Happy Valley Hardball with a sabermetrics twist

By Ryan Loy Collegian Staff Writer Despite tying the game in the top of the ninth inning, the Penn State baseball team lost, 5-4, when Texas State hit a walk-off single in the home half of the ninth. Freshman Steve Snyder tied the game at four with an RBI infield single, but the Nittany Lions [...]

By Stephen Hennessey Collegian Staff Writer Steven Hill knew his teammates had a rally in them. The Penn State baseball team had lost its last four games by a total of 44 runs, but Hill exited Sunday’s game with his team trailing by only two runs. The Nittany Lions tied the game in the eighth [...]

College baseball winners and losers Penn State (4-8) – Robbie Wine and the Nittany Lions couldn’t wait to leave the Lone Star State. The Nittany Lions began the week with a pair of midweek setbacks against Texas A&M before getting swept in a three-game set against Texas State. The Lions lost seven straight contests on [...]

Texas State hitters had much to celebrate during a weekend in which they scored 40 runs on 41 hits in a three-game sweep of Penn State at Bobcat Field. STAFF REPORT When they needed them, and when they didn’t, the hits kept coming during the weekend for the Texas State Bobcats, who polished off a [...]

Team W-L Pct RPI 1 Michigan State 8 – 4 – 0 0.667 41 2 Iowa 4 – 9 – 0 0.308 77 3 Michigan 6 – 9 – 0 0.400 97 4 Ohio State 9 – 4 – 0 0.692 107 5 Penn State 4 – 8 – 0 0.333 115 6 Indiana 5 [...]

That didn’t last long – back to a more normal like 115 RPI rating for PSU. That’s what seven straight losses will do.