Parkland High School Baseball

Senior Parkland pitcher Rhett Jacoby was named to the 2015 All-Area First Team by the Morning Call.  Jacoby compiled a record of 7-2 on the season with a 1.48 ERA.  Jacoby was part of a strong Trojan pitching staff that carried the team to the 2015 Eastern Pennsylvania Conference title, the 2015 District XI championship, and deep into the PIAA state playoffs. 

Jacoby tossed 7 complete games with 2 shutouts and had 68 strikeouts on the season.  He struck out 10 batters in a complete game win over Nazareth.  He earned the victory against Emmaus tossing a complete game allowing only three base hits along with 9 strikeouts.  In the postseason, he pitched a two-hit, complete game shutout, while striking out eleven batters, in the EPC semifinal against Easton.  Jacoby pitched a complete game in the opening round of the PIAA state playoffs against Owen J. Roberts with six strikeouts to lead the Trojans to their first PIAA state playoff victory since 2009. 

Jacoby had incredible command of the strike zone and impeccable control.  He threw 75% of his pitches this year for strikes along with a 74% first pitch strike percentage.  In 61.2 innings pitched this season he faced at total of 252 batters, yet he only walked three.  In addition to that incredible stat, Jacoby did not walk a lead-off batter of any inning all season.  If that wasn’t amazing enough, Jacoby only went to a 3-0 count with one batter out of 252 batters faced, and he battled back on this one batter to get the strikeout. 

Jacoby had 26 innings this season where he retired the opponents in order in 1-2-3 fashion and opponents only managed a .236 batting average against him.  Jacoby also contributed with his bat and his glove this season.  At the plate, he had a .220 batting average along with 4 doubles, a triple, and 12 walks.  As the Trojans’ first baseman when he was not on the mound, Jacoby flashed a remarkable glove.  He made numerous picks in the dirt on throws from his fellow infielders and over the course of his entire varsity career he only had one error.

Jacoby ends is varsity career with nine wins on the mound with two saves.  With his 103 strikeouts, Jacoby is 5^th on the Parkland all-time career strikeout list.  In more than 104 innings pitched over his career, he only walked 15 batters and only had one inning where he walked the lead-off batter.  Jacoby will continue his baseball career next season at Millersville University.