OMAHA, Neb. -- Arkansas Razorbacks Eric Cole and Jared Gates were watching Dominic Fletcher's fourth inning at-bat together, trying to predict pitches from Texas Tech starter Davis Martin and thinking along the lines of Fletcher.
"We were kind of calling pitches, what we thought he was going to throw, based off of what he was doing earlier in the game and how he attacked us," Cole said. "We probably got about 80 percent of the pitches in that at-bat right, and Fletcher kind of knew it, too."
Cole said he and Gates both called high fastball after Fletcher fouled off six consecutive pitches, mostly on breaking balls, and Martin delivered a heater up in the zone that Fletcher crushed over the right-field wall for a home run that was estimated at 415 feet in the Razorbacks' 7-4 victory over the Red Raiders.