The Tulane University Green Wave baseball team has played well to start the season, winning eight games and losing five.
Tulane swept the Harvard University Crimson at home, outscoring them 11-1. The Green Wave then went on to dominate the University of South Alabama Jaguars by a score of 15-2 and win two out of three in a series against Eastern Kentucky University Colonels.
The strong start to the season is reflected in the statistics. The Green Wave batting average is .257, impressive compared to their opponents’ .237. Matthias Haas leads the team in batting average of those with a minimum of 30 at-bats. Jason Wachs is the team’s runs batted in leader with 17.
The team’s power is obvious as eight players have hit a home run this season.
The Green Wave has also been great on the base paths. Tanner Chun already has seven steals on eight attempts.
The pitching has been fantastic as well. The three pitchers who have pitched the most innings — Jack Frankel, Trey Cehajic and J.D. Rodriguez — all have earned run averages of less than 3.40 and a WHIP of under 1.35, which measures how well a pitcher has kept runners off the bases.
The Green Wave’s strong hitting and pitching signal tremendous potential, hopefully enough to appear in the conference championship for the fourth consecutive season.
After losing to the Nicholls State University Colonels, the Green Wave faces an incredibly challenging schedule. They will play the nationally ranked Texas Christian University Horned Frogs this weekend and the Mississippi State University Bulldogs next week.
The Tulane Green Wave plays its next home game against the Creighton University Bluejays on March 13, the first of three games. The following weekend, Tulane begins conference play at home against the University of Memphis Tigers.