After one pitch, which missed, TCU right-hander Jared Janczak said he knew he was going to have a good day.
He made a small tweak to his release point and proceeded to throw eight hitless innings with a career-high 14 strikeouts in the a 5-1 victory against Kansas on Saturday at Lupton Stadium. He exited after two clean singles past the mound to open the ninth inning spoiled his no-hit bid.
“Yeah, I mean, of course,” he said, asked if he thought he was going to record what would have been TCU’s 10th no-hitter, but only the second by one pitcher over nine innings.