{"id":255350,"date":"2026-05-02T12:31:31","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T12:31:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/255350\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T12:31:31","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T12:31:31","slug":"king-honored-as-national-pitcher-of-the-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/255350\/","title":{"rendered":"King Honored as National Pitcher of the Month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NORMAN, Okla. \u2013 Florida Gators ace <a href=\"https:\/\/floridagators.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/aidan-king\/18071\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"18071\" target=\"_blank\">Aidan King<\/a> has been named the National Pitcher of the Month for April, as announced by the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association on Friday afternoon.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nCurrently in line to pace the SEC in ERA (1.78) for the second-straight season, King logged victories and quality starts in all four of his April outings. During his four-start win streak, the sophomore right-hander has gone at least six innings every time out to total 28 2\/3 frames with just five runs allowed for a 1.57 ERA and 28-to-4 strikeout-to-walk ratio. King surrendered just 13 hits in the month of April while facing four powerful SEC foes in Ole Miss, No. 4 Georgia, No. 13 Auburn and No. 7 Texas A&amp;M.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nAs a result of his stellar month, King holds status as the only qualified SEC hurler with a sub-2.00 ERA. The Jacksonville, Fla. native ranks second in the SEC and fifth nationally in WHIP (0.87), third in victories (seven) and ninth in strikeout-to-walk ratio (4.69) on top of a team-high seven quality starts and .182 batting average against in 60 2\/3 innings \u2013 making him one of 43 semifinalists for National Pitcher of the Year honors.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nKing has started four of Florida&#8217;s nation-leading seven shutouts. Across his last 16 starts dating back to last season, he is 11-3 with a 1.36 ERA and 89-to-23 strikeout-to-walk ratio in 99 1\/3 innings pitched (15 earned runs allowed).<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nKing and the Gators open their inaugural three-game series against No. 15 Oklahoma on Friday night at 7:30 p.m. ET on SEC Network+.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nFollow the Gators<br \/>\n#GoGators<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GatorsBB\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/gatorsbb\/?hl=en\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/GatorsBB\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a><br \/>\n\u00a0<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NORMAN, Okla. \u2013 Florida Gators ace Aidan King has been named the National Pitcher of the Month for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":255351,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-255350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=255350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255350\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/255351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}