The most pain for Keagan Gillies came in the second inning Sunday.
That's when the Tulane right-hander turned away from a hard-hit ball that came back up the middle and hit him flush in the derriere.
"It was in a pretty good spot," Tulane coach Travis Jewett said. "Right in the rear end."
The coach and an athletic trainer went to the mound to check on the 6-foot-8 Gillies, and after a few warm-up pitches with the two of them standing by, "he looked at me like, 'Get off the field, let's get this thing going,'" Jewett said.