After setting strikeout record, right-hander prepares for final weeks of regular season
MEMPHIS, Tenn. – University of Memphis pitching coach Russ McNickle had a premonition. He'd been involved in the sport long enough to know he was about to witness something special, perhaps historic.
So McNickle grabbed his pitching chart at the end of the second inning and etched an asterisk near the top, a mark he'd made on his charts only two other times in a career spanning more than 25 years.