The Pitt baseball team started its 2022 season by splitting its opening four-game series with Canisius at the Snowbird Classic in Port Charlotte, Florida. The Golden Griffins took the opening and closing games of the series, winning them 11-3 and 15-7, while the Panthers swept the Saturday doubleheader, winning those games 12-2 and 4-0.
Diving into the weekend’s two losses, the bullpen proved to be Pitt’s Achilles’ heel, as the team’s relievers gave up 17 runs in those two games. In the season opener, Panthers ace Matt Gilbertson was unable to close the door with two outs in back-to-back innings, and he ultimately exited after allowing four runs in four innings.