You could tell in the first inning there was a little something extra for senior righty Mitch Ragan against K-State. His fastball popped into David Vilches’s glove with a ferocity that we hadn’t been witness to all season. If there was a radar gun present for the viewing audience to see we likely would’ve his four seamer tick up into the mid-90’s.
Ragan struck out the first batter he faced. Then he struck out the second. An inning later he’d get his third strikeout, and by the fifth he was up to six K’s.
He worked quick counts and forced himself to get ahead.