  {"id":229319,"date":"2026-02-10T15:11:27","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T01:11:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=229319"},"modified":"2026-02-10T15:11:27","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T01:11:27","slug":"softball-pitcher-of-the-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2026\/02\/10\/softball-pitcher-of-the-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Rainbow Wahine softball pitcher named Big West Pitcher of the Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/manoa-softball-pitcher-week.jpg\" alt=\"Taryn Irimata\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-229322\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/manoa-softball-pitcher-week.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/manoa-softball-pitcher-week-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/manoa-softball-pitcher-week-130x73.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>University of <span lang=\"haw\">Âé¶¹´«Ã½<\/span> at M\u0101noa <a href=\"https:\/\/hawaiiathletics.com\/sports\/softball\">softball<\/a> pitcher Taryn Irimata was voted Big West Pitcher of the Week following an impressive Rainbow Wahine debut at the Bank of <span lang=\"haw\">Âé¶¹´«Ã½<\/span> Paradise Classic.<\/p>\n<p>The sophomore transfer went 2-0 with a 1.00 <abbr title=\"earned run average\">ERA<\/abbr> over 14 innings, throwing complete-game wins against Seattle<abbr>U<\/abbr> and Pacific while allowing just one run in each outing. Irimata held opponents to a .143 batting average, walked four and struck out nine.<\/p>\n<p>Irimata began her collegiate career at Nevada before transferring to <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa in the fall. She opened the season by allowing three hits against Seattle<abbr>U<\/abbr>, then followed with seven strikeouts while giving up four hits against Pacific.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at <a href=\"https:\/\/hawaiiathletics.com\/news\/2026\/2\/9\/softball-irimata-earns-big-west-pitcher-of-the-week.aspx\">Hawaiiathletics.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pitcher Taryn Irimata earned Big West Pitcher of the Week after two dominant wins.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":229322,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1362],"tags":[58,1527,9,550],"class_list":["post-229319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","tag-athletics","tag-softball","tag-uh-manoa","tag-manoa-athletics","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/manoa-softball-pitcher-week.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229319"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":229333,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229319\/revisions\/229333"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}