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This was partially the fault of the coach this time. They would lose by a lot regardless, but he's been toying around with the rotation lately, having freshman pitchers M. Barnes + Frutchey have piggyback starts with established starters Tyler Wood+ Noel Valdez following as relievers. This may pay dividends next year when Green + Valdez are gone + they have two experienced sophomores ready to step in, but not this year. M. Barnes was excellent in relief, but that hasn't carried over to starting yet. He retired only 1 batter today. By the time they got Wood into the game the Tritons had already built a good lead + their bats were on fire. Wood didn't do much better + the game plan backfired.

To be fair, the Rockies players collectively are awful. Black wasn't the pitching, hitting, or fielding coach, so he's only partially to blame.

The WAC has a mercy rule but the Big West does not. If I had to guess I would say it's because the rule is intended to keep visiting teams from missing their flights. Before Hawaii joined nobody was flying to/from games in the Big West for baseball. A bus league doesn't have the same time constraints. Once UCD + Hawaii leave, and CBU joins it will resemble a convenient bus league, unless Utah Valley accepts its invitation.

I think it would be funny (but not practical) if basketball had one. UCD is up by 40 at the half. Enjoy the dance team's routine, then go home everyone. It would potentially prevent garbage time injuries.

There definitely is a moral issue with that. And what percentage of students even give a crap about the athletics programs they're increasingly asked to support ?

If people truly wanted to stop all of this nonsense they could boycott the college sports programs that promote it. Big corporate donors watch what the little people do and adjust their behaviors based on what will buy them good P.R. However, when it comes to college football people become sheeple. Got to have the college football at all costs. Well, everyone else can continue to feed the monster. They just better not complain when the monster tries to eat them.

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If I'm not mistaken, Moroski played both sports when they were primarily had N. California opponents like Chico State and Cal State Hayward (now East Bay). There was significantly less travel.

The other part is the increased physical preparation now required for UCD baseball players. Back in the 1990's it was considered noteworthy that Justin Reid (who made it to Triple-A with the Pirates) could hit the low 90's with his fastball in D-II.. Today, in Division II or III you can find pitchers throwing mid-high 90's (with varying degrees of control). It just speaks to how competitve it is these days. Since people don't naturally throw 95 that means more strength training and conditioning.

So Pinnick isn't a pitcher. Maybe he should be, considering a quarterback is responsible for making strong, accurate throws at varying distances. Also, the high school hitting stats are pretty weak. Of course I found those on Maxpreps.com, so they might not be completely accurate. That site depends on the coaches to report game stats. Some coaches do so irregularly; some don't do it all. Even as an outfielder he'll have to train and practice more than he did in high school.

I've seen a couple of kickers/punters pull off the two-sport thing in college, but their football preparation is different.

I doubt Pinnick ever plays baseball for UCD. The football time commitment is too much for that to happen, especially if he is the starting quarterback. If he were a kicker/punter that would be a different situation.