Provo • Mike Littlewood has seen nothing like what happened behind home plate the night of April 19 at Washington’s Husky Ballpark in more than 40 years of playing and coaching baseball.
Noah Hill, the Cougars’ senior catcher, now calls it “the most flukish thing ever,” but at the time all he could think about was trying to breathe, which wasn’t easy.
Crouched behind home plate, Hill called for BYU pitcher Easton Walker to throw a “stretch slider in the dirt” to lure Washington’s hitter into swinging at a bad pitch. The pitch was low, and hit a “lip” of artificial turf in front of the plate.