Lingos was great from the very beginning of the game, as he was able to keep the Ducks off of the scoreboard in the top of the first after a couple of errors by the ASU defense put him in an early jam.
Despite this, Lingos maintained his faith in the defense behind him, and they rewarded him the rest of the game.
“It wasn’t a confidence thing, it was more of just knowing that that stuff doesn’t happen often,” Lingos said when asked whether working out of the first inning jam gave him more confidence. “That’s a fluke and if you get through that inning, you know that there’s gonna be no more the rest of the game, which is pretty much what happened.