Red Raider Profile: Brennan Stewart
November 04, 2011 | Baseball
Stewart went 2-1 with a 3.40 ERA in 22 appearances last season
Nov. 4, 2011
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The Texas Tech baseball team's fall season ended with the annual Red & Black Series at the of October, but throughout the remainder of the semester Texas Tech Athletics Communications will continue taking an inside look into the Tech program with Red Raider Profiles on each player.
Brennan Stewart (RHP - 6-1, 185 - R/R - RS Sr./3L - Round Rock, Texas/McNeil)
Brennan Stewart has been a mainstay with the Red Raiders pitching staff his entire career. In fact, Stewart has been in Lubbock just as long as head coach Dan Spencer, who is in his fourth year as head coach and who also spent a year as the team's associate head coach in 2008.
Stewart, a redshirt senior, has been here that same amount of time.
This past season Stewart's maturity and experience shined through as he had a breakthrough season as one of the top options for Spencer in the Texas Tech bullpen.
Stewart went 2-1 with a 3.40 ERA in 22 appearances (3 starts) with 55.2 innings pitched and 38 strikeouts while allowing only 51 hits and 13 walks on the season.
An Academic All-Big 12 selection and consistent Tech honor roll and dean's list honoree, Stewart began the 2011 season dominating out of the bullpen with a 1.40 ERA with 19.1 innings pitched through the first week of April.
He made a memorable relief outing against UTSA at Foster Field in San Angelo, Texas, when he retired 19 of the 20 batters he faced, including 17 consecutive to begin his relief appearance. Stewart earned the victory - his first of the season and the second of his career - while striking out a career-high seven batters.
In fact, Stewart became the first Tech pitcher to strikeout at least seven batters in relief since Brian Cloud in 2008.
This impressive relief outing earned him his first start of the season (2nd career start) against then-No. 4 Texas in Austin. Stewart, who didn't figure in the decision, pitched 7.1 innings allowing one run on four hits with five strikeouts against the Longhorns in a game Tech dropped 3-1.
His 7.1 innings marked the longest start in a Big 12 debut for a Tech pitcher since Miles Morgan went nine innings against Texas on March 18, 2006 in Lubbock.
He ended up making nine multiple inning relief appearances last season while striking out at least two batters in six of his outings.
"Brennan Stewart, out of all the years I have coached, is one of my favorite guys and is one of the tremendous success stories from where he has come from," Spencer said. "Brennan has actually been here as long as I have, he was a freshman here when I started working with Larry (Hays). He has progressed into a really good pitcher. I can't say enough about what he means to our program. He is a success story."
In his three seasons at Tech, Stewart is 3-1 with a 4.83 ERA in 43 appearances (3 starts) with 91.1 innings pitched, 108 hits allowed, 59 strikeouts and 24 walks allowed.