The shock of losing Luken Baker so suddenly has faded, but the memories remain clear for TCU.
“I’m truly amazed that we won that Friday night,” coach Jim Schlossnagle said, thinking back to May 12 in Norman, Okla., when the sophomore hitter left the game after hurting his left arm in a collision with a baserunner.
The play, as Baker reached back into the basepath for a throw, could have ended the eighth inning with TCU leading. Instead, it tied the game and stunned the Horned Frogs.
“The emotion of that, when it happened, how it happened, to whom it happened, and right in front of our dugout — it was a horrible sound to hear him yelling in that kind of pain,” Schlossnagle said last week, before the Frogs closed the regular season with a series win at Cal.