Pitching and defense have been a key as the Iowa Hawkeye baseball team takes a 14-4 Big Ten record into Friday night’s start of of three game series at Michigan. The pitching staff has a league low 3.48 earned run average and the Hawkeyes have given up a Big Ten low 65 runs.
That’s Iowa coach Rick Heller who says those numbers have helped the Hawkeyes win all six of their Big Ten series so far this season.
Michigan is 8-7 in the Big Ten and took two of three from the Hawkeyes last year in Iowa City.
The Hawkeyes are coming off a series in which they won two of three games against Nebraska.
