My dad couldn’t make it as a WVU baseball fan. He was always the one suggesting the game was over after seven innings and that we might want to head back to the car in order to beat the traffic. The walk to parking lot was inevitably interrupted by a roar from the home crowd and we’d turn on the radio and discover the Orioles or the local minor league club had pulled off the comeback. To be fair, this is also my mom’s fault. The home team never wins when she’s in attendance. Ours is an odd family.

Anyhow, we’d probably have to take dad’s keys if he decided to take us to Hawley Field for dogs and sodas on sunny Saturdays this spring. The Mountaineers save the best for last. Win or lose.

Honestly, enough hasn’t been said here about what’s happened over there this season. WVU is 24-7 and 6-3 in the Big East while playing with a really young roster. The Mountaineers can rake — and bunt!— and have perhaps improbably assembled one of the best offenses in the country. Note that those numbers will jump up when updated after five productive games this past week.

The intriguing part is that pitching usually comes around and matures within the season. WVU has up to this point relied on young pitchers. The 10 most-used pitchers consist of two seniors, two juniors, five sophomores and a freshman. The five starters consist of one senior, one junior, two sophomores and one freshman.