Immediately after one of the most excruciating defeats of his USF tenure Thursday night, Coach Mark Kingston was asked about a strike zone that most Bulls observers might swear got a bit more narrow in the ninth inning against East Carolina.
Through clenched teeth, Kingston remained composed.
"I thought some crazy things happened in the ninth that were out of our control," he said.
None any crazier than pinch-hitter Kirk Morgan's suicide squeeze bunt that scored Charlie Yorgen, clinching the Pirates' 6-5 victory against the No. 4-seeded Bulls (41-16) in an American Athletic Conference tournament winners-bracket game.