{"id":232677,"date":"2026-04-21T12:46:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T22:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=232677"},"modified":"2026-04-21T12:50:28","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T22:50:28","slug":"taryn-irimata-pitcher-of-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2026\/04\/21\/taryn-irimata-pitcher-of-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Rainbow Wahine softball\u2019s Irimata earns 4th pitcher of the week honor"},"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\/04\/Manoa-softball-4th-pitcher-of-week.jpg\" alt=\"Taryn Irimata\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-232679\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Manoa-softball-4th-pitcher-of-week.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Manoa-softball-4th-pitcher-of-week-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Manoa-softball-4th-pitcher-of-week-130x73.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>University of <span lang=\"haw\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> at M\u0101noa <a href=\"https:\/\/hawaiiathletics.com\/sports\/softball\"> softball <\/a> pitcher Taryn Irimata continued her standout season, earning her fourth overall and second consecutive Big West Pitcher of the Week honor.<\/p>\n<p>Irimata led the Rainbow Wahine to a pair of road wins over <abbr title=\"University of California\">UC<\/abbr> San Diego, throwing two complete games while posting a 1.00 <abbr title=\"earned run average\">ERA<\/abbr>. In the series opener, she allowed two runs on six hits with four strikeouts in a 3-2 victory. She followed with a dominant shutout in the series finale, striking out a career-high nine.<\/p>\n<p>Irimata has won three of her last four starts, all complete games, and improves to 10-8 overall and 8-2 in conference play. She currently leads the conference with a 2.42 <abbr>ERA<\/abbr> and has held opponents to a .224 batting average with 72 strikeouts.<\/p>\n<p>Irimata\u2019s four weekly honors are the most by a Rainbow Wahine pitcher since Kaia Parnaby earned five in 2013.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at <a href=\"https:\/\/hawaiiathletics.com\/news\/2026\/4\/20\/softball-iriimata-earns-fourth-big-west-pitcher-of-the-week-award.aspx\">Hawaiiathletics.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This marks Irimata\u2019s second straight Big West Pitcher of the Week award. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":232679,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1362],"tags":[58,1527,9,550],"class_list":["post-232677","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\/04\/Manoa-softball-4th-pitcher-of-week.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232677","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=232677"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":232701,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232677\/revisions\/232701"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/232679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}