Jordy Bahl is getting nearer to a return for the Sooners.

The true freshman right-hander hasn’t performed but this postseason, after affected by what OU head coach Patty Gasso label as “soreness” in Bahl’s pitching arm.

“The excellent news is Jordy’s been throwing a bit bit within the bullpen,” Gasso stated throughout a Zoom press convention on Wednesday. “… I don’t know precisely when. However we’re optimistic she’s going to have the ability to assist this crew.”

All season lengthy, Bahl has been OU’s ace on the perfect pitching workers within the nation.

With a file of 21-1, Bahl has struck out a team-high 199 batters whereas solely permitting 29 walks, holding opponents to a .137 batting common.

However now the freshman has been sidelined by means of the Massive 12 Match and regional play, one thing Gasso stated has been robust on Bahl.

“She is a competitor. She’s extraordinarily annoyed,” Gasso stated. “She needs to get again the place she was proper now and it’s not the suitable method to do it.

“So we’ve received to get her to hearken to what the physician’s saying. Take heed to what the coach and the coaches are saying and simply be affected person.”

Within the meantime, Bahl’s fellow pitchers have picked up the slack.

Nicole Might and Hope Trautwein have been regular all through the Norman Regional, holding opponents to only two runs and solely surrendering one stroll all weekend.

The highest-seeded Sooners now have their sights set on the 16-seeded UCF Knights, who will arrive in Norman with aspirations of pulling an enormous upset to achieve this system’s first Girls’s Faculty World Sequence this weekend.

Even with out Bahl, the UCF offense is shaping as much as be manageable. The Knights are at the moment hitting .300 as a crew, simply the Thirty sixth-best mark within the nation.

Bahl’s aggressive hearth will proceed to gas her as she awaits her return. However Gasso stated she’s simply completely satisfied her younger pitcher is nearing the purpose the place she will once more enter the circle for the Sooners.

“Her perspective is ‘I need to go 100% proper now,’ ” Gasso stated. “And we’re not ready to try this at this second.

“However she’s working towards that. And that’s higher information than I assumed I might have going ahead. So we’re excited.”

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