282 pitches! UCLA freshman Rachel Garcia guts out 2 games
NEW YORK — UCLA freshman Rachel Garcia seemed to have earned a night off. After all, she threw 232 pitches.
But she didn’t get one. Instead, she was back at work and helped send the Bruins to their third straight College World Series.
A night after throwing 11 innings in a four-hour win, she threw 50 more pitches Friday in four hitless innings of relief in a 1-0 softball victory over Mississippi.
Garcia opened the best-of-three NCAA super regional by going the distance in an 8-7 win over the Rebels on Thursday night. She then followed Selina Ta’amilo less than 24 hours later to increase her two-game total to 282 pitches for UCLA (47-13).