The Virginia Cavaliers baseball team opened last week in dominant fashion. Friday featured a 24-5 win over Navy via the mercy rule, in which the ‘Hoos boasted a team batting averaging over .500. On Saturday, leadoff hitter Griff O’Farrell’s four hits propelled the Hoos to a 8-4 victory over Ohio. Then, the ‘Hoos concluded the weekend, with a nearly flawless performance on both sides, as they topped UNC Wilmington 7-0. Virginia did not skip a beat into the midweek game, hosting Longwood and winning 26-2.
Here are four takeaways from UVA’s first four games of baseball:
You cannot ask the offense to do much more
Virginia’s 65 runs in the first four games of the season falls just behind the inaugural 1889 club, according to the official UVA Baseball Twitter account.