ERA - Earned Run Average estimates how many runs a pitcher will surrender in the course of a given game. It is computed by taking the total earned runs a pitcher gives up, dividing by innings ...

Fifeld has a 3-2 season record with a team-best 2.36 earned run average. He’s allowed 21 hits and 13 walks in 26 2/3 innings with 23 strikeouts.

The 25-year-old Schwellenbach is 7-4 on the year with a 3.09 earned run average and 108 strikeouts. He is tied for 15th in the league in strikeouts and tied for eighth with a 0.97 WHIP.

He’s posted an ugly 6.11 earned run average with Durham this season but has far more encouraging rate stats: 20.6% strikeout rate, 6.1% walk rate, 53.8% ground-ball rate.

Hable finished with a 6-1 record and three saves for Legacy. He had a 2.10 earned run average, 45 strikeouts and 21 walks in 31 innings pitched.

Trevor Story had a .631 OPS and looked like a candidate for the bench. Walker Buehler was sporting a 6.03 earned run average and the Sox had lost six of his previous seven starts.

In the circle, the Vols’ key pitcher is junior right-hander Karlyn Pickens, who is 15-4 and leads the team in earned run average (0.94). In 112 innings, she has given up just 15 earned runs and ...