Pitching coach Brent Kemnitz refused to look at Mike Pelfrey during the mound visit that helped turn his potential into production for Wichita State.
“I get pummeled,” Pelfrey said. “That was the first time, I think, I really pissed him off. He stared out at the scoreboard and just went nuts. I was scared out there, being meek, scared to throw the ball. I’m sure he used every cuss word there was in the book. It was the first time I ever got chewed out like that.”
Kemnitz’s career as coach — 38 seasons, thousands of mound visits, seven pages of yellow legal pad paper — ended at Wichita State on Monday when he resigned as pitching coach.