BlueandGoldNews.com The WVU baseball team has dealt with several injuries this season.

MORGANTOWN — You ever wake up in the morning and realize this is going to be your lucky day?

Maybe it’s raining outside but the paper boy — you remember paper boys, don’t you — somehow found a way to flip the paper right into the only spot near his door where it could stay dry.

Then, as you open the door, you are greeted by the most wonderful rainbow you ever saw.

You jumped in the car, turned on the radio and your favorite song was just starting to play.

You had days like that?

Seems like every day is like that for West Virginia baseball.

Doesn’t matter how many injuries the Mountaineers have. Doesn’t matter if it’s cold or raining or sleeting.

Lose a tough game? Go out and win the next three. Get no-hit? Win the next two. It’s like this year is just meant to be. Maybe it’s because it’s been announced as coach Randy Mazey’s final year. Maybe it’s just nature’s way of making up for all the thunder and lightning it threw at the school’s men’s basketball team.

Every day they show their resiliency, their ability to get up off the mat and deliver another knockout blow.

Consider that their star player, JJ Wetherholt, missed 24 games. Their second-best hitter, Logan Suave, missed 20 games. Grant Hussey, their top power hitter, missed 10 games.

They just shrugged it off and after another dramatic, come-from-behind walk-off victory on Sunday afternoon they still were tied for first place in the Big 12. The victory, 11-10 over the nation’s No. 17 team, Central Florida, on an 11th-inning home run by Reed Chumley was their 7th Big 12 victory in a row.

Now, with Wetherholt back — not fully, his hamstring still keeping him from playing in the field, but enough that it’s coming together for him and he has homered in two straight games — and Suave back, they’re playing at the top of their game.

Lose to Marshall in a midweek game? No problem. Come back and sweep this series with Central Florida. Get no-hit earlier in the opening game of a series against Oklahoma, with whom they share first place in the league? So what if they didn’t get any hits and Oklahoma scored 13 in the victory. They won the next two games AT NORMAN.

Mazey feels it happening all around him.

Wetherholt came back for the Kansas series last weekend. First game back, three hits, game-winning double.

“The Kansas series last weekend, he was the first batter of the series because he hits leadoff and we were the visitors. He got a base hit up the middle and I think the whole dugout went ‘Yes, we got our team.’ That’s an amazing feeling; to feel the energy going through the dugout with him and Logan Suave back,” Mazey said.

“JJ’s missed 20-some games. Logan’s missed 20 games. Hussey’s missed 10 games. Kresser has missed 10 games. This has been the most injured team I have ever coached. For us to be standing here not talking about the elephant in the room — that we’re in first place right now — is amazing to do what we’ve done without those guys.

“Having those guys back changes the complexion of our team.”

There’s a new hero every day.

And when one doesn’t step up, they don’t worry about it.

“Our coaches do a great job in convincing our guys that over the course of 60 games, you’re going to lose a game you shouldn’t have lost,” Mazey said after Saturday’s victory. “We lost a really bad game at Charlotte because we lost a fly ball in the sun. We lost at Marshall. That’s two games out of 60, we’ll get that back.”

Wetherholt explains it this way.

“Baseball is a weird game and it’s different than any other game. You don’t see a lot of Power Five teams lose to smaller schools in football, because the skill level is just that much deeper. It can be like that in baseball, but it’s one of those games where you get that other guy on the mound on any team.

“He can control the game and win it for his team. The biggest thing is knowing who we are as a team and one loss is just one loss. We can beat anyone on any given day.”

This isn’t new with Mazey’s Mountaineers. He and his coaches build it into their DNA.

“This team has been so even keeled,” Mazey said. “Two years ago, we were one of three or four teams in the nation that never lost three games in a row for the entire season. Last year we did the same exact thing until we went to Texas and got swept in the last regular season series of the year.”

Losses don’t bother them.

“I think we have done a really good job of convincing them that you have to have a short memory, don’t worry about the games you feel like you gave away, just always be ready to play the next one.”

And don’t let a little adversity in those games bother you until you’ve used up your 27 – or in Sunday’s case – 33 outs up.

They fell behind 4-0 before they came to the plate, trailed 9-4 in the third but battled back, using eight pitchers until finally Chumley hit the walk-off home run.