past weekend.

Oklahoma’s 4.67 strikeout-to-walk ratio is the fourth best in the country.

When you can get hitters to swing…