Texas Tech baseball loses pitcher Parker Hutyra for rest of season
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Parker Hutyra's three seasons with the Texas Tech baseball team began with so much promise, with his performing in a key role on the pitching staff from day one his freshman year.
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The past two years, he's been unable to stay on the mound. The junior righthander from Birdville will miss the rest of the 2026 season, Tech coach Tim Tadlock said Saturday, March 7, after the Red Raiders' 21-6 home victory over Penn State.
Tadlock generally refrains from giving specifics of health issues for privacy considerations but acknowledged Hutyra has an injury that's arm related.
The 6-foot-4, 225-pound righthander made 21 appearances in 2024, all but one out of the bullpen. Since then, however, he made only five appearances last season before being shut down the last two months and pitched only in the season opener this year.
"He's had an up and down last two years," Tadlock said. "I would say what's happened to him could extend his career even further is the way you probably want to look at it. He's a diligent kid. He'll come back and work from it and probably be better than he was."
Tadlock declined to say whether Hutyra has had or will have surgery.
As a freshman, Hutyra pitched a scoreless inning for a save in the Red Raiders' second game of the 2024 season, a 6-3 win over Nebraska at Globe Life Field in Arlington. He was unscored upon in 12 of his first 13 appearances, at which time he had an earned-run average of 0.44.
He finished that season 4-3 with a 4.72 ERA, the ERA inflated by his giving up 13 earned runs (of his 18 that season) his last three times out. He struck out 38 in 34 1/3 innings.
He pitched only nine innings last season with a 6.00 ERA and 1 1/3 innings this year with a 10.80 ERA.
"I tell you, his family's great," Tadlock said. "They're the epitome of supporters. They travel everywhere we go. They went everywhere we went last year, even though he wasn't pitching all the time."
This article originally appeared on Lubbock Avalanche-Journal: Texas Tech baseball loses Parker Hutyra for rest of season