Alex Shoulders has been named G-MAC Baseball Pitcher of the Week after his dominating outing against Ohio Dominican this past week, plus a relief appearance over the weekend.
In the win over ODU, Shoulders threw eight scoreless innings, allowing just five hits and striking out seven. In his relief appearance, he pitched an inning and allowed a hit, striking out two. Over the week, he didn’t allow a walk or a run, limiting hitters to a .176 batting average against him.
On the week, he was the only pitcher to post a 0.00 earned run average as a starter. He also pitched the most innings, struck out the most batters, and gave up the fewest hits, walks, runs based per inning. Early in the season, Shoulders performance lowered his ERA to 2.40 after he gave up four runs in his first outing of the season over six innings. Batters are hitting just .185 off of him over his G-MAC best 15 total innings, ranking him fourth in the conference. His 13 strikeouts rank third.