WEEK 9 STATS: 3 app, 0.00 ERA, 2 Sv, 5.0 IP, 0 R, 0 H, 4 K, 3 BB
Wrighter held the opposition hitless over three effective relief appearances during Bryant’s 4-0-1 week. The 6-foot-6 right-hander totaled 5.0 innings, pitching to an 0.00 ERA and picking up a pair of saves in the process. Wrighter preserved the final two victories of the Bulldogs’ four-game road series in Hackensack. With Fairleigh Dickinson in the midst of the five-run sixth inning in Game 3, the righty reliever extinguished the fire and kept Bryant in the lead. He entered with four runs already in and one out in the inning. After issuing a walk, Wrighter induced two groundouts to send his team back into the dugout with a 9-7 advantage. He stayed on to work the seventh frame and close out the 11-7 victory. In Sunday’s finale, he was summoned with two runners on base and two out in the eighth inning. Protecting a 3-2 advantage, he prompted an inning-ending groundout. Wrighter worked around a leadoff walk in the ninth inning and struck out the final batter of the game to leave the tying run at third base. In a mid-week battle against UConn, Wrighter kept the score tied for 2.0 innings. He entered right after a bases-clearing, game-tying double in the eighth and went on to retire five batters in a row. He hit the No. 9 batter with two outs in the ninth before fanning Connecticut’s leadoff hitter to force extra innings.