Akron After struggling with command and exiting the LSU game early, this was a good bounce back opportunity for her. She largely cruised through the first three innings: - The lead off batters singled to get on base in both the first and second innings, but, in each case, she erased the threats with the caught stealing, the double play, foul outs, and ground outs. - She only went to a full-count twice in the first two innings and did not walk her first batter until the third inning. - In fact, she didn’t allow more than one base runner until a walk and a single put two on in the third before strucking out the final batter in the third. - Mazzarone was in control going into the fourth inning before the walks and the error led to the unraveling from the two consecutive singles for Akron scores. And to give her more grace, the first walk... three of those pitches that were called balls were close. Two were deemed low and one was just off the outside edge. Even the batter hesitated on the 4th ball call. The announcer was wrong when she said that the pitches were not competitive... Maybe the second batter but not the first walk. The second walk, she was a 1-2 in the count....then the next three balls were not close. One was high requiring a Yaeger lunge and the 4th ball was in the dirt past Yaeger. . In fact, the next single had double play written all over it. Without the tough hop/error by Lynch, she might have gotten a double play to get out of the inning. Point being, she was not pitching poorly. ** Edited by VAHokie89 at 5/17/2026, 11:54:14 AM ** Edited by VAHokie89 at 5/17/2026, 12:08:59 PM ** Edited by VAHokie89 at 5/17/2026, 12:10:18 PM ** Edited by VAHokie89 at 5/17/2026, 12:11:24 PM ** Edited by VAHokie89 at 5/17/2026, 12:14:58 PM