Tennessee baseball’s Andrew Lindsey is the SEC Pitcher of the Week after dominating South Carolina in the Vols’ series opening win at South Carolina.
Lindsey turned in his best outing of the season, posting 8.1 scoreless innings while allowing just three hits and zero walks. The Charlotte transfer threw just one pitch his entire outing with a runner in-scoring position and recorded five strikeouts in the 5-0 Tennessee win.
“Cutter two-seam, as always,” Lindsey said of what was working for him. “I think I threw one change up, and it wasn’t even close. I think I threw a few curveballs that were competitive. They got the jump on what I was trying to do with them, but the two-seam cutter is what I live by.”
It looked like Lindsey would cruise to the Vols’ first nine inning complete game shutout this season before Tony Vitello went to his bullpen after the right hander earned the first out of the ninth inning with his 103 pitch.
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“I didn’t want to get punched,” Vitello joked about pulling Lindsey. “It was a more of a thought process and Frank (Anderson) removed himself from the equation and all he was doing was making jokes or making fun of me. It turned into a good situation. A comical situation.”
Tennessee’s starting pitching was dominant all weekend with Chase Dollander allowing two runs and two hits in 5.2 innings in game two while Drew Beam recorded six scoreless innings in the regular season finale.
The Vols’ starting staff has been solid all season but they lived up to their sky high expectations in the final week of the regular season.
Lindsey became Tennessee’s Friday night starter midway through SEC play in the Arkansas series. The Charlotte transfer has a 2-2 record, 2.54 ERA and 1.06 WHIP this season and a 2-1 record, 2.96 ERA and 1.11 WHIP in SEC play.
