Oklahoma Softball: Patty Gasso Said ‘You’re Going to See’ Jordy Bahl Pitch at the WCWS

OKLAHOMA CITY — Jordy Bahl will return this week on the Girls’s Faculty World Collection.

The newly minted NFCA Freshman of the 12 months hasn’t pitched since Oklahoma’s common season finale. OU head coach Patty Gasso confirmed she’s accessible for the week, however she stated the workforce hasn’t found out if she’ll be on a pitch rely or not.

“You are going to see her pitch this week,” Gasso stated throughout a press convention on Wednesday. “How a lot? We’re nonetheless working.”

On the NCAA Event Choice Present, Gasso stated this system was working to make sure Bahl doesn’t carry any long-term setbacks from the harm.

That course of remains to be ongoing, as Gasso stated the workforce is in fixed conversations with medical doctors, Bahl herself and her household whereas getting ready a recreation plan for a way a lot the true freshman will pitch through the WCWS.

“It is type of like going right into a laboratory and figuring out precisely what you may and might’t do, the timing of it, what number of pitches,” Gasso stated. “We’re nonetheless type of placing all of that collectively.

“However we’ve adopted physician’s orders and achieved every thing we’re presupposed to do, together with speaking with Jordy, speaking with medical doctors, speaking along with her mother and father to verify that is the best factor to do and he or she just isn’t in sufficient extreme ache, that if she was, this would not even be an choice. However we’ve achieved every thing proper, and that has allowed her to have this chance.”

Even in Bahl’s absence, Oklahoma’s pitching workers has excelled.

Tremendous senior Hope Trautwein nonetheless leads the nation with an ERA of 0.40, and sophomore Nicole Might’s 0.99 ERA is the fifth finest mark within the nation.

All through the NCAA Event, OU’s pitchers have solely surrendered three runs.

The competitors will get kicked as much as one other degree in Oklahoma Metropolis, however the top-seeded Sooners are going to be full energy for the primary time all postseason as they give the impression of being to defend their Nationwide Championship. 

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