@MizzouBaseball’s Bartlett Earns National Player of the Week
5/22/2017 2:53:00 PM | Baseball
Bartlett threw a complete-game one-hitter Friday at Tennessee
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – Mizzou Baseball junior RHP Cole Bartlett (Williamsburg, Ind.) was named Collegiate Baseball News Louisville Slugger National Player of the Week, announced Monday. Bartlett is the second Mizzou player to earn this distinction after junior OF Trey Harris (Powder Springs, Ga.) earned the same award following the Kentucky series. This is Bartlett's second weekly award of the day after earning SEC Pitcher of the Week in the morning.
Bartlett, a redshirt junior RHP, earns National Player of the Week after firing a complete game, one-hit shutout Friday at Tennessee to guide the Tigers to a 2-0 win while claiming their second consecutive SEC series win. Bartlett did not allow a runner to reach second base in the game and the only hit he allowed was a one-out single in the first inning. After a leadoff walk in the third inning, he retired 16 straight Vol batters until a two-out walk in the eighth inning. Bartlett needed just 105 pitches to mow through the Vol order as he was dominant throughout the start. Bartlett finishes the regular season ranked eighth in the SEC in ERA at 2.78.
Mizzou has won six straight games and seven of its last 10 as it heads into postseason play. Mizzou's 35 wins are the most for a Mizzou team since 2009 and the most regular season wins since 2008 (37).
Mizzou opens the SEC Tournament on Tuesday, May 23, at approximately 1 p.m. against seventh-seeded Texas A&M. For all the latest on all things Mizzou Baseball, stay tuned to MUTigers.com and follow the team on Twitter @MizzouBaseball and like the team on Facebook and Instagram (Missouri Baseball).
