University of Minnesota Athletics
BB: John Gaub Named Big Ten Pitcher of the Week
4/25/2005 12:00:00 AM | Baseball
Gaub, who claimed the honors for the first time in his career, joins Loberg (who has won it twice this year) as Minnesota pitchers who claimed the honors this season.
This weekend against Northwestern, Gaub did not give up an earned run in four and two thirds innings of work, earned two saves, allowed just two hits and struck out 11 batters. Gaub came in on Friday night with the score at 9-8 and pitched one and a third shutout innings, while striking out five of the seven batters he faced.
He picked up his second save of the weekend, when he pitched a perfect one and two thirds innings and struck out four batters after coming into the sixth inning with the score at 3-2. In the final game of the series, Gaub entered the game in a save situation with the bases loaded with one out with Minnesota up 11-6 in the eighth inning. He got Mark Ori to ground into a double play to end the inning. Gaub also got two outs in the ninth, before he was removed after going over the desired pitch count for the day.
Gaub enters the week with a 2-0 record, a 1.20 ERA, five saves and has struck out 52 batters in 30 innings. He has a 15.60 strikeout-per-nine inning ratio, and a 5.78-to-1 strikeout-to-walk ratio.
Heading into the week, Gaub is third in the Big Ten in strikeouts trailing just Penn State’s Sean Stidfole (63) and Michigan’s Jim Brauer (56). Stidfole has struck out 63 batters in 62 innings, while Brauer has struck out 56 batters in 61.1 innings. Gaub has pitched in 30 innings and struck out 52 batters.
Minnesota will head to Fargo, N.D. to play North Dakota State at Newman Field on Tuesday, Apr. 26 at 6:30 p.m. The Golden Gophers will then travel to Purdue for a four- game Big Ten series on Apr. 29-May 1. Minnesota will play the Boilermakers on Friday, Apr. 29 at 1 p.m., Saturday, Apr. 30 in a doubleheader at 1 p.m. and in a single game on Sunday, May 1 at 1 p.m.
