Seven innings pitched, eleven strikeouts, no earned runs and a mere five hits allowed was the line on this week’s player of the week, Jimmy Saris. Those impeccable stats catapulted Georgetown baseball to a much-needed 7-0 victory over Navy. It was Saris’s seventh start of the season, and by far his best. He had retired eighteen batters all season before his stunning performance that sent twenty-one Midshipmen back to the bench.
The right-hander owns the team’s single season strikeout record, fanning 78 batters in 2007.
Saris’s performance was pivotal for the Hoyas—they had been on a four game losing streak, including a close loss to cross-town rival George Washington University and three straight to Big East rival Villanova University. Saris played the role of stopper and helped get the Hoyas back on track.
The Hoyas will look to Saris again this weekend as they travel to Cincinnati to take on the Bearcats in a three game Big East set. Georgetown is coming off a tough loss Tuesday against George Mason—Saris was on a pitch count to rest him for this weekend, but he pitched two solid innings—and will need another slump-stopping performance from the ace.
