When a pitcher threw a breaking pitch, Wichita State's Dayton Dugas guessed, hoped and took a swing. The vision in his left eye – 20/200 – prohibited him from seeing the spin of the baseball that identified the pitch.
"I could always hit a fastball," he said. "I would always wave at sliders in the dirt - that weren't even reasonable."
Dugas, a junior outfielder, feels better about his eyesight and his swing entering the season. He said he underwent laser eye surgery over Thanksgiving break, a procedure that corrected the vision in his left eye to 20/15.