The Nebraska baseball team's starting rotation for its season-opening series at UC Riverside will have a familiar feel and some new blood.
Right-hander Chad Luensmann will get the ball Friday when the Huskers open their season in the suburbs of Los Angeles. The 6-foot-4, 237-pound junior will be on the mound for the first time since undergoing Tommy John surgery in January 2018.
A lights-out reliever who was the Big Ten's Freshman of the Year in 2016, Luensmann was set to move into the starting rotation before his injury and subsequent surgery.
He'll be on a 50- to 70-pitch limit, NU coach Darin Erstad said Wednesday, with what inning he exits depending on how he fares in his return to live action.