In two games against Cal Poly during a tournament in Los Angeles this past week, defending national champion Oklahoma totaled seven hits and two runs in 14 innings.
Or one fewer hit than Cal Poly's Sierra Hyland managed on her own in 22 at-bats for the week.
The comparison isn't entirely fair, of course.
Hyland, after all, didn't have to bat against herself. The Sooners weren't so fortunate in their two losses.
She isn't the last of her line, exactly, but Hyland is part of an ever smaller collection of elite pitchers who are capable of providing their own run support. She handled both roles well enough in recent days to be the espnW national softball player of the week.
In addition to hitting .364, she went 4-0 in the circle. In 29 1/3 innings, she allowed just 11 hits and struck out 40 batters.
It was a great week but hardly an outlier. She is hitting .333 this season, with a 13-5 pitching record, 1.00 ERA and a 156-to-11 strikeout-to-walk ratio. At the plate, she ranks third all-time at Cal Poly in RBIs. As a pitcher, she is the program's all-time leader in wins.
Her final strikeout this past week matched the Big West career record.
For double duty, she has few equals.
Consider as a sample the top 10 teams in the most recent USA Softball/ESPN.com poll. Those rosters include 26 pitchers who have started at least five games so far this season. Of that group, only five also bat regularly. A handful of others bat occasionally. The majority not at all.
For Hyland, to be only one or the other would be, well, dull.
"Honestly, for me, I feel like I would get a little bored," Hyland said. "I feel like I'm one of those people that always has to be doing something."
She said that Tuesday, about an hour before she took a final exam. Better to be busy than bored.
But the feat that put Hyland's week over the top, shutting down the Sooners on consecutive days, was evidence that there are times to pause.
She was dominant in the first start against the Sooners. On a roll that began with 16 strikeouts in a midweek win against Northern Colorado, she gave up a two-out first-inning home run to Sydney Romero but retired the next 18 batters she faced. After she hit a batter with two outs in the ninth, she struck out her ninth batter of the game for the final out.
To be able to do that to the Sooners is impressive. That she beat them again a day later without her best stuff might be even more impressive. She scattered six hits to become the first pitcher since Alabama's Alexis Osorio to beat Oklahoma on back-to-back days.
"The first day I definitely threw a way better game, in my personal opinion, than my second game," Hyland said. "The second game I was not throwing as hard, I wasn't hitting my spots as well as I was the first day. It was definitely a big change. ... I just had to stay mentally composed and throw everything I had with conviction and not doubt any of the pitches I was throwing."
That focus wasn't easy for Hyland when she was younger. The sooner she got the ball, the sooner she could throw the next pitch. Always on to the next thing. That's fine when you're rolling. It can also turn a bad pitch into a bad inning, no brakes to slow a descent.
In the battle of wills that was the second game against the Sooners, she went through the breathing routine she has worked to master.
Left foot on the rubber. Take a breath. Right foot on the rubber. Take another breath. Get the sign. One more breath. Confirm she completed each step. Only then throw the pitch.
So it was that at the end of a week draining both physically and mentally, with finals waiting, the person who always wants to be doing something found a fitting way to celebrate.
"I went to bed; that was awesome," Hyland said. "After a three-hour bus ride, that was pretty great, to sleep in my own bed after a long weekend. That definitely was the highlight Sunday."
Previous winners: Syracuse's Sydney O'Hara (March 15) | Arkansas' Nicole Schroeder (March 8) | Texas A&M's Samantha Show (March 1) | LSU's Bailey Landry (Feb. 22) | Washington's Taran Alvelo (Feb. 15)